Rand Paul is against segregation in public spaces but has no problem with discrimination in hiring or the workplace. At least he’s honest. And Stormfront deserves representation, too. I’ve been warning progressives that the Paulists are racists and just because you might agree with them on a few things, you should never get in bed with them.
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I just couldn’t believe his evasiveness on Rachel Maddow’s show tonight. Amazing. This should mobilize every minority of any stripe who has ever been discriminated against to work hard for a Democratic victory in Kentucky. Amazing conflation of issues in his responses. Ugh!
Ron Paul being against the Civil Rights Act of 64 is a deal-breaker for me. I don’t give a shyt what else he says, once he said that, I tuned him out.
if you are against my 1st class citizenship being codified into law, you are against me. period.
I know I said Ron, and you can include his son in that too.
Heh, they get so mad when you call them racists, too. “Oh just because we’re against welfare and the social safety net, we’re racists?”
Or this one: “We’re against Obama, and that makes us racist.”
Their denial of Paul’s involvement in his racist newsletter is pretty funny, too, especially when they argue that we elevate Obama onto some pedestal. Ultimately I stopped supporting Obama during the primary in March lol, but I’ll still defend him and of course “support” him over the Republican. However, they seem to engage in the same wingnuttery as the far-right Republicans in office: whatever they accuse you of doing, more than likely they’re engaged in that activity.
Fuck Ron Paul. He’s not even worth supporting in his anti-war rhetoric. Sure, our paths might cross, but we certainly aren’t taking the same one, and we certainly don’t have the same destination. Yeah, he was against the Iraq war. However, he’s against any intervention to stop genocide or humanitarian catastrophe; he’s against aid to foreign countries; he’s against the UN.
State’s rights; national sovereignty; liberty; freedom; all of these buzz words are code words in the Paul movement, and all of them are rooted, and in my opinion are still soaked in, racism.
I’m not so sure Paul is primarily driven by racism. In a way it’s worse than that: he just doesn’t care, which means he has no love of justice or empathy for anyone. What I get from him is that if what is necessary to pursue fairness and equality hampers the workings of the “free market” then it is an obstacle to what is meant to be. He is a fundamentalist extremist devoted to one simple-minded answer to the complexities of existence and his philosophical mentors seem to run to fascists and Stalinists.
At least racism builds on emotional and tribalist reflexes, and can be overcome sometimes with experience and reason. Paul’s Aynal fundamentalism subverts reason itself in favor of blind adherence to idiotic first principles.
Dude waited less than 24 hours after he won to totally melt down? Ugh.
he didn’t “totally melt down”. He clearly stated where he stands on the issues. Which is somewhere around AD1800.
Somebody ought to clue in Randi Rhodes. She rebranding herself as some kind of non-partisan voice for the people.