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Re: Does Republican = Racist?
Pretty much.
There are plenty of racist Democrats too, but the Democratic party of the 21st century doesn't tend to support racist policies and/or policies that disproportionately have a negative effect on minorities.
For example, you don't see Democrats running around trying to pass anti-Muslim laws.
I agree with car seat.
I've heard some argue that liberals are just as racist, it's just reverse racism. I think that's silly. Creating an even playing field doesn't require that you lower the ceiling, we just want to raise the floor.I concur.
Ha! You are a typical Kool-Aid drinker. My point proved. You might want to look up what it means to "drink the Kool-Aid" . It has nothing to do with skin color. Here, I will help you out:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=drink+the+kool-aid
Oh, and it is always funny to me how Democrats love to lay claim to civil rights then call Republicans racists. Put down your glass of Kool-Aid and here ya go:
I laughed at the kool aid joke not because it was a race joke....I honestly didn't think it was a race joke. I'm not racist at all
This board used to be intelligent. What happened?
Updated September 2012.
I don't know, I was on here last week and was really happy with it and now it sux.
First of all, the Republican party of the 1800s was vastly different than the modern GOP. We also had Federalists back then. And urban dictionary as a "source" to educate us on the origins of "drinking the Kool-Aid"? Nice.
Everyone went to proboards, of course.
I'm just here for the entertainment value.
Between 1800 and today the Republican party has essentially done a 180. Regardless of semantics like party name, the accomplishments you list were liberal accomplishments. So, I can only assume that you're arguing liberals are awesome.
Don't you remember this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejudice_n_1237796.html
"The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood."
"Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature "structure and order" that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice," he added."
ETA: formatting
Not only is the GOP nothing like the Republican Party of the 1800's, but it's not even the Republican Party of their hero-Ronald Reagan. The Tea Party and Evangelicals have ruined what was once a reasonable party that simply believed in limiting government.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/11/hagel_reagan_wouldn_t_identify_with_today_s_gop
I remember that!
Oh yea, I forgot. Liberals now like to lay claim to Abraham Lincoln and resort to revisionist history. Seriously, go read history of the Republican Party ( see Kansas-Nebraska Act and Whigs/Soil Free Democrats) and then get back to me with something that actually makes sense. Do they get it right every time, throughout history? Heck, no. But to equate Democrats/Progressives/Liberals of today as the Republican Party of yesteryear is flucking ridiculous and hysterical. You really need to read the history of the party YOU support....I mean because Woodrow Wilson and FDR were SUCH "Republicans".
Those are policies in accord with "concepts of maximum individual freedom possible". The term " liberal" when used to identify Progressives in the Democratic Party is confusing, I know ---- you guys are " liberal" only when it applies to YOUR beliefs . But again, like you said...semantics.
I'm not saying Abraham Lincoln was a democrat, I'm saying he wasn't a republican.
You're really uppity for someone who's wrong.
Maybe I just know a lot of racist Republicans.
I know a few moderate Republicans and I'm pretty sure they aren't racist.
Two of them are actually quite ashamed of their party. Too bad.
Honestly, I think it depends on the person.
While I am not racist, I know some republicans who are as well as some democrats. There are winners in every party.
I voted yes, and to prove it, I will cite two examples of Republican racism.
#1 being against Obama's stimulus
#2 being against Obama's PPACA
and "Chicago."
I totally do not equate voter i.d. laws with being racist. I am for the voter i.d. laws because I don't think they're an undue burden, any more than paying for a postage stamp for an absentee ballot is. On the other hand, absentee ballots are more likely to be fraudulent than in-person voting, I have heard.
I will tell you this: in Ohio, I hope I don't hear all the sob stories about people in cities standing in line for hours and hours. You're just an idiot if you don't take advantage of the many days of in-person voting as well as the absentee ballot that can be cast for any reason. The applications are sent out to every voter in the state.
If it disproportionally affects members of any income class, race, etc it is discriminatory.
People should never have to pay a single cent to VOTE. That is an unconditional, inalienable right. If people have to pay for a stamp for an absentee ballot, they chose the situation in which they would need to do that. If people can show up to the polls on election day, they should be allowed to vote without any preliminary measures costing them.
Want the voter ID laws? Make state IDs free and open during longer, varying hours.
I would probably feel a lot different about the shady, discriminatory undertones of these new laws if there was an actual proven problem with voter fraud.
So you are in favor of governments spending millions of dollars, often millions of dollars they don't have, to solve a problem that doesn't exist? Doesn't sound very fiscally conservative or fiscally prudent to me.