Posts in "racism"

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By Shaun Bowen at 4:08PM
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By Rachel Kania at 5:39PM

Are Tea Partiers Racist?

This video is from the Tax Day Tea Party rally back in April. I just found it at BreaktheMatrix.com and it had me thinking of an earlier post by Wes Messamore.

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By Wesley Messamore at 6:05PM
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By Cody London at 12:44AM

Oxymorons

I know I should not even concern myself with such trifles as political baiting...but I will anyway. 

After viewing many comments made concerning the firestorm around Rand Paul's remarks about the Civil Rights Act, I can not help but to take a few steps back and rationalize the entire scope of the Red Herring presented by the Louisville paper and furthered by Rachel Maddow

Unfortunately it is not enough that these talking heads are nowhere close to completely understanding the philosophical rationale behind Rand's comments; they also enter the discussion with their minds already made up with this equation:

Libertarian+objection to portion of Civil Rights Bill= Racist

"Libertarian? Well you are probably racist."  Huh?


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By Matt Cockerill at 5:15PM

The many lessons of the Rand Paul "controversy."

Jacob Hornberger has written a great response to the liberal attacks on Rand Paul’s politically incorrect statements about Article II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars private businesses from discriminating on the basis of race.

Writes Hornberger,

Suppose a certain white homeowner in a community publicly announces that he is holding a weekly TGIF cocktail party at his home every Friday night. He publicly invites everyone who lives within a one-mile radius of his home to his parties, but with a big exception. He says: Blacks and Jews are not invited and will not be permitted into his home.

How would libertarians respond? We would say that that man has every right in the world to take that position. We might criticize him, we might condemn him, we might ignore him, we might boycott his parties. But we would defend his right to discriminate against anyone he wants, as a matter of principle. After all, we would argue, it’s his home — his private property. To paraphrase Voltaire, we might not agree with how he uses his property, but we would defend his right to use it any way he wants. That’s what private ownership and a free society are all about.


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By Elliot Engstrom at 6:55AM

A Great Critique of Arizona Immigration Law

It did my heart good to see Linda Chavez's recent comments at the National Review critiquing the recent Arizona immigration law.  As a staunch localist, my disdain for this law does not necessarily mean that I think federal action should be taken to dismantle it.  However, I still think that it is the duty of society to condemn the recent actions of the Arizona state government, and to ensure that other states do not make similar mistakes.

Chavez contends that, contrary to the stereotypical compassionate left vs heartless right debate being put in the spotlight, conservatives and advocates of the free market should be the harshest critics of the recent Arizona law.  She writes:

...the whole defense of racial preferences in college admissions and employment rests on the notion that race is simply one of many factors taken into account. But as the Center for Equal Opportunity’s studies on racial preferences in college admissions have definitively shown, whenever race is taken into account — even as one of many factors — it always becomes the deciding factor. And it will here as well. We conservatives can’t have it both ways: either we’re for race-neutral justice or we’re not. We can’t be against using race when it helps minorities but for it when it harms them — at least not without legitimate criticism as to our motives.


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By Roy Antoun at 3:40PM
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By Matt Cockerill at 7:19AM

Those Condemning State's Rights as "Racist" Should Read More and Talk Less

The  NPR guy who interviewed Tom Woods last week is not an anomaly. The first thing many of these MSM types think of when nullification is brought up is racism and Jim Crow. That's rather odd, given that no one is advocating nullification be used to strike down federal laws abolishing forced segregation. On the contrary, nullification would be used to abolish the failed War on Drugs, which -- in addition to sanctioning aggressive state violence -- is enforced in a ridiculously racist, anti-black manner.

Yet the race-baiters, most of whom are (of course) totally silent on the issues that actually oppress blacks, continue to throw false accusations at the state's rights movement. It's thus important to provide some historical context as well. Consider, for example, the noble history of northern citizens using state's rights to oppose slave-kidnapping.


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By Matt Cockerill at 6:43AM

Tom Woods Gives the Hardcore Case for Nullification -- on NPR

The anti-state, anti-war, pro- market Tom Woods is a great example of principle paying off. Not only is his unapologetic style brave, but politically smart -- at least in building longterm coalitions of true believers. 

Tuesday on NPR, he gave a mainstream audience the unadulterated case for nullification of immoral and unconstitutional federal laws. It's great that he countered the ridiculous speculation of "racism" associated with nullification with the fact that libertarians would use it abolish the most racist policy in American politics, in the  federal War on Drugs.


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By Matt Cockerill at 10:53PM

May I suggest a name change to The New Republic [TNR] Magazine?

The New Racist. Given the mag's recent history, it'd wouldn't be much of a stretch.

Yesterday's comment by Peretz is the most shameful. In addition to being editor of a warmongering screed, Peretz appears to be a bigot of the first order. I'd hope the MSM would call out TNR on the blatantly racist comments of its editor. Failing to do so will expose the fact that despite hysterical PC codes, racism is still acceptable when directed against the "type" of people the government is killing.

And until TNR repudiates this, people opposed to racism will have steer clear. That won't be difficult for me, since the left-neocon publication is an archenemy of peace and liberty.