[.cnI redruM]

This is truely a shame. Roberts is as smart as the day is long. He's just fallen off the deep end.

Here's a link to the column Volokh just eviscerated. http://www.vdare.com/roberts/freedom_index.htm

I hate to call anyone a racist. It's the new PC insult dejour, but "Or "international-looking" means, well, "non-white" -- in which case what does that say about the author's vision of who is a genuine member of our own nation?"

[henderson field]

Yes it's true, the Ted Kennedy immigration policy has created cultural pollution. Of that there can be no doubt. Is it good for America? No, that's why it's Kennedy policy.

[Congressman Billybob]

Gene Volokh is a smart cookie. I got to interview him on Radio Free Republic, and it was a pleasure. However, I think at this point his column is passing the point of Robert's article, like ships passing in the night.

Robert's point, I surmise, had nothing to do with race. It was a purely economic one that the proportion of our wages that the government takes out of our hide is similar to the proportion that slave owners took out of the salaries of their skilled slaves, who worked lumberyards, brewers, and various other manufacturing operations.

That is an interesting point, which I did not know before. But it has no connection to the other discussion of class-based rights, rather than individual rights, which was the original and successful plan for the federal government.

Have I missed something? Or has Gene missed something?

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I hate to call anyone a racist.

No, you don't. You enjoyed it.

Blacks like Jesse Jackson and Queezy Mfume and Louis Farrakhan are allowed to be mad-dog foam-at-the-mouth racists, and it is ignored if not outright excused.

If a non-black even acknowledges that race exists, he is a branded a racist.

How many Holier-Than-Thou pills have you taken today?

[Dialup Llama]

>But aren't there people in our very nation, native-born U.S. citizens with roots in America dating back centuries or at least many decades, who look African, Hispanic, and Asian?

Would Volokh explain just what a Hispanic looking person looks like? I mean since he is the embodiment of correct thinking, just who are the hispanics and what do they look like?

For the record Hispanics are black, Indian and white looking. I detect some odd racial assumptions in Volokh's writing that he needs to expunge.

[Map Kernow]

Hey, Eugene Volokh may really be on to something here: why not play the "race card" against arguments and contentions you don't like? It takes less time and effort to rebut your opponents' arguments; you can make the opponents' "attitudes" the issue rather than the facts; and half the time, you've intimidated your opponents into shutting up within seconds of playing the race card! It's worked sensationally well for Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, OJ Simpson, and too many others to mention. It'll work just fine for Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson, too.

Why can't good "grassroots conservative" Republicans jump on this ideological gravy train as well? I mean, don't we need the votes among blacks and Hispanics?

[palmer]

Conspicuously omitted from the comparison: Pre-Civil-War slaves could be sold by their masters. The masters could sell one's spouse, or one's children, and you might never see them again. The masters could sell one's daughters into prostitution. In some states, it was illegal for slaves to be educated.

There is plenty written about folks whose children are taken away by the state for various reasons, some good, some not. The government and its minions also enable mothers to take children from fathers with often no real justification. Daughters can be grabbed by feminists in the education establishment and brainwashed into becoming essentially indentured servants in the workforce. Finally, the state makes it very hard for people trying to give their children a real education instead of the indoctrination that the NEA serves up.

[Theodore R.]

sooner or later, sexual orientation.

Actually, this has already happened. We learned this week that FL (where they want to starve and dehydrate the poor disabled Terri Schiavo) is the ONLY state that forbids homosexuals from adopting children. And this restriction is the result of Anita Bryant's 1977 initiative campaign. The powers that be thereafter destroyed her career.

[hchutch]

VDARE is a racist site in my book. At a minimum, it tolerates that stuff. And quite frankly, Jim Robinson is correct to have banned that site from Free Republic.