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Or that one of the people seriously running for the chairmanship (until today) distributed said song to try to get people's votes for the chairmanship and it was seriously debated that maybe that would help him?
It could be a dog whistle, but that is a stretch. The real damning part of that ad was the buxom blonde woman miming a phone and saying "Harold, call me." It speaks wonders to the racist who fears that the scary black people are going to take their women, or the one (are they not the same?) who feels that interracial relations are a sin against God.
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Did you read the bit I wrote at the bottom of last page?
I am 100% positive that you know at least one racist Republican. Everybody knows a racist everything. There are lots of racists out there.
Poor taste, to be sure, but still.
Fair enough.
I don't know any openly racist Republicans. If I know some, I don't know who they are, and I would rather not know.
The "Magic Negro" is a racist motif in fiction.
The openly racist ones aren't even the major problem. The closet ones are, but even worse are the politicians that race-bait and dog-whistle to pander to them. Immigration, welfare reform, and the war on terror are all politically correct ways for them to take free shots at Latinos, blacks, and anyone vaguely Arab. Yeah, these may not be racists per se, but they certainly have mastered the language and posturing of the modern racist.
This. I think the Republican's homophobia is actually worse than its racism, because at least they pay lip-service to being against racism. Homophobia is openly accepted and even encouraged, on the other hand.
It's become an party of idelogies for most people. Anti-muslim. Anti-atheist. Anti-abortion. Anti-homosexual. Anti-poor people. Jingoism. Anti-immigrants. Anti-any other country that isn't Amurrrican except Israel.
Really, when did anything that had anything to do with the Republican party NOT concern the things I put above? It's become the party of incredible negativeness. EVERYTHING they do HAS TO BE about putting some group of people somewhere down as greatly as possible in their own expense. There are smart republicans out there, but anyone with half a brain can see that they are the littlest minority that any political party has ever had. Or they aren't just as LOUD as the hateful side. It's really become rotten, ridiculous institution and if the smart republicans have any sense they are going to need to split from them and form their own party.
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Maybe I'm biased here, because my wife is one of those who is strongly opposed to abortion being legal in any form; yet she believes in comprehensive sex education, considers herself a stalwart feminist, and is violently opposed to discrimination of any kind.
The abortion issue in American politics is best understood as a tradeoff between protection of the fetus and a woman's right to control her body. If it's fair to say that pro-choice leaders are advocating for the legalization of infanticide or something similar, then it's equally fair to say that pro-life leaders are advocating for the subjugation of women.
I believe her sole exception is when the life of the mother is at risk; in that case, she believes it is the mother's choice. She believes, and I agree with her, that aborting in the case of rape or incest are a case of trying to force two wrongs to make a right.
Rather, I think the party's defining issue is its opposition to abortion. It's possible for me to imagine a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, big-government, high-taxing Republican party in the near future. It is not possible for me to imagine a pro-choice Republican party in the near future.
Of course, this is basically a restatement of my argument that the Republican party is essentially an evangelical Christian party. Which is admittingly a generality about a huge group of people.
She would strongly disagree with that statement. So would many others who call themselves feminists, according to what she tells me.
So would you care to back it up, or are you just going to lob vague insults like a poo-flinging chimpanzee?
I don't see multi-racial, not when one of the easiest ways to gin up support from the base is to fall back on dogwhistling. The party's base right now is mostly lower to middle class whites, most of whom are or have been feeling economic pressure from different minorities. Anti-abortion, while very strong, isn't strong enough to be the sole plank for a political party.
There are a lot of people from WV who would say they aren't racist. A few of them might actually believe it.
Dude, Sarah Palin calls herself a feminist, but for some reason I don't really believe she fits the bill. Any woman in favor of severely restricting a woman's bodily autonomy to just a few extreme cases is hardly a feminist in my eyes. Shit, from what you say, I'm more of a feminist than your wife.
Obviously she believes that the fetus' right to live trumps the mother's right to avoid nine months being pregnant and a birth.
Which is what it comes down to, really, and this is not the abortion thread. That said, I fail to see how said belief makes you sexist toward women. It is an ideological difference but not one of discriminatory motive.
Yeah she's wrong. Support for legal abortion in cases of rape and incest is 80-90% in the population in general. She's a feminist like Stephen Hawking is an athlete.
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Reproductive rights aren't all we're talking about, though. Wage discrimination (hey there Ledbetter Act) has been problem for a long time. Some women are still penalized in their careers if they choose to start families. There still aren't enough women in management and executive positions. Republicans have consistently sided against the solutions to these issues.
You're doing the exact same thing.
Defending the rights of women to have a say in their own reproduction is kind of a cornerstone of the movement.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
That's fair, but it wasn't what Cat was talking about, and no, my wife is not a Republican.
In any case I would contest again that it is a tenet of Republican philosophy. The support those fucktards gave/give Palin should be proof enough that they don't actually care that much about women in leadership roles. They'd gladly flock behind her like lemmings if she was at the top of the ticket in 2012.
Maybe she holds other feminist beliefs regarding traditional divisions of labor and shit like that. You don't know. Abortion isn't the only issue in the world.
Who's really a feminist seems like annoying dickwaving to me. Being able to justify your beliefs is more important than being able to label them.
Partly true yes. Still the GOP is far more defined by their extremist wing than the Dems are. Democratic party that tried to make the Kos and Village Voice crowd happy all the time? It's absurd to even imagine. The GOP's politicians may not all be fundie wingnuts but they sure as hell pay lipservice to them in a way the Democrats do not.
Bingo. She believes in fair pay, hates discrimination, thinks that there aren't enough women in executive positions. She thinks they get a shit sandwich in our culture (objectification, the way men and women are raised, etc). We're getting off-track so I won't go into all of it. In any case, aside from abortion, her views line up almost universally with mainstream feminism.