I am absolutely stunned at the out and out bigotry by people on this forum.
Would you consider it "bigotry" if we felt the same way about the Russian mafia/Iran/Venezuela/Nort Korea buying rights to our ports?
I am absolutely stunned at the out and out bigotry by people on this forum.
I'm not stunned, given the posting histories of some people.
You shouldn't be. Read any immigration thread or 90% of any thread with the words Muslim, Islam, or Arab in the title and you'd see it all.
I'd love to show some examples but I'm not one of the blessed people exempted from the rules.
Not me. Just look at what creeps into the immigration threads.
There's a knee-jerk reaction to "furriners". The far-right has always had a strong nativist streak, and, in discussion, it often reveals a nasty "us-versus-them" mentality that populists like Buchanan take advantage of.
Now, we see a wholesale descent into Arab-bashing and Arab-trashing. Shameless phonies like Michelle Malkin and Bill Bennett give a veneer of respectability to this racism, though they vehemently deny that that's where their unfounded fearmongering leads.
The Democrats are taking advantage. In an attempt to get out in front of the raging mob, GOP grandstanders Duncan Hunter and Peter King are leading the charge in the House. King, he of the send-your-money-to-the-terrorist-IRA, and Hunter refuse to do anything but demagogue.
Schumer appeals to the worst of the American psyche. Instead of being adults, calming everyone down and showing the American public that there's really no boogeymen at DPW, doofi like JD Hayworth and Norm Coleman play right into Schumer and Hillary's hands.
The GOP could very well lose the House and possibly the Senate this year. And, it will be the fault of the gutlessness of the GOP members of Congress.