Racism...Forever?

Unless Khan was really a Georgian/Caucasian, I'm pretty sure the "Dzj" thing is best left to pre-Soviet names of eventual Russian tyrants.

 

So 24 and Me confirms you are the product of Dzjengis Kahn? That explains a lot.

 

Remember about 20 years ago, a white supremacist nut job went on a killing spree in Chicago? I never knew this, but Glenn Greenwald was tied to the case.

https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-pontifex-maximus-and-his-lawyer.html

Really long; i’d Skim it if i were you.

Anyway, his appearances on Fox prime time make a lot more sense now.

 

I read it all. There's a lot in there. Ron Paul even makes a late appearance.

 

The line separating white supremacists and mainstream Republicans is not thick.

 

It is about a white sheet thick, it seems.

 

So you're saying there's a line...
lol

 

If there was, Trump erased it.

 

The Republicans used to be the party that represented lower taxes, unintrusive government, "family values," and white supremacists.

Now they're just white supremacists.

 

The bolded... it took "Intrusive government" to help begin the process of civilizing this shithole country. The states certainly weren't going to do it on their own.

That's why centrists tend to get their panties in a wad over federal "overreach".

 

The centrist "problem" comes from their place of relative privilege. Centrists are generally white, middle class people who are economically stable who often live in areas with a strong white conservative contingent and a smaller white liberal/POC contingent.

They underestimate the dangers of strands of white nationalism found in a lot of the conservative movement, because they "know a guy with some dumb ideas about X, but he's actually a nice guy and he's a great centerfielder for our beer league softball team." They don't need the government because they're not in that "really nice" guy's line of fire, and the entire policy platform of both parties is centered on not completely pissing off people like them.

They've got a nice apolitical position going, so they'd rather neither party mess that up with any flag kneeling that might require them to think about something for a few minutes before diving into their nachos. Or tax raising. Or abortion restrictions. Or LGBT issues that might have a negative economic impact in a chamber of commerce/convention traffic kinda way.

They're the way they are because nothing has really been asked of them. Don't make them think too hard damnit. They've got a soccer game to go to, a lawn to mow and some "I love us" family photos to upload on FB.

 

I think of GG like Dershowitz. Willing to take on unpopular causes & defend unpopular people. But they both have fallen into a Fox-world orbit lately that is really hard to comprehend.

 

I'm grateful that there are attorneys out there willing to take on controversial defenses for strictly legal reasons. People have a right to a legal defense. I'm grateful for journalists willing to develop sources/relationships to do stories on far right movements too.

This advocacy outside the courtroom as more of a PR exercise is the problem. So is the journalism that extends beyond explaining why racist X believes Y into at least implied rationalization.

I'm sure it existed somewhere, but I don't remember any major media outlet 30 years ago painting a white supremacist as a sympathetic character. Or attorneys getting significant air time to spin theories about how wonderful their dirt bag client is.

That's on Fox and far right radio.

Yeah. That was my old man. For him there's a range of reasonable from Reagan Republicanism to small s socialism (before you get to the state owning stuff) where people can agree to disagree. Or, "let's restrict abortion to before 24 weeks with exceptions since that's when they happen anyway". He doesn't need to live with the consequences of Reagan Republicanism the way people in other classes--especially those who aren't white--have. But the overt racism, xenophobia, voting access shenanigans, Garland garbage, Boehner's complete disregard for negotiating the budget shortfall under O, hard right religious freedom stances, and on and on...that's the stuff he can't deal with. Didn't like Newt and Contract with America at all, but at that point it was easy for him to chalk that up to an anomaly rather than a step in an evolutionary process.

 

All boiled down that is true. White grievance in this era of more inclusivity for past marginalized groups.

Trump could've run as a Democrat or an IC or as leader of the Pvssy Grabbers Party. But he chose Republican for a reason.

 

He also makes a cameo in that piece.

 

It's an almost perfect Venn diagram.

 

Because it was easier. Dems are a divided, splintered group but Republicans were mostly unified. It was easier to say the right things and get them to believe.

 

Because the "right things" that Republicans are willing to believe (climate change is a Chinese hoax, the majority of immigrants are rapists, there are good people amongst white supremacists, etc, etc, etc) would get somebody laughed out of a Democrat convention, not to mention a casual gathering of relatively sane people...

 

I am around die-hard republicans all the time. I don't know one that believes any of the stuff you just posted. Yes, there are some that believe everything but most? Nope.

 

Nah, Jeb was the chosen one. So I wouldn't say in 2015 when Trump rode down the escalator to spout racist tripe that he thought he'd stand any chance. He was looking to get the brand out there for Trump TV. It really is a Mel Brooks farce that his bigoted insanity struck a chord with Whitelandia and he won.