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And some people wonder why the Republican Party does not have a diverse electorate...
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It’s been well-documented that the GOP is in the middle of an aggressive rebranding campaign intended to woo African-American voters, and in the midst of this, yet another Republican congressional candidate has provoked cries of racial insensitivity.
In a post on his Facebook page that was—in theory, anyway—about federal spending, Jim Brown, who’s running in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, compared modern-day “entitlements” to slavery. But even more disturbing, perhaps, he denied that slavery was, first and foremost, a brutally violent institution:
I dont see where he said it wasnt so bad.. I see where he compared government spending which perpetuates poverty to slavery.. he might have a point considering the tens of millions stuck in poverty and unable to leave because government programs encourage people to stay there.
No defense for someone being that stupid in the Facebook era.
And once more, like I said with Bachmann, it makes me think he got paid by the DNC to post something that stupid knowing how our society operates on the guilt by association fallacy.
What always gets me is how Republicans dismiss people like this as just lone nuts...yet they keep coming out over and over. Also that they are elected officials that spout this crap and get elected as representatives for others.
Not all conservatives are bigots, and not all bigots are conservatives, but it seems like there are 9 stories for a mainstream conservative host (like Rush, Beck, Savage) or elected official spouting off some **** like this...compred to some obscure crank with a blog lib or wacky college professor spouting off about **** like this. It seems to be getting worse as the right seems to be moving farther to the right while expelling the moderates as RINO's.
I expect some number of people to be like this, ~5% of the population has a mental illness severe enough to impact their lives. The group they belong to shouldn't be to blame...unless they are elected to represent them or listened to by tens of thousands of people that don't abandon them after they spout this crap. If the person is a closet KKK member, no fault for voting for them. Wearing their robes, or spouting off this crap, at campaign rallies and those voters endorse their views.
What always gets me is how Republicans dismiss people like this as just lone nuts...yet they keep coming out over and over. Also that they are elected officials that spout this crap and get elected as representatives for others..
Dismissing people is thinking its acceptable to have a government which perpetuates poverty.. As if somehow we just cut them a check they will disappear, while ignoring the other costs on society, like the high crime rates which results, the police force which is needed, the murder rate, the numbers of people in jail, and higher taxes needed to pay for it..
Dismissing people is the Democratic method to deal with society.. Create poverty, whine that people are poor, and then ignore the ramifications of the damages being caused and suggest more programs to continue the poverty cycle.
We hear non stop about how Democrats equate a job to slavery for the "big corporations" while ignoring that the only way out of poverty is a means to produce.. NOT government checks.
I dont see where he said it wasnt so bad.. I see where he compared government spending which perpetuates poverty to slavery.. he might have a point considering the tens of millions stuck in poverty and unable to leave because government programs encourage people to stay there.
Yea, he did not say it wasn't so bad....no where in his post does it say that.
What always gets me is how Republicans dismiss people like this as just lone nuts...yet they keep coming out over and over. Also that they are elected officials that spout this crap and get elected as representatives for others.
And don't even get me started on those who defend politicians that constantly lie to us.
Any politician not bright enough to know better than to post off the cuff remarks on Facebook isn't likely one who thinks things through very thoroughly.
I dont see where he said it wasnt so bad.. I see where he compared government spending which perpetuates poverty to slavery.. he might have a point considering the tens of millions stuck in poverty and unable to leave because government programs encourage people to stay there.
"Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs .. Not by beating them and starving them. (Although there were isolated cases if course) Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along."
I believe the link was referring to the bold portion of this statement. "wasn't so bad" technically wasn't said but one can draw a conclusion from the statement's context that since owners took good care of their slaves their lives weren't that bad... You have to look at the statement in its entirety to draw the same common sense conclusion as the author...
Yea, he did not say it wasn't so bad....no where in his post does it say that.
He certainly minimized it.
To compare undisciplined spending to slavery is to diminish the ills of slavery.
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