Maddow mocks Tancredo's comparison of NCLR to KKK
May 29, 2009 10:36 am ET
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Who wants to take bets on when Tancredo tries to tell some befuddled host the Klan was only set up to "protect the women"?
It's irrelevant whether Tancredo has ties to the Klan; he himself is a racist thug, unlike, say, Robert Byrd.
I think it may be at this link:
www.tancredosbutt.com
Here's a nickel... go buy a clue.
If a white male judge had said something along the lines of, "Being a white male makes me a better judge than a Latina woman when it comes to ruling on cases of corporate malfeasance..." then I would probably go along with that, since most large corporation's power structures are still inherently male, and white.
Thing is chief, there are organizations in America that try to promote the european american families, and they're called Neo Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists. Thing is, La Raza, or The Race, is a group that fights for minority rights, and don't prop themselves up as being superior to anyone else. They just want what they're legally guaranteed.
Also, stop playing the part of the poor persecuted majority. That's a tired talking point, and it was not valid 10 years ago, not valid 20 years ago, and it's not valid now. I feel lucky to have been born a white male in America, mostly because I get all sorts of advantages being such that if I were almost anything else in the US, I wouldn't get (like being a woman, being a minority, and so on...).
There is no double standard, you just wish that there were.
"Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society."
"we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group."
"Each day on the bench I learn something new about the judicial process and about being a professional Latina woman in a world that sometimes looks at me with suspicion. I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I re-evaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate."
Read the speech before you make such a fool of yourself. I am no lib, but you (and your ilk) are precisely the reason that I am no longer a Republican. Your ignorance is glaring, but it's not reprehensible - everyone is ignorant on one subject or another. The pride that you seem to take in your ignorance is shameless and reprehensible. You either actually believe that everyone has a fair shot at the top jobs in this country regardless of their background or family contacts or else you don't care. Show me the day when a black man is able to run for governor and then president based on who his family is and then your argument may have the slightest bit of merit. Either way, you are the problem.
As for Clarence Thomas, we did make a big deal about his sexual abuse of Anita Hill. Your comment is particularly ironic (and stupid and ignorant) here at Media Matters: google "David Brock".
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!!
And it's not a personal attack, just a reaction to YOUR silly comments!!!
If you wore a shirt that said white pride, regardles of how you actually felt, you'd be labeled a racist.
Thing is, white people are not oppressed in the US. There is NO double standard. Sticking up for yourself is just fine and dandy, but don't pretend like things are even and balanced, because they're not.
I don't think white CEOS should be replaced because they're white, I think they should be replaced because they stink at their jobs. I don't hate corporations, you'd be interested to know, that's who I work for. They pay my bills.
We're not ripping into America, we're ripping into folks like you who seem to think being white and male in the US is some sort of tragedy. It's not. I'm glad that I am that's for sure.
The firefighter thing is BS, because she ruled on precedent, as did the other memebers of the judge panel.
The quote is BS as well, becuase you have failed to read the entire thing.
I think everyone should have pride in who they are, it's just that the folks who have pride in the whiteness, most of the time, are the ones yelling and screaming about how whites are SUPERIOR to everyone else. Minorities tend not to do this. That you don't see the difference doesn't surprise me really. Speaking up for your race because you want to equal is not the same as saying you're for white pride, because again, white people in this country, especially white males, have had all the advantages throughout their lives. Minorities have not. What these groups are trying to work for, and which you ignore, is EQUAL rights. They don't claim to be better than anyone else, they just want what is guaranteed to them through the Constitution of the US.
I'm not going to convince any conservative that her "better conclusion" comment isn't racist, but can we agree on the obvious fact that all ethinic organizations in America aren't dedicated to the eradication of white men?
Try again, Vercingetorix... she said "better conclusion" not "better judge" as you and the rest of the Troglodytes are claiming.
If you guys are going to spew propaganda, aren't you clever enough not to use things that can be debunked with so little effort?
No wonder the rest of the world looks at us as being stupid. When dupes like you are so delusional and historically ignorant of your own history then it's no surprise that we're the laughingstock across the world. The fact you think you even have an argument with that laundry list of right-wing, we-white-conservative-men-are-so-oppressed talking points, it makes me wonder what our school systems are teaching our children.
A mind is definitely a terrible thing to waste.
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