Maher to Neil deGrasse Tyson: Republicans hate you for being black and smarter than them

[ErikJ]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/25/maher-to-neil-degrasse-tyson-republicans-hate-you-for-being-black-and-smarter-than-them/

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Dr Tyson is JUST such an amazing person!!!

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Regardless of race (it saddens the fuck out of me to have to post that preamble), he is such a clear and clever human being. We need MORE Dr Tysons and FEWER science deniers (BTW, "science deniers" are, by definition, anti-science).

[valerief]

22. Fewer, not less. (Sorry, it's my newest pet peeve.)

[Cooley Hurd]

25. Corrected.

[valerief]

26. Wow, you're fast! nt

[Cooley Hurd]

27. I like being corrected!

...makes me a better person.

[valerief]

28. Me, too!!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Yup. It was the smart blacks that were the ones they considered a threat and were lynched.

[ErikJ]

3. If slaves were caught reading they would get 50 lashes.

After slavery they would burn their books. Its like Pol Pot who specifically targeted those who could read or anybody who wore glasses.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. They also would identify the popular ones and make an example of them.

[bbernardini]

5. But say this to most Republicans, and you'll get "but...but...Hermain Cain! Condoleeza Rice!"

They refuse to admit there's racism in their party.

[olegramps]

8. It has always amazed me that some todays African-Americans support the Republican Party.

I have to wonder if they are just opportunists that are willing to sacrifice their convictions to make a buck. It just floors me to hear a Black politician supporting the very policies that continue to harm their fellow African-Americans. It is amusing in a cynical way when they put the handful of African-Americans that attend their National Convention in the first row. How could these people not comprehend that they are being used?

[rickyhall]

13. To borrow your wording:

How could poor and middle class white people not comprehend that they are being used?

[olegramps]

31. Yes, Yes !!!!

This was a major point made by Edwards before he crashed and burned. I don't believe that Democrats stress this point strongly enough. They should list the programs that the Republicans are determined to destroy and will leave them in abject poverty. This is a major issue in regard the ACA which if repealed would subject millions to the possibility of bankruptcy. They also fail to stress the fact that in those states that have refused to expand Medicare millions of people are paying taxes for care that they have been refused, etc. etc. etc.

[ErikJ]

10. They LOVE their token blacks who condone that their racism is OK.

I suppose they are compensated very well for it too.

[valerief]

23. Justice Thomas doesn't have to open his mouth on the job and he's rewarded

thanks to the GOP establishment who owns SCOTUS.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. They believe the only racism that's REAL is reverse racism.

[silverweb]

6. Love him!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]There couldn't be a worthier heir to Carl Sagan.

[JDPriestly]

7. Wow! I think that Tyson belongs to my personal religion.

That is exactly what I believe. That the whole world is energy and that everything is a part of a great energy field and that, therefore we are all one, all in this together from a piece of earth to a blade of grass to humans to elephants to suns and stars, all one, all in it together. That's my belief. And that's what I call God. That oneness. So there you go. I'm not alone in that crazy belief. Very nice.

[Enthusiast]

9. The oneness expresses itself in a beautiful way.

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[JDPriestly]

15. Wonderful!

[LittleGirl]

12. Yes! ^^^^ eom

[Hoyt]

14. Dr. T was really good last night. Even the two RW nuts kept their mouths shut.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. The two RW nuts looked really bothered when Amy Goodman talked about waging peace.

[Uncle Joe]

17. I like Tyson's ending statement just as it was cutoff, all life is connected and

that's kind of spiritual.


Thanks for the thread, ErikJ.

[longship]

18. We are all connected...

And here it is put to music by John Boswell, with NdGT, Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Bill Nye. Drumming supplied by Feynman. Incredible.

As Feynman says, "The inconceivable nature of Nature."
And, "I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's. She's never going to let us relax."

Tyson: "I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street, and say, 'Have you heard this!?'"

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. The National Review was founded by William F. Buckley

Whatever one might say about him, he would not support anti-intellectualism for an instant. Now we have the National Review attacking Tyson for being smart. And publishes the likes of Sarah Palin.

William F. Buckley! thou shouldst be alive in this hour; conservatism hath need of thee: she is a fen of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen

[saidsimplesimon]

21. 1800's London, Wordsworth

"fen of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen"

Buckley and his son craft their words in a style long forgotten by the majority with an R in their voter registration.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

30. I'm pleased you recognized the literary allusion

I will say that I used to know Buckley slightly. His political views were execrable -- he wrote a book defending Joe McCarthy -- but his charm was undeniable.

[ecstatic]

20. Amy Goodman made a joke after Tyson mistakenly said 50 years

but then corrected himself. "Who's smarter than who?" She asked. Really? So he's not smart anymore because he accidentally got a date wrong (but quickly corrected himself)? I'm sure she does a great job on her show, but this was my first time seeing her and her "joke" left a bad taste. I think Bill's response to her ill timed, tone deaf comment was perfect.

[valerief]

24. I loved the new Cosmos series. Miss it. Now, I'm getting my weekly TV learning fix from

Drunk History. Love that, too.

[Enrique]

29. this takes away from Tyson, imo

getting hated by the RW is a badge of honor. Tyson earned it by getting people interested in science. Maher's joke takes that away from him a little by attributing it to his race.