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In reply to the discussion: Folks, you have to take the Bundy Comments in their FULL Context and NOT the cherry picked statement [View all]Shandris
(3,447 posts)...hispanic families in comparison to whites. I know when I hear neo-nazis talk, the very first thing they do is express admiration for non-whites over whites.
Personally I doubt the guy is intentionally racist. I think he doesn't keep up with modern terminology (and seriously, who does at his age?) and the 'shifting of the tides' and a bunch of people (read: us) expect him to be up to date with the most recent internet outrages and 'microaggressions'. I have no doubt we could affix a label of every single -ism we don't like to him. It's very, very easy to do so to anyone (and yes, I mean anyone).
Before someone decides I'm 'defending' him, I'm not. I'm saying that he's a product of his age and there's nothing to defend. The past is the past, and those who grew up in the past will remain inevitably tied to the past in the vast majority of cases. He's also in the twilight of life, and will be gone before we know it. His children and grandchildren will grow up in a different world and eventually every last vestige of the past will be gone, all without a single word of self-congratulatory browbeating from the Internet Hate Machine. Half the front page of this site is currently devoted to attacking a guy who we know from media presentations of less than a minute or two in length. Is he 'racist'? Probably, yes. In fact, quite probably. I doubt it's the intentional kind, or the 'my race is superior to yours' kind that the word meant until a couple years ago, but under the 'modern' definition, sure, I'll bet good money he is. Sexist? Almost certainly.
Hate-filled, evil, white supremacist? I suppose anything is possible, but I doubt it. But my gods, do we love to throw those words around.