http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460483180662902.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories
I guess it's not the Old South that continues to be politically incorrect. |
Hmmm. So you mean there are racist, conservative shit-heads who live north of the Mason-Dixon line? Shocking! I'll need to reexamine all my existing preconceptions now! |
Conservative equals racist? You may want to check with Harry Reid on that. |
I thought the post was about Rick Perry's getaway in update NY. |
*upstate |
From the article:
So, on the one hand: you've got tiny backwoods features on old topo maps that have never been revised even though there was a national attempt to do so beginning in the early 60s. (Of course, this was when elected in the South were screaming the word from the courthouse steps, and the campaign stump.) Meanwhile, a GOP frontrunner has kept the name up until a few years ago at his family's private getaway that he goes to several times a year. The fact that OP posted this as some sort of equivalent situation really illustrates perfectly the nature of lingering racism in the GOP and the South in general. "What?!? What's wrong with 'N**r Head Lake'? It's historical!" If you want a pitch-perfect example of the difference between "institutional racism" and "racial prejudice", just look at the hyperventilating that still goes on among right-wingers about a single guy in a beret with a cane who stood outside of a single polling station in a 99% black neighborhood in Philly on the one hand, and the front-runner of one of the two major political parties given a pass on this on the other. |
Just want to say two things: first, Reid is one of maybe the three most conservative Democratic politicians in Congress, and a Mormon. It's the same thing with folks who used to get their panties in a wad about Byrd. Wow, he used to be a Klan member in WV during the 12th century! Very relevant. Meanwhile, these guys couldn't stop celebrating Jesse Helms, who was essentially a racist piece of shit until he spat out his last poisonous breath, and Satan dragged his befouled spirit down to Hades. But, yes, the support for institutional racism is a conservative impulse. Just as institutional misogyny, or homophobia. All of those policies are attempts to enforce an existing social order--the order from the Good Old Days. Progressive politics is about overthrowing such irrational social constructs. Conservativism is about protecting them. |
I love how a remote, rented, hunting camp has now become a private family getaway. We aren't talking John Kerry here. Hell we aren't even talking of a certain ranch in Crawford.
What Rev. Wright said about Americans and whites was completely disgusting and offensive. Obama (elected mind you) said he was like a member of his family and couldn't disown him. Why the different standard? |
As usual, Matthew Yglesias nails it:
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PP, can you tell us more about the single guy in a beret? I'm genuinely curious--I don't know anything about this occurrence you are referring to. |
From the article:
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Sure. This is the video that had the political right-wing roiling in anger over the last three years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU Given that right-wing douchebags have been scouring polling stations across the country for a decade or two for actual incidences of voter intimidation against besieged white folks, it's a bit pathetic that this is the best they could come up with. Just as a refresher, this is what voter intimidation looks like. It's the reason we passed a Voting Rights Act in this country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPeCQzHu5w |
What did Wright actually say while Obama was in the audience? I'm truly curious. Do you even know? |
What voter suppression actually looks like:
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/reports-emerge-of-intimidating-tea-party-poll-watchers-texas ...and, no, it doesn't have anything to do with a clown in a beret standing outside of a polling station. |
As the protestors over the Ground Zero Mosque remind us, New York is about 30% wingnut. |