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US Congressman says Republican base 'animated by racism'

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Coming from the party of the Klu Klux Klan.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-14 00:49|| 2014-04-14 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Eventually, you [Americans] will become immune to accusations of racism. The question is when?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-14 02:36|| 2014-04-14 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I consider myself immune. Any time someone says that to me, my answer "Yes, I'm very much pro-humans!" They get this weird look on their face cause while the logic part of their brain realizes they have just been trumped, their liberal brain cannot process what you said.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-04-14 03:27|| 2014-04-14 03:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Projection from the oikophobes.

What is marxism except discriminating based on groups?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-04-14 05:32|| 2014-04-14 05:32|| Front Page Top

#5 I share a somewhat similar political and social philosophy as Dr. Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Condolisa Rice, Clarence Thomas, Allen West, Parker, Keyes, Sowell, my old barber in Leesburg, and the junk man....... am I still an evil racist ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-14 06:26|| 2014-04-14 06:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Besoeker - of course you're still an evil racist. Anyone who agrees with the philosophies of those people is an evil racist. Even them - they are not legitimately black. Or so I'm told by my betters.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-04-14 07:39|| 2014-04-14 07:39|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the problem - the Dems are inventing stuff out of whole cloth, and not even one single reporter publicly calls them out on it. These "reporters" instead carry the lie and bias straight to the mainstream outlets who idealogue editors have the talking heads and hack writers parrot it, as Goebbels dictum says.

Goebbel's dictum? Here you go:
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." (apocryphal attributed to Goebbels)

as well as

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-14 08:17|| 2014-04-14 08:17|| Front Page Top

#8 If the Repubs were smart (!), they'd just start saying stuff designed to elicit the most hysterical, over the top responses from the Dems.

Posted by Raj 2014-04-14 09:55|| 2014-04-14 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Bored to tears by baseless repetition of the word "racisim" is much closer.

Posted by Slusoth Hupolung6411 2014-04-14 11:25|| 2014-04-14 11:25|| Front Page Top

#10 It may be the attempt to redefine Racist.

Destroying language disrupts the ability to communicate. Imagine you want to make a painting. You go to the hobby store to buy your paints. The paints have the different colors on them, but are only labeled white, black, yellow, red, green, etc. You can tell there are different types of green, but they are all called green.

You make your painting, somebody asks, "Wow, how did you make those trees?" You can only reply, "I used a green, a different green, and a third green."

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-14 12:33|| 2014-04-14 12:33|| Front Page Top

#11 yep,

The Leftest Dictionary -

Racist - you disagree with me
Evil - you don't willing accept my authority and agenda
Domestic Terrorist - you actually resist my power

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-14 14:10|| 2014-04-14 14:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Private property or home - Compound

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-14 14:12|| 2014-04-14 14:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Here's how racist I am: If Mexican law allowed me to go somewhere down on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, buy property, enjoy the same voting rights, the same access to health care, education for my kids, the same protection under the law just the same as if I was here in California I would go. But that, unfortunately, is not the case. And yet, Mexicans expect to come to my country and demand all of those things, without having worked for them or paid any taxes for them, at my expense. If it's racist for me to believe that's not fair then I guess I'm a racist. That's an uncomfortable idea because I have a lot of friends whose ethnic background is Hispanic. I would like to assert that the policies advocated by the likes of Pelosi, McCain and Obama have led to a polarization in our society and to tensions with our neighbors to the south. If the law had been upheld all along it wouldn't have to be that way.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-14 14:28|| 2014-04-14 14:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Exactly what race are Illegal Aliens Nancy?

Serious question because if you are claiming (and indeed you, Nancy Pelosi, are!) that "Illegal aliens == Mexican (or Latin American)" then isn't that a very, very racist statement you, Nancy Pelosi, are making?

Equating a legal status (in this case 'ILLEGAL' as in 'IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW') with a race (or in this case nationality.) is one of the most racist things I've seen.

Kind of like claiming "All blacks are Criminals!". Which is patently false.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-14 16:29|| 2014-04-14 16:29|| Front Page Top

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