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WND's Farah calls NCLR "a racist hate group," compares group to KKK and neo-Nazis

May 31, 2009 10:29 am ET by Media Matters staff

From Farah's May 30 column, headlined "A racist for the Supreme Court":

Sotomayor is a member of the National Council of La Raza. What is La Raza?

It bills itself as a "civil rights" organization. It would be more appropriate to say it disguises itself as such. It camouflages itself as such. It hides its real purpose and true intents as such - with the willing and skillful assistance of many of my media colleagues.

In reality, La Raza is a racist hate group - a band of "Hispanic supremacists," if you will, though it is seldom characterized that way.

It is no more a civil rights group than the Ku Klux Klan is a group promoting the civil rights of white people. It is no more a civil rights group than the neo-Nazi scum who marched a generation ago at Skokie, Ill., with the legal protection of the American Civil Liberties Union, another misnamed organization. It is no more a civil rights group than the Aryan skinheads who victimize Jews and others they detest in trying to lift themselves up from the gutter.

La Raza is part of the movement in this country to destroy it from within by dividing and "reconquering."

Its members and leadership are linked directly to those who believe the Southwestern U.S. was unjustly seized from Mexico in the 19th century. It should, they believe, by any means necessary, be reconstituted either as part of that thoroughly corrupt, socialist regime fled by tens of millions of refugees or as an independent, autonomous, Spanish-speaking socialist state - like the mythical land of Aztlan.

The only real differences between La Raza and the neo-Nazis and the KKK are its wealth, power and level of sophistication.

Previously:

Sanchez hosts NCLR's Murguia to respond to Tancredo's claim that group is a "Latino KKK," rebut other conservative claims

Maddow mocks Tancredo's comparison of NCLR to KKK

Media Matters' Boehlert goes head-to-head with Tancredo over Sotomayor on CNN

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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (May 31, 2009 10:46 am ET)
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      I wonder what basis Farah has to compare anything to the KKK and the Nazis. He would have to have rather intimate conteact with them to know precisely how a non-hate group like La Raza may be related to them.

      I guess it takes one to know one. WorldNutDaily has no standing to criticize anyone for allegec far right views (which La Raza does not hold), and the KKK and the nazis are about as far right as one can get.
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      • Author by archae (May 31, 2009 12:07 pm ET)
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        This is just the latest garbage from WingNutDaily.

        ConWeb Watch has many, many details on WND's lies and flat-out bias.

        Besides the boss Farah, just look who else writes columns at WND.

        "Endtimes" failed prophet Hal Lindsey.
        Jerome Corsi.
        Has-been singer and phony Christian Pat Boone.
        Chuck Norris.
        Etc...
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    • Author by magnolialover (May 31, 2009 11:06 am ET)
         
      This reminds me a lot of the wing nut media talking about how ACORN is some sort of ALL powerful group who runs the country.

      Last time I checked, La Raza hasn't lynched anyone, nor intimidated anyone through violent means, or other things that the KKK, and or Nazi groups do.

      why do these people have such a hard time with civil rights groups?
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      • Author by princeofwheels (May 31, 2009 11:22 am ET)
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        Because they don't have the guts to really do what they say!! The Hateful Right is a bunch of cowards who YAK YAK YAK about someone else hating America and when you dig deep, they are the ones who hate what America stands for. They are losers who have nowhere to go but deeper into the bowels of hate.
        And who is this Farah person? A writer for the WND. Probably the apex of his/her/its life.
        I wonder if this person knows anyone in any group other than the HOAC...Haters Of America Club.
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        • Author by Disputed Zone (May 31, 2009 12:53 pm ET)
             
          Farah is the founder, editor and CEO of WND. He says the site is not conservative.
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          • Author by magnolialover (May 31, 2009 1:25 pm ET)
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            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! Phew... Give me a second...

            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAHHH!!!

            Not conservative? Puh-leaze.
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          • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (May 31, 2009 3:16 pm ET)
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            Farah is the founder, editor and CEO of WND. He says the site is not conservative.


            (typed while gasping for air from a laughing fit) Yeah, and Fox News is "Fair and Balanced." They're not, of course; they simply plaster themselves with such taglines to make themselves sound mopre legitimate than the mere propaganda arm of a political movement...
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    • Author by pete592 (May 31, 2009 1:04 pm ET)
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      Farah does not want you to view this website. He just wants you to take his word for it. There's no two sides to it.
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (May 31, 2009 3:20 pm ET)
           
        Farah does not want you to view this website. He just wants you to take his word for it. There's no two sides to it.

        That's just it, pete; his readers won't read it and he knows it. Or if they do read it out a momentary stirring of curiosity, he's poisoned the well enough for them to see everything on that site as just a fig leaf for the actual racist hate he claims motivates them. Sort of the rhetorical version of Theresienstadt, if you will. But he can rest his little head knwing full well that his fans truly will just take his word for it...
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    • Author by tangaroa (May 31, 2009 5:37 pm ET)
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      If La Raza is such a "hate group" and "a band of 'Hispanic supremacists" what was John Mc Cain doing delivering the keynote address at their 2004 annual conference?

      http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/2649/

      Or did they just become supremacist and hateful over the past four years?
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    • Author by cdwriteme (June 01, 2009 9:04 am ET)
         
      Now that "God wills we subordinate the 'savages'" is falling out of favor as a way for white right-wing American racists to justify the social Darwinism, they're scrambling to find new justifications.

      Whether it's fear-mongering, claiming loss of "America's values", or making some non-sensical "I know you are but what am I?" defesne when their immorality is called out, they just, to me, expose their racism and mental illness more and more.
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