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Rednecks have no escape: Ebola should bring home to US conservatives that they are part of humanity
The Mail & Guardian - Africa's Best Read ^ | October 24, 2014 | Gary Younge

Posted on 10/27/2014 9:00:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In a column ostensibly explaining why American moderates struggle in the Republican Party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York – a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts – but not all – of America.”

If the thought of New York’s first family’s interracial marriage makes many Republicans (and apparently Cohen) gag, imagine how many sick bags they are filling over Ebola. The arrival of the virus in the United States has crystallised a range of conservative anxieties: immigration, race, terrorism, science, big government, Barack Obama – you name it. For the right, Ebola is not just a disease, it is a metaphor for some of the things they don’t understand and many of the things they loathe.

Conservative éminence grise Phyllis Schlafly believes Obama is allowing it into the country deliberately. “Obama doesn’t want America to believe that we’re exceptional,” she said. “He wants us to be just like everybody else and, if Africa is suffering from Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, too.”

Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh claims liberals won’t impose a travel ban from infected areas because Ebola is “payback” for slavery....

(Excerpt) Read more at mg.co.za ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: ebola; epidemic; obama; obola
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More bs from a hate filled gay/black/homosexual communist.

Do a Goggle search on this human offal.


21 posted on 10/27/2014 9:16:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Islam/ISIS = The Ebola of religious/political ideologies!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Windflier
RedNecks and BlackNecks have a secret weapon if they vote against any and all obama's ... Is called voting against the obama. obama hates everyone including you. Don't believe me blacknecks? Then pay attention. Is simple to know the truth. Come to Free Republic and Learn. Talk to those here. Call on Windflier! Windflier ... I Love Ya! Windflier, holds more than a rifle, our Declaration and Constitution in Highest Esteem. He is a BlackNeck RedNeck and makes the Moon Shine! We drink. Windflier teaches Us!
22 posted on 10/27/2014 9:17:39 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Gaffer

M-O-O-N, spells Obola

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

23 posted on 10/27/2014 9:18:48 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Salamander
"Is he actually implying that, if the Swedish Bikini Team had dragged Ebola in, we’d all just be happy as hell about it?"


You are precisely correct.
If our country learned that Japan had a terrible virus with a 70% mortality rate, I would support travel bans to/from Japan as well.
The same holds for any country.

Liberals are consumed with race.
Do they ever stop to think a half-black President Obama was elected because of the enormous numbers of non-racist white people? People don't care from where ebola originates, they just want the VAST ocean we have between us to act as the natural pandemic barrier that it SHOULD be.

24 posted on 10/27/2014 9:18:55 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
(Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?)

Only if you also mention that John Kerry served in Viet Nam.

25 posted on 10/27/2014 9:19:30 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Kartographer

I saw this “Moon” yesterday...I’d like to have a big a$$ poster of that to put on my front porch.


26 posted on 10/27/2014 9:21:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Younge, like third world dirt bags everywhere, agrees with other leftists that Americans deserve to get all sorts of nasty diseases and die. What a shock. Yes Americans, please contract ebola to prove your humanity. What a great idea. (snicker)


27 posted on 10/27/2014 9:22:11 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: oldbrowser

‘Was she faking it then, or is she faking it now.’

OR She is just a straight up pervert whore who will do anything and sleep with anyone!


28 posted on 10/27/2014 9:22:35 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Guess which states they will be sending Ebola patients?


29 posted on 10/27/2014 9:23:02 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jim from C-Town

It’s not rocket science. One only need look at the Clinton Marriage to see what “marriage of convenience” means.


30 posted on 10/27/2014 9:23:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Richard Cohen thinks it’s 1963 forever...


31 posted on 10/27/2014 9:23:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama would rather we die than offend West Africa. - freeper goldstategop (same for the CDC))
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To: Disambiguator; GladesGuru
One should not, NOT I say, mention that Momma DeBlasio was/is a Lesbian until after the Florida gubernatorial election is settled.

Gay Charlie was a Republican, who became an Independent, and then became a Democrat. If he hears about Big Momma DeBlasio, he may declare as a Transgendered Lesbian, attracting even more votes.

32 posted on 10/27/2014 9:26:16 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (2015-2016. Depending upon what the "Republicans" do, the Republic lives or dies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What Rush said was 500,000 dead White Soldiers was the price paid to end slavery!!

And not one damn Thank You.

33 posted on 10/27/2014 9:36:22 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Heyba Heyba Heyba! ...Whitey Ain't Suffering Its Fair Share!"


34 posted on 10/27/2014 9:39:44 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone needs to find a Republican who will go on the record to say that the fact that Bill de Blasio has a black wife and interracial children is so repugnant that it makes them gag. This is the type of charge that needs evidence because usually when its made, the person making it is lying. This moron Younge is lying too. No Republican cares about Bill de Blasio’s marriage. In fact, the last politicians who cared about interracial marriage were the old Southern Democrats with their Jim Crow laws.


35 posted on 10/27/2014 9:42:05 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: oldbrowser; 2ndDivisionVet
(Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?)

Who says she isn't still a lesbian?


36 posted on 10/27/2014 9:54:12 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Humanism, the zero sum game of “we are all fatal, get abortions, shoot yourselves”


37 posted on 10/27/2014 10:02:16 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Obama’s lucky. He only has to look in the mirror.


38 posted on 10/27/2014 10:17:51 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Rednecks”

That’s racist!


39 posted on 10/27/2014 10:23:31 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What tripe, more grossly offensive than an hour of MSNBC, and less informed. Note this nonsense calls itself “the best read” in Africa, which is unlikely in itself. It’s certainly not the most read. Nor is it the best “red.”


40 posted on 10/27/2014 11:05:52 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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