Re: Steve King,Sean Hannity and Bill O'Rielly spewing racism.
Well, if you're making an accusation you should be able to defend it as true or not. But I guess "why" that would be valuable depends on what your views are
Uh, the clip you provide above is him using that image to contrast against the ideal of the HS valedictorian (which he also clearly recognizes). So I am unsure how you can claim he was type-casting all Hispanics as such, when he is talking about a sub group and is very clear that the image doesn't even fit all of them, only some
You're making an appeal to authority and one I doubt you would even consider in any other context
From the quote you provide he isn't even talking about all illegal immigrants, but the fact that amnesty would offer blanket validation for everyone from those oft cited valedictorians to the type of people who bring no value with their presence and will break the law with impunity.
So I am still lost on how it would be racist, but, again, feel free to actually explain it
Well, if you're making an accusation you should be able to defend it as true or not. But I guess "why" that would be valuable depends on what your views are
His defense of his comment is built on a stereotype. It's ridiculous and appeals to a racist view of Hispanics as all being 130lbs and being drug running mules. It's really disgusting.
Uh, the clip you provide above is him using that image to contrast against the ideal of the HS valedictorian (which he also clearly recognizes). So I am unsure how you can claim he was type-casting all Hispanics as such, when he is talking about a sub group and is very clear that the image doesn't even fit all of them, only some
Yes. and that image is a caricature of the Hispanic as all being 130lbs drug running mules on a level of 110 to 1. His attempt to soften that with the comment of the valedictorian is pathetic. It's a lame attempt to give a nod to the studious Hispanic while poisoning the well through his description of everyone else as fitting the stereotype.
You're making an appeal to authority and one I doubt you would even consider in any other context
Perhaps. But the fact that leaders in his own party condemn his speech and language is worthy of note. My claiming that he's being a racist would carry no weight with a conservative. But condemnation from within his own party adds a lot more credibility to my criticism.
From the quote you provide he isn't even talking about all illegal immigrants, but the fact that amnesty would offer blanket validation for everyone from those oft cited valedictorians to the type of people who bring no value with their presence and will break the law with impunity.
If that were truly the purpose it's another pathetic attempt to make his point. This isn't a first for him. He's also compared immigrants to animals referring to the best hunting dog, and the dog that lays in the corner. He dives head first into the idea of Breeders. What King does is dismiss the valedictorian as the exception to his rule and point to the "much greater danger" of the 130 lb Hispanic with calves like cantaloupe's because of the drugs they haul over the border. Really?? So he coveys the image of small 130 lb Hispanics with huge calves that are a result of hauling drugs?? He's offering a stereotype. People do that in order to convey a biased and racist view of whoever it is they are targeting. Blacks with the stereotypes. Jews and their stereotypes. Hispanics with theirs. The idea is to present the "others" in a negative light. "They" aren't like "us". Us vs. Them. Divisive. Racist
In an AP story I found this: Iowa GOP Rep: Obama “favors the black person”. It seems that Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King says President Obama favors blacks over whites and a GOP candidate from Colorado has canceled a fundraiser the Iowan was to keynote.
Rep. Steve King, known for sometimes incendiary remarks about immigration, Abu Ghraib and other issues criticized Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder who also is black, in an interview Monday on G. Gordon Liddy’s nationally syndicated radio talk show,.” I’m offended by Eric Holder and the president also for their posture”, said King. “It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race”.
Holder, in a 2009 speech, did not suggest that whites are more cowardly than blacks when discussing race as King indicated in the radio interview. This is what Holder said;
“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot”, Holder said, “In things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards”.
Christopher Reed, an Iowa conservative activist, defended King. “He is one of those few politicians who actually says what he thinks”. “Reed said. “One man’s controversy is another man’s truth”
That’s quite a statement from a conservative activist. What he’s saying here is that Truth is relative. So it’s clear that Mr. Reed is a Relativist who doesn’t believe in Truth at all. If Truth is relative, then there is no Truth. That might put him at odds with Iowa conservatives that think that the Bible IS the Truth. But of course being a conservative in Iowa, how many people are going to think about what he said, and consider his hypocrisy as their own?
