tuhaybey said:
Most Republicans never get called racist or anything like that. It is a certain segment of the GOP that draws all the criticism.
Yeah. The part that is publicly active. Speak up, as a Conservative, and you will be called a racist by Democrats and their supporters, regardless of the truth of the charge. Unless you are black, in which case you will be called an Uncle Tom for daring to wander off the intellectual plantation. FFS, remember when Chris Matthews declared that Scott Brown talking about driving his
truck around the state of Massachusetts was a "racist dog whistle"?
Generally, they're white supremacists or anti-gay hatemongers or and-Muslim nuts or whatever.
I would like to see your evidence that
Scott Brown,
Paul Ryan,
the entire GOP,
Anti-Obamacare Protesters, People who think that you ought to show an ID to vote,
People who don't like President Obama,
Joe Wilson, etc., so on, and so forth, ad nauseum. Did you know that the GOP wants to
literally take us back to Jim Crow?
Democrats accuse Republicans of racism, or sexism, or some other form of bogeymanism whenever they lack good arguments. It's how they make up for the fact that many of their ideas haven't changed much since the 60s - you turn the opponent into an evil monster, and then make low-information voters afraid of him.
Mean Old Republicans Are Gonna Put Ya'll Back In Chains... unless you just keep voting Democrat, now, Y'Hear?
But then, when they're attacked, they try to hide behind the GOP and the GOP gives them cover, so then other Republicans perceive it as if they have been attacked or accused or something.
:lamo What? The GOP is by far the quicker of the two parties to expel and pull away from someone who actually does something stupid or wrong. I dare you to find
any example of GOP behavior when ti comes to protecting it's membership compared to (for example) Democrats covering for massive tax fraud by Charlie Rangel. When a Senate Majority Leader
complimented an old man on his birthday he was g-o-n-e. When Harry Reid said that Obama was pretty clean for a black guy, and that wasn't it neat that he didn't speak like the other negroes, Obama went on TV and said "he knew Harry's heart" and all was fine. Obama can talk about "typical white people" all he likes, but let a Republican talk about "typical black people" and he's
out. Instantly.
I'm not really sure what your position is. Are you arguing that instead of free speech we should have some kind of rule where only speech you consider polite or non-accusatory or something is permitted? That would be a radically different right than we have now.
...so, maybe this is just a conservative, small-government, "thing", but most folks here on the right thing that it is possible for someone to
abuse their freedoms by acting wrongly without creating
a requirement for government to stop them from doing so. The PC culture is wrong. That doesn't mean that we should have some kind of state restrictions on them, simply that we should recognize that the mob is an unreasonable and abusive animal, not a picture of beautiful representative government, and that the PC mob is no better now than it was when it killed Socrates. The only restriction I'd make via the
state is that I would strip the PC crowd's ability to bring the State coercive power to bear on the exercise of our first amendment freedoms that do not infringe on the rights of others.