Pat Buchanan: Repeal all civil rights laws! [View all]

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Granting that it’s “a radical idea,” Buchanan writes, “Suppose we repealed the civil rights laws and fired all the bureaucrats enforcing these laws.”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