Well that didn’t take long. Only days ago I felt the need to write a post agreeing with local conservative, King Banaian, that the rhetoric of an SCSU Professor calling those people who voted for Michele Bachmann racist because some idiot was putting up disgusting posters of Muslims around St. Cloud. Now I find myself needing to write another post because another local conservative took the rhetoric too far.
Leo Pusateri, who sits on the Executive Committee of the Senate District 15 Republican Party, decided to not only chastise the SCSU Professor in question but then turn around and do essentially what that professor did, call an entire group of people racists.
Additionally, if I were to equate any political ideology with racism, it would have to be the neo-socialist ideology that brought us the New Deal, racial quotas, and other such nonsense that are designed in such a way as to not uplift minorities, but keep them in an endless cycle of squalor [emphasis mine]. The endless cycle of inner-city poverty, the breaking up of once strong poor families and the encouragement of the absence of the father in poor families is an unconscionable and direct result of the liberal/neo-socialist agenda.
How do you like them apples, Mr. Tripp?
So Pusateri is outraged in one paragraph that this professor would call conservatives and the conservative mindset racist but then forgets all that to use the next paragraph to call all liberals and people with a liberal mindset racist. Fine, Leo, you don’t think the New Deal or other “liberal” programs have been effective. We can have a discussion on that effectiveness but to call them and all liberals racist, was that necessary? You couldn’t just leave it at disagreeing with the inflammatory rhetoric of Tripp, you had to add in your own inflammatory rhetoric?
Let’s get one thing straight here: Neither conservatives nor liberals as a whole are racist. Why this isn’t obvious to everyone is beyond me but it apparently needs to be said. While it doesn’t fit this exact situation precisely, this video is the absolute best explanation I have ever heard in dealing with these situations of race/racism:
I hope eventually we will stop focusing on these “what you are” arguments that get inflated in politics into what you are and what everyone else who is ideologically similar to you is and start focusing on the “what you did” of each individual. Until then, some of us on the left and some of us on the right need to band together and tell those others on the left and right that they are not helpful.
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Eric, I was just offering Professor Tripp a taste of his own medicine. If you can't read into sarcasm (as you can see, it was addressed to Professor Tripp), well–not my problem.
And yet somehow you feel obligated to throw in my status at SD15BPOU, as if that's supposed to be a limit on my freedom of speech.
So untwist your panties, and quit reading into things that aren't there.
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Frankly, Leo, I don't believe you. Apparently King Banaian didn't read it as sarcasm either so I suggest you also tell him to "untwist his panties".
Why shouldn't I add your position in SD15? It is your position isn't it? If you read my post you will notice that I said you had every right to believe the things you believe or that you now claim is sarcasm.