Is Political Intolerance The New Racism?
I would be the last to purport that racism is totally dead. As someone who grew up in England and witnessed the intense racism between whites and those of Pakistani or Indian decent first hand, and having spent the last 8 years in Alabama and Tennesse, it would be intellectually dishonest to say that racism is no more. However, the comparison to any view other than that of the liberal movement being racist, is equivalent to saying that someone who doesn't hire a person of color because another candidate is more qualified, is inherently a racist. Legitimate opposition to England's taxation policies, based on the merits of law, was the impetus for the American Revolution, and a foundational principle of this nation. The goal here appears to be a blatant attempt to stifle all intellectual debate on the actual merits of the issues at hand. Click here to read the DHS report on "rightwing" terrorists.
Tactics of this nature were employed by the Nazi propogandist master Joseph Goebbels, to create a climate of fear and supress any oposition to the party line, and to justify their anti-Semitic policies. Stalin used the same approach in Soviet Russian, but there the label was anti-patriotic. These machinations started out as rhetoric, but quickly transformed into violent suppression of dissent. Thankfully, we have not reached this level here....yet. However, calls from many liberals to supress the "right wing cons" by any means necessary have been increasing of late, and with many dangerous pieces of legislation granting powers to the government, how long will it be till dissent becomes a criminal offence?
When did it become racist in America to have an opposing view? One could say it began with the "Politically Correct" movement in the 80's and 90's, and the environment of hate we see growing in our society is just the natural conclusion to those liberal ideals. Unfortunately, that would be narrow point of view, and I fear this is the result of deliberate propaganda and hate mongering by the liberal agenda that wishes to benefit from the natural American proclivity to be tolerant of opposing views.
Scary times indeed. Conservatives can no longer operate from the idea that liberals actually have the best interests of the country at heart. We must awaken to the blatant acquisition of power by idealists bent on the transformation of our nation into a shadow of it's former glory.
