shitbirds of a feather
I’m getting Lahey vibes
“Classist racists travel across the ocean, birth classist racist to spread classism and racism. Are shocked to find classism and racism.”
To be fair, it’s an unsourced quote from The Daily Hatemail, so odds are that she never said it.
To be even more fair, though, it’s probably accurate whether or not that bigot ever said it out loud.
She did say it and its on video. Vivek himself posted the clip on his twitter saying “I disagree with her but respect that she had the guts to speak her mind” How embarassing.
If he had self-respect he would lose the little ® next to his name, and we can’t have that now can we?
I’m slightly ashamed to admit it but I actually went fishing for the most clickbaity headline on this story to post to this community. It’s not just a right wing rag talking about it, they just had the most oniony headline
My profile says I’ve made 2.2k posts and I’m pretty sure this is the first Daily Mail link lol. Why can’t normal people write terrible headlines??
People still care what Ann Coulter thinks about anything?
Not only that. People think her racist hate speech should be protected under the First Amendment.
The First Amendment means the government can’t punish you for speech. That’s a good rule, and yes it means that even deplorable speech shouldn’t be punished by the government. Because “deplorable” speech at various times in American history could have meant anti-slavery speech, pro-lgbt speech, anti-war speech, etc.
I’m as far left as left goes, but yes even her vile drivel is protected by the first amendment. That’s the whole point.
Oh yes.
I’m guessing you also think that, in order for free enterprise to exist, we have to allow American companies to pollute rivers at will too.
Makes total sense.
Free speech is not an absolute right under the law and absolutely should not be. There are innumerable examples why. Try threatening a judge if you think otherwise.
The US Republican Party went so far to the political right, they’re in all seriousness neo-nazis now, not conservatives.
You say that as if this sort of shit hasn’t been what conservatism was always really about.
Conservatives were the people who defended King George. They have no business waving an American flag. Benedict Arnold was a conservative.
“Conservatives” is a misnomer here. “Conservative” isn’t right and “Progressive” isn’t left.
Conservatives are those who want as little change as possible so as to “not rock the boat” and “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Progressives are those who want to try out new policies.
From what I gather, a large portion of today’s Republicans aren’t actually conservatives rather regressive. That’s almost literally what “make America great again” means. That’s also the meaning of, for example, the Roe v. Wade overruling - going back to an earlier state.
Also, in the long run the human condition generally changes for the better (Or at least that’s what we perceive as our values and habits are usually aligned with what we have now and not what we had before). As the status quo changes, the things conservatives (and progressives) value change accordingly.
Saying “Conservatives were the people who defended King George.” as if that has anything to do with conservative today is like someone saying “Progressives on the 18th century were for women’s suffrage, they have no business talking about equality”.
