All I say is this…how easily people forget….

So wait.

The tactic is leftist? Srsly, AO, are you making the claim that anyone who shouts has “leftist tendencies”?

How Some Republicans View African-Americans

Even the one blogger known for over-hyping the most obscure, inane things doesn’t go even close as to say the whole Republican Party thinks this way of black people.

Translation: “Pro Israel = Pro Jew!”

Heckling and shouting down opposing political viewpoints were standard brownshirt tactics, little different from many of the things celebrated across American campuses and even here on this site.

Translation: “They call me a bad person when I talk about my desire to kill gays! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

Actually that is partially a reflection of a poor education. The National Socialist Party in Germany had many overt leftist tendencies.

It is easy to find parallels between Hitler’s Brownshirts and the tactics routinely used by leftists on college campuses in this country today. Heckling and shouting down opposing political viewpoints were standard brownshirt tactics, little different from many of the things celebrated across American campuses and even here on this site. Compare the antisemitism of Palestinian college protesters with German sentiment in the late 30’s.. Not to mention the noted antisemitism of Black civil right leaders like Jessie Jackson and Lou Farrakan.

And for outright racist hate how much more deliberate can you get than Reverend Wright’s fiery rhetoric blaming aids as a government plot to exterminate blacks.

Socialism, antisemitism, hatred of America, all have a part in the big tent of modern day leftist politics and were part of the fabric of Nazi Germany too. So who you calling a Nazi?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/16/rnc-mailer-what-does-obam_n_135407.html

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/virginia_gop_mailer_appears_to.php

I just don’t understand how a black person, or any person of color, or person who has experienced oppression can be a Republican.

Sometimes I wonder if we’d have Obama if it hadn’t been for 8 years of Bush.

But his candidacy got a huge assist by the GOP, first by forcing the Republican agenda on us for several years with the inevitable results, and secondly by nominating McCain as their candidate.

Yeah, hey, get back to me when we have gas chambers and dissent isn’t allowed on pain of death, ok? (Though if it ever got that far, I’d hope neither of us would be in the country anymore.) Then I won’t think you are engaging in ridiculous hyperbole. I mean, seriously, when you say “Nazi”, do you think that conjures up an image of “strategies”, or “killing a bunch of people” in a readers mind? Um, the second one. As such, why would you even use the word Nazi when talking about your political opponents in passing, except to try to gratuitously get the whole “killing a bunch of people” stain to rub off on them?

I would concede that folks like me sometimes too often compare Nazis to Republicans, but very often the strategies used by the right are mirror images of the strategies used by the nazi-style right in history.

“Chaffey Community Republican Women”

Yeah. Boy, I bet the president of that group (which appears to be the only member of that group that thought the picture was ok) really has her thumb on the pulse of conservatism.

I think this ‘the hate you guys have for us is worse than the hate we have for you’ thing is kind of silly. Racial stereotypes are just one of many ways to try to dehumanize an opponent. I don’t see how you can engage in one type and not be hypocritical when you turn around and be outraged about another.

The thing about it all – if I had a poster like that in my office, do you think any African Americans would come back for a second interview, or would they send in their lawyer.

Would a White guy who is against racism think twice about joining my company? Yes.

Images like that paint a picture about the larger organization. And an immediate apology and expulsion or correction would help, but that didn’t exactly happen.

If your kid went to a public school with picture like that in their classroom, what would we think?

Ever heard of confirmation bias? Does this huge pile of evidence of yours include some significant percentage of people who describe themselves as conservative?

>What I’m interested in is not your changing of the subject

Hmm lets see. My specific comment is in regards to the subject line that Oliver chose for his entry. You consider that to be changing the subject. I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one.

>but what you actually think about that picture.

Nimrod, in his righteous indignation, demands a condemnation! As a matter of fact, I think most commenters are about right on this one – she’s got a problem with a black man being president. Her after the fact attempts to explain it away aren’t very convincing. I’m sympathetic to the claim that Obama has occasionally tried to use his race to preempt criticism in this campaign – which is what she says the picture is supposed to make fun of him for, i guess. Except, it doesn’t. It’s just a whole bunch of racial stereotypes thrown into a picture, that doesn’t convey anything other than her own issues. (Not surprisingly though, she got a big wtf from most everyone who saw it. But they are all feigning outrage, right Nimrod? )

Again, what are the negative stereotypes about women that we have been seeing emanate from Democratic organizations with regard to Palin? Have you seen a local Democratic club putting out a newsletter that, for humor, had a pantyliner advertisement with Sarah Palin’s face, talking about how it was soft and malleable like her? “Soft and malleable” is a stereotype associated with women, and whatever Palin’s faults, it’s not one that’s applicable to her.