Have you guys noticed that the same group of people who wanted Obama to denounce Wright

[Number23]

and wanted all moderate Muslims to denounce Muslim terrorists and extremists absolutely REFUSE to denounce Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Tom Tancredo, G. Gordon Liddy, or Newt Gingrich for their racist, offensive and just damn idiotic comments re: Sotomayor?

"Look, I've got a big job to do, dealing with 40 Senate Republicans and trying to advance the nation's agenda," said (Senate Minority Leader Mitch) McConnell, R-Ky. "I've got better things to do than be the speech police over people who are going to have their views about a very important appointment, which is an appointment to the United States Supreme Court."

"I think that she is a person who believes that her background can influence her decision. That's what troubles me," said (Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican who on the Judiciary Committee) R-Ala. Although he would prefer that they not call Sotomayor a racist, he said, "people have a free right to speak and say what they want and make the analogies that they want."

Do you think that Republican GENUINELY believe that all black and brown people are all part of a collective "them" who participate in groupthink (what one thinks, we ALL think) while whites -- and only whites -- are individuals capable of individual thought?

[MrModerate]

1. They think they can excite their trog supporters by using this language.

They realize since they have no edge in governing policy, the only way to hold onto power is to fight culture wars. When their deranged followers go off the reservation and start killing people -- abortion providers, shall we say -- they tut-tut and pretend to be shocked.

Cultural warriorism is all they've got. Civilized people are dropping away from their sick and divisive campaigns in droves.

[Number23]

4. Sometimes I don't even think it's warfare, though

"Warfare" denotes something PLANNED.

I honestly believe that this is how many of them THINK. That this is how they truly view black and brown people.

[MrModerate]

7. And gay people, and "leftists," and the homeless, and . . .

on and on and on. There's seemingly no end to the types of people they can hate. I think there is a class of bigot-enabler that approaches the conflict with both strategic and tactical foresight, and vision for the long term, etc., etc.

Generals and cannon fodder, perhaps.

[asphalt.jungle]

2. The majority is always capable of individual thought

McVeigh can blow up a federal building and the next day all white people don't have to live in fear that some vengeful person will think they are also a terrorist and preemptively deal with them. Minorities have to worry when "one of theirs" do something violent (or even stupid because it works that way for intelligence as well) because that reflects on you apparently.

[Number23]

3. You hit the nail on the head

I don't recall a nationwide man hunt of white, Christian males after Timothy McVeigh/Terry Nichols but the animosity displayed towards Muslims since 911 is so disgraceful it's sickening.

Reminds me of watching the local news as a kid and hearing about someone doing something terrible and praying feverishly "please don't let them be black. Please don't let them be black."

[TheBigotBasher]

8. The sickening attitude towards Muslims

is reminiscent of NAZIS towards Germany. The fact that the UK and US Governments, various news networks (Fox) and bigoted Ex Democrats have participated in this is a disgrace.

Here for example is a quote from a supposed Ex Democrat

murphy 05.21.09 at 2:02 pm

puma bear — absolutely agreed.

we should have dropped a bomb on Mecca on Sept 12, 2001 and another one on Messina the next day if the islamic leaders of the world didnt immediately surrender.

PUMA are quite simply dirty scum NAZIs.
http://pumapac.org/2009/05/21/we-are-not-at-war-with-islam/#comments

It is unfortunate that some on DU still defend them.

[asphalt.jungle]

9. sometimes you just have to laugh

at this shit.

[MadMaddie]

13. That about sums it up! Sad but true!

[Cha]

5. Excellent point!.. And, there's no reason why

the gop should not denounce the kind of hate club radio that killing Dr Tiller incites.

[Number23]

10. There really is no reason they shouldn't denounce this ugliness

Morally, it's the right thing to do.

Strategically, it's the right thing to do if they wish to be even be considered by people of color.

There is no logical reason for the Republican party to not renounce this type of speech. And the fact that they have chosen NOT to seems to me to mean that they obviously condone it and possibly even agree with it.

[lucretia54]

6. I'm sick and tired of people trying to make decisions regarding any person based on one issue....

let alone their race, ethnicity, religion.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Not sure you have to resurrect the primaries, but yah.

[Number23]

14. My OP has nothing to do with the primaries

There are Republican STILL waiting for Obama to denounce Rev. Wright and his undercover "black liberation" principles.

You may need to brush up on the news and realize that just because the man is in office doesn't in any way lessen the fear of many Republicans that Obama is going to settle some "black scores."

[BlooInBloo]

15. Ah - my error. Hard to tell on these sorts of things.

[firedupdem]

12. Republicans are the most hypocritical people on earth. They

can spout off all types of garbage and not worry about it. Anytime they find some fake "concern" with something a Democrat is doing, or has said, they squeal like pigs!

They want things to continue as they always have been. They have never embraced diversity and consider themselves (the racist ones) superior to any person not like themselves.

[asphalt.jungle]

16. and they are the first to whine about political correctness

when it doesn't take much to offend their precious sensibilities.

and they'll say some racist shit and then call you a racist for pointing it out: "see, you only see race. so you're a racist."

[Number23]

17. And then they'll break out the MLK quotes

For some reason, racial bigots are LOVING MLK and Coretta right now.

I honestly can't think of anything more ironic and pathetically absurd than someone who is bigoted towards racial minorities (particularly black people) quoting the Kings. And yet, there they are...