Posted on 01/08/2016 11:48:52 AM PST by Citizen Zed
... the Bundy militia members occupying a federal wildlife preserve in Burns, Oregon are motivated by the very same mix of resentments and hobby horses that are driving the Donald Trump movement. Both Trump's supporters and the Bundy agitators are moved by an unsubtly racialized sense of entitlement, a belief that federal benefits and giveaways are great when going to conservative white people but illegitimate if they go to anyone else, especially people of color.
As David Roberts at Vox recently pointed out, Trump supporters aren't motivated by some ideological opposition to the concept of government benefits. They are perfectly fine with government benefits that they accrue. What they object to is other people - especially people of color, who they stereotype as lazy and undeserving - also getting benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Unintentionally funny.
For a second I thought I was in the wrong forum.
For a minute I thought I had been redirected to Democratic Underground.
I cannot tell whether the writer is shockingly stupid or just shockingly dishonest and trying to deceive readers who are shockingly stupid.
Since it’s Amanda Marcotte, the answer is “Both.”
I think the writer doesn’t know the “Racist” issue is DEAD! Trump killed Political Correctness!
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What a crock of excrement.
This is stupid. Federal lands belong to Americans to be used and not to Big Gov Inc. They shouldn’t be holding these massive pieces of property in the first place according to constitutional scholar Rob Natelson.
And I’m a Trump/Cruz supporter and I’m not looking for entitlements at all. In fact, I’m looking to scale the budget back to reality.
Salon. ‘Nuff said.
Oh Amanda, you know not of what you write. Food stamps and public housing goes to anyone that fits the eligibility criteria, even if they have never put anything into the system.
Social Security and Medicare are benefits drawn by people who have paid into the system.
If you don't know the difference, you should write about another subject.
Another leftist spin-site I refuse to click on.
Its really funny hearing leftist try to make this argument.
Her Wikipedia page reads just like one would expect.
This is stupid. Wide open land doesn’t cost trillions of dollars to provide and the federal government constitutionally is on very thin ground when it comes to annexing so much land that isn’t related to constitutionally authorized purposes. Hunting a deer on federal land isn’t equivalent to welfare. This whole argument is idiotic.
Salon, a magazine for moronic liberal idiots to make them look smart, but in reality, it makes the moronic idiots DUMBER...
Amanda Marcotte is strangely silent about the disturbingly real attacks on women in Cologne, especially since she was so vocal about the laughably false University of Virginia story.
Wait -- you mean black people can't go on Medicare?
It’s a variant of “positive rights vs negative rights”: the observation that the only real/valid “rights” are ones which do NOT require anyone else to do anything. In this case, Salon is trying to conflate “positive welfare” with “negative welfare”, ignoring the vast difference between “from each according to his means, to each according to his needs” with “Constitutional public welfare clause”.
“It’s there, use it, just don’t screw it up for anyone else” is far different from “I’m going to incarcerate you if you don’t give him money”.
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