RE: What exactly is racism nowadays?
December 1, 2012 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2012 at 9:19 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(December 1, 2012 at 5:17 pm)Ryantology Wrote: For a modern-day example, the GOP's immigration policy is almost purely racist, and just because it is easy to disguise that racism in terms of jobs, economy or legality doesn't mean the racism is not there. And, any large Tea Party convention is a great place to find racists out in the open and on parade.
Can you actually find evidence though that the reason the majority or even a sizable minority of conservatives are against immigration because is they're racist? You say they "disguise" their racism but how do you know there's any racism to disguise in the first place?
And what makes you think a few people out of hundreds at a tea party convention is representative of the whole?
I'm not denying that there are racists among conservatives. I'm just skeptical of the notion that they're a force of any significance in the ideology today.
Of course many conservatives were racists 50 plus years ago but it seems to me most of those sorts of conservatives are dead now.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
