debate, please

[realthog]

A friend sent me this. I'd be interested to hear if there are contrary arguments.

A list of recent major causes the right has been vigorously exercised about:

- Getting Van Jones fired for supporting a cause he didn't support

- Castigating the Justice Department for not bringing a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers, who intimidated nobody and almost don't exist (a reporter from the Inquirer went around the neighborhood interviewing residents and couldn't find anyone who had heard of them)

- Taking down ACORN, an organization very successful in helping poor and black people vote and get jobs

- Condemning the NAACP for its stance against racism by accusing it of racism

- Getting Shirley Sherrod fired for...exactly nothing

- Going after the president because he isn't a citizen, is a socialist, is a communist, is a Nazi and a load of other shit

- Claiming that the lack of a videotape proves that a black congressman was not called a nigger

- Harrassing illegal immigrants (rather than the American citizens who employ them knowingly)

- And now -- believe it or not -- campaigning for the replacement of the current 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) with the "original" 13th amendment (stripping citizenship from anyone accepting an emolument or title from a foreign country) so that Nobel Prize-winner Barack Obama can be shown the door for accepting this honor from...what appears not to be a foreign government

 

What do all these things have in common? Black people and/or poor people. But they ain't prejudiced. Oh, no, they're not. It's just all a horrid coincidence.

 

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[realthog.livejournal.com]

Too true, squire!