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> The mind of a liberal
> By Ann Coulter
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> "Here in the United States," Clinton said, "we were founded as a
> nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were
> killed."
true
>
> Not content to turn a nation of wandering nomads into an
> agricultural cornucopia capable of feeding and sustaining nearly
> 300 million people, we also "once looked the other way when a
> significant number of Native Americans were dispossessed and
> killed to get their land or their mineral rights." (Um. They didn't have
> the concept of "mineral rights.")
>
the point is we wanted both land for farming and settling, as well as the
minerals in places we were not farming... see
there is a distinction there - no one is claiming the Indians had mineral
rights, but that they were dispossessed of their homes for what was under
the landscape as well as above.
> We're all on tenterhooks waiting for the pious windbags who denounced Jerry
> Falwell (Walter Cronkite) to express comparable indignation with Clinton's
> remarks. At least Falwell restricted the cosmic payback to this nation
> 's current ills. Clinton went back to the first Crusade. "Those of us from
> various European lineages are not blameless," he said.
>
> Indeed, he reminded the students again and again that "this is a country that
> was born in slavery." Yes, the Puritans came here on rickety ships, chancing
> disease and pestilence, in search of slavery.
the slave trade was the cornerstone of early American property. Glib
comments about puritans ( and note the name they called themselves - it has
meaning) does not change that.
>
> If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they
> sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
it doesn't say we are currently cruel to minorities ( but try to catch a cab
with dark skin in NY some evening) it says that this is a country that has
not always been squeaky clean in its treatment of people.
>
> Clinton also noted that "we still have the occasional hate crime rooted in
> race, religion or sexual orientation." The terrorist attack was not, however,
> connected to rape, sexual harassment, the smearing of witnesses or c
> rimes committed by any recent American president. So at least we dodged that
> bullet.
rape? who did bill rape? do Clinton's sexual foibles, somehow make violent
crimes ok, I mean as long as they aren't done to Christian white males?? I'm
confused.
>
> No. Liberals acknowledge nothing morally superior about America, aka a country
> "born in slavery." The one shining moral principle Clinton associates with
> America is that we think "nobody's got the truth." We don't think w
> e're better and that's why we're better, if you follow his logic.
I call myself liberal ( but if the political party called liberal can run
candidates like Rudy giulliani et al, then we have very different
definitions of the word) and I have plenty of good things to say about
America. I live here by choice. I know what's great about America - but that
doesn't mean I'm supposed to pretend that there aren't problems here, or
everything we have done is right. We were a nation that used the slave trade
for economic success, on the mainland, and on the islands in the
rum/molasses/sugar trade. We do have a history of oppression against blacks.
women couldn't vote till the 20th century fer chrissakes. We often back
cruel dictators in foreign lands, because it serves some geopolitical
purpose, and their populations be damned.
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