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Bull MooseTom Scocca
4/16/14 2:22pm
You're stats about black vs. white infant mortality:

Are you implying that white nurses and maternity doctors are conspiring to kill black babies because they are racist? WTF is the correlation?
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  ZaleyaKaneBull Moose
  4/16/14 2:57pm
  The correlation is poverty=poor medical care, poor medical care=dead babies, politician refuses free federal money for poor via Obama, resulting in more dead babies. Since most black people were not allowed any job higher than "maid" or "sharecropper" as recently as 1965, there is a higher share of black people living in poverty. So when politicians kick the poor, the black community is kicked twice as hard.
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  Bull MooseZaleyaKane
  4/16/14 3:10pm
  Fine. That I understand, but poverty doesn't necessarily have to do with race. Have you driven through Alabama? It might be the poor white trash capital of the world.
  
  But it's also true that almost three-quarters of black incomes do not fall below the poverty line. Collapsing poor and black as if all poor were black and all blacks poor turns the is disingenuous. The white poverty rate does run much lower than the black rate, just under 10 percent, but the white poor outnumber the black poor considerably, 19 to 7.8 million. White people make up 42 percent of America's poor, black people about 28 percent. The basic numbers don't change when we look at people living in extreme poverty, in households making less than 50 percent of the meager poverty line. Of the 20 million people who live at this alarming level of want and deprivation, about 42 percent are white, 27 percent black.
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JT_Pearland146Tom Scocca
4/16/14 2:07pm
I'm looking for something to be outraged about in the article but I'm not really seeing it. She seems to acknowledge there is racism in the article:

No one denies that there are racists roaming the byways of Alabama — as elsewhere. But this doesn't translate to all whites being racists, as Holmes implied, nor does it justify slinging racial slurs at African Americans who don't toe the party line.

She seems to argue that hurling racial insults at someone who is conservative and also black is not productive either.
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  rmric0.wedding.photographerJT_Pearland146
  4/16/14 2:56pm
  She acknowledges a sliver or racism in her article and then waves it away casually, because racism actually is a significant component in the level of vitriol leveled toward the president (see BIRTHERS).
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  Tom ScoccaJT_Pearland146
  4/16/14 3:32pm
  She is arguing that the defining racial dynamic in America today is that black people's "identities have become so entrenched in past grievance that they can't or won't see that they have become what they loathed"—and that those black people are oppressing white people by clinging to the past.
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ManchuCandidateTom Scocca
4/16/14 2:00pm
saddling our state and our nation – the taxpayers – with the enormous expense," said the governor

Based on 2012 stats (for every tax buck the Feds get from 'Bama, the Feds dump in 2.18), the Gubbinor of 'Bama is pretty much describing the state of 'Bama.
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  cepalgManchuCandidate
  4/16/14 2:08pm
  You know that old bit about the difference between looting and finding? Pretty much the same thing. Government money going to white people is a 'social safety net,' 'economic incentive,' or 'earned benefits.'
  
  Government money going to brown people is 'nanny state,' 'wasteful spending, ' and 'dependency-building.'
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Daniel BoakTom Scocca
4/16/14 8:24pm
I've been sitting here staring at the comment section writing and erasing for 45 minutes. I'm just so fucking tired of seeing all the racially focused shit everyday. I used to get pissed off seeing anything pertaining to racism in the modern world, because i have never cared what color someones skin is. If i'm going to hate someone i hate them because they have a shitty personality, because they are a shitty person. All this race mongering bullshit only serves to prolong racial tensions, because when the fuck are people going to stop breaking off into little fucking "special groups" african american, native american, muslim, irish, italian, jew, mexican, gay, straight, bi, transgender, male, female, hermaphrodite, christian, pastafarians, atheists and voodoo high priest to venus. FUCK YOU ALL. The only thing that should matter is being a human being, that isn't a horrible fucking example of that fact, not saying look at me, this is how i'm different, but i want to be treated the same, by which i mean i want special consideration because of how i'm making a spectacle out of how i'm different in a way that really doesn't fucking matter at all. At least it shouldn't matter. But lets everyone keep beating this dead horse a bit longer and see if it gets any prettier.

Unless white doctors are actively denying healthcare to black babies, or outright killing them, oh well. dead babies are sad, but i could give a shit anymore that they are black white brown or green. Sometimes bad shit just happens.
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  Tom ScoccaDaniel Boak
  4/16/14 10:34pm
  How very white of you.
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TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Tom Scocca
4/16/14 2:04pm

The strongest indicator of a conservative is selfishness and self-satisfaction. It's not that Kathleen Parker is a racist; she doesn't hate black people, after all. She just doesn't want to be bothered by their problems. If they happen to have more poverty, more infant mortality, that's not her problem. They should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and solve their own problems. Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? Well, there are prisons, but they're already full of black people. But that's not racist, that's just the "way things are". The way things have always been. The Way Things Ought To Be.
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CorbettoTom Scocca
4/16/14 2:48pm
Kathleen Parker is a dipshit and her employment helps the Post meet its dipshits quota. But I dream of the day she hops in Krauthammer's lap and helps him drive his chair off a fucking bridge.
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KulturVulturTom Scocca
4/16/14 2:18pm
Who GAF what Kathleen Parker thinks besides Kathleen Parker?
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Malacoda, Recumbent on the Burning Sand.Tom Scocca
4/16/14 2:33pm
What I love is the tea party people I've engaged in the internet's sewers who insist that their opposition to the President isn't based on his race (I avoid engaging with those who keep screaming 'Kenya') and in the next breathe insist I voted for him simply because he is Black. As if had they nominated Herman Cain and he was going toe-to-toe with Hillary I would suddenly begin chanting 999 and voting Republican.

If they somehow got my Dad on the ballot I wouldn't vote for them. Unless of course the universe suddenly flips so wet becomes dry and Palin turns into Aristotle.

What can be more racist than insisting that all blacks think only a certain way?

And then she goes on her 'Establishment Blacks' rant. Fuck this Establishment White asshole.
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whateverTom Scocca
4/16/14 2:40pm
Im sorry but white people need to stop saying the words "Race Card". What is the fastest way to make yourself sound like a latent racist? Accuse someone of playing the race card. White folks need to shut the fuck up about their perceived inequalities and suck it the fuck up. Little whiny ass fucking babies.
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gimmesummerTom Scocca
4/16/14 6:36pm
Gee willickers I hope people understand that Republicans don't win elections using racism.

Signed,

Willy Hortons Cadillac owning Welfare Queen Mother who drove John McCains black Daughter around South Carolina during the 2000 Republican Primaries.

Kay-Po, making Racism acceptable for the next Bush Presidential run
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