Perhaps someone with a little more knowledge on the subject than I have can set me straight on the John Birch Society. It isn't a racist organization is it?
I thought it was mainly an older Constitutionalist Conservative group. Am I off base here?
It really angers me when people toss out labels like that. If they want to talk about an organization, they need to provide more information than an epithet to gain my agreement. It destroys an argument faster than anything else for me.
If I’m not mistaken, the John Birch Society is closely affiliated with: http://www.thenewamerican.com/
***I thought it was mainly an older Constitutionalist Conservative group.***
That’s what makes them racist. /s
I’ve never known the John Birch society to be racist.
With a mission to restore the constitutional republic, I see them as strong advocates of state’s rights - and by virtue of that, advocates of all manner of things, as decided by the individual member-states of the republic. Sounds more like freedom than racism to me.
Of course, there could be some civil rights era history I’m missing - the Birchers were very outspoken and some were very in-your-face back then. Entirely possible that there are some incidents with the membership back then, but I don’t see it in the organization now.
I've been familiar with them for many years, and never found any racism in their official stance. This does not mean that there aren't members of the organization who the NAACP would not approve of, but then again the same could be said about FR. (I doubt Charles Johnson approves of FR, although I've never seen him mention FR)
Here is an informative review of the book here.
No, the JBS is not a "racist" organization.
The idea comes from years ago when the MSM ran a smear campaign.
Clearly, Charles Johnson doesn't know anything about the JBS.