signalmankenneth
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Will they stop the hate or go extinct?
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I have traveled this country extensively, before and during the election campaign,
speaking to whites about their political values, most recently in Ohio just before the vote.
The vast majority of straight white men I encountered were reasonable, thoughtful voters.
And here’s an irony: Much of the GOP — think Romney, Mourdock, Akin — cling to a
political narrative according to which white male voters are “conservative” and “minority”
voters are “liberal,” and where white male voters are self-sufficient and everyone else is
dependent. It’s exactly this form of white-on-white racial profiling, a fear of the future,
that produced the election’s outrageous comments about unions, the poor, rape, women,
minorities and the like.
Fear of the future - that rings a bell:
The GOP and the [SIZE=+1]C[/SIZE]atholic Church have the same problem:
Both organizations are stuck in the past and their by-laws say "Change is a sin."
[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Both organizations see women as mere tools of procreation, and almost a man's equal.
For the Catholics and the GOP the choices are clear and they're the same: Change or die.
I can'[SIZE=+1]t[/SIZE] see either side changing.
For that to happen, someone in the church has to say, "The Pope is wrong,"
and someone in the GOP has to say, "The vulgar Pigboy is wrong."
David Frum came close to being the hero, but he pussied out.
It's tougher for the Catholics because whoever tells the Pope he's wrong
will have to spend all eternity burning in Hell. Who wants that?
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I have traveled this country extensively, before and during the election campaign,
speaking to whites about their political values, most recently in Ohio just before the vote.
The vast majority of straight white men I encountered were reasonable, thoughtful voters.
And here’s an irony: Much of the GOP — think Romney, Mourdock, Akin — cling to a
political narrative according to which white male voters are “conservative” and “minority”
voters are “liberal,” and where white male voters are self-sufficient and everyone else is
dependent. It’s exactly this form of white-on-white racial profiling, a fear of the future,
that produced the election’s outrageous comments about unions, the poor, rape, women,
minorities and the like.
Fear of the future - that rings a bell:
The GOP and the [SIZE=+1]C[/SIZE]atholic Church have the same problem:
Both organizations are stuck in the past and their by-laws say "Change is a sin."
[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Both organizations see women as mere tools of procreation, and almost a man's equal.
For the Catholics and the GOP the choices are clear and they're the same: Change or die.
I can'[SIZE=+1]t[/SIZE] see either side changing.
For that to happen, someone in the church has to say, "The Pope is wrong,"
and someone in the GOP has to say, "The vulgar Pigboy is wrong."
David Frum came close to being the hero, but he pussied out.
It's tougher for the Catholics because whoever tells the Pope he's wrong
will have to spend all eternity burning in Hell. Who wants that?
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