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Don't be silly. Ask any Republican - only black people can be racist.
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I like Crist I hope he wins, I hope more and more moderate Republicans see the light and change parties, would just make the Democrats stronger.
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Let's just ask African Americans if Republicans are racist. How do they vote? That is, when Republicans let them vote.
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Well Hilary's PUMA fans deny they have a racist bone in their bodies too. And that's a laugh, isn't it?

Or ask Are White Republicans More Racist
Than White Democrats?
Yes, they are.

But not by very much. Not very much at all.
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If all Republicans had voted for McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, Obama would have not been elected.

Attaching a collective noun to a stereotypical verb is amateurish, Mr. Constant.
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Yeah… The deep roots of racism go way back. All the way back to its first president (Lincoln) and his policies (emancipation proclamation). And then it reverberated in its treatment of the civil rights bill of 1954 (supported by 80% of Republicans but only 64% of Democrats). And more recently by that racist GW Bush who named the first African-American man to be Secretary of State and the first African-American woman to be Secretary of State. And then they did go and make Michael Steele the first African-American to be chairman of the Republican Nation Committee (apparently the Democrats still can’t find an African-American qualified to chair their committee).

We need more good men like FDR (internment camps) and George Wallace!

Truly shameful…
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@5 Declared Democrats went 92% for Obama and Republicans went 93% for Romney. It simply isn't true that Republicans voted for Obama in large numbers.

Of course it is enough to know that Obama is a Democrat to understand why Republicans didn't vote for him. The racism which is endemic to the Republican party is more on display in post election politics than it was in the election itself.
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@6 The coat tails of Lincoln are long, but come on.

G. W. B. actually had quite a diverse cabinet. The problem is that diversity did not manifest into policies which make differences for the minority populations in the country.
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they don't know how to talk about Obama without their bigotry popping out. like I couldn't talk about Bush Jr. without my dislike of ivy league legacy frat boy draft dodgers coming out.
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"We're not racist." Well, that's good enough for me.
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Examples? From actual RNC officials or platform planks that is. There are crazy Democrats, and all of them are ill informed at best. And there are crazy Republicans. But some random person saying I'm Republican and I hate black people tars that person, not the entire party.

And for the record, opposing the asinine policies of our empty suit in chief doesn't make me or anyone else racist because he happens to be a black man. It just makes us concerned for the welfare of this nation.
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@9 ftw.
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@4 So are you.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
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Perhaps Rubio is just riffing on this, from Ta-Nehisi Coates, "But more, it is because liberals do not understand that America has never discriminated on the basis of race (which does not exist) but on the basis of racism (which most certainly does.)"
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@11: You say that Democrats are all "ill-informed at best"? Excuse me, we're not the party that thinks that evolution doesn't happen and climate change is a hoax. Nor are we the party that passes laws requiring doctors to lie to their patients under some circumstances. Nor are we the party that says we are a Christian nation. Go lie to someone else, criminal scum.
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@15. Yes you are correct, dems do have better window dressings. But the view is the same: war, Wall Street, surveillance, fossil fuels, environmental degradation, cozy foreign relationships with tyrants (fueled by the same ignorant prejudiced views of a majority of the earth's population) and corporate hegemony

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@11 The Republican party has been fanning the flames of ignorance and racism for 50 years. That individual Republican's might not hold those views personally does not free them from responsibility for stoking those flames for personal n party gains.

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@6 The racism on display among modern Republicans -- especially the activist "teaparty" wing -- is so blatant and frequent that denying it (whether you're a Slog commenter or Marco Rubio) just makes you look either 1. delusional or 2. like a racist who is too clueless to know that your bigoted attitudes are what people mean when they talk about you being racist.

If you seriously hate the racism endemic to the current Republican party, great -- you would prove that by working to end that same racism, or by leaving the Republican party. Pointing at token non-racist Republicans of the past just proves #2 above.
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@15, 17, 18

Got it.

You just make assertions, call them facts and get annoyed when someone asks you to support your dubious statements.

Neat trick. If you're about 8.
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@ 19, that IS about the age your maturity level reflects.

Hey, how do you like Slog pulling half your comments for trolling? I think it's funny.
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@20

I think it hilarious myself, Mile High.

The flop sweat fear of any opposing point of view is telling of how weak the homosexual leftists position really is. I mean, how sure of oneself can a person be when they're so terrified of truth?
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@19: Did you just get on my case for not bringing supporting evidence? Oh no you didn't!
You haven't even REFERENCED anything since mid-March. For the last TWO MONTHS you've just been saying shit and expecting people to take your word for it. (Source: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Profi…)
The last time you properly cited something (giving a web address, book/verse citation, or similar instead of just mentioning it in passing) was...well, I stopped scrolling once I got to comments from 2013, so you haven't properly cited anything on SLOG in four and a half months at least. (Source: ibid)
Projecting much?

Supporting evidence for my previous allegations in this thread:
You admitted to refusing to renew the lease of your tenants because of their sexual orientation (source). In Washington State it is illegal to discriminate against someone in housing on the basis of sexual orientation (source). Therefore you are by your own admission a criminal.
Directly observed action of evolution by natural selection has been recorded in the case of the Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) among others. (Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11…)
An overwhelming majority of scientists agree that human activity is causing the Earth's climate to change significantly (source). The burden of proof is on you in your assertion that a hoax is being perpetrated; you have provided no evidence thus far.
Republican politicians in New Hampshire proposed a law to require doctors to inform women seeking abortions that "there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer" (source). There is no such link known (source).
Many Republicans claim that the United States is inherently Christian (source). The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President John Adams, explicitly contradicts this (source).

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