There has always been conservotard code for the segregation the cretins want to reimpose on the country. It will be couched in terms like “traditional values,” and “not legislating from the bench,” to name just a couple. The wingtard meme goes something like this: in America today, minorities and women are getting “special rights” that white men never had, so some “balance” is needed to level things. In reality, of course, this is utter and complete bullshit, and is easily refuted on so many levels that only someone blinded by irrational fear and hatred would buy into it.

Chimpy’s “base” is comprised of precisely such people. They are so full of hatred for “them” that they hardly seem to notice that their own station in life has declined dramatically since their monkey got appointed to office in 2001.  As long as “they” are faring even worse, the venomous Chimpy base will continue to heap praise on the moronic monkey. Every single one of the present Gopper pack of candidates is also trying to craft a message of hatred that will fire up the wingtards and get them out to the Primaries. Rudy Giuliani has managed to talk enough hatred to gain the endorsement of Pat Robertson, who said that the city that Rudy ran brought the WTC attack on itself. I would love to hear Rudy or one of his supporters try to equivocate THAT one.

I know you’re probably tired of seeing me post this, but I’m going to do so again. The 2004 campaign against American citizens was intended to let racists be racists. They said “gay marriage,” but “Jim Crow” was always the intent. When you begin to persecute people for no reason other than you don’t like the way they live, you’re opening the door for persecuting ANYONE who doesn’t fit your worldview. The simple fact of the matter is that gay Americans had committed no greater “crime” than Black Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Native Americans. Whether or not you agree with the way a gay person lives doesn’t mean shit; a whole lot of people probably don’t agree with how YOU live. As long as you’re harming no one else and everyone involved is of age and consents to what is going on, then I don’t have a damned thing to say about how you live, and you don’t have a leg to stand on if you’re thinking of criticizing ME. The gay marriage initiatives on ballot after ballot were basically crowbars for tearing down 50 years of civil rights progress in this country. The people who pushed these initiatives knew all too well who would support them, and what the real underlying purpose was all along. If you can get gay marriage banned today, maybe you can get Arab-Caucasian marriage banned tomorrow on the basis of “terrorism.” It makes at least as much sense as banning gay marriage because it “threatens” a “traditional” family.

Chimpy overtly pandered to these prejudices in 2004, but he’s not all pander. Chimpy’s pursued a nakedly racist course since the day of his appointment, and I don’t think there’s a better example of that than the way he’s destroyed the Civil Rights Commission. Chimpy didn’t like the way the panel was doing things (as in, investigating discrimination instead of extolling it,) so he made up his own new rule and packed it with people more in line with his own racist thinking. Now the Civil Rights Commission sounds as if “Bull” Connor writes their opinions.

Anyone who can read this and still try to argue that the moronic monkey isn’t a racist isn’t even worth talking to. And no, his drilling of Condoliesalot Rice does NOT prove he’s not a racist. I’m from the South; I assure you that many a Klansman has enjoyed a round or two in Black brothels.

The US Commission on Civil Rights, the nation’s 50-year-old watchdog for racism and discrimination, has become a critic of school desegregation efforts and affirmative action ever since the Bush administration used a controversial maneuver to put the agency under conservative control.

Democrats say the move to create a conservative majority on the eight-member panel violated the spirit of a law requiring that no more than half the commission be of one party. Critics say Bush in effect installed a fifth and sixth Republican on the panel in December 2004, after two commissioners, both Republicans when appointed, reregistered as independents.

“I don’t believe that [the law] was meant to be evaded by conveniently switching your voter registration,” said Commissioner Michael Yaki, one of the two remaining Democrats.

The administration insists that Bush’s appointments were consistent with the law because the two commissioners who reregistered as independents no longer counted as Republicans. The day before Bush made the appointments, the Department of Justice approved the move in a memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales’s office.

Other presidents have been able to create a majority of like-minded commissioners, but no president has done it this way. The unusual circumstances surrounding the appointments attracted little attention at the time. But they have had a sweeping effect, shifting the commission’s emphasis from investigating claims of civil rights violations to questioning programs designed to offset the historic effects of discrimination.

Before the changes, the agency had planned to evaluate a White House budget request for civil rights enforcement, the adequacy of college financial aid for minorities, and whether the US Census Bureau undercounts minorities, keeping nonwhite areas from their fair share of political apportionment and spending. After the appointments, the commission canceled the projects.

Instead, the commission has put out a series of reports concluding that there is little educational benefit to integrating elementary and secondary schools, calling for closer scrutiny of programs that help minorities gain admission to top law schools, and urging the government to look for ways to replace policies that help minority-owned businesses win contracts with race-neutral alternatives.

The conservative bloc has also pushed through retroactive term limits for several of its state advisory committees. As a result, some longtime traditional civil rights activists have had to leave the advisory panels, and the commission replaced several of them with conservative activists.

The commission has also stopped issuing subpoenas and going on the road to hold lengthy fact-finding hearings, as it previously did about once a year. The commission had three planned hearings in the works when the conservative bloc took over and canceled them. Instead, the panel has held only shorter briefings, all but one of which was in Washington, from invited specialists.

Read the whole article. It’ll piss you off, unless you’re a Chimpleton. In that case, you’ll be cheering about them dark types getting what’s coming to ‘em.