I haven’t really covered the racist rants of Dr. Laura, but after reading this post I have to jump in.
Sarah Palin continues to defend Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s use of the word “n****r” and blame liberals for forcing the controversial conservative radio show off the air. But just a few months ago Palin was adamant that using the “N-word,” and other offensive terms, should be a firing offense…if you’re a Democrat.
“I would ask the president to show decency in this process by eliminating one member of [his] inner circle, Mr. Rahm Emanuel,” Palin wrote in February. “The Obama Administration’s Chief of Staff scolded [liberal critics] calling them, ‘F—ing retarded,’ according to several participants, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.”
What we need is a Sarah Palin on the left. She could call out the right’s Sarah Palin for being sexist, or maybe even being an anti-Semitic. I just wonder if our version of Sarah Palin would get the media attention the real Sarah Palin gets?
But back here in the real world, a place that Sarah Palin apparently doesn’t even know exists, we see another example of the racial-insensitives the right has practiced for decades. They want to be the ones who deem what words offend and what words don’t, despite the fact that they are not in the group the words are targeted after. To me that is the biggest racial insult of them all. It’s right up there with the people who claim to not be a racist because they know a black person. They are small-minded imbeciles living in a time this country has been trying to move past for the last 1/2 century.
Thanks Sarah for showing the GOP is still a party stuck in the era of poodle skirts and whites only water fountains. Let’s see how that works out in the coming decades when white people become the minority in this country.