The Neocon Express kind of got under my skin with a posting yesterday that relied on a very annoying rhetorical device.
After relating how his grandfather, who lived in the deep south during the 1960s, refused to tolerate even light-hearted racial jokes in the household and was ahead of his time in terms of hiring black workers (both of which are admirable given social mores of the times), he jumps to a claim of confusion about why blacks tend to vote almost monolithically Democrat.
This is a widely known trend and, to be clear, I have my own problems with why it is. It's ridiculous and without merit to believe that the GOP has it out for blacks as a whole.
However, Neocon's argument, that since the Civil Rights movement in this country was helped more by the Republican Party of that time, and impeded by Demo/Dixiecrats at the time, blacks should remain loyal.
While not a moral equivalant, it would be employing the same logic to say that we should treat the current German government exactly as we would if they still endorsed a Nazi platform.
Parties and individuals change over time and they don't always change in the same direction. While the GOP likes to sing the praises of our 40th President and his co-opting of the so-called Reagan Democrats, they like to pretend that they're still the same party that pushed
through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Little hypocricies are a beautiful thing, but I've seen better out of Neocon man.
After relating how his grandfather, who lived in the deep south during the 1960s, refused to tolerate even light-hearted racial jokes in the household and was ahead of his time in terms of hiring black workers (both of which are admirable given social mores of the times), he jumps to a claim of confusion about why blacks tend to vote almost monolithically Democrat.
This is a widely known trend and, to be clear, I have my own problems with why it is. It's ridiculous and without merit to believe that the GOP has it out for blacks as a whole.
However, Neocon's argument, that since the Civil Rights movement in this country was helped more by the Republican Party of that time, and impeded by Demo/Dixiecrats at the time, blacks should remain loyal.
While not a moral equivalant, it would be employing the same logic to say that we should treat the current German government exactly as we would if they still endorsed a Nazi platform.
Parties and individuals change over time and they don't always change in the same direction. While the GOP likes to sing the praises of our 40th President and his co-opting of the so-called Reagan Democrats, they like to pretend that they're still the same party that pushed
through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Little hypocricies are a beautiful thing, but I've seen better out of Neocon man.
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