# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32959
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/32959 "2017-03-14T17:19:55Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > “Don’t be an asshole” is a pretty fundamental tenet of most major religions. Treating someone differently because of the color of their skin kind of reeks of being an asshole. So I guess that idea is right. Racism as a social ill, equal to brain chemistry, income, or educational attainment? I can smell the bullshit from here. Yet being an asshole is not treated as near criminal in most cases when it is not based on racism. Assholes are all around us, and many of them have good paying jobs. Racism is rarer, and primarily the province of the poor and disaffected. Because if you’re racist and actually express racist views in public, expect to stay poor. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897)._