What it is is a holdover from the 60's and early 70's. First with the Dixiecrats reaction to Johnson's Civil Rights initiatives, then with Nixon's Southern Strategy which managed to incorporate the Dixiecrats ethos into the party. There is not the degree of discouragement of such expressions as there would be with the Democratic Party.
for instance I brought up the case of the Mecklenburg County Republican Party chairman (see http://uptownmagazine.com/2012/09/virginia-gop-affiliate-posts-insulting-photos-of-obama-on-facebook/) The person who did it is still a part of the Loudoun Country GOP leadership. They should have been turfed from the party and the GOP should have denounced it in the strongest of terms. Instead they got a mild slap on the wrist and from what I understand he's still doing such On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > The CURRENT Democratic party is NOT the party of racism at all. > So you can talk about centuries past, it is irrelevant to the current > reality. > > It is just a clever way to try to reframe the circumstances, that is > failing miserably. > It fails and these issues keep popping up throughout GOP constituencies > because the common thread is one of racism within the elected leaders of > the party. > It's there, and that's why these issues keep happening. If it wasn't there, > these issues would not occur with such frequency. > It's common sense. > > This doesn't mean that all members of the GOP are racist, but there is > certainly a strong dose of it in those elected as leaders. > So talking about decades ago the Democrats stood for X, and we stood for Y > is irrelevant to what it stands for NOW. > > Racism is everywhere, and it's always an ugly thing, but you cannot excuse > something or claim it isn't there simply because you support a party. > > On 1 November 2013 15:18, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I didn't say there was anything wrong with this, just that it's not the > > BEST way to teach people that the DNC is the party of racism. There are > > better ways. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
