ANGRY OLD WHITE MEN GONE WILD! - By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy’s ignorant paternalism: Angry old white men gone wild, again!

Donald Sterling’s racial views are worse than Cliven Bundy’s, yet some on the right defend the racist billionaire

JOAN WALSH

Chief Justice John Roberts has to wonder if the universe is talking back to him after the Supreme Court last week struck down affirmative action in Michigan, relying on his fatuous 2007 declaration that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Just to prove racism is still with us, we had Cliven Bundy pop off about lazy black people being better off under slavery, and (even worse in my opinion) the filthy-rich owner of an NBA team berating his black girlfriend on tape for bringing black people to his basketball games, where mostly black players make him even wealthier several times a week.

Bundy, 67, is a hardscrabble rancher who’d never have had a public platform without wealthy hucksters at Fox News. The 80-year-old Donald Sterling, by contrast, owns a basketball team valued at over $500 million and a real estate empire where he’s had to settle for millions of dollars in race discrimination cases. He’s given money to politicians (mostly Democrats, the right will have you know) and was about to receive a poorly timed award from the NAACP.

It’s just another episode of “Angry Old White Men Gone Wild,” but the two men’s sins aren’t the same. Racism wasn’t entirely shocking coming from the not-too-sharp Nevada cattleman who seems to have marinated in the paranoid anti-government thinking that’s taken hold in marginal white communities. Its crude expression was much more disturbing coming from the powerful, wealthy Sterling.

But there’s more than simple anti-black racism linking the views of Bundy and Sterling. They share an ignorant, self-serving paternalism.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/04/28/donald_sterling_and_cliven_bundys_ignorant_paternalism_angry_old_white_men_gone_wild_again/

[seabeyond]

1. hey don, i was just saying this this morning, somewhere. lol. like a button has been pushed.

i am starting my friday today, lol

[unblock]

2. we're going to be seeing more and more of this. fox"news" has created a bubble wherein

bigots think it's acceptable to think and talk and act like bigots.

for the most part, fox"news" has mastered the art of talking in code and dog whistles. they're the master bigots.

ordinary bigots get themselves into trouble when they get their 15 minutes of fame, not knowing the sometimes subtle difference between code bigots can get away with and "too obvious" bigotry that they can't.

[underpants]

3. Fox News - he is a Democrat!!!

http://www.newshounds.us/fox_nation_wants_to_make_sure_you_know_that_donald_sterling_is_a_democrat_04272014

Not that he gave money to Obama - even though Fox has the Obama logo on their story.

I caught some of Trump in F&F this morning and the cohosts were trying to find a way that Sterling could get out if this. Trump did blame the girlfriend but he said there was no getting out of it for Sterling. BTW - Sterling just cemented any chance Trump had buying the Bills in the NFL. This is exactly what the owners in the NFL want to avoid - Trump's regular practice of making an ass of himself.

So the right IS trying to help Sterling out of this. Kristol, what a moron.