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Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut
blottsie writes Last month, Lamar White, Jr. set off a firestorm in Washington when a post on his personal blog revealed that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, was a featured speaker at a white nationalist conference put on by former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Then someone climbed in his back yard and severed his Internet cables.
Ah, the "both sides do it" defense. So that makes it OK, then?
I was more inclined to think Europe and Japan, but I suppose that having no argument leads you to just shout about them damn commies
That's ok, I guess it would suck to live with an out dated view of the world, particularly when you are trying real hard to ignore that which is plainly obvious
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Because it paints Klan members in a bad light, and racism has become far too mainstream in the Republican party. Too many Slashdot users are part of the ignorant, reactionary, wingnut subculture, and just can't cope with the fact that America is moving away from our racist, homophobic, just plain stupid past.
No, by educating superstitious people, and marginalizing would-be theocrats like the Republican clown-show.
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People tend to realize that the supernatural is imaginary if we allow them a decent education. Unfortunately a huge regressive subculture wants us to remain ignorant and reactionary, so we make stupid comments like "Just like USSR, China and North Korea does, by jailing people for having a terrorist handbook called
Wrong "they", but you get the point.
How do you know it is the wrong "they"?
Who has a greater incentive to cut the cable:
1. A blogger who wants look like a victim, to attract attention to himself, make money off clicks, and discredit his adversaries.
2. A right wing supporter of Scalise, who should know that the result will be #1.
A hirer percentage of seated republicans voted for the civil right act than democeats. If senator Byrd was still alive, he would tell you all about it