Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts

Friday, January 22, 2016

National Review Violates Trump's Rights Under the Eleventh Commandment -- Will Competing Republican Candidates Do the Same?

Yesterday the National Review published an editorial ("Against Trump") and a collection of essays ("A Donald Trump Nomination Would Fundamentally Change the GOP") criticizing Donald Trump. The editorial and some of the essays were composed of standard, inoffensive critiques that are perfectly acceptable within the Republican Party, along the lines of "Trump isn't conservative enough." But several of the essays NR chose to publish in support of its editorial crossed the line that Reagan laid down and that Republican pundits and politicians have almost universally respected until now. Those essays called Trump a racist and a would-be war criminal. And the response of the Republican Party hierarchy was swift. It disassociated itself from the National Review.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Confederate Flag Is Not a Symbol of Respect for One's Ancestors - It Is a Symbol of Hatred

The Confederate flag is usually defended as a symbol of respect for one's ancestors - for the courage and fortitude of the people who endured the Civil War in the South. It is not. It is instead a symbol of a political, military, and terrorist movement whose purpose was to preserve and promote slavery, segregation, race hatred, and White Supremacy.