Posted on 02/22/2015 9:11:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Rudy Giuliani accused President Obama of not loving America, was he expressing a form of racism? If not, what was Giuliani saying?
I have argued, controversially to some on the left, that it is important to grapple with ideas on their own terms before merely analyzing their motivations. American conservatism is historically intertwined with white racism in such a way that nearly any conservative idea could plausibly be understood as an appeal to racism, but most of those ideas can be expressed and justified in non-racial terms, and deserve to be taken at face value. The trouble with Giuliani’s comments is that they lack the coherence necessary to be analyzed as an idea. Brush away the bilious rage he has emitted, and nothing solid remains behind.
The original basis for Giuliani’s comments was Obama’s allegedly unusual upbringing. “He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country,” alleged the former mayor. As Wayne Barrett points out, Giuliani’s father was a mob enforcer, and he and his five brothers all avoided military service during World War II. What about this upbringing in any way suggests it conveyed some deeper patriotism than Obama’s?
Giuliani subsequently clarified his original remarks, though not in the way he intended, by asserting that Obama’s alleged anti-Americanism amounted to “socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.” Here Giuliani is reprising the theories of Dinesh D’Souza, who has described Obama as fundamentally influenced by Kenyan anti-colonialism. Unfortunately for Giuliani, D’Souza’s racism is so transparent not even many conservatives care to defend it any longer....
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This guy Jonathan chait must be racist. He’s writing negative things about people other than himself. Projecting racism on others is a pretty good indicator he whom projects is what he projects.
Truth based on observation.
It’s really very simple.
Rudy was sounding off an alarm.
If Jonathan Chait's article is not moronic, what is it?
....Or rather both Obama and the liberals were caught let’s just say “lying” and with longer noses over the last couple of weeks.
What was it? The truth.
I’m waiting for examples of Obama loving America, but I don’t have all life.
Sorry,but your race card has expired.
Please dial 1-800-EAT -SH** to speak to a representative.
Perfect example of how an individual can become so entangled in their own intellect that chaos soon overcomes what might have started out as symmetry and order. The result is absolute idiocy.
FREE SPEECH ..!!!!!!
Mr. Chait, I’ll make it easier for you:
Obama loves America in the same way Bill Clinton loves marital fidelity.
Brush away the bilious rage he has emitted, and nothing solid remains behind.
Obama is performing Taqiyya.
They have gotten so automatic about whipping out that race-card at the drop of a hat, they fail to see how stupid it makes them look.
... and yet it is, in fact, the Democrat Party whose “ideas are entwined with racism” ... throughout the party’s history.
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