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I am Irish. For many years in my native land the Rev. Ian Paisley
spouted bigoted hatred about Catholics in Northern Ireland, but then claimed innocence when some militant sectarian group massacred Catholics. Speech was not murder, he said. He would never condone killing, he said. Then he went right back to feeding the attitudes that spawned the killing. Few were fooled. We should not be fooled in America today. In this country the "mainstream" right-wing has made an industry of demonizing African-Americans as "thugs" and criminals - just look at the divergence in tone between the recent coverage of Ferguson or Baltimore and the (mostly white) biker massacre in Waco, TX. For decades, white America has been told that black Americans are lazy leeches, dependent on hand-outs funded by your hard-earned taxes to bankroll their immoral lifestyles. The first black president was greeted by the right not only with diehard obstructionism but a chorus of color-coded abuse ("lazy," "food-stamp president" etc) and questions about his very American-ness: he was "not one of us," a foreigner adhering to a foreign religion who has no right to be president. The siren song of racial hate relentlessly put out by the "mainstream" right finds echo in the gunshots that rang out in Charleston. Rightists will, of course, deny the connection, the way Paisley did. But we are not fooled. - - - This is a highly cited comment in the NYTs, and it perfectly describes what many on the conservative right are doing to continue and further racial hate. Need evidence here? Just read the racist and racially motivated posts of rightest John Herring (and others). |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:53:18 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote: I am Irish. For many years in my native land the Rev. Ian Paisley spouted bigoted hatred about Catholics in Northern Ireland, but then claimed innocence when some militant sectarian group massacred Catholics. Speech was not murder, he said. He would never condone killing, he said. Then he went right back to feeding the attitudes that spawned the killing. Few were fooled. We should not be fooled in America today. In this country the "mainstream" right-wing has made an industry of demonizing African-Americans as "thugs" and criminals - just look at the divergence in tone between the recent coverage of Ferguson or Baltimore and the (mostly white) biker massacre in Waco, TX. For decades, white America has been told that black Americans are lazy leeches, dependent on hand-outs funded by your hard-earned taxes to bankroll their immoral lifestyles. The first black president was greeted by the right not only with diehard obstructionism but a chorus of color-coded abuse ("lazy," "food-stamp president" etc) and questions about his very American-ness: he was "not one of us," a foreigner adhering to a foreign religion who has no right to be president. The siren song of racial hate relentlessly put out by the "mainstream" right finds echo in the gunshots that rang out in Charleston. Rightists will, of course, deny the connection, the way Paisley did. But we are not fooled. - - - This is a highly cited comment in the NYTs, and it perfectly describes what many on the conservative right are doing to continue and further racial hate. Need evidence here? Just read the racist and racially motivated posts of rightest John Herring (and others). If you think there was no coverage of the Waco biker brawl you are just not paying attention and 177 went to jail. Most of the people killed in the "massacre" were shot by the police. That is probably why the reason why there wasn't more coverage I suppose, police shooting a white guy isn't news. You don't read much about the ~300 murders a year in Baltimore unless you read the Sun. |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:53:18 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:
More of his Krausescheiße. -- Ban idiots, not guns! |
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John H. wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:53:18 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: More of his Krausescheiße. -- Ban idiots, not guns! Thank you, Rev. Paisley. -- Sent from my iPhone 6+ |
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11:44 AMKeyser Söze - hide quoted text - On 1/16/16 12:04 PM, wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:53:18 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: I am Irish. For many years in my native land the Rev. Ian Paisley spouted bigoted hatred about Catholics in Northern Ireland, but then claimed innocence when some militant sectarian group massacred Catholics. Speech was not murder, he said. He would never condone killing, he said. Then he went right back to feeding the attitudes that spawned the killing. Few were fooled. We should not be fooled in America today. In this country the "mainstream" right-wing has made an industry of demonizing African-Americans as "thugs" and criminals - just look at the divergence in tone between the recent coverage of Ferguson or Baltimore and the (mostly white) biker massacre in Waco, TX. For decades, white America has been told that black Americans are lazy leeches, dependent on hand-outs funded by your hard-earned taxes to bankroll their immoral lifestyles. The first black president was greeted by the right not only with diehard obstructionism but a chorus of color-coded abuse ("lazy," "food-stamp president" etc) and questions about his very American-ness: he was "not one of us," a foreigner adhering to a foreign religion who has no right to be president. The siren song of racial hate relentlessly put out by the "mainstream" right finds echo in the gunshots that rang out in Charleston. Rightists will, of course, deny the connection, the way Paisley did. But we are not fooled. - - - This is a highly cited comment in the NYTs, and it perfectly describes what many on the conservative right are doing to continue and further racial hate. Need evidence here? Just read the racist and racially motivated posts of rightest John Herring (and others). If you think there was no coverage of the Waco biker brawl you are just not paying attention and 177 went to jail. Most of the people killed in the "massacre" were shot by the police. That is probably why the reason why there wasn't more coverage I suppose, police shooting a white guy isn't news. You don't read much about the ~300 murders a year in Baltimore unless you read the Sun. We are not fooled. ------ Who's "we?" |
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On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 10:53:21 AM UTC-6, Keyser Söze wrote:
This is a highly cited comment in the NYTs, and it perfectly describes what many on the conservative right are doing to continue and further racial hate. Need evidence here? Just read the racist and racially motivated posts of rightest John Herring (and others). Looks like it was conjured from the KOS to me. "The comment was made by an anonymous NYT reader from Pennsylvania under the username: Gfagan. It was picked by the Times as one of their top comments and recommended more than 4000 times by other users..." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/6...instream-Right |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:55:36 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote: You dispute that the right wing has made an industry of demonizing African Americans, eh? Then you are oblivious. I just don't think the examples in the article are showing anything like that. Michael Brown was a thug who tried to take an officer's gun after being detained for committing a strong armed robbery. Freddie Gray was not really "demonized" in spite of being a convicted drug dealer and a number of parole violations. There were still 5 open cases on him when he was arrested ... again. Three of the officers involved with his "accidental" death were charged with murder. The other 3 are charged with an assortment of other crimes. In Waco everyone in that restaurant was demonized as being thugs and nobody really clamored for an investigation about the ones who were shot, in spite of the fact that the police probably shot a number of them. |
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