…that this dude formed the “White Student Union” at Towson University? Between the coach/baseball program firing and this whack job, one wonders if there’s something in the water.
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The schism can’t happen quickly enough, if you ask me.
Go Tea Party!Report
This all the fault of liberals.Report
Was this meant to be ironic?
“Disruptions began when he began accusing Democrats of still being the party of the Confederacy — a common talking point on the right.”Report
Plenty of conservatives , very seriously, note the D’s were the party of the Confed, KKK and such. It appears they think these true historical facts mean the D’s of today are horribly racist, the “real racists” and have cooties.Report
I always thought the conservative MO was to pretend racism didn’t exist?Report
Well its only a card liberals and blacks play just to get at conservatives. You see calling it a race card implies that discussing racism is all about winning arguments over Conservatives and that its just a tool in disagreements. Not a , you know, real issue. Just a debating tactic.Report
Well said.Report
Speaking of brawls, CPAC is a reg’lar three ring circus today.Report
For some reason, I was under the impression that Towson was an HBCU. That brought forth all sorts of interesting thoughts. But then I looked it up, and it’s 67% white and not an HBCU. Which brings forth rather uninteresting thoughts.Report
Much ado about nothing.
No ideas. No solutions. No vision. No future.
Just ‘Not Obama,’ a spasm of negative space.
It’s distressing that we watch them in their death throes like so many vultures circling.Report
I would love to see some footage from CPAC right before the 2000 Republican sweep. It really wouldn’t surprise me if they looked just as crazy and out of touch in their ascendancy as they do in their decline. It’s like those old Soviet montage experiments: splice a neutral photo of a woman after footage from a tragedy and she looks melancholic; splice in the same photo after footage from a celebration and she looks proudly content.Report
Worth pointing out, in 2000 the nominated a guy who made attempts to reach out to the Hispanic (speaks Spanish!) and African-American community (well, some preachers anyway). Muslims, too, even.Report
Yeah, fair point, but were those qualities on display at CPAC?Report
Nope, and with the list you gave earlier of speakers, your main point stands tall.Report
Fair enough, but it’s like you’ve completely forgotten the preceding eight years of “Not Bush.” Or that Obama ran on a promise of nonspecific “Change.” “Anyone but that guy!” has ever been the rallying cry of the party out of power.Report
Jane’s Law: The party in power is insufferably arrogant. The party out of power is insane.
That being said, there are matters of degrees.Report
Also see:
“Rep. Kris Crawford, a Republican from Florence and also an emergency room doctor, supports the expansion but expects the Republican caucus to vote as a bloc against the Medicaid expansion.
“The politics are going to overwhelm the policy. It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now, especially for the Republican Party,” Crawford said.”
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/news/46590-s-c-doctors-urge-lawmakers-to-expand-medicaid-eligibilityReport
Not only are CPAC conservatives pro-Europe, now they’re forming UNIONS?
I just don’t know what to think anymore.Report
But the whole “White Student Union” being an accepted group at Towson does explain why maybe the administrator though she needed armed guards….Report
I don’t know how you would disallow such a group. Or doing so might be more trouble than it’s worth.Report
Guess I’m hoping against hope that there’d be something in the school regs about hate groups, etc.Report
I honestly don’t know a whole lot about the group. Maybe they should qualify as such. I kind of figured that they basically try to pass as a counterpart to other ethnic or racial student union groups.
After writing the above, I recalled that the College Republicans were banned from my campus for a time. I don’t know why, but I *assume* it wasn’t just “Republicans are a hate group” rationale. I’d assume they crossed some sort of line.
Which I guess is what it would come to with the WSU. What they were doing that they couldn’t half-credibly point to some other group doing the same thing. If that makes sense.Report
Well…
http://shotgunwildatheart.wordpress.com/
Given this dude’s activities, I dunno…I can’t really…well yeah.
Just can’t.Report
Well, I now know about Kinism. I’m not sure this is something I wanted to know about; before, there was room for me to imagine it existed, but I didn’t have to confront the ugly truth of it.
What really frightens me is that much of the writing takes a tone rather like the League; rooted in philosophy, ancient texts, etc.
It uses the trappings of education — pseudo intellectualism — to justify racism and white supremacy.
They may be white, but they have dark souls.Report
He asks the question “Our question: why not reach out to whites?”
Here’s my question, what has the GOP been doing except for reaching out to sexist, racist white males?Report
He links to the Sailer Strategy.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-sailer-strategy-updated-three-steps-to-save-america
This actually compares demographic change in a nation to BEING RAPED.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.Report
“I kind of figured that they basically try to pass as a counterpart to other ethnic or racial student union groups.”
Student: Yeah, uh Dean Smith, uh we want to have a group that is just like the Vietnamese Student Union, except for White Students
Dean: But aren’t you just trying to exclude non-whites for no reason other than racial hatred.
Student: Not at all. We just want to make sure white people can get together to have an increased opportunity to meet other white people, whom compose the vast majority of the population already.
Dean: If they’re the majority, don’t you meet them constantly? Why do you need a club to help white people meet other white people?
Student: Uhhh.. really, what we mean to say is that we want a forum where we won’t meet non-white people.
Dean: That’s a problem.
Student. No, really we are just like the other race-based groups. We want to get together to share traditional white people experiences and cultures, like watching movies with white people in them about white people’s experiences, e.g. Transformers 2. After all, it’s hard to get people together these days to find time to remember white people culture, what with so few movies, books, Tv showsand what not focusing on non-white stuff. And we want to go to white people restaurants and try to make sure that young white people have an appreciation and knowledge of white people food, like pizza, beef, chicken, and dessert.
Dean: Not looking so good. Isn’t an important difference the fact that the other -as you call them- “race-based” or cultural groups try to create support networks for students who are part of a minority who might, as a result, feel ostracized or alienated, especially if their family raised them in that culture and now they’re on their own?
Student: I feel I am alienated from white culture on this vastly majority white campus and vastly majority white city.
Dean: Go away please.Report
Shaz: the student para focusing on white culture: awesome. “Pizza, beef, chicken and dessert” – the “dessert” sells it, somehow managing to be even more generic than the preceding list.Report
“Isn’t an important difference the fact that the other -as you call them- “race-based” or cultural groups try to create support networks for students who are part of a minority who might, as a result, feel ostracized or alienated, especially if their family raised them in that culture and now they’re on their own?”
If we put aside the fact that this may be a racist front group, this seems to be the heart of the matter. At what point does a well intentioned group shift from being a constructive support network to being a negative, exclusionary force? Is it at 50%? Is it when they become the largest minority? Or is it always a matter of their intentions? Or are racial groupings all inherently racist?Report
If we put aside intentions, rhetoric, and actions. then, yes, they’re identical.Report
Are they really? I am surprised a liberal would argue that an all white cultural group is not inherently racist.Report
The SCA isn’t racist, Roger!Report
Yes, if we ignore any possible thing that could distinguish them, they’re the same.Report
Hate speech is still speech and Towson is still a public university so banning this group or not allowing it to form solely on the basis of its viewpoint-however noxious- would be a definite First Amendment issue.Report
Mark, presumably Towson is not required to provide them University space or resources to hold their meetings, allow them to advertise those meetings on campus, nor allow them to state that the group is affiliated with the university in any way?Report
The law is mixed on this issue. The last case goes the way you argue I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society_v._MartinezReport
How about Martinez?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society_v._MartinezReport
Would a willingness to allow nonwhites into the WSU negate that? Worth noting, though, is that at first glance it appears the problem with the group in question was not their beliefs but their membership criteria (something they do, rather than something they say). So it would come back to whether the WSU is following the rules rather than whether they have repulsive beliefs.Report
Probably.Report
presumably it could be bypassed by starting a “italian american club” of some kind and just never ask for proof unless someone seemed really uh, you know, sicilian.Report
“Nice club ya got goin’ here…be a shame if somethin’ were ta happen to it…”Report
“just never ask for proof unless someone seemed really uh, you know, sicilian.”
Because it’s clear none of them would win a battle of wits, regardless of the stakes.Report
Jut because they love white people a lot doesn’t necessarily mean they hate mud people.Report
“But the whole “White Student Union” being an accepted group at Towson does explain why maybe the administrator though she needed armed guards….”
somehow i have trouble imagining towson is a hotbed of racialist violence.Report
“But the whole “White Student Union” being an accepted group at Towson does explain why maybe the administrator though she needed armed guards….”
Because the white folks there hate/fear people of color?Report
The longer I look through this creep’s blog the more I want to just throw up.
Racism. Sexism. Anti-semitism. Wanting to challenge women who portray powerful roles in movies to “a fist fight.”
This is far too common in the GOP an it’s why I gave up on them. Conservatism plays at pretending this stuff doesn’t exist rather than facing it head-on.Report
Why do you even bother? I just let handy liberal sites do the work for me.Report
““I don’t care how much the KKK improved,” he said. “I’m not going to join the KKK. The Democratic Party founded the KKK.””
Hmmm… is he saying that he WOULD join the “improved” KKK were it not for the fact that it was started by the Democratic Party? Man… he hates liberals so much that he is willing to compromise his hate of the blacks to maintain it!Report