Newt Gingrich is a glutton for punishment, no? Because even though the Trump campaign cast him out after he offered some gentle criticism in regards to the super racist things he says about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, he is still going on the TV talking about how wonderful he is!
I remember one of my teachers saying that a society is only as just and as moral as the way in which it treats its most despised members...and that the most important civil rights in the country are those of the members of the most despised groups, because if you can violate the civil rights of the universally despised, then all any of the rest of us have are civil privileges.
Newt may want to talk to the Ford family, who were sending money to the Nazis 6 months after Pearl Harbour and the declaration of war on the US by Hitler.
I think the imams of NY are sick of the NYPD and FBI coming to the mosque and interrupting the sermon by sitting next to all the young men there and whispering "do you want to buy a rocket launcher? I know a guy"
There's a town in France that was called La Mort aux Juifs ("Death to the Jews") until last year, because they refused all requests to change the name until they were basically forced into it.
Sadly, this is not the most anti-semetic thing I've heard about modern-day France, by far.
Honestly, everywhere in the world, new Islamophobia is just old anti-Semitism in drag. After anti-Semitism became unfashionable after cousin Adolf took it too dang far (and in France the whole question of local fascists and conservatives enthusiastically jumping on the Holocaust train is still a touchy subject), the impulses to "persecute the scary minority" were just switched to the Muslims, with a kind of perverse "Christian Zionism" covering up for it - suddenly Jews were great, but only if they were in the Middle East shooting Arabs.
Fun history fact: HUAC never went after American fascism. It focused on communists from its inception in 1938, and rejected a suggestion that they investigate the Klan. Nothing like objective fact-finding...
Nah... just that Wonkette doesn't allow comments.
Because he liked it and thought it was a dandy-keen idea...bet he spent a lot of time cheering Tail-Gunner Joe on.
I was a grown-ass adult, and Newtie was one of the first people I distinctly remember wanting to punch through the TV set.
That's not the one the members of the Talibundy carry around - I think Jesus helped evangelical Tom Jefferson write that one.
I remember one of my teachers saying that a society is only as just and as moral as the way in which it treats its most despised members...and that the most important civil rights in the country are those of the members of the most despised groups, because if you can violate the civil rights of the universally despised, then all any of the rest of us have are civil privileges.
"Do, say, the French worry about un-French activities?"
Yes, sadly. Google "hijab ban". French fascists want COMPULSORY pork in school lunches because VIVE LA FRANCE, fuck the Mooslims (and the Jews).
Or the Bush family who had quite extensive business connections with the Dritte Reich.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to believe Newt Gingrich.
Newt may want to talk to the Ford family, who were sending money to the Nazis 6 months after Pearl Harbour and the declaration of war on the US by Hitler.
I'm glad you reminded me - I might have tried to comment.
Yeah, but you are obviously a American Hating Liberal, who spreads lies about nice white men.
I think the imams of NY are sick of the NYPD and FBI coming to the mosque and interrupting the sermon by sitting next to all the young men there and whispering "do you want to buy a rocket launcher? I know a guy"
First they came for the Nazis, and I didn't speak out because my irony alarm was going off too loudly for anything to be heard.
There's a town in France that was called La Mort aux Juifs ("Death to the Jews") until last year, because they refused all requests to change the name until they were basically forced into it.
Sadly, this is not the most anti-semetic thing I've heard about modern-day France, by far.
Honestly, everywhere in the world, new Islamophobia is just old anti-Semitism in drag. After anti-Semitism became unfashionable after cousin Adolf took it too dang far (and in France the whole question of local fascists and conservatives enthusiastically jumping on the Holocaust train is still a touchy subject), the impulses to "persecute the scary minority" were just switched to the Muslims, with a kind of perverse "Christian Zionism" covering up for it - suddenly Jews were great, but only if they were in the Middle East shooting Arabs.
Fun history fact: HUAC never went after American fascism. It focused on communists from its inception in 1938, and rejected a suggestion that they investigate the Klan. Nothing like objective fact-finding...