Friday, May 28, 2010
Sending 1200 Racists to the Border
President Obama is sending 1200 National Guardsmen to our border with Mexico to beef up protection there. Once they arrive, will they engage in profiling? If not, what will they be looking for? Swedes, maybe?
Jeeze, the National Guard? He might as well have sent the Klan.
Racism is defined in my dictionary (Oxford English) as the belief that one race is superior to another or hatred or discrimination based on the latter belief. The fact of not wanting large numbers of members of another race in one’s country does not prove belief in any sort of superiority or hatred.
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I don’t want to keep a dog in my house. There may be some small minded individuals who assume that I hate dogs. Actually I love them. Reason I don’t have one is that I haven’t got time to keep one properly, e.g. take it for walks.
Moreover even if one does believe one race is superior to another, what of it? Are we seriously supposed to accept that Australian aborigines have achieved the same intellectually as Europeans or Jews?
Musgrave, my accusations of racism on this blog are, for the most part, simple mockery of the endless cries of racism. I don't think the National Guard is racist any more than I think the people of Arizona are just because they'd like to have a border.
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