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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on February 03, 2019, 01:10:24 pm
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Ralph Northam And The New Puritans
Townhall, Feb 3, 2019, Scott Morefield
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So now everyone is being policed, at least when it comes to real or perceived racial sins, no matter how egregious or how far removed from the present. Do you feel safer? I know I do! Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank celebrated this fact in a Saturday column, contending that, while Northam has lived an admirable life of late and likely considers losing it all because of an almost 35-year-old transgression “unfair,†that’s just the way it should be.
“But some things should disqualify people from public service — a Nazi salute, sexual assault, preying on children and, yes, dressing as a Klansman or in blackface — and it doesn’t matter if it happened 35 years ago,†Milbank wrote.
So, a home invader can be the governor of Virginia, but Northam can’t? To be clear, I am not in any way excusing or condoning the use of blackface in any era. It’s insensitive, horrific, and it should be condemned, but if someone honestly doesn’t see a moral difference between preying on children and a politically-incorrect party-gone-WAAAAAY-wrong, one’s morals are, shall we say, highly suspect.
But these are the New Puritans we’re dealing with here, people for whom real or perceived racial sins - and they get to determine what those are - are the worst sins ever, basically the same as raping a woman or preying on a child. And so, Milbank celebrates the fact that Megyn Kelly lost her job at NBC (does Milbank believe Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Sarah Silverman are also equivalent to child predators? Apparently, some of that old double-standard does exist!) for seemingly defending blackface and laments Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ electoral win despite the fact that he simply said the common phrase “monkey this up.â€
Read more: https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2019/02/03/ralph-northam-and-the-new-puritans-n2540722
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“But some things should disqualify people from public service — a Nazi salute, sexual assault, preying on children and, yes, dressing as a Klansman or in blackface — and it doesn’t matter if it happened 35 years ago,†Milbank wrote.
In that case we should take this more seriously and consider arresting all the blacks that run around in public in blackface EVERY day,yet nobody seems to care!
NO JUZ-TIZE,NO PEAS! NO JUZ-TIZE,NO PEAS! NO JUZ-TIZE,NO PEAS! NO JUZ-TIZE,NO PEAS!
While we are at it,how about arresting the black people that try to pass themselves off as white? WHERE is the equality if we are not charging non-whites with running around in "white face"?
Or the fake Injuns like Warren for running around in "red face"?