Racism isn’t a Right
Rand Paul’s interview on Rachel Maddow was simply mind-blowing.
Basically, Rand Paul is arguing for the rights of private business owners to discriminate – even though he claims he’s not a racist.
But he keeps claiming that discrimination by private businesses should be allowed if it is desired.
So, let me see – I should have the protected right to say “I hate niggers” and make hate speech legal?? I should have the right to hang a sign in front of my business that says “Whites Only”?
Rand Paul compared it to carrying a weapon inside a private business, and that a store owner has the right to discriminate against a gun owner. Rachel correctly pointed out that carrying a gun into a private business is a choice – and a store owner can ban your gun from coming inside. But people of color don’t have a choice – they don’t get to choose their color – nor should they be banned from a private business because of it. She explained to Rand Paul that blacks had their heads bashed in for sitting in”whites only” seats. That private businesses were allowed to institutionalize racist practices, which led to violent confrontations with blacks.
Rand Paul basically claims he’d march arm in arm with Martin Luther King, Jr. if he were alive today. Maybe so – but I don’t think anyone in their right mind would think he’d be a welcomed guest.
Intolerance isn’t a right. Intolerance is hate. I’m not going to tolerate intolerance – and the whole idea of making “tolerance of intolerance” a right is simply bat-shit crazy.
About Ginger
About me...let's see...
I guess I'm just another tree-huggin', commie, Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, unemployed blogger.
I'm anxious and vainly optimistic about where the country is headed, and openly dreaded the day Bush ever came into political office...I''m not happy about having a party filled with spineless "oh we need to cherish the blue dog dems" ...but I'm also glad that we are finally moving away from the cliff we were all teetering on for the past decade.
What bothers me most is the fact that too few people today understand how incredibly dangerous our government has become or how unreliable and weak our news sources are. I'm not just talking about Fox. I'm talking about the bulk of the mainstream media. It's not liberal - and it's certainly not fair or balanced. My kind of news reporting was the kind I grew up in the 70s, and clearly remember a time when the so-called liberal media was all about reporting the cold, hard facts, filled with investigative journalism, and anchors or reporters who refused to do fluff pieces - like cats stuck in trees, water-skiing squirrels, and Darwin-award-winning idiots who would do anything to make themselves into a news story. Being a reporter meant something more noble than a fat paycheck. You did your job because you wanted to get the truth out there. Now? You're mostly smeared or called a tin-foiled-hat-wearing lunatic of you find out - and expose - any kind of government or corporate corruption.
The upside of today's kind of media? Bloggers are a new breed of journalists - ready to hit the streets...err digital webspace... and have helped get a president elected, and a fascist dictatorship out of power.
