# How many racist Republicans are hiding in Congress? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655 "2003-04-09T22:47:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/21 "2003-04-10T12:47:39Z")
I’m still confused, the quote alone, context or no, tells me she was irritated over the discrimination inherent in the law. I don’t get why anyone would consider this racist. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/22 "2003-04-10T20:05:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Netbrian \* > \*\*Why limit ourselves to Democrats? It’s not as if ANY of us are innocent of this sort of thing! 😉 \*\* I only demonize those who demonize. When I read a “liberal-bashing”, and to a lesser extent, an overly broad Republican bashing thread, the main target of my ire is the poster. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/23 "2003-04-11T00:00:26Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t know how many. How many Democrats seek to delude themselves into a feeling of smug superiority by demonizing the opposing party? **—Scylla** Sounds to me like you’re cultivating a smug superiority by demonizing Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/24 "2003-04-11T03:20:24Z")
Is there a debate here? Everyone knows that all Republicans are closet racists that also love to watch children suffer. And all Democrats are so wonderfully good that they make Mother Theresa look like Saddam Hussein. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/25 "2003-04-11T03:28:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chance the Gardener \* > \*\*Sounds to me like you’re cultivating a smug superiority by demonizing Democrats. \*\* You have it all wrong. I am cultivating a smug superiority by demonizing Democrats who demonize Republicans. It’s important to get these things right. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/26 "2003-04-11T03:33:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fear Itself \* > \*\*Oh, the irony! Gee Scylla, refresh my memory; which party honed the politics of personal destruction to a wicked edge? Oh God, I know this one… It was after the French Revolution with The Terror and all, you know the guy with the Guillotines. The Huegonots? No that’s not it. What did those guys call themselves. Crap. I can’t remember. > [@](#): > > \*\*Why is it called demonizing the opposing party when Democrats do it, but righteous moral outrage when Republicans do it? \*\* You got me there. Can you cite me examples of where it’s called those things dependant on which party’s doing it? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/27 "2003-04-11T04:34:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*Crap. I can’t remember. \*\* Throw out your aluminum cookware. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire2b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@voltaire2b](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire2b)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655/28 "2003-04-11T05:35:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Netbrian \* > \*\*Why limit ourselves to Democrats? It’s not as if ANY of us are innocent of this sort of thing! 😉 \*\* Self-examination (for us white people) is usually something worth recommending. And indirectly recommended by these folk: [Black People Love Us](http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-racist-republicans-are-hiding-in-congress/167655.md?page=1)