Where the Idaho Racists Are
Posted by Adam Graham in : Idaho Conservative, TheYesterday I wrote about Alan at Idablue proposing to sabotage the GOP primary by having Democrats cross over and vote for Robert Vasquez. One of Alan’s reasons for urging people to vote for Vasquez was:
Also, the racist right probably won’t vote for him.
Today Serephin at 43rd State Blues chimed in support of Alan’s iniatiative but had reasons other than Vasquez’s electablity for wanting Vasquez in the fall:
Alan at IdaBlue has an interesting idea — in the primary next May 23rd, let’s help the Repubs in Idaho’s 1st congressional district choose the best candidate to lose against dynamo Democrat Larry Grant. Alan’s choice? None other than Robert “Uncle Tomas” Vasquez…
I think Larry Grant can beat whichever rightwing clown that manages to stumble his or her way through the primary. That said, I would find no small amount of personal satisfaction in seeing Larry squash the sanctimonious, self-hating sell-out Vasquez.
Ladies and gentlemen, who are racists here? (UPDATE: I’m not referring to Alan from idablue). That’s my question. I’d submit that it is some of those on the left who basically say, “Hey, minorities, you have to fit into our mold and believe things our way or you’re a race traitor. You’re an Uncle Tom. You’re a sell-out.”
To them, to be a real Hispanic, that means that you support unlimited massive illegal immigration. You have to support creating a massive drain on the health care and prison systems or your not a real Hispanic. Just like, if you have a problem with Race Based preferences, you’re not a real Black.
Here’s the problem with most liberals. They love minorities as long as they think like the rest of their group. Once they start thinking as individuals and coming to conclusions that run counter to liberal orthodoxy, they are attacked because they aren’t thinking like Democrats think someone of their skin color should be. If Vasques were White, Serephim wouldn’t hate him so much. Its because of his skin color that the hatred’s so strong. And if that’s not racist, folks, what is?
Comment by Alan [Member]
You ask “Ladies and gentlemen, who are racists here?”
Well, by using the plural you clearly imply that I’m a racist. Simply mentioning the obvious does not make me a racist. I can’t help whatever spin others put on my comments.
That’s a pretty harsh label to pin on me just because I refer to the existence of the racist right. Are you denying the existence of the racist right? Did I say that everyone on the right is racist? Did I say that there are no racists on the left?
Labeling, name calling and ad hominen attacks are used by both sides, but particularly by the right. Your friend Bryan Fischer cannot use the term “media”; it’s almost always “the liberal media.” By using the emotional phrases Fischer tries to bring that emotional load to what he’s saying, thereby obscuring rationality.
You admitted falling prey to the emotional arguments and ending up angry, exactly as intended.
I think you’d be more persuasive if you stuck to logic instead of emotion.
Comment by Adam Graham [Member]
I was actually talking about the 43rd State Blues guy as the racist, not you. So I apologize if you inferred that.
Comment by Andrea Graham [Member]
Did I say that everyone on the right is racist?
that would be what the term “racist right” implies. And I’m just as offended by that label as you are.
Comment by Alan [Member]
Although you can interpret “racist right” to mean that the right is racist, would you interpret “Christian right” to mean that everyone on the right is Christian? Neocon right, everyone of the entire right is a neocon?
I meant, and should have said, the racist element of the right.
I appreciate being called to task for loose language.
BTW, Adam, thanks for the update.