{"id":883,"date":"2010-11-10T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:12:00","slug":"racism-sexism-homophobia-and-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/myths-exposed\/racism-sexism-homophobia-and-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism, Sexism, Homophobia and Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

In G.W. Bush\u2019s recent interviews for his book \u201cDecision Points\u201d he discusses how he was enraged at Kanye West\u2019s comments that imply he was a racist due to the Katrina disaster and the apparent lack of concern for black, impoverished folks.\u00a0 The new right has been accused of being racist and sexist but the cutting edge of that movement denies the charge.\u00a0 The first point I would like to make is that racists and sexists most commonly find their ideological home in the Republican Party.\u00a0 Recently, the tea party has skirted these accusations.\u00a0 Ken Buck the tea party candidate for U.S. Senator was caught making a sexist comment about \u201cnot wearing high heels\u201d on video.\u00a0 Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, was accused of voter intimidation of blacks in Chicago, http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/republicans-intimidate-minorities\/<\/a>.\u00a0 Tea party signs have made derogatory comments about blacks and gays.\u00a0 The highly charged venom towards Nancy Pelosi goes way beyond the traditional forms of disagreements in politics and appears highly vindictive towards the most effective women Speaker of the House in U.S. history.\u00a0 It seems to me to cross the line into sexism and rage fueled by a woman beating white men handily at their own game.\u00a0 In spite of these suspicions, this kind of overt racism, sexism and gay homophobia seems to be relegated the periphery of the Republican Party and can easily be dismissed as extremist party faithfuls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most potent form of racism, sexism and homophobia is what has now become institutional.\u00a0 Republicans did not have anything against blacks but the Republican faithful in Louisiana, possibly the most Republican state in the United States, was all too happy to let the failing and ancient levees in New Orleans come to their inevitable demise. \u00a0Did it matter that those behind the levees were poor and black?\u00a0 If they were rich and white would that have mattered?\u00a0 If young, single women were rich, voted and were padding the pockets of Republicans would the Republicans allow the anti-abortion movement to dominate their ideology?\u00a0 If gays were an important component in Republican successes would they oppose equality as vehemently?\u00a0 When the institution permits these kinds of injustices the individual is no longer on the hook.\u00a0 It is the system’s fault, no one is personally responsible.\u00a0 Some even go so far as to blame it on the Democrats.\u00a0 Folks do not need to be racist or sexist anymore they can just go along with the status quo to achieve the same social results.\u00a0 They can even personally state they are abhorred by racism and sexism and still let their conservatism conserve the inequities.\u00a0 This is a concrete example of how the \u2018it\u2019 of truth and the absolution of responsibility in the neutrality of the institution have preserved inequity while absolving the individual (See http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/responsibility-and-the-goods\/<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

While President Bush had his feelings hurt by Kanye West men, women and children were hurt in much more substantial ways that makes the feelings of Bush quite insignificant\u2026and yet, Bush had his hurt feelings blasted all over the media while selling his memoir.\u00a0 Here is a thought, why not donate the proceeds of the book to the survivors of Katrina?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In G.W. Bush\u2019s recent interviews for his book \u201cDecision Points\u201d he discusses how he was enraged at Kanye West\u2019s comments that imply he was a racist due to the Katrina disaster and the apparent lack of concern for black, impoverished folks.\u00a0 The new right has been accused of being racist and sexist but the cutting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,18],"tags":[180,240,201],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myths-exposed","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-racism","tag-republicans","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}