An ultra-conservative's views on this and that

16 September 2009

Isn't it possible to just disagree?

Apparently not. If you're a conservative who has the temerity to reject the socialism that our president seems to be embracing, the root of your policy disagreements must be because you have a personal problem with the man sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office.

Oops, I used the S-word. We've been told that the S-Word is the new N-word.

"The N-word"? Are you kidding me? What are we, in third grade? Is someone going to spank us if we use it? How come blacks can refer to each other as "nigger", but the word is completely off-limits to any other races? I agree with blacks, it is an offensive word, best left to the days of slavery and the Jim Crow South. So they need to stop using it as well. As Chris Rock pointed out in one of his stand-up routines, whites do not go around calling each other "cracker" or "honky."

And what happened to "black" being used to describe someone whose roots trace back to Africa? "African-American" seems silly when used on people whom have been living in the U.S. for generations. I can see a Nigerian friend of mine using it to describe himself: He was born in NJ and grew up in Nigeria. He'd probably just call himself Nigerian-American, though, if he bothered to hyphenate at all. More likely, he would say he's an American. Because being American means you or your ancestors came from somewhere else. Much evidence exists to support that even the American Indians traversed a land bridge from Asia to North America some 12,000 years ago. The bridge is gone, having been replaced with the Bering Strait. Is "Native American" an accurate description? Am I not native to this country? I was born here, too, as was my father, his father, and so on, going back about 12 or 13 generations. At what point do I become "native"?

The point of this tirade is to point out the fallacy in assigning these asinine labels. That's a contributing factor to racism-- the labeling of differences. For this reason, I reject the concept of diversity. Celebrating the differences between people requires drawing attention to those differences. I'll take color-blind equality over diversity any day.

The ascribing of racism to Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) is a desperate attempt by the left. You know they've exhausted their slate of arguments when that's the best they can come up with.

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