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Speaking of the Paul family, his father has a long history of association with the racist far-right. He had various newsletters bearing his name that made blatantly racist comments for decades. He makes the absurd claim that he didn't know this sort of thing was being printed in his newsletter because he didn't read it. Even more absurdly, everyone seems to believe him. Here's a bit about it from Wikipedia: === On January 8, the day of the New Hampshire primary, The New Republic published a story by James Kirchick quoting from selected newsletters published under Paul's name. The publications had various names bannering "Ron Paul" prominently in the title, such as The Ron Paul Survival Report. Kirchick said that the writings showed "an obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry", and were "saturated in racism", charges echoed by Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly's Political Animal blog. Kirchick noted that one article referred to African-American rioters as "barbarians" and suggested that the Los Angeles riots of 1992 only stopped when it came time for "blacks to pick up their welfare checks". Other issues gave tactical advice to local militia groups and advanced various conspiracy theories. === Many, even worse examples can be found here: http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-pauls-racist-newsletters-revealed/ On 05/22/2010 08:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: > The Roots of Rand Paul's Civil Rights Resentment > > Lurking beneath the Paul family's libertarian > politics is a strategy of pandering to "populists" > like Pat Buchanan ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
