The Politics of Hate 2
The Booman waves the caution flag:
You think they will just peacefully go away? You think their anger and bile will not seek an outlet? You think that they will take the “react with violence” option off the table? You think there aren’t more Timothy McVeighs and Eric Rudolphs and abortion provider murderers out there ready, willing and able to wreak havoc? You think angry, racist white people don’t riot? Or kill racial minorities for the hell of it? Hell, a professor at a Christian college is practically predicting a white backlash if Obama wins.
And Mithras analyses Obama Bucks issued by the Chaffey County (Calif.) Republican Women (emphasis added):
The group’s president, Diane Fedele, says she had absolutely no idea that fried chicken and watermelon had some kind of racist overtone.
Fedele said she got the illustration in a number of chain e-mails and decided to reprint it for her members in the Trumpeter newsletter because she was offended that Obama would draw attention to his own race. She declined to say who sent her the e-mails with the illustration.
Yeah. No idea.
And pigs have wings.
I know that not all supporters of John McCain or the Republican Party are full of hate.
Indeed, I know personally Republicans who are not full of hate.
And I have a message for them:
If you choose to run with hyenas, do not be surprised if someone decides you are a hyena.
You–I, all of us–are known by the company we keep.
October 16, 2008 at 8:14 pm
This is the very type of thing that’s concerned me all along. Especially with the moron going around stirring it up. I grew up in a “multicultural” area of Dallas in the early 60’s. I saw what the hate groups did, & can still do. And anyone who says differently had to have grown up in an all-white neighborhood with all-white schools.
I still don’t understand why the speeches that instigate violence aren’t treated as yelling “fire” in a crowded theater would be.
October 17, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I read an article by some “expert” who expressed concern about race and who that may influence the vote in the South. I guess he was referring to Southern California.