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In reply to the discussion: An #Occupier said something interesting about Ron Paul... [View all]vaberella
(24,634 posts)He did not believe that the government should have intervened in slavery or in segregation. He felt that the government over it's power and that the state should have the right to follow what ever rule of law they wanted too. He adamantly believes the government never should have sent US Marshalls to desegregate schools or to force restaurants to service Blacks.
Ultimately...this is a man who supports racist policies...some of which were state wide because of his strong ideological standing. Actually this would then fall into the fields of homophobic and sexist...ie he's 100% against the 14th Amendment or Affirmative Action which encompasses those things and was bred from civil unrest with the aid of federal government intervention.
You may not see that as racism. But anyone who lets their ideology take over their good sense...and would continue to allow slavery, segregation, the snuffing of women's rights and homosexual rights because he felt federal government intervention went too far is someone who is racist, homophobic, and sexist. These are wrongs and he would have ensured they continued if the state wished for them to continue.
You can do an easy google search on this.