I am not saying that all conservatives are racist but the one I have seen so far are by my standard, pretty racist. It is not so much as their policy or ideology that I disagree (although it is that too) but their overall behaviors. Now I happen to be going to a very liberal university and the majorities here are liberals but there are small fractions of conservative’s republicans.
Now I am majoring in political science and there is a conservative in my class. He usually keeps his opinion to himself but when he does speak in class, he said some pretty offensive things.
He said that Senator Obama is a socialist, as if there is something wrong with it. He said that the invasion of Iraq was for humanitarian reasons, that the Iraqis should be thankful for Bush assistance because they are backward medieval savages who don’t have any experience with democracy, and given their inexperience with living in a democracy, the US need to stay in there until the Iraqis can stand up on their own because without our assistance they would behave like savages by using terrorism.
Will, I asked by Political Science Professor who teach international relations what a socialist is and if Senator Obama is one? He said that Senator Obama policies are similar to President Bill Clinton and that the word socialist is just a word to smear Senator Obama. He also explained to me what a socialist is and that there are many different types of socialism.
For example, you can be a conservative socialist in that you want government to intervene in the personal lives of a woman, her doctor, and her god in regards to sexual matters or believe that women’s bodies belong to the state and the government by making it difficult for her to obtain artificial contraceptives or asking the government for permission to make a medical decision for her own body. However, you can still opposed government intervening in the pocket books of Americans.
I have also experience some sort of hate speech lately too. I regularly use the university library computers, and I have come across two incidents. One was President Obama face with a crescent, a Hitler mustache, a black army marching behind him with their hand rise in the airs like the Nazi, and a communism sign as his logo. This was the wallpaper or screensavers for the computer, so everyone can see it.
The message of the poster means President Obama is a secret Muslim who wants makes America into a communist country with the assistance of his black armies. The second hate speech I have witness was once again the same computer, with President Obama in a Hitler mustache and the communism and crescent sign as his logo. It was once again on the computer as a screen saver.
Also, if you go on YouTube, and look up Sarah Palin core supporters, they keep saying that he is a socialist, a black supremacist, a Muslim, a Negro, and godless than said that Sarah Palin is filled with the holy spirit. All of the people who said this are white! The conservatives shout out “killed him” at Senator McCain rallies and they kept on smearing President Obama by saying that he is a Muslim.
As if there is something wrong with being a Muslim in this country. General Powell said it best when he said that there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim in this country and then talk about how he saw a picture of a mother hugging her son grave, who has recently, die in Iraq.
There was a crescent on it. So, you trust them enough to buy their oil and to die for their country but not enough to deserve the same respects as everyone else? Arab Americans use to vote in large numbers for Republicans but after the invasions of Iraq, they voted heavily for democrats. Many of these Arab Americans said that the republicans are racist and xenophobic, who are filled with imperialistic attitudes.
The hardcore conservatives keep on talking about all the illegal’s in America today, especially from the southern border. Will, Native Americans were here first and their people were genocide by the Christian Europeans for more lands since they are too savages, uncivilized, and animalistic to rule it. They were not Christians either.
So, if these white Anglo Protestants have a problem with illegals, why don’t they go back to Europe? That is always the Native Americans jokes. If you are so concern about America being invaded by the illegal brown skin people, than why don’t you go back to Europe.
In Europe, as the Native Americans said, you will never see any illegal’s brown skin people. Hate the illegals? Go back to Europe. The Native Americans said that is why they don’t vote for republicans because they hate the environment and have a long history of white supremacy, ever since Richard Nixon southern strategy.
The Latinos, who was a major swing votes that help carried Colorado, New Mexico, and Florida in President Obama favor also said they did not vote for Senator McCain because he went far to the right and Sarah Palin core supporters are extremely racist in their anti-immigration talks.
The Asian Americans seek to be the only one that they have some sorts of advantage with, but then again Asian Americans could not get over Vietnam, Cambodia, and many more. Now don’t get me wrong, Vietnamese and Cambodians understand that it was the Republicans who help them with amnesty but today those good republicans are gone and are replace with the white racist.
They have also experience racism from the conservative republicans of today, which is why they don’t vote republican. Then there are the homosexuals, who know for sure that hardcore conservative republicans are very homophobic.
So these are the people that are left out of the conservative inner circle:
Racial minorities
Homosexuals
Religious minorities
Women, especially minority women
Am I implying that all conservatives or republicans are racist? No, but through my personal experience, I do believe that they are. Most racist are conservative republicans but that does not means that all conservative republicans are racist. I am sure there are conservatives on this blog that are not racist or know conservatives who are not racist, so please point them out to me.
I would love to meet them and change my perception about conservatives.
p.s. Derek Black, a white supremacist and the son of a white supremacist was just elected as a republican to a committee chairmanship in Florida.
I'm a conservative and I'm not racist. I disagree with Obama GREATLY, but it has NOTHING to do with the color of his skin. In fact, IMHO, he encouraged the racism by playing off the color of his skin to get votes. So in MY opinion, a lot of the people who voted for Obama are racist (a lot, not necessarily all). I think that a lot of the attacks on Obama are for him personally and would be done regardless of his skin color and heritage. He has a Muslim father, so they're going to harp on that. However, I don't see how that's being racist. Sure, they're making fun of him, but that's because about half the country is ticked off cause he won because they didn't vote for him. If he doesn't like the heat, he should get out of the game. Obviously, he doesn't mind it, so why should anyone else? Bush was made fun of for being a Southerner and for a bunch of other things. Are we supposed to not make fun of Obama because he's black? If so, isn't THAT being racist?
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Will, if you are going to said that anyone who voted for Senator Obama is a racist, than you might as well said that you are a racist and sexist for voting for Sarah Palin.
Since you are white, because the majority of conservatives are white, can I conclude that you voted for Senator McCain on the basic of his skin color and nothing more?
Look, let me tell you what is wrong with your statement. First, you said that anyone who voted for Senator Obama is a racist.
Will, African Americans had been voting for white 100% of the time for the last 43 presidents and they had been voting democratic with the beginning of FDR and was finalized with LBJ. So, regardless of the race of the Senator Obama, African Americans would have voted for a democrat anyway.
When did Senator Obama ever use his race as a tool? So, it wasn't the right wingers who tried to smear him as a scary black man?
They were the one who brought up a lie about how a black man attacks a white girl and craved a backward B on her face? They weren't the one who keep on saying that a Sarah Palin needed to be protected from Senator Obama because he is black?
They weren't the one who tried to smear him as a good for nothing affirmative action candidate even though he won the primary compare to Sarah Palin who was appointed to her position?
They weren't the one who said that the only reason why he got elected was because of white guilt or affirmative action because he has no qualification compare to Sarah Palin who was appointed to her position but is already qualified because of her skin color?
So what if his father was a Muslim, his parents’ divorce when he was 3. So that gives you the right to paint him as a secret Muslim because of his father heritage? And people like you think that you are doing a Muslim a favor by liberating them in Iraq but you also think they are your inferior and are savages?
It is people like you who keep on bring up the fact that the only reason why he got elected was because of his race. Will that make you a racist because you think that whites, African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans are sooooo stupid and filled with guilt that they voted for him because of his race.
People like you are in capable of understanding that there might be a solid good reason why so many people voted for Senator Obama and race is not the only factor just like race or gender was not the only reason why you voted for Senator McCain.
I grant you that you did not vote for Senator McCain because you are white, but are you willing to acknowledge that people who voted for Senator Obama could care less about his race?
Okay, can you understand how your comments are racist to racial minorities?
You can't legally said that Senator Obama campaign on race not his goals and agenda when he clearly ran on goals, visions, and hope than said he is a racist for using his race than said there is nothing wrong with using his race as a smear campaign.
that proves my point. Why do you think that racial minorities do not vote for your party, because of racist comments like your.
You can still express your opinions, but you need to understand that what you said in front of you white hooded pals are not very welcoming in front of the African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans.
How did he play off the color of his skin to get votes??? By showing himself in public? Should he have hidden himself until the election was over? And if a lot of the people who voted for Obama are racist, then EVERYBODY who voted for McCain must be a racist. Aren't McCain supporters the ones calling for Obama's assassination? And those people "making fun" of his Muslim lineage were doing that long before the election. It has nothing to do with them being pissed off that he won.
Are we supposed to not make fun of Obama because he's black? If so, isn't THAT being racist?
It's not being racist, it's being mature, something that McCain/Palin supporters seemed to have had a hard time with. When you make fun of Obama for being black, you are making fun of EVERY black person, not just him. Anyone who "makes fun" of him for being black IS a racist, because it is his race they don't like, not anything particular about Obama.
I understand that this post is infuriating for conservatives who don't think of themselves as racist, but you are really just proving the author's point.
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I agree. There is a difference between being critical of Bush and being critical of Obama than there is just racism.
For example, Reverend Wright had already been deal with in President Obama's speech. However, they want to bring it up. His church is not a black supremacist church and they are using a 3 second clip to link him.
Will, Jerry Farwell said that Jews, feminist, gays, and liberals cause the 9/11 attack. Pastor John Hagee said that Catholics are the great whore. James Dobson promotes child spanking as a form of punishment. They all endorse John McCain but because they are white, they get a free pass.
Making fun of Obama for being black is racism. He is not a monkey or a Muslim. That is insulting blacks and Muslims.
seriously, that is how I look at it, now if it was coming from someone else whom I did not know at all, I would jump too, lol!
But, respectlife, I agree with everything _meke said especiallly about his background because I am Muslim and I know that he was called out on it so long ago and then they repeated it almost EVERY chance they got.
respectlife, Please watch ALL of this (sorry for the capitals)
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Hey, how did you get the video up?
Did you see a new video of Colin Powell. He was saying that America is being coming a minority majority, in that whites are decreasing whereas racial minorities are increasing.
He said that in order to win, the republicans needed to reach out to the racial minorities and see what is in their hearts.
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/colin-powell-slams-polarizing-pa...
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/50814-why-lie#comment-289566
most youtube videos have a thing on the right side where they give you the long ass html link to embed videos in other places and you copy and paste that in the comments section, that has worked for me.
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera Fudge "It's the hard-knock life..."
I think some of those comments fall under the category of Nationalism. Such as the Iraqis should be grateful that we are bringing Democracy to them through invasion. I am pretty much of the opinion that politicians, liberal or conservative, black, white, male, female are self-serving so I don't get too upset about it. So much of this campaign has been about smears, although it always happens. Campaigns play off of the people's fears. I've seen comments that claim by voting for Obama, we have voted for the terrorists. Not just because he is Muslim of course, but it is believed that he will be soft on terror. People make fun of Palin for being from Alaska, playing with our prejudices of small, rural areas so that we think she wouldn't know anything about economy, or that her term as govenor doesn't really mean anything since she was govenor of Alaska, and not a large state such as California or Texas, large referring to population, not physical size.
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I think that there is a difference between the truth and smear.
Senator Obama is not a terrorist, racist, or secret Muslim. He did not "palin" around with terrorist. They keep on trying to link Obama with Wright as an angry black man and with Bill Ayers. Will, he denounced Rev. Wright and he has explained the situation with Ayers and other smears.
Sarah Palin portrayed herself as a hockey mom and pit-bull with lipstick. It is true that she spend 150,000 and counting of GOP campaign money to buy clothes and makeup. She did charge her state for travels and other expensive. So to report what she did as a governor and a candidate who use campaign money is not a smear.
Will, what she did in Alaska is about experience. Senator Obama spends 7 years as a state senator and 4 years as a senator. That makes him have a total experience worth of 11 years. She spends 2 years as senator and two years as governor.
My point is that the right wing keep on saying that Senator Obama's 11 years of experience is nothing and it was only affirmative action that got him in his position than said that a person with 4 years experience is more qualified because she is a woman.
To stain or attempt to destroy the reputation of; vilify: political enemies who smeared his name.
This is the definition of Smear according to answers.com. Certainly the McCain/Palin campaign did their best by accusing Obama of "palling around with terrorists." And a smear can be truth. The campaign gave her the money to spend on clothes and make-up so they are at fault as well.
P.S. Don't forget: Palin was not running for president, McCain was. And he certainly had more experience. I am going to look up your claims about Obama's senate terms, because they don't sound correct.
Palin portrayed herself as a hockey mom because she thought it would get her votes from working mothers who would sympathize with her balancing a career and family life. It would also make her appealing to Reagan conservatives who place a great importance on family.
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I mean that Sarah Palin was mayor of two years than governor for two years and counting.
Yes, Senator Obama spend 7 years as state senator than 4 years as senator form 2004 - 2008. Yes, John McCain was running for President but he lost his maverick and straight talk express because he went to the far right.
Yes, she did protrayed herself as hockey mom to get the reagan democrats votes, but the sad truth is that there is less of them, who live in the south, compare to metropolitan and suburnites.
There whole entire groups of Americans who has family value too. A loving, hardworking, family orientated, and church working black family that live in Chicago has as much family values as a poor, white rural farmer in Alabama or a hockey mom with "family problems" in wasila, Alaska.
A man who take the train to go home to Delware every single day to be there for his boys after their mother die has as much family value as the a remarried admiral with a rich heiress wife from Arizona.
Sarah Palin tried to appear to the reagan democrats but she need to realized that there are whole groups of americans who put an emphasis on their family and one of their family values is not to be a racist.
In a world with many single parents, most traditionalists find it refreshing to see two dedicated parents living in the same household raising their kids with traditional values. Look at the Obama family. People are comenting on what a beautiful family it is. They've got all the right stuff: two cute kids, a devoted wife, a loving husband, soon they'll even have a puppy. And yet, the majority can sympathise with them because of President-elect Obama's simple past and hard work to get where he is.
Plenty of mom's similar to Govenor Palin live in cities and suburbs. You know the term soccer mom? It is what the term hockey mom is a play of.
By the way, I did not see many of the smears from the McCain campaign as inherently racist. The fact that he is a socialist is from his support for improvements and raising taxes to pay for those improvements as opposed to the right-wing view, everyone should help themselves, except for car companies who lack business sense, but that's a whole nother topic. Admittedly, the terrorist thing was playing off the fears many people already had because of Obama's race and background.
By the way, I think my coment was about Regan republicans.
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but I hate the term soccer mom and hockey mom for what they indirectly imply
Is Muslim another subset or part of being Black ? I want to go home where they don't look at me as I am an alien from outer space that came to destroy the planet.
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Well, Palin is the one using the term hockey mom. What exactly do they indirectly imply? I think I know what you are getting at, but I want to make sure.
Is the last part your signature or in relation to the discussion? Obama's father is muslim, and his name sounds very middle eastern. That is where that issue comes in.
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I am not pointing to racial things etc., this time it is more about economic factors, and I know there are a many poor hockey or soccer players but they are one in many.
Is Muslim another subset or part of being Black ? I want to go home where they don't look at me as I am an alien from outer space that came to destroy the planet.
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Check out my picture. It is the one Colin Powel was talking about, of a mom embracing her son's grave who die in Iraq. He is a muslim.
I think that I understand what you are talking about. I read this article that said being muslim americans used to vote republican because of economic and social conservatism but than change to democrats because of the exclusiveness of it all.
Will, Senator Obama is not a muslim. His parents divorce when he was 3. If you going to said that he "palin" around with muslims, than you might as will said that McCain/Palin both "palin" around with fundamentalist such as anticatholic/antijews right wing christians.
Here, watch this clip. The right wing keep on using Senator Obama middle name as a smear to paint him as a muslim, well he is not. there is nothing wrong with being a muslim. You know, christians had genocide millions of native americans, asian, enslave the africans, and christian europe had the most war. are we to conclude that white christians are savages who lack self control? No.
Also, Sarah Palin is a socialist too in that she want to socialized a woman uterus and vagina. she wants to socailized personal behaviors. she wants to socialized personal religions.