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Gallagher is crazy, hateful, racist

June 30th, 2010
The Stranger recaps a recent show by Gallagher, who spends his time trashing liberals, people of other nationalities and ethnicities, and most of all, gay people. “Hey, President Obama,” he spits out the name like a mouthful of burning hair. “You ain’t black. I don’t care what you say—you’re a latte. You’re half whole-milk. It [...]
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More Arizona hijinks

June 5th, 2010
I have to say that this story about an Arizona school asking artists to lighten the skin color on the face of a student on a mural sounds fishy to me. They claim that all kinds of people were driving by yelling “nigger” and “spic” at them, which I find hard to believe. I’m assuming [...]
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Why religion can lead to racism

April 20th, 2010
In the US, religious people are more racist than average. Tom Rees at Epiphenom explores possible explanations for this, drawing from a few studies. Most crucial, it seems to me, is that it doesn’t seem to be the faith aspect of religion that creates the tendency. It’s the social conformity. Furthermore, this correlation seems to [...]
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“Tea-Bagger” as bad as the n-word. I guess.

March 22nd, 2010
Debbie Gunnoe, a tea party organizer from Navarre, Fla., who was in the House gallery for Ryan’s comments called on him to apologize for “making the generalization that a few rogue people are an example of the rest of the” tea party movement and “for calling all tea party people across the United States ‘tea [...]
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Betty Brown Thinks Your Names Are Too Difficult

April 11th, 2009
The Texas Democratic Party demanded an apology Wednesday from state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell for suggesting Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.” via Wonkette
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Actual Republican Nominee for Congress Is Actual Racist

April 5th, 2009
Rosanna Pulido has spent a lot of time commenting on Free Republic, saying that Mexican immigrants are the “new Ku Klux Klan with a tan” and that Muslims praying to Mecca look like “my dog, smelling buts”. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. via Wonkette
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