Conservative magazine blames blacks, political correctness for chaos

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Conservative magazine blames blacks, political correctness for disaster

Ron Brynaert | RAW STORY

"New Orleans was ripe for collapse. Its dangerous geography, combined with a dangerous culture, made it susceptible to an unfolding catastrophe. Currents of chaos and lawlessness were running through the city long before this week, and they were bound to come to the surface under the pressure of natural disaster and explode in a scene of looting and mayhem."

So writes George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, in "Masques of Death."

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"Like riotous Los Angeles since the 1960s, New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades -- public schools so obviously decimated vouchers were proposed this year (and torpedoed by the left), barbaric gangster rap culture no one will confront lest they offend liberal pieties, multiculturalist frauds who empower no one but themselves, and cops neutered by the NAACP and ACLU."

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This article in the Specator is outrageous...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. These people are racists, pure and simple.

[Name removed]

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[leftofcool]

3. These people begged to be ignored

[Akoto]

4. Utter bull.

The people of New Orleans are some of the friendliest, most welcoming I have ever encountered. Their city has been a heart of the American spirit for so many years. This anarchy is not due to their "culture", but to the government's COMPLETE lack of planning for this inevitible disaster.

I normally hesitate to say that I hate anything, and neither do I swear a lot, but I can't help it this time. I HATE the fucking conservative wingbags that take any and all opportunities to spew their ignorance at people who are suffering.

[Frederik]

5. Why didn't those people drown instead.

[sallyseven]

7. Speaker of the house Hastert

does not want NO rebuilt. Waste of time and money. Better our rich should have more. I hope they choke.

[onenote]

6. so now we know...rap made the levees burst.

What a scumbucket.

onenote

[silvermachine]

8. Sickening rhetoric...

...But not unexpected. Coming right out of the Robertson/Falwell/Dobson playbook. I'm sure they feel the same way but might have to hold their (forked) tongues a little since Robbo's recent remarks backfired so badly. Of course there are others to take up the slack:

http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/08/christian-dominionists-declare-god.html

[bluestateguy]

9. Stupid ass white male conservatives

I'm coming real close to the position that conservative white men should be stripped of their right to vote, and then forcibly made to sit down and shut up.

[superconnected]

10. What a bunch of Asses.

That's exactly what I espect from our "compassionate conservatives".

Why can't all of America wake up and see the KKK.

[Gregorian]

11. A modicum of economic equality.

Not a bunch of republican males in suits on every rooftop, waiting to be saved.

You pompous idiots. Blame, blame, blame. You are so full of shit. Your pathetic lives stink. You wanted to sanitize America with the first witch trial. When will you learn that you are complete failures. Go take your crap lives back into your basements.

Haha. That'll teach 'em. :)

[subutane]

12. Pentagon can't understand Sympathy for Victims.

CNN's Pentagon correspondent report to Aaron Brown
This is from around 11:30pm 9/1/05:

MCINTYRE: And as to your question about political, I talked to a lot of people at the Pentagon today who were very frustrated about the fact that the perception was being created that the military didn't move fast enough. And they did it somewhat as political. They thought that part of the motivation was the critics of the administration to make the president look bad.

And they seemed to question the motives of some of our reporters who were out there and hearing these stories from the victims about why they had so much sympathy for the victims, and not as much sympathy for the challenges that the government met in meeting this challenge.

And I have to say thinking about that, it doesn't really seem all that unusual that you would tend to understand the plight of the victims a little more than the bureaucrats in Washington.

BROWN: Yes, I mean, I'm glad you told us that. And they have every right to believe they believe and think the way they think. I mean, and I mean that. But you've got people who have been living as refugees. It is not hard to understand why our first heart beat goes in their direction. We'll worry about the bureaucrats later.

transcript source:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/01/asb.02.html

[David__77]

13. "Cops neutered?" This is a call for police brutality.

The right wants stormtroopers not servants of the people. All too many Black and other youth have been harassed and beaten by police; in fact, that is one of the roots of the "gangsta rap" culture.

[Akoto]

14. I got angry enough to send a nonsensical letter.

I would like to express the extreme offense I have taken at a Spectator article entitled "Masques of Death".

The very idea of publishing an article which places blame for the current situation in New Orelans upon its citizens is simply ludicrous. This is nothing but an attempt on Mr. Neumayr's part to spew his hate, and the entire tone of the article smacks of his bigotry. If he were truly concerned for the city's fate, he might instead consider writing an article which provides your readers with information on how to donate funds to those people who are so desperately in need of help. Instead of doing that, though, he behaves like a true opportunist and lashes out.

Is the failure to reinforce the levees the fault of gangsta rap, or poor planning by this administration when it chose to withdraw funds from that very effort to fund the travesty that is the Iraq war? Which sounds more likely?

Is the inability to escape New Orleans the fault of "criminals controlling the city", or could it be that there were no reliable methods of escape, not to mention the lack of National Guard troops because they were (again) devoted to Iraq?

Could the lack of food and water, and the looting that ensued, be blamed upon their "dangerous culture"? Or could it maybe, just maybe, be a desperate attempt at survival made by people who're getting only half-hearted assistance from those who should've planned for this long before the hurricane arrived?

[Gregorian]

15. That's as nonsensical as a dictionary. That's a bullseye hit.

My post above is nonsensical. You nailed it. We need more like you.

[Akoto]

16. I made some careless typos, but ...

Glad you liked it. :D

[LeftyElvis]

17. The Welfare State

is now exposed. It shows the utter lack of compassion for the poor becasue they have only been treated to government welfare programs, welfare checks, SSI, food stamps, school lunch programs etc.. What they deserve is solid education programs, job training, increased affirmative action; real economic help. If all they know is how to where to get subsistence then what would you expect in time of crisis. They don't know anything else. Long term this should be a wake-up call to really fix the poverty caused by no investment in thier future.

[Orion The Hunter]

18. Hey Mehlmann, wanna know why blacks don't vote Republican?

Its because under your "all inclusive tent" you have assholes like the ones who wrote this article.

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. This kind of stuff ought not to even be dignified with comment.

It needs to be rejected on it's face as evil.

[onager]

20. Hey dummy! Ever hear of the American Revolution?

New Orleans was a hellish, multicultural right-wing nightmare even in the Eighteenth Century.

In March 1776, the Spanish Governor of the Louisiana colony wanted to help the infant United States with its Revolution. As most of us know, but apparently not right-wing morons, the "American" Revolution was really a world war, with Spain, France, and the Netherlands all having interests in flummoxing the British Empire.

The governor, who could apparently read a map even though he was a swarthy pre-American furriner, came up with an audacious little plan.

First the Governor imported two detachments of Spanish troops from Mexico City. History does not record whether or not they had Green Cards.

Then he scoured the New Orleans docks and rounded up off-duty pirates, vacationing sailors, cathouse customers and anyone else who was just hanging around.

The United States contributed its brand-new Marine Corps to the operation. The Corps had only come into existence 5 months before in November 1775, enlisting its first recruits at Tun Tavern, Philadelphia.

(Oh, and among those very first U.S Marines to enlist were two men noted on the muster roll as "free Negroes.")

This was the very first time the U.S. Marine Corps tried something for which it would later become somewhat famous--an amphibious assault.

The small force first started an Armed Riot in Florida and drove the British out of their naval base at Pensacola.

Then it moved down to the Bahamas and raided British forts on New Providence, grabbing 600 barrels of badly-needed gunpowder and other useful loot.

(Why would any sane person know this kind of trivia? Many years ago, I was a Marine drill instructor. The New Providence Raid was one of the first lessons the recruits got in Marine Corps history.)

[DBoon]

21. this is as illogical and hateful as the fundies blaming gays

Of course unpopular and disenfranchised groups cause natural disasters.

And attempts to improve the lives of unpopular and disenfranchised groups makes natural disasters worse.

[Mountainman]

22. If there are any problems that need fixing, just poor a little

conservative ideology on them and they will be fixed.

The problem with that thinking is that it will never work. The conservatives are running the country now and it is a mess.

[paineinthearse]

23. Nominated

Forum: how is it that this post has been here for FOUR hours, with no other "greatest" nominations?

[pursuivant]

24. Oh, those excuses . . .

Whenever the Right screws up they blame (choose 1 or more):

1) "The Liberals"/"Communists"/"Leftists"/"Socialists" (aka, progressives, moderates, scientists, anyone who questions conservative dogma, anyone to the left of Heinrich Himmler)

2) "The Liberal Media" (aka The conservative media that isn't toeing the line that day.)

3) "Political Correctness" (aka, courtesy, politeness, civility)

4) "The Underclass"/"Welfare Queens"/"The Culture of Poverty"/"Urban Culture" (aka, those grubby, uppity negroes)

5) "The Homosexual Agenda"/"Feminazis" (aka women not wearing burquas, men who treat women as equals)

6) "Decline of Family Values" (aka, the fact that the US isn't a fascist theocracy yet).

[struggle4progress]

25. Conservatives began to adopt the KKK troglodytes beginning ..

with Nixon's "Southern strategy" in 1968. So its no surprise that the White Supremicists and related wacko extremists are central to the current Bushista/neocon coalition or that these vicious hate-group ideals are increasingly reflected by standard conservative sources.

[agincourt]

26. I don't think words can express how much I've had enough,

of these "people". There is no level to low for them to bray about. Pissing on the watery graves of thousands, it almost makes me believe in an eternal hell, for the likes of the human shit down at the American Spectator.

[johnfunk]

27. American Spectator is a longtime stalkinghorse for "respectable" racism

They've been apologists for Charles Murray's "The Bell Curve," Confederacy-lovers, and reverse affirmative action for well over three decades. A friend of mine once heard their former publisher, foppish Virginia elitist snob Emmett Tyrrell, weilding the "N" word with evident relish. One can only wonder where he's hiding that lawn jockey dad handed down to him...