Identity Politics elevates gender, color and culture above competence. It is an insult to all Americans, especially minoritiesPolitico ran a perfunctory post-election puff piece on the new stars of the GOP. Susana Martinez, Marco Rubio, John Kasich (who's really an old star reborn). Pretty standard stuff, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Politico saying anything positive about conservatives. I'm also glad to see the GOP getting props for fielding some awesome minority candidates. Then I saw a quote I just could not believe...
This is what caught my eye:
“The bottom line is that after 2008, you can never go back to an all-white ticket,” said Susan MacManus, political science professor at the University of South Florida. (Politico)
This is so wrong on so many levels.
First, it is white guilt paying obeisance to liberal political correctness. No more all-white tickets because pointy-headed liberal social engineers say so? What if they are two awesomely qualified white lesbians who are extremely liberal? I bet they'd make an exception... It amazes me that the most unthinking propaganda parrots can be found roosting in the ivory towers of academe.
Have you heard the one about the Muslim, the one-legged lesbian, and the Black Hispanic walking into the DNC Headquarters...
This is bald-faced tokenism, a rank condescension to "people of color." To think that the only way you can get a group of people to vote for you is to run "one of them," is a horrid thought. Break down our demographics into its hundreds of sub-groups, and you quickly see the absurdity of this.
Treating people as a collective interest group instead of as individuals is revolting. All Blacks and all Hispanics are not liberal, and *gasp!* they all don't think the same! Worst of all is how liberals lump disparate groups together under the "minority" or "people of color" banner. Their latest adventure in racial and cultural profiling has them treating Blacks and Hispanics as though they were cooking products sitting on a shelf at the supermarket in the "Ethnic Foods" aisle.
"After the Obama debacle, you can never go back to a black candidate."
That is my conclusion, based upon the professor's logic. Let's see how that flies...
This is what's wrong with liberalism, it has strayed so far from Dr, King's sincere message regarding content of character over color of skin.
