I am tired of Republicans promoting the double standard argument

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Michael Steele and Sarah Palin. It is making me angry. They are trying to hijack legitimate grievances that the Democratic Party has fought for on behalf of minorities and women. Why should we back a lot of foolishness and weaken the very people in the Democratic Party who have been trying to help. Will Michael Steele do anything for minorities or women? No. Will he strengthen laws, enforce penalities, or come up with new propositions that actually help? No.

Let's look at the Republican record on women and minorities. Shoot.... They couldn't even keep the Women's SBA Offices within each federal department that were supposed to help women owned businesses get federal contracts. These offices were set up by Hillary Clinton lobbying her husband to do this. They stripped the SBA offices for minorities within each department. I mean really... the Republicans were supposed be all in favor of business. Women were supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Same with minorities. They could dole out billions to big oil but not a few million here and there to minorities and women.


Don't even get me started on gutting the EEOC and the Office of Civil Rights in the Dept of Justice. Michael and Sarah, what in the hell were you doing while this was happening? You were as silent as the tombs. The enforcement of EEOC and the Office of Civil Rights affected millions of people's lives.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. There should be a point when we (on TV) ignore and laugh at them.

Seriously. Just because they're gaining face time on TV talking about these things doesn't give them the higher ground in this case. Let them babble on and when asked to respond, our side should simply say that we'll let the people decide who has the better record of representing minorities and women.

[blondeatlast]

2. Exactly. A wry smile and your response is the perfect response. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Exactly! Point and laugh.. They are beyond absurd...

Their false equivalencies are getting to the point of insanity...

Is there even one logical fallacy that the repukes have not tried at one time or another?
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx

[Warpy]

3. We are neither racist nor sexist when we point out that

both blacks and women are fully capable of being blinkered, pig ignorant fools.

[Schema Thing]

5. I just tell them "Democrats never claimed to be perfect....just forgiven"

They don't know quite what to make of that.

[Dollface]

6. You must have standards before you can have double standards.

Hypocrisy: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially: the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

and

Double Standard: a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another; especially: a code of morals that applies more severe standards of sexual behavior to women than to men

Discuss

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9. you do have a point!

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[butterfly77]

7. That is the Scarborough theme..

he thinks we don't know that some in Democratic party are just as racist as those in the Repug party.

That changes nothing they are not for the people..the repugs that is.

[Raschel]

8. Michael Steele looks like he's from India. I wanna see his birth certificate.

How about that for a double standard?