It’s official: Sarah Palin is a racist.

[NinjaCow64]

Read this:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/a...arahs-one-nation-bus-tour-20110603-1fk9w.html

Just for context, One Nation was a political party that was notorious for being racist. Pauline Hansen was an ex-Liberal party member (in Australia, we call our Republicans Liberals) who left to form the racist party, i.e One Nation. Eventually the party got closed because it was proved to be corrupt.

If you want more information, here is the Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Na...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Nation_(Australia)

EDIT: Sorry, the post glitched up. It should be fixed now. Also, the hyperlinks don’t work. You’ll have to copy/paste into your browser. Sorry about that.

 

[Arwon]

Hanson.

One Nation was just the most visible and successful manifestation of the shifting miasma of far right politics in Australia. Racism is but one aspect of this.

Actually, our conservatives are the Liberals, republicans are lower case, people who support a republic.

The party died for a number of reasons. "Being corrupt" wasn't one of them.

The name is just random and generic, unfortunate but in no way implying a link between Palin and Hanson. It's quoting that silly pledge of theirs.

 

[Tee Kay]

We are being swamped by Asians. It's not racist if it's true.

 

[Arwon]

No see Asians are the good guys now. Honorary white people even if they take all our selective school places. It's those muzzies wot's the problem.

 

[bombshoo]

What the heck is the OP talking about? What does this have to do with Sarah Palin?

 

[NinjaCow64]

What the heck are you talking about? What does this have to do with Sarah Palin?

Read the two links on the OP. They should be up now.

 

[Tee Kay]

No see Asians are the good guys now. Honorary white people even if they take all our selective school places. It's those muzzies wot's the problem.

It's kinda amusing (and a bit said) to hear my immigrant relatives complaining about how Indians are running about everywhere these days.

 

[classical_hero]

So using the slogan from the constitution is rasist?

 

[Baleog]

This racism proof is quite tenuous. I'd be surprised if SP knew any the policies of any of the major political parties (let alone the lunatic fringe) from countries outside the US, including her close neighbour Russia

 

[Camikaze]

The worrying part of the article is:

Mr Kearney said he spoke with Ms Palin for about 30 minutes at The Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.
‘‘Her attitude was very welcoming towards me and One Nation,’’ he said.
‘‘She was very interested in the party itself and what the party does here in Australia.’’

If true, it's quite worrying. The claim that the slogan came from the Australian party name is just an attempt by those left in One Nation to get a little bit of publicity, and in that regard it is hard to take their claim of contact with Palin as credible. But, if it's true, then it certainly isn't a good thing.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I don't like Palin much (I'm more from the Libertarian-Right) but this is simply ridiculous. So she simply talked to some racists, so she's a racist? That is simply silly.

 

[emzie]

So using the slogan from the constitution is rasist?

From the pledge.

@op

The phrase "One nation, under God" is a rather famous one in the US. The bus tour has nothing to do with Aussie politics or far-right politics. Talking to an official from a racist party in Ausland sounds like she's horribly coached, and not competent enough to even wiki people. Not that she actually endorses the party.

 

[Camikaze]

I don't like Palin much (I'm more from the Libertarian-Right) but this is simply ridiculous. So she simply talked to some racists, so she's a racist? That is simply silly.

No, it's more to do with:

"Her attitude was very welcoming towards me and One Nation," he said.

If that were true, it would be quite damning. However, the veracity of the claim is highly dubious.

 

[emzie]

No, it's more to do with: If that were true, it would be quite damning. However, the veracity of the claim is highly dubious.

It's damning in the sense that she's too ignorant to have staff use google. I doubt their conversation, if it took place, was about specific policy like keeping Australia white.

 

[GhostWriter16]

No, it's more to do with: If that were true, it would be quite damning. However, the veracity of the claim is highly dubious.

Fair enough. I'm just getting sick of some people feeling the need to say "Oh, and Conservatives/Republicans are racist!"

Cases like this are just excuses to try to portray large segments of conservatives as racists. But remember, Hitler was a National Socialist. The right is no more racist than the left.

It just aggravtes me. Want to be liberal? Fine, I don't care. But don't call conservatives racist to back it up, that's just nonsense...

 

[emzie]

Cases like this are just excuses to try to portray large segments of conservatives as racists. But remember, Hitler was a National Socialist.

And the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a flourishing democracy.

 

[GhostWriter16]

And the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a flourishing democracy.

This doesn't relate.

We could argue the technical definition of "Socialist" or whatever, but that wasn't my point. My point was the Nazis were economically left-wing, yet they were racist...

 

[Cutlass]

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who understand Palin and those who pretend they don't."
— Rush Limbaugh

 

[GhostWriter16]

Context please?

 

[SG-17]

She is a member of the GOP, of course she is a bit racist.

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