Rick Santorum compares ObamaCare to apartheid

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[Lief 🗽]

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[afleitch]

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[Landslide Lyndon]

That's FOX News's idea of primetime TV: a pair of racist, entitled white guys analyzing the life and struggles of a universally beloved black activist. 

[All Along The Watchtower]

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[PJ]

lol rich white christian men love pretending they're oppressed

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

What is he running for next?

[The Dowager Mod]

Poor Rickster just can't help himself, bless his little heart.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.

[TDAS04]

Stupid, but not surprising.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

lol rich white christian men love pretending they're oppressed

Well if some are to be believed, Santorum's Catholicism makes him an oppressed and discriminated minority.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.

Is an inability to empathize with those who have suffered from racism it itself sufficient to label one a racist?  If so that's a fairly low standard, which helps explain why he and O'Reilly are such terrible racists when compared to such great racists as Theodore Bilbo, Ibn Khaldun, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda or even middling ones such as Woodrow Wilson and Rudyard Kipling.

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So Reagan would have supported ObamaCare?

[pbrower2a]

Rick Santorum -- the sort of person who thinks that a string quartet is the four strings that control the limbs of a puppet. 

[Zioneer]

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[RedSLC]

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[dead0man]

That's worse (barely) than comparing a banned poster on a message board to Mandela.

[Kushahontas]

So Reagan would have supported ObamaCare?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.

Is an inability to empathize with those who have suffered from racism it itself sufficient to label one a racist?  If so that's a fairly low standard, which helps explain why he and O'Reilly are such terrible racists when compared to such great racists as Theodore Bilbo, Ibn Khaldun, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda or even middling ones such as Woodrow Wilson and Rudyard Kipling.

Those five (although I'm puzzled why you included Ibn Khaldun in there) all have something in common which would improve my (and I'm sure many others') opinion of Santorum and O'Reilly immensely.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.

Is an inability to empathize with those who have suffered from racism it itself sufficient to label one a racist?  If so that's a fairly low standard, which helps explain why he and O'Reilly are such terrible racists when compared to such great racists as Theodore Bilbo, Ibn Khaldun, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda or even middling ones such as Woodrow Wilson and Rudyard Kipling.

Those five (although I'm puzzled why you included Ibn Khaldun in there) all have something in common which would improve my (and I'm sure many others') opinion of Santorum and O'Reilly immensely.

Just trying to be multicultural in my racism references.  While better known as a philosopher, he also generated this particular turd which I found in the Wikipedia article on racism: "beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.""Therefore, the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Negroes) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated."

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Ernest,  I think the problem with your references is it is now 2013.  The human genome has been sequenced so there really isn't any excuse for having such backward thoughts.  If you have to reach back to the early twentieth century or in fact the 1800s to calibrate your racism measuring device that right there should tell you there's a problem.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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I doubt Santorum was ever particularly opposed to apartheid when it was in effect, so I'm interpreting this as a compliment to Obamacare, which Santorum was also in favor of until 2009.

[Lambsbread]

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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Once again while I agree with that statement I actually have had people here try to argue to me that Catholics are indeed an oppressed and discriminated minority.