Posted on 09/16/2008 7:04:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock, has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low "diversity." I kid you not. Here is the professor's "learned thesis" presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (emphasis mine):
Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme - they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious "rural radicals" of our time.
It has been years since groups such as the Montana Militia, the Posse Comitatus and the Sagebrush Rebels, and individuals such as Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski have made us wonder why so many "angry white men" populated our rural regions. Many of us have forgotten the threat once posed by domestic terrorists and instead have turned our attention to foreign terrorists. But we should never forget that in the late 20th century, ultra-Christian, antistatist and white-supremacist groups flourished in the states of the Pacific Northwest - called by many the "Great White Northwest" - the very region that Sarah Palin and her family call home.
Got that not so subtle connection between Sarah Palin and the Unabomber? And all because of Sarah Palin's choice of a region to call home. Stock then presents us her theory for all this supposed hate in the Pacific Northwest...lack of diversity:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
The black population of New London County is *only* 4.7 percent. That’s .03 percent beneath the diversity threshhold for racial tolerance set by Cath.
http://www.dataplace.org/area_overview/New%20London%20County,%20CT
Get real. That kind of diversity does not count.
I guess these folks are now considered hate groups.
Alrighty then...sounds good to me! If it were not for people like us, then where would America be right now?
Well you know, us Washington folks are all racist and the like. I mean, we elected the first Italian Catholic Governor west of the Mississippi, we elected a woman as Governor, and we elected Lok Ga Fai - Gary Locke - as a two term Governor (Locke, after all, is Chinese). Not to mention a long history of African American politicians here (Norm Rice, Ron Sims, etc).
Two women senators (both fluff, but hey diverse). A long history of women representatives, too...
Connecticut? Not so much diversity there, huh...
“I guess these folks are now considered hate groups.”
Hell...
these days, even CHRISTIANS have been labeled a “Hate Group”
(Southern Poverty Law Center, because of the “Christian” Stance against Gay Marriage)
But that would just be lipstick on a pi...er...never mind...
an idiot summa cum laude...
It has a book out that is a mass of exactly such drivle. The name of the book is “Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain” and the starting price is, get this... 0.57 cents.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #214,070 in Books
Good grief! I haven’t been pinging you to many of these whacko hit pieces, because there have simply been so many new ones on a daily basis. But, this one is so far out in the Twilight Zone, I thought you might want to see it. And this one’s from the chair of a college history department! Did you know that because we live in a “low diversity” area we are dangerous white supremacists, like Sarah Palin? Oy.
Wait so if you live in a small town you’re racist? Is that what this idiot is saying? What’s the cutoff for non-racist town? 10K? 20K? 1Million??
Did you notice how she blew off the thousands of Native Alaskans when talking about diversity. Obviously to this woman and most like her diversity only means one thing, “BLACK”.
Also she needs to be careful about Waco and Ruby Ridge, there are many who hold the federal government responsible for the death at those two locales.
You'd understand if you knew the true meaning of "diversity."
It takes some serious gall to cite Ted Kaczynski as a right-wing extremist.
Black population of Alaska 4.72%.
More evidence of Palin pathology in the dem party. Personally I think its great that so many dem kooks are unmasking themselves and the MSM is happily printing this nonsense. None of it is sticking. Dems make fools of themselves. And, Palin pathology tends to obscure any other other news that’s out there—like the Wall Street mess.
And that brings up the great question of this campaign that has not been answered: Why did an unrepentant terrorist and avowed Marxist take such an interest in Obama? Why did he cause him to be appointed Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge? Why did Ayers host at his home the party that launched Obama's career in elective office? Ayers would not support a post-partisan uniter. What did Ayers see in Obama that is being concealed from the electorate?
The poison spread by idiot fanatics like this "professor" and the Southern Poverty Law Center is extensive. Its toxicity is strengthened by the ignorance and provincialism of our bi-coastal elites.
I was recently referred to a local doctor (California) and while being treated I mentioned I was raised in Idaho. He immediately jumped away from me as if he'd received an electric shock and in all earnestness asked if I was a Nazi. Now it appears that anyone who's ever lived in "flyover country," like Palin and me, is an automatic Nazi. (Palin attended a couple of colleges in Idaho).
Palin is a game changer in many ways, and they know it.
They are terrified that an outsider could get in without their anointing.
They are terrified that many people's perception of the Republican party, has been turned on it's head since the Palin selection.
That perception is now one of change and excitement.
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