Michelle Malkin, a person of color who hates people of color

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from AlterNet:



Michelle Malkin and Michael Savage Use Swine Flu Crisis to Peddle Their Xenophobia

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted April 29, 2009.

The right-wing pundits who seized on the swine flu to push their anti-immigrant rhetoric are employing an ancient racist tactic.



In the middle of the 14th century, the plague swept across Europe, leaving death and despair in its wake. A terrified and confused population blamed the Jews -- aliens in their midst -- for bringing the "black death" upon them.

Lacking knowledge of viruses or other microscopic organisms, they accused the Jews, a handy target, of poisoning the wells of Christian villages. The charge contributed to a series of pogroms in which thousands were burned alive.

During the more than 600 years since, our understanding of disease transmission has advanced by leaps and bounds, but the same primitive tribalism that inspired the lethal xenophobia that raged across Europe then remains on display today.

With hundreds of cases of swine flu reported in Mexico, and dozens more appearing in the U.S., anti-immigrant hard-liners wasted no time blaming their one-size-fits-all bogeyman for the disease.

They took to the airwaves and scribbled hastily on their blogs about how America's supposed "open-door policy" towards migrants from Mexico was the cause of the outbreak's appearance on this side of the Rio Grande. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/immigration/138859/michelle_malkin_and_michael_savage_use_swine_flu_crisis_to_peddle_their_xenophobia/

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicons are into the self-loathing thingy

for lots of good reasons.

[ROakes1019]

2. Malkin

Michelle Malkin even said she approved the Japanese internment camps during WWII.

[zbdent]

9. although she's of Filipino origin, I don't believe the "conservatives" of the time

would have cared for the facts of her lineage as they raped her and stole her home and life's work ...

[JI7]

3. Jindal and the cross eyed pundit also

but Malkin is worse when it comes to hating certain people.

[Canuckistanian]

4. The 14th century was their ideal time

No science, no human rights, no middle class, laws made for the privileged few, etc.

Ironically, Savage, a Jew and Malkin, an asian, would have been the first to be lynched in those Christian villages.

[niceypoo]

5. GOP souls for sale....

...CHEAP!!

[calico1]

6. You know, as bad as racists are, the worst type of

racist is a minority person is is racist against minorities.

Does Malkin not realize that had she been around during WWII she might have been confused for a Japanese American and gotten some of the angry backlash from Whites? What does she see when she looks in the mirror? A blonde, white girl?

Nothing about racists annoys me more than a very ethnic looking minority person spewing racist hatred around.

She is a piece of shit.

[lxlxlxl]

8. agreed...and they always duck that angle

im an immigrant's child. it's sad to see that many immigrants do end up following the political parties that tend to 'fly the flag' in the most vulgar way. they happily line up with immigrant-hating as a mechanism of self-protection, and the writers that follow that path like malkin (see all the ponuru, dsouza, jindal, yoos) always seem to have a guaranteed visible position.

most of our pundit class that isnt first generation immigrant seems to be either conservative, or that type of phony middle-ground position (zakaria, eliasson) that denigrates the left more than it criticizes the right.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Yah - there's those like 3 nonwhite republicans who hate brown people....

And then there's those millions upon millions of white republicans who hate brown people. Which is more worth talking about?

:rofl:

[marmar]

10. Well, as a Person of Color, I think I've got license to be particularly peeved as Ms Malkin.....

...... n'est-ce pas?

[BlooInBloo]

11. (shrug) You're welcome to be peeved at whomever you like....

But those 3-ish can only exist in the environment provided by the millions upon millions.

[marmar]

12. Agreed, but we're not dealing with those millions in this post......

..... We've dealt with them in plenty of others. I get your point, but that doesn't give Michelle Malkin a pass.