Robert P. George’s Dec. 7 op-ed, “There are valid debates among conservatives. This isn’t one.,” argued that conservatives should stop promoting “white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, the subjugation of women, and other forms of ideological extremism and bigotry.”

You know what this means. It means it’s too late. Telling conservatives to stop being bigots is admitting they’re bigots. And I’m pretty sure a professor of jurisprudence telling them to cut it out isn’t going to work. Hey, you guys — stop being bigots! Oh, okay.

I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn’t always thus, but I’m beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant?

Are these new conservatives in fact our descendants? Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren’t? I’m hoping these new conservatives are mutants, but I’m not so sure about that anymore.

Bruce Carnes, Fairfax

via archive.is paywall bypass; original on Washington Post

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations

Dude actually admits this and claims to be very serious about racism.

Absolutely nothing racist about murdering millions in Afghanistan and Iraq, especially when the reasoning came down to "well they're brown so they're evil".

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m having trouble expressing the mental anguish reading this has caused me.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are we the bad guys?

Thinking of the scene in Boogie Nights where he's like "what, you think you're the king?" And Burt Reynolds shoves him and shouts yes-sicko

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

You don't understand. That's different cause it's.. war or something idk. At least he didn't call them the n-word. That would be really fucked up

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren’t?

it wasn't secret

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Closest he gets to self awareness lol

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was the virus from which today’s bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was never anything dormant about it

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yahtzee gold-communist