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The Republicans' White Supremacy Problem Is Way Bigger Than Steve Scalise

Absolute BULL MANURE !!

You've learned misinformation. These people need be told to back this outrageous rhetorical BS with historical facts or sthu.

Thom Paine
 
This isn't a very good op-ed. It's a petty rehash of the biggest contortions for Republican Party politics possible.
 
Fiddytree said:
This isn't a very good op-ed. It's a petty rehash of the biggest contortions for Republican Party politics possible.
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Garbage source. Big surprise. Up next... Business Insider blog by JoeSmokey says US sucks.
 
Jack Fabulous said:
If the "something new" is anything other than political hacks who write blogs are ridiculously partisan and can't be trusted, you aren't learning anything.
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I will keep an open mind anyway.
 
RDS said:
I will keep an open mind anyway.
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Open or empty? ;)

Where are the "facts" that back up the following opinion?

It's doubtful because the strategy behind Republican success over the past 50 years has been an unambiguous appeal to racist white Southerners. This is no secret. And even if Scalise isn't an active supporter of that strategy, he and the rest of his party are, at the very least, willful and knowing beneficiaries.
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RDS said:
Who is making the most noise here - only empty vessels.
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Please see the edited version of my post. The article is based on an assumption and even admits that much. Those racists may not even know that they are racists but they surely must be aware that racists exist. ;)
 
RDS said:
Who is making the most noise here - only empty vessels.
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I hope that your definition of "empty vessels" doesn't include all who disagree with you. I also hope you aren't so credulous as to buy what your link is trying to sell. I had to laugh when I read how "states rights" is just code for the good old ante bellum days:

Over the past half-century, it's become politically advantageous to keep your racist opinions to yourself. Republicans learned this in the ruins of Jim Crow, when many Americans rallied around the idea that black people should have basic civil rights, like the right to vote and fair access to employment, schools, housing and mobility.

So the GOP shifted its strategy. Inflammatory rhetoric took a back seat to less explicit (but equally insidious) appeals to "states' rights," language rooted in a nostalgia for the antebellum — that is, slave-owning — era. The Republicans' White Supremacy Problem Is Way Bigger Than Steve Scalise - Mic
 
nota bene said:
I hope that your definition of "empty vessels" doesn't include all who disagree with you. I also hope you aren't so credulous as to buy what your link is trying to sell. I had to laugh when I read how "states rights" is just code for the good old ante bellum days:

Over the past half-century, it's become politically advantageous to keep your racist opinions to yourself. Republicans learned this in the ruins of Jim Crow, when many Americans rallied around the idea that black people should have basic civil rights, like the right to vote and fair access to employment, schools, housing and mobility.

So the GOP shifted its strategy. Inflammatory rhetoric took a back seat to less explicit (but equally insidious) appeals to "states' rights," language rooted in a nostalgia for the antebellum — that is, slave-owning — era. The Republicans' White Supremacy Problem Is Way Bigger Than Steve Scalise - Mic
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Let us hear something from a Democrat about this thread.
 
RDS said:
keep an open mind
also have an open mind
to wait until you know all the facts before having an opinion or making a judgment

keep an open mind - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
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Are there lists of other Republicans that have met with similar groups?? NO! If there was I wouldn't laugh at the article and take I would take it as serious journalism.

I see nothing in this article that speaks about anything else but Scalise. I'd say the article is 99% Scalise. 1% thin examples of something else that might be considered racism in some eyes. The very article itself admits that the GOP has moved away from its extreme rhetoric talk of the 50s. I posted the original scalise story on this site. I posted it for the news content and its general research worthiness by the folks at politico. Even though it was a negative story regarding the political party I belong to.

Where is that data to back up your assumptions? Don't give me the Hebe jebe crap of, "I believe, so should you."

RDS said:
Let us hear something from a Democrat about this thread.
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I'm about as democrat as you can get as an official registered Republican.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Are there lists of other Republicans that have met with similar groups?? NO! If there was I wouldn't laugh at the article and take I would take it as serious journalism.

I see nothing in this article that speaks about anything else but Scalise. I'd say the article is 99% Scalise. 1% thin examples of something else that might be considered racism in some eyes. The very article itself admits that the GOP has moved away from its extreme rhetoric talk of the 50s. I posted the original scalise story on this site. I posted it for the news content and its general research worthiness by the folks at politico. Even though it was a negative story regarding the political party I belong to.

Where is that data to back up your assumptions? Don't give me the Hebe jebe crap of, "I believe, so should you."




I'm about as democrat as you can get as an official registered Republican.
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When you post some garbage you get some lively discussions from my past experience here.
 
RDS said:
Let us hear something from a Democrat about this thread.
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Why? Do you hope for confirmation that Republicans are racists?
 
nota bene said:
Why? Do you hope for confirmation that Republicans are racists?
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I never had anything racist in mind. It was just from a media which I do read often. So I thought post it here without any race prejudice.
 
RDS said:
I never had anything racist in mind. It was just from a media which I do read often. So I thought post it here without any race prejudice.
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You didn't think your link's title of "The Republicans' White Supremacy Problem Is Way Bigger" wasn't suggestive of a piece stating that Republicans are racist?
 
RDS said:
LOL, good that you laughed it out for the New Year.
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Starting a thread like this and claiming to keep and open mind seems internally contradictory IMHO
 
nota bene said:
You didn't think your link's title of "The Republicans' White Supremacy Problem Is Way Bigger" wasn't suggestive of a piece stating that Republicans are racist?
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This is somewhat connected to the Scalise thread which is widely discussed here.
 
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