The Zombie-Eyed INTELLECTUAL Granny-Starver is Irish-American. The dorty suhuggin. Ryans claim to be a serious thinker on matters of public policy is a cheap, and not very convincing, parlor trick. It is also a perfect fit for the post-fact universe and anti-intellectualism of the present day American conservative movement. Paul Ryans recent observation about the laziness of black people is also providing an additional lesson in how the Republican Party has now fully merged conservatism and symbolic racism. Moreover, in a moment when Republicans have suggested that black and brown people’s children should become janitors to learn a “work ethic”, that Obama buys black people’s votes with food stamps, and that “real Americans”, i.e. white people, are losing “their country” to non-whites, Ryan’s argument is a rather flat channeling of the Southern Strategy and Reagan’s opines about “strapping black bucks” and welfare queens living in luxury as they leech off of white people. There is an ugly hypocrisy at the heart of Paul Ryan’s efforts to chastise African-Americans (a group of people who quite literally built the United States and have never received compensation or reparations) for having “bad culture” and perhaps even defective genes. Paul Ryan is an Irish-American. The same arguments that Ryan is making about the “bad culture” of African-Americans, and their supposed “laziness” and “idleness”, were made against his Irish ancestors by eugenicists and race scientists in the United States and Europe.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:28:34 +0000
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