As a conservative, I’m beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys?
Republican bigotry, tariffs and defense spending, through readers’ eyes.
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Nick Fuentes holds a rally in Lansing, Michigan, on Nov. 11, 2020. (Nicole Hester/AP)
Robert P. George’s Dec. 7 op-ed, “There are valid debates among conservatives. This isn’t one.,” argued that conservatives should stop promoting “white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, the subjugation of women, and other forms of ideological extremism and bigotry.”
You know what this means. It means it’s too late. Telling conservatives to stop being bigots is admitting they’re bigots. And I’m pretty sure a professor of jurisprudence telling them to cut it out isn’t going to work. Hey, you guys — stop being bigots! Oh, okay.
I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn’t always thus, but I’m beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant?
Are these new conservatives in fact our descendants? Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren’t? I’m hoping these new conservatives are mutants, but I’m not so sure about that anymore.
I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations
Dude actually admits this and claims to be very serious about racism.
Absolutely nothing racist about murdering millions in Afghanistan and Iraq, especially when the reasoning came down to “well they’re brown so they’re evil”.
Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant
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As a conservative, I’m beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys?
Republican bigotry, tariffs and defense spending, through readers’ eyes.
8 minutes ago
Nick Fuentes holds a rally in Lansing, Michigan, on Nov. 11, 2020. (Nicole Hester/AP)
Robert P. George’s Dec. 7 op-ed, “There are valid debates among conservatives. This isn’t one.,” argued that conservatives should stop promoting “white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, the subjugation of women, and other forms of ideological extremism and bigotry.”
You know what this means. It means it’s too late. Telling conservatives to stop being bigots is admitting they’re bigots. And I’m pretty sure a professor of jurisprudence telling them to cut it out isn’t going to work. Hey, you guys — stop being bigots! Oh, okay.
I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn’t always thus, but I’m beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant?
Are these new conservatives in fact our descendants? Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren’t? I’m hoping these new conservatives are mutants, but I’m not so sure about that anymore.
Bruce Carnes, Fairfax
via archive.is paywall bypass; original on Washington Post
Dude actually admits this and claims to be very serious about racism.
Absolutely nothing racist about murdering millions in Afghanistan and Iraq, especially when the reasoning came down to “well they’re brown so they’re evil”.
I’m having trouble expressing the mental anguish reading this has caused me.
Thinking of the scene in Boogie Nights where he’s like “what, you think you’re the king?” And Burt Reynolds shoves him and shouts
You don’t understand. That’s different cause it’s… war or something idk. At least he didn’t call them the n-word. That would be really fucked up
it wasn’t secret
Closest he gets to self awareness lol
There was never anything dormant about it
Yahtzee