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Friday, August 13, 2010

racist yet?

Can we agree that Harry Reid is a racist yet? See http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-i-dont-know-how-anyone-hispanic-heritage-could-be-republican and http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-08-obamas-race-plus-because-he-doesnt-have-negro-dialect.

The most recent comment seems all the more strange in light of the fact that Reid's son is running for Governor and getting creamed by a Hispanic Republican. See http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/governor/nv/nevada_governor_sandoval_vs_reid-1137.html

What if Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, or Rush Limbaugh had made the same comments?
Posted by Adam Madison at 10:33 PM

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  1. TomAugust 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    I pulled these definitions of “racist” for the Merriam-Webster web site.
    1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
    2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
    Is Reid a Racist? Measured against definition 1 and my limited TV knowledge of Senator Reid, I would say probably not. Measured against definition 2 I would have to say yes.

    p.s. I realize that the definitions are actually of racism instead of racist – take it up with M-W.

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