Pat Buchanan: Repeal all civil rights laws!

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

From Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/pat_buchanan_repeal_all_civil_rights_laws/

With the political world talking more about the tidal wave of anti-LGBT Jim Crow legislation popping up in conservative legislatures all over the country, it was only a matter of time before the patron saint of unreconstructed right-wing bigotry, Pat Buchanan, weighed in and set the new standard in the right’s effort to roll back civil liberties in America.

Well, the wait is over: Buchanan’s written a column and the standard has been set. Using the brouhaha over Arizona’s anti-gay law as a springboard, Buchanan argues that it’s time for America to get rid of civil rights laws — all of them.

Granting that it’s “a radical idea,” Buchanan writes, “Suppose we repealed the civil rights laws and fired all the bureaucrats enforcing these laws.”

“Does anyone think hotels, motels and restaurants across Dixie, from D.C. to Texas, would stop serving black customers?” he continues. “Does anyone think there would again be signs sprouting up reading ‘whites’ and ‘colored’ on drinking foundations and restrooms?”

Uh, yeah, I do. And if Buchanan would just read some history, he'd realize that Irish Catholics like him (and yours truly, albeit lapsed) benefited from the actions of progressives 150 years ago.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. I don't think most private businesses would sacrifice substantial portions of their

customer base but at the same I don't want to sacrifice the ability to address truly grievous wrongs -- because they will be there. Maybe not as prolific as before but they will be there.

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

4. Really?

I think most teabaggers would do so in a nanosecond!

[RobertEarl]

8. Small businesses might

Large corporations besides the chik-fee-lays probably would not. It would be a great risk to start telling people they could not spend their money at indebted and underwater stores.

But the local yahoo, just to prove what an ass they are, would.

Then of course is the government rules and regs, which is really what busts buke's ass. Those would not change, there are way to many enlightened people these days.

What we can hope to see is the GOP gets behind buke and begins chatting this up. We should somehow help them, encourage them to come out and show their asses.

[JoePhilly]

5. Rural white communities would immediately stop serving minority travelers.

"We don't serve your kind".

Its part of how they prevent minorities from settling in these communities.

Today, such efforts must be done discretely. Remove the civil rights laws, and they'd go above board once again.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. That's such a load of malarky

First, you contradict yourself. You claim they would if they could but then you claim they actually do.

Second, I live in a rural community and your statement is patently false.

But keep this in mind: Every time the law keeps a bigot from speaking his mind you may well be padding the bank roll of that bigot and the law is keeping that hidden from you. I support civil rights law but at the same time I wish the bigots of the world would out themselves so I can make an informed choice as to who to give my business to.

[JoePhilly]

12. You must be the only one of use who has lived in a rural community I guess.

The difference in their behavior is whether it has the weight of law tied to it.

In one case, its done subtly, in the other, more overtly.

I recall living in Lubbock Texas, where I watched a middle age black man, avoid eye contact with the clerk and customers in a rural convenience store. Everyone who entered was treated like an old friend, even me, a white guy they'd never seen before.

But the middle age black guy who came in knew his place. Never raised his eyes. No one spoke to him. No friendly "hi" from anyone ... well, expect me. And when I said my friendly "Hi", it was clear I scared him. No white person there ever welcomed him. I didn't know that.

After he left, the others in that store mocked that n****r. When he and I passed again at the gas pumps, he looked up and said "have a nice day".

Had the same basic experience in other places, like rural areas in up state PA.

Is every part of rural America like that ... no ... but its still out there in lots of places.

Drop the civil rights laws, and it would get very bad in some parts of this country.

[RKP5637]

2. A loud fart was heard! Oh, it's Buchanan's brain fart. n/t

[NightWatcher]

3. what rock had he been under for the past few years?

and why won't he go back under it?

[LiberalElite]

6. He's actually

English, Irish and Scottish on father's side and German on mother's.

[COLGATE4]

14. It has been said that he had an uncle

who died in Auschwitz - from falling off the guard tower.

[Ecumenist]

7. WTF??!! this crazy sumbitch really expects us to believe that apartheid signs wouldn't reappear

OVERNIGHT and this idiot DOES NOT REALISE THAT HE would not be the lucky recipient of this stupid lottery? He's Irish for crying out loud...

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Here's Pat on his beloved 1950's DC, the quote is from 1988. He likes apartheid

"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."

Here's a link with that quote and much, much more.
http://fair.org/press-release/pat-buchanan-in-his-own-words/

[bigdarryl]

9. Glad MSNBC got rid of this racist redneck

[idendoit]

10. Or we could repeal Pat's right to speak freely.

We could all live comfortably on the proceeds of a Stupid Tax.

[Jamaal510]

13. More GOP minority outreach, I see. nt

[deutsey]

15. Does anyone really think the economy will collapse and ruin millions of lives

if we de-regulated the markets?

Oh...wait...`

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Pat has always been a huge racist, a homophobe, anti-Semite and he was all of

that during the years when he was MSNBC's guy. Pat's still around, thanks in part to MSNBC and those who winked and nodded.

[treestar]

17. Well yes, Pat, because that's why those laws had to be

enacted.