Well, this is a shame
I have seen the blog wars ongoing between Charles Johnson over at LGF and too many top conservative blogs who seem to be backing one Robert Stacy McCain. I am a centrist conservative who tries to be tolerant of differing views. But I have to say I must make a stand here between two camps. One camp promises hope for the conservative movement, the other is a cancer leading to its inevitable death.
After saying he disagrees with Excitable Chucky on many issues (hey, AJ, try disagreeing with him in his comments, or down dinging one of his comments, let’s see how quickly you find out just how intolerant and nuts CJ actually is. Or, heck, try disagreeing with him on your own blog, or in comments at another site. Yes, he does search, follow, and destroy)
But when I look at what The Other McCain has written over time, I find myself repulsed well beyond my moral limits of tolerance. Anyone who thinks “race†verses “human beings†is off track. Way off track. And anyone who defends slavery is plain insane. LGF noted a detailed analysis of McCain blathering which has pushed me to the point I must make a public stand. Some disturbing excerpts of the thinking of a sick mind:
Except, there are a few major issues with this whole line of reasoning, namely, that talking and writing honestly about the history of racism doesn’t make one racist, and the rest of the stuff is taken completely out of context, is “someone’s mothers great aunts nephews cousin heard,” and fabricated. Documented time and time again. Are we no longer allowed to even discuss it? Does discussing racism and slavery make us racists?
I’m sorry to see you go down this road, AJ. I’ve read your stuff for a long time, had you on my feedreader, linked a few times in my Sunday Patriotic Pinup posts, as well as other posts. But, you’ve made your choice to align yourself with a far left progressive who is still somewhat involved with nice anti-Jihadism, but, is intollerant of anything and everything that doesn’t fit his narrow world view. Religious folks, Republicans, Conservatives, people who are tough on Jihadis, people who do not drink the AGW kool aid, you name it. There might me a reason why so many Conservatives have either moved him to their left side blog links, or dumped him altogether, and are constantly treating him the way we treat Kos, The DU, the Huff Post, etc.
Say, AJ, what do you think of Kilgore Trout, a moderator at Little Green Footballs, dropping tons of racist and disgusting comments at Hot Air, then cackling about it?
but what about the birth certificate ?
That has what to do with what, John?
I never really perused AJ’s site, but I swung by there, just to see his take on the whole shebang. On bit that caught my eye was his statement that “Slavery is not an “economic system’ it oppression.” and implying that McCain took the opposite stance. Nowhere did I read that McCain agrees with the idea of slavery as anything other than a disgusting practice. This smacks of typical troll-speak, where the troll can’t make a valid argument without ignoring what was actually said, and inventing his opponent’s conversation.
AJ also needs to be reminded that slavery was NOT about race; throughout history, people have made slaves of people with the same skin tone, starting way back in Sumer.
Another poster on AJ’s site correctly pointed out that the Irish were enslaved as well, and treated far worse than the blacks under the same owners.
I personally have no dog in this fight, even though I’ve taken advantage of it to make some cartoons about it and further pimp myself. But if AJ feels that the guy who lies through his teeth as a debating tool, who has his minions troll other sites to spread racist filth, and bans anyone who even hints at disagreeing with him, then I think we’re all better off without Mr. Strata’s input.
Of all the bloggers that I know that support that whack-job named Charles Johnson, AJ is the first.
the African Slave Trade & Islam:
http://www.thebigfeedblog.com/2008/06/african-slave-trade-and-islam.html
You are very much correct, TFMo. Love the new site, BTW!
True, Kevin. He is the first I have seen.
r.s. mccain’s opinions on race and chattel slavery, though not quite comprising white supremacist doctrine, are morally imbecilic, and a.j. strata demonstrated why in greater detail than you give him credit for here.
and r.s. mccain’s opinions, which he knew enough to issue pseudonymously, wink and nudge at fouler characters standing just beside him in the pale. they are equivalent of “just asking questions” about 911 when what is meant is to say that jews did it. they are equivalent of the soviet post-war propaganda frame which stacks the sandinistas as an organic, indigenous movement for “liberal” change.