Republicans Are Racists? No, It’s Just All a Big Coincidence

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The revolting comments. The emails. The jokes. The posters. The T-shirts. The ghostwriters. It’s not like it’s a pattern or something.

Come on, fellow liberals. Calm down. I guess maybe it’s fair to call Cliven Bundy a racist. That “picking cotton” business put it over the top, and wondering whether they were better off under slavery. Even Sean Hannity, Bundy’s greatest media champion, threw in the towel last night: He wanted it to be “abundantly clear,” Hannity said at the top of his show, that he found the remarks “downright racist,” “repugnant,” “beyond disturbing,” and so on.

OK, so Bundy’s a racist. It’s fine to point that out. But point up the fact that he’s a registered Republican? That’s where I draw the line, friends. I mean, come on. That’s just a coincidence. Total cosmic coincidence.

Just like it’s a coincidence that that one black comic, a Barack Obama impersonator, was yanked offstage at an official Republican Party meeting in 2011 for telling a series of racially themed jokes. I mean, that could easily have happened at a Democratic—well, maybe not. But still. A coincidence. Just like it’s a coincidence that one federal judge who sent an email around to friends saying that Obama’s father was a dog happened to be a Republican. Complete and utter accident of fate, the puny matter of his voter enrollment.

Those rancidly racist T-shirts and posters one sometimes sees at Tea Party rallies? They’re just a coincidence, too. I mean, Tea Party people might not be Republican, strictly speaking, and it’s totally unfair to assume that! OK, Tea Party candidates run in Republican primaries, not Democratic ones, and the Tea Party caucus in the House doesn’t include one Democrat. But still. Guilt by association!

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/25/republicans-are-racists-no-it-s-just-all-a-big-coincidence.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Food stamp bashing, stand-your-ground loving, voter suppressing...

Gee, Wally, could there really be a pattern here?

[malaise]

2. They are racist to the core

Rec

[TheKentuckian]

3. You can't spell TeaPubliKlan without the Klan

[DirkGently]

4. Rachel did a good job discussing the nexus

... between radical right anti-government groups and racism last night. From the Civil War to reconstruction to the Klan, to Posse Comitatus and "Sovereign Citizens," these groups say they're opposed to "big" government in general, but what they have always meant is that they want the "freedom" to maintain a cultural hierarchy based on race and religion. They rail endlessly about the Constitution, but boy do they hate the 14th Amendement. "Equal protection under the law" is exactly what they want to eliminate.

And it's been the same drumbeat ever since. They'd very much like to stop "everybody" from having a say in what goes on in the country. They want to do with guns what economic elites want to do with their money: Keep everyone else out of the democratic process.

We could theoretically discuss the merits of more centralized vs. less centralized government outside of the context of slavery and racism, but apparently those are the big selling points. Always have been.

[rock]

5. Both parties do it (make racist remarks)

Of course they do but only the repiggies ALL do it.

[Gothmog]

6. The history and the views of the white power and sovereign citizen movement are well documented

The sovereign citizen movement is based on racism and hatred. Hannity is lying when he claims that he had no idea as to Bundy's beliefs on this issue

[Gothmog]

7. An oldie but goodie