Herr Pat Buchanan: Affirmative Action is worse than 'the old bigotry'

[marmar]

:wtf:



from ThinkProgress:



Buchanan argues against affirmative action: ‘One prefers the old bigotry.’

Today, in a Human Events column titled “Miss Affirmative Action,2009,” MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan continued his attack on Judge Sotomayor. He declared that affirmative action is worse than the “old bigotry” against African Americans:

Thus, Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review — all because she was a Hispanic woman. And those two Ivy League institutions cheated more deserving students of what they had worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity.
This is bigotry pure and simple. To salve their consciences for past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination again, this time with white males as victims rather than as beneficiaries.

One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest, and not, as Abraham Lincoln observed, adulterated “with the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

This is the newest in a series of racists comments made by Buchanan since Sotomayor’s nomination. He has told senators to oppose Sotomayor’s nomination and “stand up for the white working class.” He even went so far as to assert that, because of affirmative action, “what is happening now to white men right now is exactly what was done to black folks for years.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/12/buchanan-old-bigotry/

[knowbody0]

1. boo fuckin hoo patty cakes

how's that working out for you? your foot is up your ass.

[MadMaddie]

2. Yea Pat last time I checked Sotomayor didn't hang blacks

in trees!! Didn't burn crosses in Blacks yards!! Last I checked she didn't blow up any building in Ok, shoot abortion doctors or attack a Holocaust museum. No Pat those were your folks doing that..

Pat you may prefer the old bigotry but the rest of us would prefer no bigotry. You like bullying those that don't agree with you. What you really miss Pat is the law allowing you to do it while they pretended it didn't happen because they were one of you.

You read one decision and you have proven yourself to be a simple, simple minded man. You are becoming paranoid and more irrelevant every day!

So here's a big "Fuck off to you Pat!!

[opihimoimoi]

3. Pats blathering continues unabated...I for one, turn the MFKG Channel to the Nature channel

or equivilent.

Pat is an ole Nazi from long ago days..

The Pubs gatta be double desperate to air his ass....don't they know they losing votes by using him...LOL...

Then again, who said the GOP had brains of the useful kind?

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Pat Buchanan IS the old bigotry. Hate is all that keeps that man alive.

His motto must be something like "I hate, therefore I am." His favorite political tactic is "divide and conquer" which is just another form of fear mongering aimed at keeping the working class down.

[walkaway]

5. Soon enough Pat will be entering an old geezer home....

...and his very life will be in the hands of people who are all the colors of the human rainbow.

He's lucky most folk are better than he is.

[DCKit]

6. "“what is happening now..is exactly what was done to black folks for years.”"

So, Pat, not to cause your brain to explode, but how does "Same" = "Worse"? Just sayin'.

Rich, white, privileged and politically powerful, yet sill the victim.

Poor Pat.

[havocmom]

7. Says old white guy, unhappy about finding himself in a minority

Pat needs to take a laxative and go sit down for a long think.