New Minnesota wingnut organization says racial purity=healthier population

[Minnesota Raindog]

Minnesota's latest contribution to the Wingnut Right is an outfit called Minnesota Majority. I guess it makes them feel good to call themselves a "majority." The first clue to what they're all about is in their sub-title, "Standing Together for Traditional Values." It's the usual slate of fear-mongering hot-button issues: homosexual marriage, illegal immigration, embryonic stem-cell research, blah blah blah. Some of the usual suspects too: Drew Emmer, Jeff Davis, Mary Kiffmeyer.

Their appeal:

Are you tired of a vocal minority:

Dictating what you can say, do or think?
Suppressing your freedoms of religion and speech?
Having more rights than the rest of us?
Telling us that they are offended by what we say or do?
Preaching tolerance while demonstrating utter contempt for anyone with a different view than their own?
Exploiting our legal system to advance their agendas at the expense of our rights?

(Funny--that seems to describe the Religious Right to a "t".)

More on these whack-jobs here

http://www.minnesotamajority.org/Home/tabid/112/Default.aspx

One of the more interesting items there is this, from their health care page, written by one Dave Racer.


A Few FACTS, not fiction

FACT: The U.S. health care system serves the most diverse racial and ethnic population of any country in the world. This fact adversely affects every statistic by which we are compared to other countries. Black women, for a variety of reasons, are more prone to underweight babies than are Caucasian and Asian women. It is not surprising that Sweden has a lower infant mortality rate, or that Japan has a longer life expectancy than the United States does. They are nearly racially pure: we are not.


Mr. Racist, er, Racer goes on to point out this "fact":

FACT: The largest group of uninsured U.S. residents is made up of temporary/seasonal workers, mostly of Hispanic/Latino origin, who are born in a foreign country.


So you, see, it's those damn black- and brown-skinned people who are driving our health care costs up, not Bill McGuire.

Look for more pearls of wisdom from these freaks in the future.

[Deja Q]

1. Reminds me of sweet, dear K. Nelson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDUaYGOFso
(oh, do watch...)

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Are we sure they are brand new?

I thought I heard about them before around when they were coming down on former DFL Majority Leader Dean Johnson over the last anti-gay marriage crap.

[Minnesota Raindog]

3. Jeff Davis was head of Minnesota Citizens in Defense of Marriage

Same homophobic rants, different homophobic organization. More background here:

http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2007/12/minnesota-majority-suggests-lack-of.html

[geardaddy]

7. And he shares his name...

with the president of the Confederacy. Coincidence? ;)

[dflprincess]

4. I notice they say low birthweight may be attributed to a variety of reasons

I'm guessing here, but I'd bet the biggest reason would be no access to good prenatal care.

And I wonder how "racially pure" they want people to be? The U.S., Australia and Canda all have higher rates of orthodonture than European countries. It's been theorized that the reason for this is the mixing of the various European groups in these three "immigrant" countries...In other words, my big Swedish teeth didn't fit into my petite Irish jaw (or vice versa). I suppose being a mix of Nordic and Celt makes me "impure".

And finally, what can we expect from someone named Jeff Davis?

[geardaddy]

8. There was already a mixing of people in Europe.

The Vikings founded Dublin and York, had colonies in Wales and Italy. The idea of pure European stock is bunk. People got around in Europe a lot in the days before the New World was "found".

[Minnesota Raindog]

5. Minnesota "Majority" scrubs website of "racial purity"

http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2007/12/minnesota-majority-scrubs-racial-purity.html

Shine a little sunlight on these cockroaches and they go scurrying for cover. I guess the concept of "racial purity" isn't as popular as Mary KKKiffmeyer, Drew Emmer and Jeff Davis thought it was.

[Minnesota Raindog]

6. From an SS book on racial purity

This must be the source of inspiration for the Minnesotra "Majority":

Since the rise or fall of a people's culture depends above all on the maintenance, care, and purity of its valuable racial inheritance, every responsible statesman must be concerned with racial policy, and do everything possible to maintain the purity of the racial inheritance for the future. Adolf Hitler was the first statesman in history to recognize this and base his policies on it. The world-spanning war that the German people are waging under his leadership is the battle of the Nordic Race against the forces of chaos and racial decay. It is decisive for the future of our Germanic culture, for the purity of the racial elements that make our culture, and for the fate of Europe as a whole.


Who says comparing the KKKhristian Right with Nazis is unfair?

[MnFats]

9. Dave Racer has been around at least 25 years.

he ran for the Lege from the North St. Paul area at least once and probably a couple of times, if memory serves.he was always kind of a whackjob but i think he;s outdone himself....