It Runs In The Family ----Unfortunately

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Apparently One Racist Buchanan Isn't Quite Enough for MSNBC
By Heather Sunday Jul 19, 2009 6:30am

Ugghh..I thought the only place I was going to see this woman's face was on CNN. MSNBC's Carlos Watson brings in Pat's sister Bay Buchanan to regurgitate his talking points on Sonia Sotomayor. Apparently one racist Buchanan on the air just isn't enough for MSNBC.

[Mira]

1. Bay Buchanan used to walk ugly, talk ugly, be ugly.

No amount of plastic surgery has changed any of that.

[EmilyAnne]

2. Was she wearing a coat made of Dalmation puppy skins? And way to go, Carlos! Good job! nt

[vixengrl]

3. She's as staggeringly bad as her brother.

I'm not exactly sure how looking for equal treatment is a special privilege. A number of people of minority groups, and women, have spoken out on a culture at Princeton U. that needed to be changed; I'm not sure where the assumption that they were looking for anything more than equal consideration came from (except, um, bias? and the worse assumption they should be thankful and quiet just for the opportunity). When confronted with the actual fact-based info that Sotomayor isn't a specifically racial-preference based activist judge, she continues to gasp on, unfazed, because she just knows that the woman has to be.

It's as if, having done a gut-check on herself, Buchanan has determined that the default-setting of any person is probably racialist--after all, it's true for herself and Pat!

But the "bad for white people" notion is what gets to me. It's a bone-deep assumption of white entitlement that denies that valid competition can take place between people of different backgrounds, and that the promotion of any person of color (even if based on merit) is somehow taking something away from some qualified white person. If two white people contended for a position, and only one could get it--would she feel then that the other person had something "taken away?"

I would imagine in such a situation, it would never even occur to her.

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