Adaher is a Big Giant RACIST

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OMG, Adaher really is a full-blown out and out racist. I mean, I always thought he had cognitive difficulties and was wrong about practically everything but there were times when I thought he might be a misguided but halfway decent human being.
(all bolding in this thread is mine)
Then this morning I stumbled on this gem in a hijack of the Hillary Clinton thread,

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18251951&postcount=107

[QUOTE=Adaher]
What I don’t agree with is that gay rights can be used as a pretext to go after freedoms the original Civil Rights Act didn’t go after. I don’t think the public will go for that.
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I want to hear more. I want to hear ALL about the “freedoms” the 1964 Civil Rights Act “went after”. I am especially interested in hearing the stories of how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 negatively impacted Adaher.
He has also been on an kick lately regarding the right of independent contractors to discriminate based on race–He mistakenly thinks they have one. Here’s where he talks about how he thinks it’s legal and perfectly OK for businesses like repairmen and contractors to refuse to work for black customers because they scare people.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18244306&postcount=20507

[QUOTE=Adaher]
Their places of business, should they have them, are public accommodations. The services they provide outside that building are not. Part of the issue is personal safety and the right to feel safe doing your job. A public accommodation is public, so there’s a certain measure of safety. But when you have a job that requires you to come into people’s neighborhoods and homes, you have the right to refuse service, even if it’s because of their race. We’re never going to get to the point where we force people to do things that scare them. that’s one area where freedom of association outweighs the right to not be discriminated against.
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And here’s that good old conservative fear again, he actually claims that that there is a “scared shitless” exception to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18246106&postcount=20554

[QUOTE=Adaher]
Actually, taxi drivers and delivery drivers of any sort can claim safety fears. The law gives people having to go places tremendous latitude in determining what they believe to be safe and unsafe, even if this has a hugely disproportionate effect on African-Americans. There does seem to be an “I’m scared shitless” exception to the CRA. Which is why black people complain about not being able to hail a cab, but no one actually does anything about it.
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And in this one he concedes that why it may be technically illegal for a cab driver to refuse to pick up a black passenger, he claims the law isn’t enforced because somehow “everyone” knows that cab drivers that pick up black passengers risk being murdered.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18246507&postcount=20565

[QUOTE=Adaher]
No. But let’s be real, the neighborhoods are being denied because they are black neighborhoods.

However, governments are generally reluctant to enforce civil rights law to make people do things they believe are dangerous, and where their belief is backed up by facts. Cab drivers in particular are frequently victims of violent crime. So although there are complaints about their racial profiling, the government is never actually going to do anything about it. The fastest way to turn the public against anti-discrimination laws would be a crying widow saying, "The government made my husband pick that murderer up!" So it’s just not done. Prosecutorial discretion, you see
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I could probably do this all day but I don’t want to hog all the fun.

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You don’t say.

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Please stop mis-capitalizing his name; even adaher himself doesn’t feel he deserves that level of respect.

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Whoops, I totally missed that — forgot about his ee cummings affectation.

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Capitalizing the first word in a sentence is proper, though.

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you’re not the boss of me!

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Also, I don’t think adaher is necessarily racist. I think he’s a dishonest twat that will say anything, anything whatsoever, in the moment if he thinks it gives him rhetorical advantage. He’s just a motormouth who throws a lot of chaff to see what will stick.

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And, I think he probably does not even realize that, despite having been told so repeatedly.

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Cant he be both? a dishonest racist twat?

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That’s what I thought until today, but that statement about the 1964 Civil Rights Act going after his “freedoms” was one of those throwaway non-sequiters that I felt revealed his true colors,

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In his defense, I recall that there was one post he made awhile back that I didn’t disagree with.

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Too many people are simply annoyed by that guy because he manages to confirm the worst stereotypes about conservatives but in a generally cordial manner. But his words make him flat out evil. People have to realize he’s unlike other conservative assholes because nothing gets through to him, he has no reaction to anything, he’ll just move on to the next talking point. Its literally like talking to a wall, or a pundit on TV. No matter how loud you shout, he’s just going to keep saying the same old shit

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He doesn’t have the awareness to be a racist. He might very well be living in a race bubble, and never sees black people from one end of the day to the other.

His shallowness, his immunity from facts, his self-contradictory cites and references, all indicate a superficial intellect. He’s made up his mind to be a conservative Republican, but doesn’t know how to debate effectively with people who are better-informed than he is.

It actually makes me think of Jimmy Carter, way back when he made the blunder about the “ethnic purity” of segregated neighborhoods. Or when H. Ross Perot spoke to the NAACP and said, “You people.” These weren’t racist gaffes in the usual sense, but simply revealed an astonishing lack of consciousness of the issue in the first place.

Earl Butz…he was a fuckin’ racist.

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Same here. If he stayed off certain topics, people would find him a lot less offensive. Racists, though, are going to yell about race.

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Tehcnically, that’s 3 things.

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Ok, you win. I concede- he’s all three. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Careful who you call names you might have this guy all over your case.

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He would probably be a pretty good guy if he stopped posting.

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I don’t think that he is a racist, I just think that he is OK with other people being racist, and the effect that it has on racial minorities. In the same way that Libertarians may not actively hate poor people they just don’t care about them. I don’t think he thinks that blacks are inferior he just thinks that if they can’t find a lunch counter that will accept them then that’s just their bad luck.

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I don’t think adaher is a racist. I think he is the Republican version of a telemarketer. He’s heard all of the insults and all of the arguments but he’s not going to let that stop him from making another call. If you yell at him, he’ll just move on for now. But you won’t be off the call list.