Comments on: Republicans can’t seem to recruit minorities http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: portmanteau http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204335 portmanteau Sun, 25 May 2008 23:27:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204335 <p><i>88 · <b>Manju</b> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204334">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>most-importantly, fake science used in courts of law to restrict breast implants. i'm outraged.</blockquote> <p>is your love of large breasts getting in the way evidence-based medicine?</p> <p>[i'm kidding. not aware of legal rulings on breast implants, will you provide a juicy link? and also, i wonder how much of NSF's budget is going to "pseudosciences like freud and marx that find [their] way into postmodern science-studies. whereas restrictions on stem-cells have a palpable effect -- driving away scientists to europe and putting us behind the competition. universities have a really hard time in making sure their federal money doesn'f finance even a pencil used in a non-kosher project. i do realize the censuring of academics has a chilling effect on research, but larry summers' effort was very heavy-handed, and i've a feeling his investigatory agenda was clarified/manufactured later only to provide a veneer of credibility to his prejudice. at the same time, i do think that some questions become hard to research because of pc-ness associated with left. larry summers could have been much more nuanced in formulating his argument, so it is not easy to grant him the benefit of doubt.]</p> 88 · Manju said

most-importantly, fake science used in courts of law to restrict breast implants. i’m outraged.

is your love of large breasts getting in the way evidence-based medicine?

[i'm kidding. not aware of legal rulings on breast implants, will you provide a juicy link? and also, i wonder how much of NSF's budget is going to "pseudosciences like freud and marx that find [their] way into postmodern science-studies. whereas restrictions on stem-cells have a palpable effect — driving away scientists to europe and putting us behind the competition. universities have a really hard time in making sure their federal money doesn’f finance even a pencil used in a non-kosher project. i do realize the censuring of academics has a chilling effect on research, but larry summers’ effort was very heavy-handed, and i’ve a feeling his investigatory agenda was clarified/manufactured later only to provide a veneer of credibility to his prejudice. at the same time, i do think that some questions become hard to research because of pc-ness associated with left. larry summers could have been much more nuanced in formulating his argument, so it is not easy to grant him the benefit of doubt.]

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By: Manju http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204334 Manju Sun, 25 May 2008 23:09:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204334 <p><i>85 · <B>Meena</B> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204329">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>Yes, but wouldn't the anti-science, overall anti-education stance of the Republican party well, undermine the desi voters?</blockquote> <p>it should be noted that's there's also an anti-science left: censoring the iq debate and the gender/science debate (larry summers), forcing crackpot feminist (and race-studies) theories on it by trying to <a href="http://www.american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/why-can2019t-a-woman-be-more-like-a-man">apply title 9</a>, environmental terrorism, anti-genetic engineering, animal rights, and pseudosciences like freud and marx that finds it way into postmodern science-studies, and most-importantly, fake science used in courts of law to restrict breast implants. i'm outraged.</p> 85 · Meena said

Yes, but wouldn’t the anti-science, overall anti-education stance of the Republican party well, undermine the desi voters?

it should be noted that’s there’s also an anti-science left: censoring the iq debate and the gender/science debate (larry summers), forcing crackpot feminist (and race-studies) theories on it by trying to apply title 9, environmental terrorism, anti-genetic engineering, animal rights, and pseudosciences like freud and marx that finds it way into postmodern science-studies, and most-importantly, fake science used in courts of law to restrict breast implants. i’m outraged.

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By: Rahul S http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204332 Rahul S Sun, 25 May 2008 22:40:45 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204332 <p><i>85 · <B>Meena</B> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204329">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>Yes, but wouldn't the anti-science, overall anti-education stance of the Republican party well, undermine the desi voters? </blockquote> <p>Republicans are anti-education because more government spending hasn't helped education (No Child Left Behind). Bush spent way more than Clinton, and the results have been poor. Think about it. Why would Oprah spend $40 million dollars for a school in South Africa, rather than the U.S. People value education more in foreign countries than the poor do here. Sad, but true. I think a better system is where you have a voucher system, which a handful of moderate Republicans would like. Yea, the anti-science turns people off, except Ramesh Ponururu (he even wrote a book about how Stem Cell REsearch is very heinous, unless it doesn't kill an embryo).</p> 85 · Meena said

Yes, but wouldn’t the anti-science, overall anti-education stance of the Republican party well, undermine the desi voters?

Republicans are anti-education because more government spending hasn’t helped education (No Child Left Behind). Bush spent way more than Clinton, and the results have been poor. Think about it. Why would Oprah spend $40 million dollars for a school in South Africa, rather than the U.S. People value education more in foreign countries than the poor do here. Sad, but true. I think a better system is where you have a voucher system, which a handful of moderate Republicans would like. Yea, the anti-science turns people off, except Ramesh Ponururu (he even wrote a book about how Stem Cell REsearch is very heinous, unless it doesn’t kill an embryo).

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By: Rahul S http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204330 Rahul S Sun, 25 May 2008 22:29:16 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204330 <p><i>80 · <B><A href="mailto:southpaw2k1@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow>Huey</A></B> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204313">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>So blacks breaking 90 to 10 for Obama for no other reason than his skin color is not racist,right?</blockquote> <p>One black author claims that Obama is getting 90% of the black vote because of Michelle. If he married a white girl, blacks would go for Clinton. White people love hime because of his message, and his white background.</p> 80 · Huey said

So blacks breaking 90 to 10 for Obama for no other reason than his skin color is not racist,right?

One black author claims that Obama is getting 90% of the black vote because of Michelle. If he married a white girl, blacks would go for Clinton. White people love hime because of his message, and his white background.

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By: Meena http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204329 Meena Sun, 25 May 2008 22:20:37 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204329 <p>Yes, but wouldn't the anti-science, overall anti-education stance of the Republican party well, undermine the desi voters?</p> Yes, but wouldn’t the anti-science, overall anti-education stance of the Republican party well, undermine the desi voters?

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By: Rahul S http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204323 Rahul S Sun, 25 May 2008 20:39:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204323 <p><i>82 · <B>Meena</B> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204320">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>I'll admit that I don't really understand desi Republicans. Aside from my impression that few of their policies benefit minorites - after anti-abortion campaigning, conservative Christian family values and an anti-science position, what's there to love? </blockquote> <p>Perhaps free trade brings millions of people to the middle class all over the world. That's a good Republican thing (although I understand why people would be against this).</p> 82 · Meena said

I’ll admit that I don’t really understand desi Republicans. Aside from my impression that few of their policies benefit minorites – after anti-abortion campaigning, conservative Christian family values and an anti-science position, what’s there to love?

Perhaps free trade brings millions of people to the middle class all over the world. That’s a good Republican thing (although I understand why people would be against this).

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By: Manju http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204322 Manju Sun, 25 May 2008 20:37:00 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204322 <p><i>82 · <B>Meena</B> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204320">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>I'll admit that I don't really understand desi Republicans. Aside from my impression that few of their policies benefit minorites - after anti-abortion campaigning, conservative Christian family values and an anti-science position, what's there to love?</blockquote> <p>$</p> 82 · Meena said

I’ll admit that I don’t really understand desi Republicans. Aside from my impression that few of their policies benefit minorites – after anti-abortion campaigning, conservative Christian family values and an anti-science position, what’s there to love?

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By: Meena http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204320 Meena Sun, 25 May 2008 20:18:00 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204320 <p>I'll admit that I don't really understand desi Republicans. Aside from my impression that few of their policies benefit minorites - after anti-abortion campaigning, conservative Christian family values and an anti-science position, what's there to love?</p> I’ll admit that I don’t really understand desi Republicans. Aside from my impression that few of their policies benefit minorites – after anti-abortion campaigning, conservative Christian family values and an anti-science position, what’s there to love?

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By: Huey http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204314 Huey Sun, 25 May 2008 17:41:34 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204314 <p>Correction: Having Colin Powell as a fall guy...doesn't count.</p> Correction: Having Colin Powell as a fall guy…doesn’t count.

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By: Huey http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/05/20/republicans_can/comment-page-2/#comment-204313 Huey Sun, 25 May 2008 17:40:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5201#comment-204313 <p><i>59 · <b>DesiDude</b> <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005201.html#comment204081">said</a></i></p> <blockquote>There we go more of that Republicans are racists BS. BTW, which party has a senator who is a former KKK member, hmm?. Which party supported the KKK terrorizing Southern blacks? and which party was the one that ended slavery?. --Funny how no one says that the party that (allegedly) ended slavery was also the party that ended Reconstruction and made it possible for the South to start Jim Crow segregation. Furthermore, the Democrats of the Jim Crow South then, are the Republicans of today, via Southern Strategy of the late 60s. Who were the ones that published an offensive cartoon of Bush and Condi Rice? Who called Clarence Thomas an "uncle Tom". There are a lot of moderate blacks who would vote GOP, but are derided as uncle Toms by the so called "liberal" faction and their voices are not heard. Bush has had more POCs in his cabinet than Bill Clinton. Man you lefties make me sick. You people are just stuck on stupid. -I don't think having Colin Powell as a fall guy (for helping Bush II lie about WMDs in Irag) doesn't count. To AnjaliToo, So blacks breaking 90 to 10 for Obama for no other reason than his skin color is not racist,right? </blockquote> <p>Does anyone READ about American history anymore?</p> 59 · DesiDude said

There we go more of that Republicans are racists BS. BTW, which party has a senator who is a former KKK member, hmm?. Which party supported the KKK terrorizing Southern blacks? and which party was the one that ended slavery?. –Funny how no one says that the party that (allegedly) ended slavery was also the party that ended Reconstruction and made it possible for the South to start Jim Crow segregation. Furthermore, the Democrats of the Jim Crow South then, are the Republicans of today, via Southern Strategy of the late 60s. Who were the ones that published an offensive cartoon of Bush and Condi Rice? Who called Clarence Thomas an “uncle Tom”. There are a lot of moderate blacks who would vote GOP, but are derided as uncle Toms by the so called “liberal” faction and their voices are not heard. Bush has had more POCs in his cabinet than Bill Clinton. Man you lefties make me sick. You people are just stuck on stupid. -I don’t think having Colin Powell as a fall guy (for helping Bush II lie about WMDs in Irag) doesn’t count. To AnjaliToo, So blacks breaking 90 to 10 for Obama for no other reason than his skin color is not racist,right?

Does anyone READ about American history anymore?

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