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crooksandliars.com - 11/2/2009

The mainstreaming of the radical right: Conservatives run and hide from their culpability in spreading hate

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DOWNLOADS: (17) PLAYS: (101) Recently, Kevin Ecker of the right-wing Minnesota superblog True North posted the following item: Political activism at it's best is honest grassroots efforts by people finally fed up with lying politicians who decide to do something about an issue rather than just ...

looktruenorth.com - 10/28/2009

Rally Against Illegal Immigration Coming Up

— looktruenorth.com — NOTE (10/27/09) : It has since been pointed out to me that Sam Johnson is, to put... it lightly, a Neo-Nazi. Let me make it clear I do not endorse such a hate filled ideology and wish to express no endorsement of any such views. At the time I ... (more) Rally Against Illegal Immigration Coming Up

Via @Cody_K: "we just want 2 discuss immigration, and u call us racist 4 just doing that" http://is.gd/4JXQY #p2//but y'are, Blanche, y'are! 11/1/2009

RT @EileenLeft: Conservatives run and hide from their culpability in spreading hatehttp://bit.ly/3SE6u8 11/1/2009

The Austin neo-Nazi story getting some national attention http://bit.ly/4X7s4 11/1/2009

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The mainstreaming of the radical right: Conservatives run and hide from their culpability in spreading hate
Orcinus — ... we get in reply, consistently, is the high-pitched whine that "we just want to discuss immigration, and you call us racist for just doing that." (See esp. Lou Dobbs in this regard.) The answer, as we can see from this case, is simple: "No, we want to debate immigration without the racism too. But when you use racist arguments and empower radical racists in making them and promoting them, well, we're not the folks bringing racism to the table." Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars. ...