Dear Editor:
Mr. Taylor, once I had worked my way past the usual specious
insults, I found your logic interesting.
Dear Editor:
Mr. Taylor, once I had worked my way past the usual specious insults, I found your logic interesting. Goldwater appealed to Southerners. All Southerners are racists. Therefore Goldwater was a racist. Goldwater was a Republican. Therefore all Republicans are racists. Your logic is not valid, it is superficial and bigoted. But it is interesting. I guess one occasionally has to be reminded that some people actually think that way.
I would like to share with you the results of an on-line poll conducted recently by www.worldnetdaily.com, a conservative news service. The question was “Should race be a factor in college admissions, employment, or the awarding of contracts?.”
The answers by conservatives:
No, it’s morally repugnant to discriminate on the basis of race – 33.63 percent.
No, it’s patently unconstitutional – 31.72 percent.
No, we should strive for a color-blind society, just like Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted – 20.07 percent.
No – 9.92 percent.
No, it just causes resentment – 3.34 percent.
All non-No answers –1.39 percent.
Did you happen to notice, Mr. Taylor, that you were unable to come up with a single concrete example of racist behavior by a Republican politician? The closest that you can come is the inference that they must be evil because they don’t agree with you. On the flip side, I assure you that we conservatives can provide dozens, maybe hundreds, possibly thousands, of concrete examples of Democratic politicians specifically advocating racial discrimination.
Let’s start with unfair employment practices by federal, state, and local governments, discriminatory selections in college admissions, biased contract awards, the creation of “protected classes” with special legal privileges, the increase of criminal penalties for crimes victimizing selected races, prosecution of employers for failure to meet legally required racial quotas, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All parading in the light of day under the aegis of “affirmative action” and “racial equity;” code phrases for overt, government-sanctioned, racial discrimination.
You once claimed allegiance to the Constitution. Have you read the Fourteenth Amendment lately?
No doubt you have a little red wagon full of rationalizations as to why it is OK for liberals to blatantly disregard organic and statutory law. Hitler had rationalizations too and probably believed them just as firmly as you believe yours. I point this out to highlight the importance of maintaining a stable system of rule of law. It is absurdly easy to rationalize the turn to the dark side.
You have once again dragged up the nonsense argument that “state’s rights” is a code word for segregation. The first time can be excused as ignorance, but I have since explained the issue to you in a letter written expressly for that purpose. You have used the argument again with the full knowledge that it is false. The term “state’s rights” is a code word for “state’s rights.”
Nothing more, nothing less.
Stuart Allen, Gilroy
Submitted Wednesday, Jan. 29 to ed****@****ic.com
