More Racist Ugliness From the Lunatic Fringe

Posted by Digby, Hullabaloo at 6:00 AM on July 22, 2009.

The news sites always have crazy commenters, but with this health care debate some real ugliness is coming out. Check this out from an ABC article about Dr Regina Benjamin's alleged disqualification for Surgeon General because she looks overwieght:

This is just the beginning of this double standard. If Obama's health care "reform" is signed into law, government health care rationing will PRIORITIZIE care to black and Hispanic patients and DENY care to Caucasian patients or make them go through LONG waiting periods.

This will happen even if those black and Hispanic patients are overweight and don't practice preventive health (as Caucasian patients are more likely to do).The rationale for this governmental practice? REPARATIONS for the alleged racism of U.S. society. The rationale will be that black and Hispanic citizens deserve preferred medical treatment now and in the future to make up for past incidents of racism in the U.S., and that Caucasian citizens deserve lower-class medical treatment for the same reason.

Who is the perfect person to validate this public policy in a couple of years? Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who believes that any Hispanic woman's judgment is ALWAYS better and more correct than any Caucasian man's judgment. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATORS. Let them know that Chairman Obama's latest bid for absolute power should be denied, and that they need to vote against government-run health care.

As I wrote in many posts over the years, this is not your grandfather's bigotry:

1955 - They are an inferior race
1965 - They are lazy workers
1975 - They make old white customers uncomfortable
1985 - Affirmative action means their diplomas are bogus
1995 - They are a litigation risk for discrimination
2009 - They are racists who discriminate against white people

I guess that's an improvement of sorts. They are reduced to whining that they are losers because the African Americans and Hispanics get all the breaks.

But one way or another, no matter what happens, there is a significant chunk of Idiot America that continues to believe that the country is going to hell in a handbasket because of the blacks and the browns. It's baked in.

Tagged as: race, racism

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