“I think the way liberals have treated blacks like children and many of their policies have been harmful to blacks, at least they got the beneficiary group right," Coulter said. "There is the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We don't owe the homeless. We don't owe feminists. We don't owe women who are desirous of having abortions or gays who want to get married to one another. That's what civil rights has become for much of the left."
"Immigrant rights are not civil rights?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"No," Coulter responded, "No. I think civil rights are for blacks. What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven't even been in this country."
She was saying the “civil rights” shakedown racket, as it has been defined and executed since Jesse Jackson first waved the bloody shirt of Martin Luther King, does not apply to those identities which have entered politics since then. She's right.
But it's stil odd for her to even work within “identity politics” as a concept. She's given way, yielded on an important point, and I don't like that.
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I'm not seeing that in what she actually said.
She was saying the “civil rights” shakedown racket, as it has been defined and executed since Jesse Jackson first waved the bloody shirt of Martin Luther King, does not apply to those identities which have entered politics since then. She's right.
But it's stil odd for her to even work within “identity politics” as a concept. She's given way, yielded on an important point, and I don't like that.
So I guess we do have a commonality after all!