After penning my diary yesterday, "Conservative demonization of Obama allowed racists to crawl out from under their rocks," and reading through the comments, a sharp-eyed observer noted that I had left something out of that diary.
I had written:
Over the course of Obama's tenure, the "freedom" to express such thoughts has expanded greatly, and attempts to call out these comments are often met with 1) a denial of racism, and 2) shouts of "Freedom of speech!" and "First Amendment!"
As Texas Twister astutely
pointed out:
#3 in your parentheticals should be: 3) Reversing the claim and calling it racist to call them racist!
TexasTwister has it exactly right. And today brings yet another tale of woe from yet another victim of racial prejudice, in this case,
third grade teacher, Angela Box, of Houston:
A third-grade HISD teacher accused of making profane and anti-Muslim remarks on a public access television show will resign immediately and receive three months' pay under a deal approved by the school board Thursday.
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She said "character assassination" by community activist Quanell X, who had accused Box of using a racial slur, made it impossible for her to remain in her job.
"As I have said before, opposing President Obama and sounding the alarm about radical Islam does not make me a racist," the statement said, adding that she did not utter the racial epithets Quanell X had attributed to her.
"I am considering all my legal options regarding the conduct from Mr. X and others. I expect to have an announcement as early as next Monday regarding my future steps."
So what did the
victimized Ms. Box say that ended up costing her her job?
"Every normal human being in the world knows that goat-fucking Muslims and, oh, boy fucking Muslims, are the evil of the world," Box appears to have said in one of the broadcasts. She also referred to Muslims as "bacon-haters."
The teacher also joked she was hopeful President Obama would catch Ebola. "Can't Ebola just take one for the team and take out Obama?"
Needless to say, this poor woman is yet another victim of the PC police that have made it impossible for reasonable people to speak their minds about Muslims, the president (Muslim?), minority citizens who are victims of police violence and immigrants.
Nearly every day brings yet more examples of conservatives -- oftentimes official office holders, political figures and media personalities -- falling victim to painful racial prejudice of this sort.
Anyone who follows Hunter's posts knows how many victims there are on a daily basis. Just in the past few weeks, we've had any number of victims of this horrible, repressive reverse racism:
Rudy Giuliani
“But I think just as much, if not more, responsibility is on the black community to reduce the reason why the police officers are assigned in such large numbers to the black community. It’s because blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society.”
Almost-Nevada Speaker of the House Ira Hansen
He wrote that African-Americans are insufficiently grateful for being given their freedom: “The lack of gratitude and the deliberate ignoring of white history in relation to eliminating slavery is a disgrace that Negro leaders should own up to.”
GOP 2016 hopeful Ben Carson
Later on in the interview Blitzer asked about his much discussed comments where he warned that the United States was going the way of Nazi Germany.
"To make the comparison to Nazi Germany Dr. Carson, the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, the devastation that erupted in Europe and around the world to the United States of America, I want you to reflect to what that potentially means," Blitzer said.
"Again, you are just focusing on the words 'Nazi Germany' and completely missing the point of what was being said," Carson said. "And that's the problem right now. That's what PC-ism is all about. 'You may not say this word' regardless of what your point is because if you say that word I go into a tizzy. We can do better than that."
GOP staffer Elizabeth Lauten
"Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class," she wrote last week. "Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar."
Joe Scarborough
"The cops have every reason to be pissed off this morning," Scarborough said.
"And by the way, if I've offended anybody by saying what I've said, trust me, 95 percent of America think just like me," he said.
"Just because there are cowards who won't say that on TV... that's their problem, not mine," said Scarborough.
Big Stone County, Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Jack Whitley
"They are muslims, they are terrorist (sic), we know where they are from, we know where their buddies are, we know where thier mosque’s (sic) are, we know millions of these parasites travel to Mecca every year and when…FRAG ‘EM!" he wrote in a Facebook post.
He refused to apologize and said that Muslims in the U.S. "either need to repent except (sic) Jesus Chist or leave the country."
RedState editor Ben Howe
"Give me a gun. Put me in Darren Wilson’s shoes. I’d have shot Mike Brown right in his face."
Duval County, Florida Republican Party leader Kim "Bull Connor" Crenier
“A suggestion for Ferugson- fire hoses. Grt big fire hoses, serious water pressure. Knock those thugs over. They probly need a shower anyway.”
And the list goes on and on...
Someone must stand up for these victims of racial oppression. I am sure we can count on Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly -- victims of such oppression themselves many times over -- to defend the right of conservatives to have their racist voices heard.
This is America! Take back our country! Take a stand for the First Amendment! Stop all of this horrible racism directed against white conservatives!
And Ben Carson.