I always wondered - The actor Wentworth Miller has a white mother and a black father just like The One. If The One looked this white, would it *still* be racist to criticize him?
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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If Rudy’s remarks were racist, what isn’t racist nowadays?
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?...#1 Poppa Giuliani’s father WORKED for a living, but probably as a Unionista #2. Rudy and his brothers never joined, supported or were educated by the enemy. Dispute me?
Days after 9/11, Obama basically said it was our fault. He is a monster.
This can only be true in a liberal’s brain. It is not racist when the expectation of hard work and following of laws is applied equally. Clarence Thomas would also beg to differ, Mr Chait.
Southern Democrats, who made up the KKK, should be your whipping boys. Senators like Democrat Robert Byrd are the ones who you should lambaste.
Republicans fought slavery, wanting blacks to be free.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21, Luke 12:34
I’m quoting this (gasp) Christian Biblical verse for this reason..it fits..
If you consider the treasure as being not only money but also be substituted by your all, your whole being, your reason for living, where you put your strength, your thoughts, where you seek influence, bow down to etc, then its one more step to giving your heart to whatever that is, etc..
that’s Obama and his love of anything but America..that anything in his case being for the koran of the mohammadans and our enemies the Islamic terrorists and anyone who will support and enable them..anything that is anti and un-American..
Of course, it could be that Mr. Chait is simply being dishonest. This behavior commonly seen on the left is another product of adherence to postmodernist views.
Postmodernism claims there is no truth. The purpose of this claim is to give license to dishonesty. Thence liberalism.
I always wondered - The actor Wentworth Miller has a white mother and a black father just like The One. If The One looked this white, would it *still* be racist to criticize him?
A statement of FACT.
Factual - it was factual.
Well there you have it! Johnathon has spoken. Must be true because he has said it?
My God, what an a$$hole!!!!!!!!
If your main desire towards something is to “fundamentally transform” it, you don’t love it.
http://www.Newsmax.com/InsideCover/obama-constitution/2008/10/27/id/326165/#ixzz3SUsOjiiN
The nice thing about playing the race card with every perceived outrage is that it has lost its sting. Increasingly, people just don't care anymore.
How do they still keep getting away with this? It's a proven LIE.
Answer: The truth
I mean, there are aspects of America that I’m sure Obama loves. College basketball. Brackets. Martha’s Vineyard in the summer. But the majority culture, the majority religion, the Constitution, everything that makes America America—all that stuff he hates with a passion.
Why am I not surprised that you have posted an article supportive of Obama? You have an unusual propensity for playing the part of the “devil’s advocate”.....of course it’s to stimulate conversation...Absolutely! Of course!
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