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I’d say duncan between the two, but I don’t really feel that played much of a role. Everything sucked for the democrats this time around.
Thomas Duncan looks like a G-Funk rapper named Nate Dogg. Who is most famous for saying SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY on a song called “The Next Episode”.
How about this one ?
Too many blacks and other minorities including single females chose to stay home and snooze on their welfare couches. Republicans swept due to Democrats failing to stir up their ignorant, illiterate, innumerate base. Lord knows they tried.
The video footage of Michael Brown should really go in some kind of hall of fame for media malpractice.
I don’t think I really appreciated the depths of the Leftist media’s racial demagoguery until I saw those pictures, and I doubt I was the only one. Until I saw those pictures, I literally had this image in my head of some scrawny little black kid running away in terror while being gunned down by the sort of arrogant, trigger-happy knuckle-dragging white cop who pulls me over and gives me attitude for driving 37 in a 35 mph zone.
Then the images were released and I was just like: Jesus, guys. Really? That’s where you’re gonna plant your flag and make your stand?
Like Sailer has said before, you’ve really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I’ve never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said “martyr” acting like a criminal thug.
I wonder if black “leaders” realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause. It would be as if every time a GOP leader started to gain national prominence, photos would always surface showing them wearing Hitler youth regalia and giving a Nazi salute to a Confederate battle flag.
Your analogy and argument is correct, though. ;)Replies: @William Badwhite
Hell, most still think that Zimmerman was a racist murderer let off by an all-white jury. The lesson that the black leaders have learned really well is that if you frame the story early, facts that come out later just don't matter - people have moved on.Replies: @NOTA
Not always, although the narrative is written and won't be changed by a few facts.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/14/matthew-shepard-murder-wyoming-book
VDARE.COM has a term for it. Its called "narrative collapse".
I wonder if black "leaders" realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause.
NOPE. The race-pimps don't care at all. Truth is I doubt they even have enough self-awareness to notice, and the facts don't really matter to most blacks.
Maybe it was this
https://www.google.com/search?q=mcconnell+hold+nose+photo
The RNC and the establishment did everything to alienate the base by ignoring the trainwreck of Open Borders. During the primaries they campaigned against immigration patriots portraying them as racists.
Still, the Republican base increasingly knows the Democratic party has morphed into a Cultural Marxist insane asylum. Trayvon, Ferguson, knockout game videos……
Even with the worst of this year’s Republican winners, one still have the chance of influencing them on immigration through NUMBERSUSA and other patriot groups.
The real battle will be preventing the Bush Republicans from throwing away the country in the next couple of months with their own amnesty.
The primary against him was just libertarian Tea Party nihilism over his refusal to default on the debt ceiling issue and shut down the government as part of a futile attempt to "stop obamacare." Kentucky Republicans fortunately saw through it.Replies: @anonymous-antimarxist, @Sam Haysom
“Like Sailer has said before, you’ve really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I’ve never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said “martyr” acting like a criminal thug.”
The Homosexual community in the U.S are more well organized than the Black community because of IQ. White male Homosexuals on average have higher IQs than Blacks. Homosexuals are like Asians in terms of being a non threatening and non ghetto Minority. Heterosexual SWPL types on average like Asians and Homosexuals way more than they like Blacks, even if they don’t admit it publicly. But privately they will admit that they prefer San Francisco’s brand of diversity with it’s large Asian and LGBT population way more so than Detroit’s brand of diversity with it’s 83 percent Black population.
Yep, the face of gay marriage was generally two adorable old white ladies who’d lived together for 50 years, like Obama’s late great aunt.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mcconnell+hold+nose+photo
The RNC and the establishment did everything to alienate the base by ignoring the trainwreck of Open Borders. During the primaries they campaigned against immigration patriots portraying them as racists.
Still, the Republican base increasingly knows the Democratic party has morphed into a Cultural Marxist insane asylum. Trayvon, Ferguson, knockout game videos......
Even with the worst of this year's Republican winners, one still have the chance of influencing them on immigration through NUMBERSUSA and other patriot groups.
The real battle will be preventing the Bush Republicans from throwing away the country in the next couple of months with their own amnesty. Replies: @Jonathan Silber, @Lot
This midterm election is for Trayvon!
https://www.google.com/search?q=mcconnell+hold+nose+photo
The RNC and the establishment did everything to alienate the base by ignoring the trainwreck of Open Borders. During the primaries they campaigned against immigration patriots portraying them as racists.
Still, the Republican base increasingly knows the Democratic party has morphed into a Cultural Marxist insane asylum. Trayvon, Ferguson, knockout game videos......
Even with the worst of this year's Republican winners, one still have the chance of influencing them on immigration through NUMBERSUSA and other patriot groups.
The real battle will be preventing the Bush Republicans from throwing away the country in the next couple of months with their own amnesty. Replies: @Jonathan Silber, @Lot
Mitch McConnell has a decent voting record on immigration and did his best to block amnesty. Unfortunately three new Republicans who favor amnesty also won: Tillis, Sullivan, and Gardner.
The primary against him was just libertarian Tea Party nihilism over his refusal to default on the debt ceiling issue and shut down the government as part of a futile attempt to “stop obamacare.” Kentucky Republicans fortunately saw through it.
Still he is long ways away from a Jeff Sessions economic populist.
Folks should not forget that McConnell's wife Elaine Chao was Dubya's Secretary of Labor and allowed the Chamber of Commerce types to run wild.
She was a big H1-B advocate. See: http://24ahead.com/s/elaine-chao
I am very concerned over the pillow talk. What if Elaine has picked out a nice mansion in the DC burbs and decides she could care less about ever setting foot in Kentucky again.
The first one, I said at the time that Dems were making a big mistake pandering to Blacks on this issue. Once that store video came out, someone should have told Holder to back off.
I don't think I really appreciated the depths of the Leftist media's racial demagoguery until I saw those pictures, and I doubt I was the only one. Until I saw those pictures, I literally had this image in my head of some scrawny little black kid running away in terror while being gunned down by the sort of arrogant, trigger-happy knuckle-dragging white cop who pulls me over and gives me attitude for driving 37 in a 35 mph zone.
Then the images were released and I was just like: Jesus, guys. Really? That's where you're gonna plant your flag and make your stand?
Like Sailer has said before, you've really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I've never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said "martyr" acting like a criminal thug.
I wonder if black "leaders" realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause. It would be as if every time a GOP leader started to gain national prominence, photos would always surface showing them wearing Hitler youth regalia and giving a Nazi salute to a Confederate battle flag.Replies: @SFG, @Jimbo, @Sam Haysom, @Anonymous Nephew, @Anonymous
I always had the sense Nazi and Confederate enthusiasts were often different people, but I could be way off base on this.
Your analogy and argument is correct, though. 😉
"I always had the sense Nazi and Confederate enthusiasts were often different people, but I could be way off base on this."
As someone with an uncle and grandfather that fought against the Nazis, but with a great-great grandfather that fought for the Confederacy, I find the linking of the two to be irritating. But agree with SFG, an otherwise cogent point Mr. Blank.Replies: @SFG
I doubt it was the top one with King Kong punking out Gandhi because I doubt many Americans saw it.
The alt-right-sphere online has to realize what a small and marginal world they live in.
The media-mental world of most Americans is totally different.
Just because the Dems were so idiotic as to let their Black Saint lead them down the arrogant multicultural path to disaster don’t forget these Goppers are not on YT’s side, ever. The GOP wants power, they have it now and they won’t be grateful. Power is Life, they do not care about anything else.
The Dems and the Goppers will get together to fashion some kind of Amnesty(that will in the end condemn the Goppers to extinction) and the GOP will tell itself it is preparing for 2016. Remember all these guys live in high rent zip codes.
You voted for them and now they will say ‘thanks please get lost.’
Because where else are you gonna go? What choice do you have?
Not pictured is the ‘global warming’ fanatic. People are finding the left’s obsession with non-existent global warming to be dangerous, costly, and obviously influenced by ulterior motives.
I don't think I really appreciated the depths of the Leftist media's racial demagoguery until I saw those pictures, and I doubt I was the only one. Until I saw those pictures, I literally had this image in my head of some scrawny little black kid running away in terror while being gunned down by the sort of arrogant, trigger-happy knuckle-dragging white cop who pulls me over and gives me attitude for driving 37 in a 35 mph zone.
Then the images were released and I was just like: Jesus, guys. Really? That's where you're gonna plant your flag and make your stand?
Like Sailer has said before, you've really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I've never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said "martyr" acting like a criminal thug.
I wonder if black "leaders" realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause. It would be as if every time a GOP leader started to gain national prominence, photos would always surface showing them wearing Hitler youth regalia and giving a Nazi salute to a Confederate battle flag.Replies: @SFG, @Jimbo, @Sam Haysom, @Anonymous Nephew, @Anonymous
I think you overestimate how much people pay attention after the first reports of the story. Ask your average white NYT reader (never mind the blacks) and they will tell you that your first story is the correct one… When the grand jury refuses to indict, there’s going to be some hangwringing about the racist system, more shopping, umm, rioting in Ferguson, and that will be it.
Hell, most still think that Zimmerman was a racist murderer let off by an all-white jury. The lesson that the black leaders have learned really well is that if you frame the story early, facts that come out later just don’t matter – people have moved on.
Two things didn’t help Dems in the midterm elections. First “I’m also a black man” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sided with the rioters, looters, and fire-bombers in Ferguson and denounced local law enforcement. Then, when Holder said he’d be stepping down, the Rev. Al Sharpton announced he would pick the next U.S. attorney general.
Chief presidential adviser and confidant Rev. Al Sharpton
NY Daily News, Apr 11, 2014
It’s probably just the president himself being a disappointment to his base. They’ve gotten nothing out of hope and change. The reality of it has sunk in, that for the average person nothing much changes and they’ve gotten tired of hearing yet another speech. I do get the impression that a lot of average blacks weren’t all that enthusiastic about Brown though, seeing him as a thug type, but were overshadowed by the activists and career loudmouth race hustlers. On the other hand those outside of the base have been antagonized, attacked and race baited. The Republicans are the beneficiaries who, true to form, will proceed to sell them out.
Of course, its not in any of the political commentary that I’ve been hearing on TV and reading in the NY Times, etc. but I do think years of race-baiting by Obama, his wife and his attorney general, in cohoots with the mainstream media, is a big factor in the elections this year. The polls were saying a lot of races were close or that a Republican was really in trouble that turned out to be Republican blow-outs – Kentucky, Georgia, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas. Republicans won governorships that they should have had no chance to win – Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland.
Something motivated people to go out and vote and its curious that the mainstream media is leaving St. Trayvon and Ferguson out of the political analysis for all the space they’ve given them for the past 3 years. The threat of black rioting and the government bending over backwards to appease blacks who want to riot and loot has motivated people to vote in the past. Voters wanted to “stop” Obama. Maybe they wanted to stop his cynical race-baiting.
“..facts that come out later just don’t matter – people have moved on.”
The Matthew Shepard Narrative entirely disintegrated – yet people in this very thread assert such things never happen to gay icons. Shepard was a meth addicted, drug dealing, gay prostitute, killed by another meth addicted, drug dealing, gay prostitute who had the same pimp. Shepard died over drugs.
The laws have been passed now, and the MSM isn’t interested anymore. Fait accompli.
The primary against him was just libertarian Tea Party nihilism over his refusal to default on the debt ceiling issue and shut down the government as part of a futile attempt to "stop obamacare." Kentucky Republicans fortunately saw through it.Replies: @anonymous-antimarxist, @Sam Haysom
My problem with McConnell is not so much his own immigration voting record. Also one can not say having a Majority leader from Kentucky is a bad thing. Allow Rove and Bush Inc to hijack the party and cut a deal with Obama on Amnesty, and Mitch knows he can never go back to his old Kentucky home again.
Still he is long ways away from a Jeff Sessions economic populist.
Folks should not forget that McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao was Dubya’s Secretary of Labor and allowed the Chamber of Commerce types to run wild.
She was a big H1-B advocate. See: http://24ahead.com/s/elaine-chao
I am very concerned over the pillow talk. What if Elaine has picked out a nice mansion in the DC burbs and decides she could care less about ever setting foot in Kentucky again.
The primary against him was just libertarian Tea Party nihilism over his refusal to default on the debt ceiling issue and shut down the government as part of a futile attempt to "stop obamacare." Kentucky Republicans fortunately saw through it.Replies: @anonymous-antimarxist, @Sam Haysom
That hardly sounds like nihilism at all. Sounds like a policy disagreement. Is it nihilism when people on the paleo right oppose a staunch conservative like Ted Cruz because of his shiftiness on immigration. I don’t think so, but by your standard it sure seems like it. Was Chris McDaniel a nihilist?
I don't think I really appreciated the depths of the Leftist media's racial demagoguery until I saw those pictures, and I doubt I was the only one. Until I saw those pictures, I literally had this image in my head of some scrawny little black kid running away in terror while being gunned down by the sort of arrogant, trigger-happy knuckle-dragging white cop who pulls me over and gives me attitude for driving 37 in a 35 mph zone.
Then the images were released and I was just like: Jesus, guys. Really? That's where you're gonna plant your flag and make your stand?
Like Sailer has said before, you've really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I've never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said "martyr" acting like a criminal thug.
I wonder if black "leaders" realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause. It would be as if every time a GOP leader started to gain national prominence, photos would always surface showing them wearing Hitler youth regalia and giving a Nazi salute to a Confederate battle flag.Replies: @SFG, @Jimbo, @Sam Haysom, @Anonymous Nephew, @Anonymous
Matthew Shepard the martyr of the 90s homosexual activism got murdered in a drug deal gone bad. Steve should know better. It’s about who really controls the megaphone and its not blacks. I doesn’t help that blacks face infinite more petty harassment in America than do gays. This makes blacks and their activist more bitter and combustible. I really don’t understand what a gay activist in 2014 would have to be angry about so I hope that aren’t erupting in rage over borderline incidens that would be really self indulgent.
I don't think I really appreciated the depths of the Leftist media's racial demagoguery until I saw those pictures, and I doubt I was the only one. Until I saw those pictures, I literally had this image in my head of some scrawny little black kid running away in terror while being gunned down by the sort of arrogant, trigger-happy knuckle-dragging white cop who pulls me over and gives me attitude for driving 37 in a 35 mph zone.
Then the images were released and I was just like: Jesus, guys. Really? That's where you're gonna plant your flag and make your stand?
Like Sailer has said before, you've really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I've never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said "martyr" acting like a criminal thug.
I wonder if black "leaders" realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause. It would be as if every time a GOP leader started to gain national prominence, photos would always surface showing them wearing Hitler youth regalia and giving a Nazi salute to a Confederate battle flag.Replies: @SFG, @Jimbo, @Sam Haysom, @Anonymous Nephew, @Anonymous
“you’ve really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless”
Not always, although the narrative is written and won’t be changed by a few facts.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/14/matthew-shepard-murder-wyoming-book
“The alt-right-sphere online has to realize what a small and marginal world they live in.”
For instance when the Oklahoma beheading happened. I kept checking Huffpost all day and as far as I can tell they didn’t even have one post on it. If they eventually did they didn’t make it easy to find, but either way it was headline news to them.
“The Dems and the Goppers will get together to fashion some kind of Amnesty(that will in the end condemn the Goppers to extinction) and the GOP will tell itself it is preparing for 2016. Remember”
My assumption is that both parties will cobble together some plan to look good to the powers they are beholden to ( la raza and corporate interests) but that leaves things much as they are in most every day cases. It seems like immigration policy is currently pretty loose and generous, and it will probably remain that way, maybe with more amnesty and indian programmers or something.
Sorry should have read “was NOT headline news to them”. Too late to edit! Lol
BTW what I am trying to describe in regards to an immigration plan above was just put in clearer words in another comment by countence: The Boehner/McConnell sellout.
I wish the media followed up on Michael Brown’s character and social interactions in school prior to his fateful day of convenience store robbery followed by his celebratory by swagger down the middle of the street obstructing traffic and subsequent confrontation with the police.
Clearly the security camera footage hints that the nation’s favorite martyred “gentle-giant” was an expert at strong-armed bullying. It’s unlikely that it was his first experience pushing others around. Where are all the kids whose lunch money he took? Where are the nation’s civil rights leaders defending those innocent black citizens who suffered under that? Too busy defending and rationalizing the rotten character and thuggery that make the decent quiet types, black kids and seniors suffer in silent fear.
Your analogy and argument is correct, though. ;)Replies: @William Badwhite
SFG says:
“I always had the sense Nazi and Confederate enthusiasts were often different people, but I could be way off base on this.”
As someone with an uncle and grandfather that fought against the Nazis, but with a great-great grandfather that fought for the Confederacy, I find the linking of the two to be irritating. But agree with SFG, an otherwise cogent point Mr. Blank.
I don't even know how important the racial thing is to every Southern Civil War buff--heck, I'm from NYC, but if we had actually tried to secede from the rest of the country and actually come close to winning, I'd be all over that! That's pretty cool, even if you don't think it's a good idea in the modern world.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @William Badwhite
“Chief presidential adviser and confidant Rev. Al Sharpton
NY Daily News, Apr 11, 2014
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1754045.1397265838!/i”
Al Sharpton is like herpes that never goes away.
you’ve really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless.
Did the gays pick Matthew Shepard to be their poster boy for anti-gay hate crime legislation? He didn’t hold up too well, though I’ll wager that of those members of the public who even know who Shepard is, less than one percent are aware of the facts that have come out.
Maybe he could pick Twana Brawley. She’s a “twofer”, but no, that would remind everyone where the Rev Al came into the national discourse.
The Ebola picture. It scared the hell out of “minorities” who normally vote Dem, because they are the ones who would suffer the most if it became endemic in the U.S. It also reminded many of them of the disease-ridden hellholes they ran away from.
I don't think I really appreciated the depths of the Leftist media's racial demagoguery until I saw those pictures, and I doubt I was the only one. Until I saw those pictures, I literally had this image in my head of some scrawny little black kid running away in terror while being gunned down by the sort of arrogant, trigger-happy knuckle-dragging white cop who pulls me over and gives me attitude for driving 37 in a 35 mph zone.
Then the images were released and I was just like: Jesus, guys. Really? That's where you're gonna plant your flag and make your stand?
Like Sailer has said before, you've really gotta hand it to the gays: when they decide to put all their chips on something like this, they always, always, always make sure the optics are flawless. I've never seen a photo of a prominent gay icon cavorting as a dog-collared leatherboy at a gay pride parade. But when blacks put up a martyr, you can immediately get a pool going for how long it will take for someone to uncover a photo or tweet or mugshot showing said "martyr" acting like a criminal thug.
I wonder if black "leaders" realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause. It would be as if every time a GOP leader started to gain national prominence, photos would always surface showing them wearing Hitler youth regalia and giving a Nazi salute to a Confederate battle flag.Replies: @SFG, @Jimbo, @Sam Haysom, @Anonymous Nephew, @Anonymous
“The video footage of Michael Brown should really go in some kind of hall of fame for media malpractice.”
VDARE.COM has a term for it. Its called “narrative collapse”.
I wonder if black “leaders” realize how terribly embarrassing this is, and how damaging it is to their cause.
NOPE. The race-pimps don’t care at all. Truth is I doubt they even have enough self-awareness to notice, and the facts don’t really matter to most blacks.
“Petty harassment” from each other, that is.
Where was this super slick gay activism in the 1980s when gays when not teaming up with NAMBLA were accusing Ronald Reagan of both not doing enough and doing too much about AIDS?
Is stop and frisk not a form of harrasment? I didn’t even say that the harassment wasn’t justified that’s not really the issue here I just pointed out that harassment is a part of particularly young black males life in a way it isn’t for gays.
Where was this super slick gay activism in the 1980s when gays when not teaming up with NAMBLA were accusing Ronald Reagan of both not doing enough and doing too much about AIDS?
"I always had the sense Nazi and Confederate enthusiasts were often different people, but I could be way off base on this."
As someone with an uncle and grandfather that fought against the Nazis, but with a great-great grandfather that fought for the Confederacy, I find the linking of the two to be irritating. But agree with SFG, an otherwise cogent point Mr. Blank.Replies: @SFG
Yeah, apart from disliking blacks and being disliked by liberal Northerners, I don’t know how much else Nazis and Southerners have in common.
I don’t even know how important the racial thing is to every Southern Civil War buff–heck, I’m from NYC, but if we had actually tried to secede from the rest of the country and actually come close to winning, I’d be all over that! That’s pretty cool, even if you don’t think it’s a good idea in the modern world.
"Disliking" blacks oversimplifies a Southerner's view on blacks. I'd say its more of an awareness of vast differences combined with an understanding that those differences aren't going away. Also a view that they have their world, we have our world, and there are some agreed-upon common ground.
My grandfather (born in Tennessee in 1898) was old enough to have met and spoken with his great-uncles that had fought for the Confederacy and characterized his view of blacks as "I don't hate them any more than I hate other people's children. But I don't consider them equals, same as other people's children".
Interestingly, when they lived in Memphis in the late 20's/early 30's, they had a black maid that spent most of the days with my father and his siblings - she cooked, looked after the kids, etc. She'd show up in the morning and leave sometime after supper. Apparently one night she cut/stabbed some (black) guy in a juke joint and when the sheriff came to get her, she protested that she couldn't go to jail because she had to look after "Missus So-and-So's children" in the morning. She sheriff let her out in the morning and told my grandfather what had happened. He just shrugged and said "that's business between the coloreds". My father remembered her as being very gentle with a great sense of humor...
And to Steve's point, my grandfather (he had been a USMC pilot in the years just after WW1) joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. When the US joined the war, he left the RCAF and went into the US Navy. I don't think it was a pro-FDR thing (my grandfather never referred to Roosevelt by name, just as 'that g_damned communist') so much as a martial/this is my profession thing.
Another misconception (no doubt spread intentionally) is that Southerners/Confederates disliked Jews. That would be odd, considering the CSA's VP Judah Benjamin was Jewish (and had been a US Senator prior to the war). Most Southerners (if they were even aware of the presence of Jews among them) had a neutral to slightly positive view. Bear in mind that the Jews in the US in the early to mid-1800's were fairly assimilated into day-to-day life (except for religion obviously), they accepted they were a minority in a sea of Christianity and were okay with it -- vastly different from the hordes that showed up several decades later and immediately began agitating for change and undermining Christianity.
I don't even know how important the racial thing is to every Southern Civil War buff--heck, I'm from NYC, but if we had actually tried to secede from the rest of the country and actually come close to winning, I'd be all over that! That's pretty cool, even if you don't think it's a good idea in the modern world.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @William Badwhite
Back before Pearl Harbor, Southern Jim Crow Senators were the main support for FDR’s anti-Hitler foreign policy. White Southerners looked forward to a war with the Nazis, while Midwestern moderates dreaded it.
I don't even know how important the racial thing is to every Southern Civil War buff--heck, I'm from NYC, but if we had actually tried to secede from the rest of the country and actually come close to winning, I'd be all over that! That's pretty cool, even if you don't think it's a good idea in the modern world.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @William Badwhite
“Yeah, apart from disliking blacks and being disliked by liberal Northerners, I don’t know how much else Nazis and Southerners have in common. ”
“Disliking” blacks oversimplifies a Southerner’s view on blacks. I’d say its more of an awareness of vast differences combined with an understanding that those differences aren’t going away. Also a view that they have their world, we have our world, and there are some agreed-upon common ground.
My grandfather (born in Tennessee in 1898) was old enough to have met and spoken with his great-uncles that had fought for the Confederacy and characterized his view of blacks as “I don’t hate them any more than I hate other people’s children. But I don’t consider them equals, same as other people’s children”.
Interestingly, when they lived in Memphis in the late 20’s/early 30’s, they had a black maid that spent most of the days with my father and his siblings – she cooked, looked after the kids, etc. She’d show up in the morning and leave sometime after supper. Apparently one night she cut/stabbed some (black) guy in a juke joint and when the sheriff came to get her, she protested that she couldn’t go to jail because she had to look after “Missus So-and-So’s children” in the morning. She sheriff let her out in the morning and told my grandfather what had happened. He just shrugged and said “that’s business between the coloreds”. My father remembered her as being very gentle with a great sense of humor…
And to Steve’s point, my grandfather (he had been a USMC pilot in the years just after WW1) joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940. When the US joined the war, he left the RCAF and went into the US Navy. I don’t think it was a pro-FDR thing (my grandfather never referred to Roosevelt by name, just as ‘that g_damned communist’) so much as a martial/this is my profession thing.
Another misconception (no doubt spread intentionally) is that Southerners/Confederates disliked Jews. That would be odd, considering the CSA’s VP Judah Benjamin was Jewish (and had been a US Senator prior to the war). Most Southerners (if they were even aware of the presence of Jews among them) had a neutral to slightly positive view. Bear in mind that the Jews in the US in the early to mid-1800’s were fairly assimilated into day-to-day life (except for religion obviously), they accepted they were a minority in a sea of Christianity and were okay with it — vastly different from the hordes that showed up several decades later and immediately began agitating for change and undermining Christianity.
Concerns about global warming will only lead to serious electoral consequences if we start trying to do anything serious about it. That will be painful (it has to be to actually reduce CO2 emissions), and so unpopular. Right now we’re paying lip service to global warming and doing some small stuff around the edges.
Hell, most still think that Zimmerman was a racist murderer let off by an all-white jury. The lesson that the black leaders have learned really well is that if you frame the story early, facts that come out later just don't matter - people have moved on.Replies: @NOTA
Yep. Most people aren’t paying much attention, so the top-level story sticks in their heads. George Z was a great big white guy, Saddam was behind 9/11, etc.
I think a major reason for the Democrat defeat was that a decent percentage of their voter pool did not even really know or understand that this was an election. They do not understand anything except a Presidential vote.
Mike Brown / Ferguson, simply because it truly drove home that Holder & Obama see race, and align themselves with others by race instead of by truth. Eric Holder said “My People” – imagine if John Ashcroft said that! I thought we were ALL your people as U.S. citizens. We’re not effing racists & we’re fed up with this BS of white guilt etc. The WarOnWomen embarrassing when Islamic countries have a real one.