This is what bigoted GOTV issues bring.
When Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert began pushing immigration as their "soft bigotry" get out the vote issue, the rhetoric they unleashed in an effort to win an election made this inevitable.
I guess you wanted to tap into that racism "just a little bit."
As the public debate over immigration reform has taken center-stage in American politics and public life, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racists have declared "open season" on immigrants and attempted to co-opt and exploit the controversy by focusing their efforts -- and their anger -- on the minority group at the center of the controversy: Hispanics.We are not in an immigration crisis! The situation is not significantly different than it was a year ago or will be in a year's time. If you want to solve the issue, fine, it is a problem, but your election year rhetoric, designed to bring out your "base," is spawning hate.
I guess you wanted to tap into that racism "just a little bit."
posted by mikevotes at
5:52 PM
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I thought the Nazis were the Republicans base!
(why would anyone want to dress up like the Nazis? They lost WWII)
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Lew Scannon, at 6:51 PM
That's a good question, Lew.
I would guess they're trying to amplify their own power by putting on a costume that carries such fear.
Living here in Texas, I've always wondered how grown men can dress up as cowboys. I did that when I was five, but it's so bizarre that adults would wear period costume as normal clothes.
The best I've come to is that the cowboy costume seems to mark one as a member of a group with an established set of ideals, and that by wearing the costume you are both affirming those ideals as individual identity and as group.
Kind of like a "what would jesus do" bracelet except not as tasteful.
So, I guess I'm comparing the neonazis to the WWJD kids. Wow.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:08 PM
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