Re: [Sappho] periquitos
Re: [Sappho] periquitos
- Subject: Re: [Sappho] periquitos
- From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:31:05 -0800
On Dec 13, 2003, at 6:15 AM, Ethan Rips wrote:
Hmmm... Let's see...
Intolerance as in Trent Lott, Jesse Helms, Richard Nixon's southern
strategy (continued by Reagan & both Bushes in their
campaignsremember the Willie Horton ad & Dubya's campaign claim in
the South Carolina primary that John McCain had fathered a black
child?), the Louisiana Klansman who ran for office as a Republican in
the 1980s, the Department of Justice under William Bradford Reynolds
(when employees of the department were often heard telling racist
jokes in the hallways), the McCarthy period (when people lost their
jobs & sometimes their lives due to their real or perceived
beliefsnot their actions), the College Republicans (so rabidI speak
from experience, having met them in collegethat a Republican
fundraiser called them "Hitler Youth")?
Creatures like these deserve all the condescension anyone else can
heap on them.
Loony as in former Republican representative Helen Chenoweth (who
believes that the New World Order will swoop down on the U.S. in black
helicopters & who supported the militia movement in the 80s); the
anti-abortion activists who set up phony medical clinics to which
women seeking abortions have been lured to be subjected to gory films
and extreme pressure tactics in an effort to force them to continue
their pregnancies; Ronald Reagan's statement that trees are a major
source of air pollution; Reagan's statement that the Vietnam War was a
noble cause (contrary to overwhelming evidence to the contrary in the
Pentagon Papers & elsewhere); Reagan's visit to the SS cemetery at
Bitburg; a pre-emptive, unilateral war based on transparently phony
claims while al-Qaeda is still running around loose & whose
recruiting, according to the CIA, has gone through the roof since the
invasion?
Hmmm... Let's see...
Stereotyping a group of people with whom you have public policy
disagreements based on anecdotes about a few. Sorry if that's not
convincing. Don't imagine that any competent debater on the right
couldn't come up with his own laundry list of stories with which to tar
the lot of liberals.
Pardon me for losing my temper.
Losing your temper doesn't make you any more right.
Cheers,
Mike
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