Look at the racist, sexist crap that Michelle Malkin has to put up with, likely on a daily basis, for being a conservative who is not white. Much of it was received even before the Armstrong Williams disgrace. Crap like this would make me want to hunt somebody down.
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Hi Self hating flat nosed Filipino [sic] B*tch! As we used to refer to your kind - little brown F*cking Machines. Looks like this little LBFM learned to whore in a different way to make some pesos. How sweet.*****
You're just a Manilla [sic] whore shaking your ass and waiting for the Republican fleet to come in, aren't you? You've even got the lip gloss about right. Maybe if you love sailor long time, he bring you home to big American house? I don't think so. Just like in Manilla, [sic] Honey, they'll pass you around 'til they've all shot their load in you, and then they'll try to scrub off the stench so they can sail off in their crisp, white uniforms to the land of W.A.S.P.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the democrat/liberal/leftist adherents supposed to be the very models of non-racist, non-sexist thought and behavior? (Relax all you non-racist, non-sexist Democrats/Liberals/Leftists. You know whether this applies to you or not.)
However, it seems to me that many of the covert bigots who do exist on the Left are feeling more and more free to come out of the closet, as it were, to unload their hostility upon prominent conservatives who aren’t white. The anonymity of email allows this.
Are left-leaners racist? Of course not; not even a majority of them, not even a large portion of them. The proportion is probably roughly similar to that of Republicans/Conservatives/Right-wingers.
Could it be that we, both conservatives and liberals, merely have differing ideas of how this country should best function? Undoubtedly, and reasonable people on both sides know this.
But Ms. Malkin’s correspondents aren’t reasonable people, of course. They are liberated nutcases; free to show their true colors (no pun intended) along with being too craven to express their “feelings” without the cover of obscurity.
But what to make of those public figures who also feel free to describe the Secretary of State and the National Security Adviser in terms reminiscent of the eras of American Slavery and Jim Crow? Why do they feel so free to give vent to their bigotry?
It’s because reasonable people on the left keep silent (I’m talking non-blogging prominent figures on the left here). People like Wisconsin radio talk show host John Sylvester take their cues from black Democrats/Leftists: he thought it was okay to refer to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as “Aunt Jemima” because, up to that point in time, no other prominent left-of-center person had suffered censure for describing black conservatives in racist terms.
I was very heartened to see former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume condemn Sylvester in very strong terms, partially making up for his previous remarks regarding black conservatives. (And one of the worst things about the Armstrong Williams/Bush Administration perfidy is that it makes it appear that the remarks had some basis in truth, regardless of the fact that Williams is just one man.) One guesses that it was the straw-camel syndrome, because both Dr. Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell have been the targets of racist rhetoric virtually from the dates of their appointments. (Aside: I wonder if Mr. Mfume "quit" the NAACP position for straying from NAACP Chairman Julian Bond's narrative regarding black conervatives?)
Is it open season on minority conservatives? Do those on the left who have racist tendencies feel free to describe a nice, educated Christian woman like Malkin in the terms of a Filipina bar girl merely because Malkin (a native-born American, IIRC) and some bar girl in a foreign land who laughed at their equipment share an ethnicity?
If the answer is ‘yes,’ then I’d say that a climate was created and nurtured for such to discard their non-racist, non-sexist veneer. The seeds were planted by the likes of Harry Belafonte and Amiri Baraka, fed by men like Bond and, yes, Mfume and watered by silence.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.Come on, prominent Democrat/Leftist pundits and politicians who are good and reasonable. Don’t be so hesitant to verbally slap down and turn out those in your midst who only bring discord to the political dialogue.
--Edmund Burke
