# Democrat Thugs Disrupting Events **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 23, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324 "2012-08-23T00:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324/61 "2012-08-24T11:27:15Z")
Well, if the president can create new realities then surely he can appoint his own Congressmen. > [@Alessan](#): > > which is not something you could say about his antisemitism. Marx’s personal racism (as revealed in his letters to Engels) is troubling to me also, but the ideology he promulgated did a lot to combat racism and foster the modern spirit of solidarity (as transmitted through the IWW, for instance). Krotopkin’s approach to foreigners in Mutual Aid seems almost amusingly hackneyed today, but was dangerously progressive for its time. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324/62 "2012-08-24T14:25:26Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > As a writer and a published author, I would not consider the Examiner an acceptable source of information. The site is really just a glorified collection of unedited blogs. > > This is the kind of crap they let people publish: > > [StockExaminer - AI-Powered Stock Chatbot](http://www.examiner.com/article/are-children-s-vaccinations-safe) > > Would anyone like to play spot the errors in that paragraph with me? Someone here brings in a paper copy of the Examiner most days, and leaves it out on the counter nearby. I love the opinion writers’ photos - they all look like disgruntled old men getting ready to holler “Get off my lawn!” Ah, the future of conservatism. 🙂 And yeah, even their ‘news’ articles are essentially fact-free commentary, let alone the stuff that’s on their opinion pages. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324/63 "2012-08-24T14:36:24Z")
The [Examiner.com](http://Examiner.com) is part of Anschutz’s chain, right? Which includes the _San Francisco Examiner_ and the _Washington Examiner_. Those papers are dreck. Their writers and editors are the most ignorant I’ve ever seen. I recall an exchange on the editorial page of the _Washington Examiner_ (which I think was a print version of a comments section exchange on their website). There was some confusion regarding when slavery was banned in Maryland, based on the Emancipation Proclamation. Everyone in the conversation, including the paper’s _editors_ concluded that they didn’t know when slavery was banned in Maryland. So not only were they all blissfully unaware of the 13th Amendment, but no one thought to do the most basic research – which would have taken a matter of seconds – before posting their comments. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324/64 "2012-08-24T16:35:35Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Marx’s personal racism (as revealed in his letters to Engels) is troubling to me also . . . Beware of [presentism.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_historical_analysis)) Throughout the 19th Century and well into the 20th, practically all white people in the world were white-supremacist racists, including the most highly educated, and including most slavery-abolitionists and other pro-black activists. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324/65 "2012-08-25T06:05:47Z")
Look at those Deamoncrats, thinking they have freedom of assembly and shit. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324/66 "2012-08-25T06:15:12Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Beware of [presentism.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_historical_analysis)) Throughout the 19th Century and well into the 20th, practically all white people in the world were white-supremacist racists, including the most highly educated, and including most slavery-abolitionists and other pro-black activists. Psst white people? You mean everyone back then, Marcus Garvey called a mixed race coworker a monster and was in agreement with white supremacists that black US citizens needed to be shipped back to Africa. The attitude of the average person to race in modern times would have been beyond radical extremism in past centuries, it just would have been off the wall whacko shit. Imagine if a century from now people are aghast at killing insects like a mosquito, how will they judge modern viewpoints? No one would measure up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrat-thugs-disrupting-events/632324.md?page=3)