The Republican Party and the Tea Party will never change, and they are slowly dying an ugly death, forcing the rest of America to watch, suffer, and see our dreams shuttered and shattered by their selfish ignorance. The death of these “conservative” groups (which are anything but true conservatives) is being hastened by their own inability to see that many of the opinions they consistently insist on sharing are vile to people who actually hold “conventional views.”
Take Richard Cohen.
Cohen is the veteran 72-year old Washington Post neo-con opinion writer who reportedly once wrote that it was perfectly acceptable for jewelry stores to refuse to allow Black people entry to shop. That was in 1986.
Cohen, who began working at the Post in 1968, has been plenty busy in the decades since — for example, defending the Iraq War (before conveniently changing his mind) and defending Scooter Libby –Â so let’s just fast-forward to this year, when he berated Miley Cyrus for her twerking at the MTV Video Music Awards, by bringing up the infamous Steubenville Rape case — and concluding it wasn’t that bad because it wasn’t “a rape involving intercourse.”
(We’ll just take a moment to let that sink in. OK.)
Then there was his column this year that supported George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin, in which he wrote he could “understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.”
So fast-forward again to today.
In discussing “Christie’s tea-party problem,” Cohen writes that — actually, you just need to read this entire paragraph, which is entirely offensive. We’ve taken the liberty of bolding the especially offensive section:
Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all.
“People with conventional views” want to vomit when they think about interracial couples with children — which, apparently, only exist in New York City?
The problem is not “people with conventional views.” The problem is that racists and bigots think they are “people with conventional views,” and that the rest of the country agrees with them.
In case you’re wondering, yes, it is 2013. And yes, Richard Cohen needs to be fired. Today.
After which, like Rand Paul, he’ll most likely, quickly, be offered a column at Breitbart. And possibly a position at Fox News.
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