Posted on 12/08/2003 8:40:56 PM PST by StopGlobalWhining
Can we say he's at least tone-deaf to racial sensitivity?
My "feelings" are such that I have no sympathy for liberals, even when they are attacked unfairly. I am tired of putting up with them. As far as I am concerned, they can like it or lump it. Much like our enemies on foreign battlefields, they are not going to like us any more if we are polite or hate us any more if we are disgusting, cruel, and unrelentingly hostile.
Liberals are just a few paces away from attempting to take my guns. If they don't want me further "upset", then they better get the message that we are not going to take it anymore.
Whether one is weak or strong is irrelevent. What matters is whether they are right or wrong. The strong thing to do, if you are wrong, is to appologize. It takes more guts to admit you are wrong than it does to deny you were wrong. Do you really think pictures of white people in black face mocking blacks or joking about the KKK really has a place in the Republican Party of the 21st Century? Black people are not going to magically disappear from the United States and the more that conservatives do to alienate them, the less likely it is that they'll escape the spiral of poverty and crime that is not only a problem for blacks but for all Americans. Are there bigotted blacks? Sure there are. But the answer is not to show how bigotted whites can be in return. Attack ideas, not race.
Would you want someone who created "art" featuring crucifixes submerged in uring and religious figures out of animal excrement acting as the voice of conservaitves, the Republican Party, or Free Republic and would you want these pieces of "art" associated with you? You are dead on comparing this sort of "art" with what was posted on this web site and I, frankly, want to be associated with neither. The appropriate response to bad people is not to show that you can be as bad an offensive as they can be. "They are as bad as we are!" That's not something to be proud of.
I certainly agree that "joking about the KKK" has no place anywhere. That is disgusting. But all I have to go by are 'reports' about pictures on a website, and I do not know if there truly was "joking about the KKK" at this party, or if so, what the context was. (Was it "illustrating absurdity with absurdity" by deliberately portraying a despicable stereotype that way too many blacks have of Republicans? I do not know.)
But I do know that the one guy who was in "black face" with a bicycle chain was deliberately mocking a certain campus black activist who was convicted of stealing a bicycle. Fair game, in my opinion, and no need to apologize. (A little over the top, I agree - - I wouldn't have done it myself....)
But again, please see the last part of my previous post. It would bother me to know that Battaglia posted those pictures with the idea of picking a fight. That would be as stupid as Rush Limbaugh making comments about racial/political issues on an ESPN football pregame show, for crying out loud! (I admire the heck out of the guy, but what in God's name was he thinking??)
By the way, I do not ever wish that black people would "magically disappear from the United States" and I resent the inference. It so happens that a large bulk of my business brings me into contact with individual black clients every week and most of them are the nicest, hardest working people I get to meet. I agree that the Republican Party better go after black voters. Republicans certainly must have a better idea than the Democrats' destructive welfare-state/vote-buying scheme that has all but destroyed the urban black family unit.
Regards,
LH
I don't know anyone who would want to hire a person with this skeleton in his closet. Then again, I don't know if an employer could legally use this as an excuse to refuse an applicant a job.
Hunter S. Thompson talks about radical politics in his ESPN column all the time. It seems that they are only concerned about the political message of some ESPN staffers. Call the sitting President the biggest criminal ever to hold the seat ("even worse than Nixon!") and Rush would have been alright.
Let him say one thing politically incorrect about race and he's fired, guaranteed.
ABCDisney News' slogan is "More Americans get their news from ABC than anyplace else". A lot of them get it from ABC radio news breaks but many still tune in to hear what Petah Jennings has to say.
Dan Ratherbiased has a lot of people who tune in every day.
It would be a misconception to call all of those who listen in every day (and don't miss a show) "fans". I would also say that as much as they may even respect these anchors' broadcast abilities, they would be hard pressed to try to answer for everything that these talking suits say.
Rush Limbaugh is a conservative and talks about issues with a conservative opinion but that does not mean that he speaks for all conservatives or that everything he says is from a "conservative" voice. He's one man and should not be used to taint a political idea.
Postmodern libs are permitted to be "edgey".
Which begs the question as to what, exactly, liberals love about America.
The answer? Nothing.
Just one: INDEPENDENT.
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