On Racism

I was once friend on-line with a very interesting woman who shared my passion of roses. As our friendship developed and we became close, she came to know that I was a Christian from Kansas. She was a Jewish woman from California. I found this interesting, as I live in a rural community and haven't personally known any Jewish people. I was interested in her holidays and we shared in each other's cultures. We had so much in common as mothers, gardeners, and lovers of creation. However, our discussions began to become "teaching moments" where she tried to reason with me why my conservative views were misinformed. I remained cordial but unmoved. Finally, she sadly wrote me that my friendship was too painful for her, as she had nightmares of conservative Christians hunting her down. What??? Logically, she should have known that a meek Midwestern housewife was extremely low on the meter of what can be termed dangerous, but she had bought into the radical Leftist rhetoric that Christian Republicans are maniacal creatures planning on world domination who won't rest until our fangs are dripping with the blood of our enemies.

This is interesting, since as far as I know, at no point in American history have "conservative Christians" gone around hunting Jews down, for any reason connected to their faith.

She considered me to be a "conservative Christian." I can't fully embrace that designation, as many of my viewpoints would likely be labeled as libertarian. Also, as a supporter of the arts and passionate against censorship, I suppose I could be classified as liberal in some respects. It is true that I am Republican, but that is because our state insists on a party affiliation in order to vote in the primaries; otherwise, I'd be undeclared. Knowing that I was Christian and registered as a Republican, my friend intuitively "knew" that I was a conservative. And there is nothing more frightening than a conservative Christian Republican to those people who don't know any.

My friend seemed to equate the Holocaust with Christians. This makes no sense at all as many Christians and other people of faith risked their lives to help the Jews and many of them died in the prison camps, too. It's thought nearly 3 million Polish Catholics were eradicated in the Holocaust. And yet, my liberal friend somehow equates conservative Christians as this vast army of radicals filled with hate who are biding their time until they can release a reign of terror.

Some people of the Left lead such insular lives. As do some people of the Right.

I suppose she's never heard of Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place.

I'm certain not, and she would likely dismiss it as propaganda or an aberration.

My interaction with this friend was the first time I realized that some people of the Left would rather believe suppositions and fears than what they heard, saw, and experienced with another human being. It was very frustrating and bewildering to me.

Way to state the obvious, NAACP.

Missing information

I always dig around the web to find corroborating information to stories I read secondhand. Here is the text of the condemnation from the NAACP website:

Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.

The assertion that the NAACP officially denounced the entire Tea Party Movement as racist is simply not true. I don't know how many of the TP members are racist, or just use racism-tinged language on their signs . But they do exist - there is plenty of pictorial evidence. And it's not just white/black racism: on the NAACP website there are Nazi/ holocaust themed signs, equating Obama with Hitler and the taxpayers with the jews thrown into the ovens. Is that racist? perhaps only Godwinist. Bad enough, anyway.

Liar

You have got to be kidding. I am not sure how you can type the words you typed in a row without breaking out in vast, jovial laughter at yourself: you just equated a political sign or slogan calling a president or his policies Hitlerian with racism. In such a case, the sign maker is criticizing and not complimenting the president. This indicates a disapproval rather than an approval.

The difference between calling the Tea Parties racist and calling 'some elements' within the Tea Parties racist is meaningless. Or, in other words, what you are saying is simply not true.

The propaganda result of the NAACP's lie was a rousing success: now, instead of talking about unemployment, crippling taxes, nation-destroying levels of debt, or other examples of mad government folly, the Tea Partiers are now going around having to tell people they are not racist -- an explanation no True Believer of the Left is going to believe anyway.

Look at the sex-word eructation by know-nothing 'yamamanama' -- to him it is beyond debate, it is obvious, that civic responsibility by blacks and whites joining together to protest high taxes, out-of-control spending, and nation-destroying levels of debt must be motivated by race-hatred and noting but. It is, in his half-dead mind, simply obvious. Racists among the Democrat Party, including ex-KKK members, are not racists; and non-racists among the Republicans are racists. In his smug little universe, A is non-A and non-A is A.

Unfortunately, as I said in the underlying post, my compassion and my courtesy are exhausted. You and yours have called too many people racists, including myself and my wife, who are not; you and yours have accused the innocent with the recklessness of witchhunters; you have thereby encouraged real racism and discouraged people like me, who would prefer a just and color-blind society.

I am no longer willing to extend to you the privilege of treating your lies as if you are serious. You are a damned liar; you and yours have lied to me once too often, you are yours have lied about me once too often -- no honest man should ever listen to you again. Certainly I will not.

Re: Liar

You might want to look up the Random Jotting blog. He has a wonderful series of posts on how Leftism requires turning off parts of your mind. A nice explanation of why Leftists cannot "See with eyes unclouded by hate".

Re: Liar

I don't know where the Random Jotting blog is. Do you have a link?

Re: Liar

http://www.randomjottings.net

And when are you going to get a paypal button? Maybe some of us lifelong bachelors would like to spoil someone's children.....

Sigh

*six-word eructation*

type in haste, repent at leisure.