If some one ELSE had said this, you might have paid more attention to what was said, and less to who said it. The term “civil rights” has been synonymous with “blacks” for fifty years now. It was made so, quite deliberately. This is why, for example, a suspect charged with committing a crime against a black is ALSO charged with “violating their civil rights,” while the reverse is never true.
[Think about it. When last, indeed when ever have you heard the term “civil rights violation” associated with any other ethnic group, particularly whites or Asians?]
In actual fact, by supporting the “perpetual debt” shakedown racket she's firmly on the side of the civil rights activists. People who have never been slaves, are somehow 'owed' a 'debt' extorted at Federal gunpoint from people who have never owned slaves. Right. Explain this to a second-generation American of immigrant ancestry whose family lived in Europe at the time and had nothing to do with slavery in America. Why does he “owe” this?
Edit: In fact, this is an astounding thing for any conservative pundit to say, to climb aboard the “identity politics” bandwagon like this. “We owe blacks” - who is 'we'? And which blacks? Does she have anyone particular in mind? I've never kept slaves. What do I owe? Find me a slave, to whom reparations can be made. Claiming that “we owe” for a “legacy of slavery” is precisely the same as claiming that the German drug company Grünenthal “owes” every lineal descendant of every patient who took Thalidomide during pregnancy in the 1950s. Why? How could this possibly be justified?
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Date: 9/24/12 03:57 am (UTC)If some one ELSE had said this, you might have paid more attention to what was said, and less to who said it. The term “civil rights” has been synonymous with “blacks” for fifty years now. It was made so, quite deliberately. This is why, for example, a suspect charged with committing a crime against a black is ALSO charged with “violating their civil rights,” while the reverse is never true.
[Think about it. When last, indeed when ever have you heard the term “civil rights violation” associated with any other ethnic group, particularly whites or Asians?]
In actual fact, by supporting the “perpetual debt” shakedown racket she's firmly on the side of the civil rights activists. People who have never been slaves, are somehow 'owed' a 'debt' extorted at Federal gunpoint from people who have never owned slaves. Right. Explain this to a second-generation American of immigrant ancestry whose family lived in Europe at the time and had nothing to do with slavery in America. Why does he “owe” this?
Edit: In fact, this is an astounding thing for any conservative pundit to say, to climb aboard the “identity politics” bandwagon like this. “We owe blacks” - who is 'we'? And which blacks? Does she have anyone particular in mind? I've never kept slaves. What do I owe? Find me a slave, to whom reparations can be made. Claiming that “we owe” for a “legacy of slavery” is precisely the same as claiming that the German drug company Grünenthal “owes” every lineal descendant of every patient who took Thalidomide during pregnancy in the 1950s. Why? How could this possibly be justified?