Moonhead -> RE: Tea Party Bill Board (7/16/2010 8:12:36 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhea If he's a racist, he can't be very far left, can he? I'm aware that you know absolutely fuck all about left wing philosophy (which becomes more and more obvious with every post you make), but racism hasn't ever been one of the left's core values. They'll make excuses for it if it's muslims or blacks coming out with hateful drivel, but they're not mad keen as a rule. Sorry. Meh, that's not really true. We can't avoid the fact that there has been a fair bit of racism coming from the far left as well as the far right, particuarly historically. Marx made racist comments and was undoubtably incredibly homophobic. Bakunin's virulent antisemitism is well documented. Much as I'd like to claim it isn't the case, I don't think we can validly claim the far left has clean hands on this one. What precludes Obama from being far left is the fact he's not anti capitalist economically. This is true, but it's a bit like pointing out to a new agers that most of the theosophists were a bit (or in the case of Helena Blavatatsky, a lot) dodgy. They like to make a big thing of how far they've moved beyond that sort of thing now, and so does the left.
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