“Assassinate the fucking nigger and his monkey children”
Here's the image below that has since been removed.
I guess what I'm wondering is am I playing the race card for calling him out in this? Just wonderin'....
Monday, December 19, 2011
Also Too Far?
Apparently, there's a Tea Party guy out in California named Jules Manson who has made quiet a stir on Facebook recently. On his page, he posted his displeasure with the president's signing of the Defense Authorization Bill (he's a Ron Paul supporter) and in a later comment he wrote
“Assassinate the fucking nigger and his monkey children”
Here's the image below that has since been removed.
I guess what I'm wondering is am I playing the race card for calling him out in this? Just wonderin'....
“Assassinate the fucking nigger and his monkey children”
Here's the image below that has since been removed.
I guess what I'm wondering is am I playing the race card for calling him out in this? Just wonderin'....
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I agree that the provisions for detaining terrorists indefinitely are unconstitutional, especially when applied to American citizens. The "war on terrorism" has always been bogus. Non-state-sponsored terrorism is a civilian crime, not a war. School, workplace and abortion clinic shooters are committing exactly the same crime as the Fort Hood shooter, and for pretty much the same reasons (alienation, anger at perceived injustice, etc.), yet one is somehow more heinous than the others.
All of the Bush-initiated violations of the Constitution (indefinite detention, torture, spying on Americans) have broad support in the Republican Party. Had Obama written this bill, these provisions wouldn't be in there. But Republicans wrote it, and Obama is stuck signing it for political reasons. He has too little political capital to waste on a fight no one else will help him win. Too many Republicans are still on their testosterone-soaked vengeance binge for 9/11 and Democrats don't want to risk looking soft on terrorism. I give credit to Rand Paul for speaking against this bill; I wish more Republicans and Democrats were as brave as he is.
But I don't endorse assassinating the Republicans who are responsible for the steady decline of the American legal system. I want the American people to wake up and kick them out of office before their authoritarian impulses do irreparable harm to this country. Second amendment remedies don't solve the real problems.
On the matter of racism, it's not unusual for people to use racial epithets and physical attributes to denigrate their opponents. Bush was endlessly ridiculed for his similarity to a chimp, and many cartoonists intentionally emphasized that similarity in their work. Did that make them racist? Race is just another physical attribute to tag your opponent with. Those who use it as a criticism show their low-quality intellect and inability to see beneath the surface.
Yes, lots of Tea Party people are racists. The ones I know personally certainly are. But they didn't suddenly become racists when Obama was elected, they always were. When you come right down to it, everyone is biased against others for their race, religion, or politics: we all distrust the unfamiliar and the different, especially when they oppose us on issues we hold dear. The real question is whether you let that bias affect your judgment and cause you to question the merits of a stand solely because it's held by someone you oppose or dislike for an unrelated reason.
This guilt by association and the use of code words like "state's rights" and "inner city poor" have historically been a favorite tactic of demagogues on the right. Tea Partyers who use them bring the charge of racism upon themselves even if they don't think they're explicitly saying something racist.
"Obama is stuck signing it for political reasons"
explain that please
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