I've got to ask -- what is it about Alabama Democrats? First you had the idiot legislative candidate/teacher showing profane anti-Bush material to students in his science classes. Now you have this candidate for attorney general denying the Holocaust.
Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.
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Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.
Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."
"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."
And not only is he a Holocaust denier and white supremacist, he also stakes out some other interesting positions.
Darby, founder of the Atheist Law Center and a longtime supporter of separation of church and state, said he has no money for campaign advertising and has made only a few campaign speeches.Tyson said aside from his views on race and the Holocaust, Darby also has publicly advocated legalizing drugs and shooting all illegal immigrants.
In the defense of the Alabama Democrats, their party chairman had this to say.
The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy."Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham.
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Turnham said the party began an investigation last week after hearing about some of Darby's comments in a television interview. While the party supports the free-speech rights of any candidate, Turnham said some of Darby's views appear to be in "a realm of thought that is unacceptable.
But you have to wonder -- what is it about the Democrat Party that attracts individuals of this calibre?
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Same thing as the Republicans attracting similar losers, like the "Republican" white supremacists in Wyoming and in Mississippi. They are looking for attention, and it looks like this jerk was smart enough to go with the party on the ascendancy - the Democrats. Others have chosen the party that controls the country right now - the Republicans.
Your post seems to be hinting that the Democratic ideology supports people like this guy, and it's tempting to reply with a post going into the Republican "Southern Strategy" and tying David Duke to the party. And, if I were so inclined, I could build a circumstantial case that the Republicans have gained in some circles by cozying up to the Confederate-sympathizers and assorted crazies.
But what's the point? Does that mean that you, or Bush, or any other individual Republican, has a racist bone in his or her body? Does that mean that Republican ideology is racist?
No, and, more seriously, that sort of nonsense feeds the inability to communicate. For example, I do not recall and have not researched your views on affirmative action, but I imagine we may have differing views on it. Both of us are able to make arguments that the other view is racist, if we so choose. Both of us can then point to a couple members associated with each others' parties who are, in fact, actively and sickly racist. And then both of us get to conclude that the other is racist, for "being associated with racists" and holding "racist beliefs".
What does that exercise accomplish?
|| Posted by Dan, May 14, 2006 10:20 AM ||Actually, I was making no argument about the Democrats as a racist party. Rather, I was wondering why the loons seem to be cropping up in Alabama this spring.
As for affirmative action being racist, I think that argument can be made -- affirmative action as practiced today implicitly being premised upon the notion that minorities cannot meet the same standards as white folks, and that women cannot measure up to men.
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, May 14, 2006 12:34 PM ||I was confident you could deliver that argument, RWR.
As for your disavowal of tarring Democrats with the racist brush, perhaps the last sentence of your post led me astray: "But you have to wonder -- what is it about the Democrat Party that attracts individuals of this calibre?" Maybe you meant to substitute "Alabama" for "the Democrat Party"?
|| Posted by Dan, May 14, 2006 04:43 PM ||Actually, I originally wrote it as "the "Alabama Democrat Party", but seemt o have inadvertantly dropped that word somewhere along the way without realizing it.
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, May 14, 2006 04:48 PM ||Post a comment