Hello CMSux,
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As a Rush listener you know that in order to get audio clips of the guy you have to pay his website fee.
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So, in other words, you can only make claims without any evidence, other than hearsay, to support those claims. How convenient.
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I'm also curious under what context those comments on slavery would be acceptable. In what context is it possibly funny?
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My comment about a lack of a sense of humor was in response to your alleged quote of Rush about Jesse Jackson. I do not believe that Rush made those comments on slavery.
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But I'm not paying for Rush and I doubt if you are a premium member we'd be able to find those quotes. However, all you have to do is type in Rush Limbaugh, racism and quotes on google and a number of sites come up with very similar kinds of quotes.
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I am sure there are many sites that attribute "out of context" and false quotes to Rush. Do you believe everything you find on the web?
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To judge a person on the color of their skin, to act or set policy either positively or negatively only on skin color. Racial quotas and Jim Crow are based on racist beliefs -- the first a positive benefit, the second a negative -- both based on a negative view of African-Americans. My Oxford University Press Dictionary defines Racism as: 1 the belief that there are characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to each race. 2 discrimination against or antagonism towards other races.
Rev. Wright has expressed his belief that there are characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to each race.
Jim Crow was based on the notion that racial segregation was necessary to protect the purity of the white race, to ensure that only whites wielded political and economic power and became an effective rallying cry for southern Democrats for decades. How exactly is this at all similar to "racial quotas."
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Both are based on the premise that African-Americans (or other) are inferior. Racial quotas is also based on the false premise that a social justice is served by government determined percentages of the different races fulfilling the positions of some organization rather than those positions being filled based on merit.
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You also are wrong about the premise of Affirmative Action. It assumes there are qualified applicants/students of all races, but it also acknowledges that racism exists and, most importantly, there are advantages that whites receive in terms of social connections (this is particularly the case for business) that racial minorities and women do not receive. Remember, the greatest benefeciaries of Affirmative Action are white women.
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Affirmative Actions is based on the premise that race or sex is more important than other qualities (such as experience, education, achievement, and merit) when judging an individual for acceptance for a university, employment, or a business contract. Identify politics does not help America or Americans become a colorblind society were we can embody the dream of MLK -- to be judged not by the color of one's skin but by the content of one's character.
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His whole diatribe about his alleged differences in how blacks and whites learn is racist. And he has expressed his antagonism towards other races -- specifically towards whites. Whites creating AIDS to kill off blacks is based on a conspiracy lie that is inherently racist.
Actually you are wrong about Wright
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You are free to believe so, I do not agree.
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and not understanding a key distinction he makes between people and governments.
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I recognize that distinction. Rev. Wright is still a racist, anti-Semitic, conspiracy nut, Marxist in Christian drag.
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Wright's contention is ALWAYS that the U.S. government has engaged in racism, and frankly, the record speaks for itself doesn't it. The mission of the government for centuries was to ensure white supremacy can you deny this?
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Before LBJ signed into law the Civil Rights Amendment, with the help of Republicans, that was true. After that it became illegal for the U.S. government to engage in racism of any kind. How long ago was that?
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As far as HIV-AIDS conspiracies go. Wright is very off base. But considering the long history of the US government's experimentation on African Americans I don't blame him. People are only aware of the Tuskegee experiment because it was the most publicized.
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The Tuskegee experiment was a horrible event, yet the Tuskegee experiment did not include Americans (many of who were black) infecting African-Americans with syphilis or creating syphilis specifically to infect African-Americans. What other experiments are you implying?
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There's a tragically extensive history of this kind of thing happening.
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False.
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Stupid is stupid. Stupid does not equal racist.
Rolling your eyes and repeating what you said doesn't count as a response.
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Okay ... Stupid does not equal racist.
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Again present an audio link. More likely it is you without a sense of humor, suffering from white guilt, and deeply influenced by political correctness.
Um I'm not white, but...OK.
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Okay.
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She was clear enough for me to understand her. Yet, due to some who were too dense, the next day she clarified the report. FOX News has not engaged in repeating the false claim that Obama was raised Muslim on their news shows. I watch the news, not the talking head opinion shows.
Then we're not talking about the same thing. The talking head shows are what they claim as "news programs."
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No, the talking head programs are editorial and opinion shows and are meant to be contentious to evoke discussion and, in a sense, controversy. A news program presents the events of the day or week and most attempt to be unbiased. There may be an editorial segment within a news program, but those segments are clearly presented as opinion in nature. Except for the CBS Evening News and 60 minutes, of course.
Since you cannot present audio evidence of your assertion that Rush is a racist I will ignore your claims that Rush is a racist. They are baseless and without foundation.
tashi deleks,
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