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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Disturbing Parallels

TPM has a post up about the parallels between the segregationists that opposed the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s and the Tea Partiers we see today. It's incredibly disturbing and nauseating. As the president noted...

[A]t the time of the marches, many in power condemned rather than praised them. Back then, they were called Communists, half-breeds, outside agitators, sexual and moral degenerates, and worse – everything but the name their parents gave them. Their faith was questioned. Their lives were threatened. Their patriotism was challenged.

Conservatives today have said all of these things about liberals and progressives. Indeed, the same people that were against federal government involvement in Alabama are blowing bowels all over our country about federal government involvement in health care and immigration.

Of course, these are the same people that think the Civil War was about states rights, not slavery.


6 comments:

GuardDuck said...

Liberals and progressives have been just as if not more nauseating in their characterization of conservatives. What's your point?

Mark Ward said...

Pick an example of how liberals and progressives mis-characterize conservatives.

GuardDuck said...

they were called Communists, half-breeds, outside agitators, sexual and moral degenerates, and worse – everything but the name their parents gave them

Nazi, fascist, traitor, terrorist, misogynist, homophobe, racist....


Most, if not all of those 'everything but the name their parents gave them', could even be found on these very pages.

Mark Ward said...

The difference between the two characterizations are that conservatives say and do things that illustrate those words. Liberals don't say or do those things and conservatives simply make it up.

Larry said...

Uh huh. Sure.
O_o

juris imprudent said...

I'm taking this as a sign of the decline of progressivism - that its adherents are becoming more and more detached from reality as time goes on. The OP and the comments are ample evidence.