Originally posted by: Charles Higgins
Nope..not in today's environment ( pertaining to slavery and women's voting rights). Are you kidding? What % of the population endorses those things?
The Civil Rights Act was simply a huge step forward for this country...albeit just a starting point.
I don't know what proportion of currently elected R's truly believe in civil rights ( or what % espouse it publicly until they get to the bar with their buddies). I don't know what proportion of R's among the citizenry support them, either. All I know is those that continue to oppress people/ethnicities by their actions ( and/or words, etc) are just wrong.
You've relied on that " conservatives are hindered by fear of change" for too long. In actuality, that argument reverts to the real issue that involves the pluses and minuses of change..the consequences of some changes outweigh the costs and real captured benefits for the general public. It's true..I'm not a proponent of willy - nilly change; I don't always get my way, though...no matter whom I vote for. Your physiological brain chemistry comment is weird and unsubstantiated. Where are the peer-reviewed medical journal articles that support your claim? I mean..who collected the blood samples, did the assays, and reported the results?
And please..what the hell is white supremacy? That buzz word / phrase is tossed around by the media and many leftists as if it represents an etiology for a forthcoming monstrous and widespread plague of some kind. How widespread are its members and their influences? Is it all founded on the ideology that whites are a superior race and should dominate society? Hitler in action, so to speak? What proportion of this country's population falls into this category ( and the thirty or so subsets of it?). I can't find an answer to that question..how many are there? Biden called it " the greatest terrorist threat in our homeland"; show me the numbers, then. I'll just say that any hate faction that commits crimes or spreads propaganda against alternate ethnicities should pay the consequences via the law. I don't believe the incidence of these supremacists and their actions are anywhere near what they're purported to be..I'd like to see the true numbers, though ; I don't know what those numbers are. I'd wager that the number of Black Americans killed in Chicago by other Black Americans last year far outnumbered those that were killed by white supremacists and their assorted subsets in the same community. Next, we can argue about the influences of poverty on assorted hate crimes and crime in general..whom is doing what to whom?
Anyone who votes in favor of legislation that restricts civil rights doesn't believe in civil rights. Easy peasy. Unfortunately, that includes virtually the entire elected RepubliQ, at every level. I admire those few Republican rebels who vote with their conscience and against the red-meat chorus--and boy, look what happens to them when they do! They're treated as apostates.
My "unsubstantiated" comment re brain chemistry is based on several peer-reviewed studies I've read. Here you go:
Kanai, Fieldeh, Firth, and Rees (Apr 2011) "Political Orientations are Correlated With Brain Structure in Young Adults" Current Biology
also Scientific American "Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences" 10/26/20, L. Denworth
Salon 6/6/16: "Study: Liberals and Conservatives Have Different Brain Structures" A. Rosenmann
That's just to get you started. I have a list of 14 studies on the topic, all of which reached similar conclusions, if you're truly interested.
You appear to know exactly what white supremacy is, so to answer your question, we only know about those individuals who unabashedly join the various organizations and/or publicly express their views. And for every one such person, I'll wager there are twenty who don't spew or hold forth unless and until they have a few beers in them, like Uncle Ferd every Thanksgiving--but their anti-black/brown views are as ardently held as those of the Grand Kleagle (or whatever he's called).
I would also argue that those who aren't outraged at the RepubliQ antidemocracy efforts are closet white supremacists. Deep down, they approve of the fact that it's harder for black people to vote and for their votes to count, and they'll happily vote again for the people who brought that about. Will they admit that to friends and relatives? Not in the absence of beer.
