re: #114 Thanos

I don’t have a problem with anyone calling most of the freepers, or the wingnut fringers, or even some of the leaders and segments of the party Racist, it’s pretty obvious that the wingnutosphere is sucking RSM’s cock for instance.

But it’s really obnoxious and offensive to diss the whole party as racist — indeed it demonstrates a deep seated hatred for a group and it is the very behaviour of stereotyping people and groups that it’s supposedly against.

Absolutely agree with you. The whole Republican Party is not racist.

However, saying that they have a black man as head of the RNC doesn’t excuse the significant pockets of racism that do exist; that’s my only point in this particular discussion.

I get really weary of this tactic. It’s used over and over. The event James O’Keefe attended can’t be a white nationalist event because they also had a black speaker. The Pentagon shooter can’t be a right wing libertarian because he was registered Democrat. Rush Limbaugh can’t possibly be race-baiting because his producer is black. Etc. Etc.