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In reply to the discussion: Obama vs Ron Paul : both hold positions anathema to liberals. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Our whole foreign policy can be described that way. We support dictatorships who kill Gays as criminals, who suppress women and stone them to death for daring to speak, or even whisper against their oppressors.
The Drug here needs no explanation regarding the vile racism it promotes. See the lates NYPD scandal if anyone has any doubts, the connection of the Drug Laws to the stopping and frisking of over 500,000 people, almost all African Americans in one year.
Not to mention our wars killing brown people and destroying them for generations to come.
So I ask myself this. If I were a Muslim woman in Iraq or Afghanistan or Iran, Yemen, or any of the places we are now or planning to in the future, kill more of their loved ones, and someone told there is a guy running for the WH in the US who is accused of being a racist, but has never voted to kill my people, to support Dictators who let them build military bases in our countries, or if I am an African American in jail for possession of marijuana, anywhere in the world that is allied with us in our WOD, from my perspective, I would wonder about those charges while the US War Machine is what I see as the biggest most powerful most destructive most racist, well almost, most Empires are racist, gets a pass?
But then who cares what one of the victims of our obscene wars thinks anyhow.