So you have no response to the well documented fact that bigotry has been a central tenet of the modern Republican party? How do you explain the Southern Strategy, or Republican opposition to gay marriage if not bigotry?
Fear?
Complete disregard for decency in the interest of votes?
sigh
It wouldn’t matter what I said, or how many cites I provided, or how often I debunked yours, this discussion wouldn’t go anywhere. You’ve chosen to paint with a broad brush, and I’m not in the least interested in debating you.
I just have to say that, for the record, I support gay marriage, and I’m not a bigot. In fact, I support a number of things that are anathema to Republicans. Democrats, too.
To me, you’re just as bat-shift left as Bachmann is bat-shit right, and neither of those is attractive to me.
Farewell. And shut the fuck up.
Our two weapons are fear, complete disregard for decency in the interest of votes, and ruthless efficiency.
No, wait. Our three weapons are…look, I’ll come in again.
So, essentially you’re for the death penalty as long as more whites and rich people are executed? I’m interested in your scheme on how to ensure the numbers remain ‘equitable’.
Then, by definition, you should be cheering for your own execution. And since it’s not illegal, how are you still around to post?
It amazes me how many people are too stupid to see the big picture. Crime is caused by people not loving their fellow man. It’s only because we care about you that we set up institutions where it would be illegal to physically harm another human being. It is because of the people who hate that we have to force our morality on other people.
If it upsets you to see people rejoicing in the death of others, stay off the SDMB when a prominent Republican dies.
Regards,
Shodan
See those are the Bad Republicans. I’m sure they’re just a teeny, tiny, nigh but invisible minority of the true Republican party. The overwhelmingly vast majority of Good Republicans, like those on this board, are just small government, libertarian leaning intellectuals who harbor no ill will against gays or minorities. It’s just sheer coincidence, crazy random happenstance, that the social conservatives happen to vote Republican, it’s not like their pandered to, or targeted in elections, by the Republican party. There are crazies on every side, or so it goes, and the Republican crazies are just a bit louder than the Democrat crazies. But really, they’re just a unpandered to minority of the true Republican party.
Over here! Over here! Come see the Liberal Hypocrisy!
Shut up, you fucking troll.
For someone not interested in debating me, you sure do keep responding to my messages.
Of course, your replies are all the same: “I don’t like what you are saying, so you must be a crazy person.”
It seems pretty clear that you are ignorant on the Republicans’ rich tradition of using racism to get votes. This isn’t some crazy conspiracy theory, this is a well documented strategy that they have acknowledged. Southern strategy - Wikipedia
Here is a quote from Lee Atwater on how the Southern Strategy worked
” You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. "
Pretty racist, no? And Atwater wasn’t some fringe member of the party. At one time he was chairman of the Republican Party.
As for your support of gay marriage, good for you. We are arranging your humanitarian of the year award for supporting a basic human right. Besides, I never said that you were opposed to gay marriage, I said that the Republican Party is opposed to gay marriage. Do you disagree?
So there we have it, ample evidence that the Republicans have a history of appealing to racism and bigotry in order to win votes, thus making it the party of hate filled bigots.
I accept your apology.
Still care-bear bullshit. I most definitely do not love my fellow wo/man. I respect him/her (everyone gets a level of respect which is then built on or diminished by their actions). I respect their property (even intellectual property). I respect their right to live their life their way so long as it doesn’t harm me or a third party. But because I don’t love everybody, I must be a criminal, because that is the cause of crime. I must be really good at it too, as not only don’t I even have an arrest record, but to the best of my knowledge, no one is investigating me for anything. I’d hire myself out to Madoff as a consultant on staying under the radar, but he can’t afford me anymore.
As for not executing myself, I couldn’t get from the electrical switch to the chair in time when I tried. And I’m squeamish about sticking myself with needles (not with needles in general, just in needling myself).
I suggest you look up the meaning of the word troll.
And, to fit in with the tenor of how this thread is going… Please shut the fuck up.
Actually, on reflection, my apologies for having fed the troll.
Regards,
Shodan
Ample evidence is one former RNC Chairman?
I assume that the left’s advantage in media bias is thus “amply” demonstrated by Benard Shaw’s book?
Or is “ample” only applicable to one person’s testimony if the one person is skewering the right?
He wasn’t skewering the right, he was explaining his life’s work and I think the ample evidence is Melman, the then chair of the Republican Party issued an official apology for the Southern Strategy. That would suggest that it existed, but of course the party of hate filled bigots never lets the facts get in the way.
Props, elucidator.
Crime is also caused by people needing something in order to live that they cannot obtain legally, and by people with “diminished mental capacity”. I’m sure there are other examples but these are the first two that popped to mind that have nothing to do with whether or not the criminal loves their fellow man.
Laws are set up to protect us, not because we love our fellow man so much that we are protecting him from…? Us?
You are right about that last bit tho - people who go on the most about love, kindness and peace seem to be the ones most likely to try to force their ideas on others. :smack:
Yes, I agree that the strategy existed.
I object to the inference that it’s a major force today, and I assume you agree if you’re quoting Melman’s apology for truth.
If the sins of a party follow it forever more, then why aren’t the Democrats guilty for the very tactics sgregationist tactics that gave them the southern stranglehold that the “Southern Strategy” sough to burst? Bull Connor? Democrat. George Wallace? Democrat. Jim Folsom? Democrat.