“Conservatives, as much as liberals or even more so in many cases, are attuned to civil rights issues,” Wolf told Hayes. "I think where the disconnect comes in a lot of times is that conservatives are less likely to believe that they occurs or that they’re as widespread as they might be.
He had me until this bit of horseshit. Not only don’t they believe civil rights violations occur, they’re usually the perpetrators. They’re the ones writing and passing laws that make it legal to trample over the civil rights of Americans they dislike. To be oblivious to this fact makes him no more enlightened than the rest of them.
Ummm…they aren’t really conservatives, it’s just the label they feel comfortable with?
It’s simplistic, but consider the word itself…it’s apparently against conservative principles these days to actually want to conserve anything at all. Conservatism has really become nothing more than an ideology of greed and avarice, but it’s hard to make an appealing “ism” out of either of those.
It’s funny about Olson. He has all the proper right-wing bona fides including being on dubya’s team in Florida, but yet he understood the fundamental injustice in Prop 8.
Clearly the conservative disconnect is race, but I think you miss the issue when you say it’s about keeping black folks “in their place”. I don’t think it’s that all all.
The conservative racist bias is the belief that the black people complaining in Furguson and elsewhere are lazy freeloaders who don’t want to work or pay their fair share for fines and demand everything be done for them for free. I hear this all the time. “When I’m wrong I pay my fines” etc.
This bias was articulated by Romney on the infamous tape that got him in so much hot water.
It must be a cold day in hell or something when someone on the right actually sees through the looking glass of cognitive dissonance and offers something resembling self awareness. I had always been baffled about how conservatives (at least the one’s who truly follow their own principles - if many even still exist) couldn’t look at the Ferguson situation and see it as a text book case of government overreach and an abuse of governmental power. I understand that the modern conservative movement doesn’t really give a shit about any of their stated ideals when government is used to control minorities, or those who disagree - but there’s a little glimmer of hope in Wolf’s statements in that at least one person on the right is capable of seeing this. I’m sure they’ll ostracize him for it.
Oh come on. This is like Iraq foreign policy all over again.
Great that the editor admits they were wrong the whole time about Ferguson, but he is going to continue to think the exact same racist way, about all the other American towns doing the exact same thing, showing the exact same warning signs, just because there wasn’t a DOJ report to shove his face into the truth. Hayes let him off easy, this is some MSNBS reporting.
Like I said in another forum, there are three conservatives who actually seem to believe what they claim to believe and the rest expose themselves as people who see Ferguson as a model for the way the whole country should be run.
Little doubt in my mind either.
Started out as a vendetta against a black POTUS-- but it’s just the beginning of the shitstorm upcoming to preserve white privilege.
Things will burn before the RWNJs let loose of the levers of power and social inequality. .
In many ways, Olson always struck me as a Fiscal and Military Conservative, but a Social Liberal. My views on political fields being complex, I always see people as splitting their views into three camps- Fiscal, Social and Imperial. From there into spectra ranging regarding other nuances.
I don’t think he exactly meant it as a jab against the ironies you’re describing here, but I’m always reminded of the Carl Sagan book chapter title, “What are Conservatives Actually Conserving?” When I first saw that line back in college, I thought “Yeah, goddamn it. In what way are these folks actually conserving anything like, say, natural resources, (real) fiscal management, safeguarding our artistic and literary traditions, etc?”
