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Inside Voice, Outside Voice
After doing some painstaking research (meaning, I read the entire paper instead of just the front page and the comics) it seems like Trent Lott might really be a racist, instead of having a Quayle-esque problem with the English language. The guy's got a pretty long history of trying to keep black people down, and had a similar "mis-speak" at another event for Strom Thurmond. So he should probably do the smart thing and step down as Senate Majority Leader.
The really interesting thing is the people who are complaining the loudest -- conservatives. The first people to take Lott to task were staunchly conservative bloggers; Jesse Jackson and Al Gore didn't get into the act until a few days later. Of couse nobody listens to Jackson or Gore anyway, but I do wonder what took them so long. Then Dubya had to come out and bitch-slap the guy to make up for the fact that only three black people voted for him in 2000.
Well, this thing will probably blow over. White people will decide that either he's a lost cause or just an idiot, and I don't think it's really possible for black people to be any less pleased with the Republicans than they already are.
Why am I even writing about this then? It has to do with my political leanings -- mostly libertarian -- and the fact that on some topics libertarianism sounds like what Republicans say. Basically, these guys make it hard for me to argue the stuff I agree with them on (and it's not just Lott; Herr Ashcroft has a lot to do with it too). Basically I want these guys to shut the hell up so I can carry out a reasoned argument with my borderline-socialist friends.
Although after reading Shields's journal, I wonder if that's an impossibility anyway...
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parallel lines
Socialism and reasoning are like parallel lines in a Euclidean universe.
Never the twain shall meet.
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Re: parallel lines
Yeah, but I can still hope. Aside from the way-lefist leanings they're intelligent people. Hell, they're better in arguments than I am -- but I also don't think well on my feet and have a memory like a seive.
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Re: parallel lines
The problem as I see it is that the population of hot leftist women is not only more numerous than the population of hot right-wing women, but is also a larger percentage of not only all left-wing women, but of leftists in general than the percentage of hot right-wing women to right-wingers. And right-wing women are more likely to be married also. Bitches.
Plus socialists are from a different planet, and we don't have the Death Star working yet.
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