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Oh those minorities - Pat Buchanan's decades long self pity party
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Having grown up in an era where white heterosexual males essentially held the power of life and death over all, Buchanan now laments their supposed loss of influence and foresees the destruction of their once unquestioned hegemony - in the near future - and possibly for good.
In his unintentionally funny new book, given the understated title ‘Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?’ Buchanan fears the rise of diversity in the United States means that white people 'may discover what it is like to ride in the back of the bus.'
Oh Pat, really? We should all fear our progressive overlords sinister intentions? Who knew their ultimate agenda was to make old white men uncomfortable?
Whilst some are nostalgic for the bogus simplicity of earlier eras, Pat has moved way beyond that, and even waxes nostalgic about racial segregation.
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"Black and white lived apart, went to different schools and churches, played on different playgrounds, and went to different restaurants, bars, theaters, and soda fountains. But we shared a country and a culture. We were one nation. We were Americans," he writes, effectively asking, what was the problem?
That right there, you see, Pat.
Now Buchanan's exasperated that views as anachronistic as his seem to antagonize so many Americans. In fact, he blames an unlikely cabal of gays, feminists and - for all I know - MSNBC and possibly Lady Gaga for marginalizing his point of view.
Nonsense, that was actually accomplished by the passing of time.
In the last few decades, Buchanan has become the bright but embarrassing uncle at the holiday table, spouting opinions that mortify your parents and usually bring the evening to a grinding halt.
Almost every family has one.
Buchanan's self-pity party, his book makes clear, has been going on for decades (MSNBC is just the latest in a line of phantom aggressors). Meanwhile, the nation itself has moved on. Buchanan just hasn't noticed that it's really the passing of time, as well as torches, that has really sent him out to pasture at last.
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bonjouryall | Jan 12, 2012, 09:27 PM EST
Never heard of the book but I love to read comments from people who claim to be so open-minded and tolerant be so hypocritical. For instance, those bigots also fought for their country, remember. Meanwhile, there's many Irish who'd love to work in the US who have to stay at the back of the line composed of many more darker complected people, thanks in large part to liberal politics.
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seanomelbourne | Jan 12, 2012, 05:06 PM EST
Old bigots never die they only fade away.Buchanan should by himself some slippers and a pipe,sit down and ponder his bigoted navel
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TheOldPerfessor | Jan 12, 2012, 04:07 PM EST
I'm old enough to remember bus stations in Texas with separate bathrooms for white and "Colored." Some of the men who had to go to the colored facility had risked their lives for America in WW2. To call this anything but evil is ridiculous.
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Caoimhin1937 | Jan 12, 2012, 01:53 PM EST
The only book that I read by Pat Buchanan was "A republic, not an empire". There were some comments in there that you might refer to as a bias against the Israeli lobby which did not enamour him to the Israelis. The basis of the book was basically true. Why build an empire instead of a republic which we are supposed to have right now. I heard Pat Buchanan on the Morning Joe having a discussion with Lawrence O'Donnell when Obama was asked to speak at Notre Dame. The objection was then that Obama should not be allowed to speak because he was pro-abortion, so on. O'Donnell said he should be allowed to speak. Pat Buchanan states that if you read the Encyclical by Pope Leon XIII you would understand. Well, Rerum Novarum had nothing to do with abortion. So he mentioned the Encyclical out of the context. In his book he quotes Rudyard Kipling also out of context too. The quote is by Rudyard Kipling on the 1st World War: "If any question why we died, tell them our fathers lied". That does not refer to Rudyard Kipling talking about his son who died in the 1st world war. I understand Pat Buchanan being against buggery and there is nothing wrong with that. People should not be putting him down for that. The only people who make profit out of buggery are the guys who make KY jelly. Pat is right when it comes to buggery.
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DrTrelawney | Jan 12, 2012, 12:09 PM EST
@Jim Well if the Daily Mail was merely signifying residence then the second half of the headline becomes utterly superfluous. The other communities are also resident in the country.The sense of the piece -- and its headline -- was absolutely clear. But yes you're right about Ireland. To follow your logic -- it's about residency, not ownership -- a person of Polish or Chinese origin living in Ireland lives in his or her own country. Your class of liberal inclusiveness is rare on this small-minded little site.
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SingleDonald | Jan 12, 2012, 10:59 AM EST
Let's not be prejudiced against anybody! Radical feminists feel men are the "enemy"; that is their paranoia! Radical minorities feel whites are the "enemy". Fortinately, whole minority communities don't think that way. For any group to disparage any other reminds me of what my father told me, when I was in 9th Grade. I reported a gym coach telling a joke against Italian Americans. He explained that, when one ethnic group makes fun of another, they are actually showing insecurity about their own group! That is something which I never forgot, and which all people should keep in mind.
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slainte9 | Jan 12, 2012, 10:17 AM EST
Pat Buchanan ancestors came to America from Germany and Scotland. That probably explains his peculiarly European mentality -- rooted, even if he doesn't realize it, in the ancient struggle for national identity. You're not in Nuremburg anymore, Toto, or even Scotland.
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jimgordo1 | Jan 12, 2012, 09:29 AM EST
Dr Trelawny -- Evidently you have completely forgotten your primary, secondary and undergraduate English grammar lessons. In the case you cite, "their own" does not signify ownership, but simply residence. Similarly, an Irishman in Ireland lives in his own country.
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DrTrelawney | Jan 12, 2012, 09:15 AM EST
All this reminds me of an unintentionally hiarious headline in the Daily Mail a few years back. "White Americans set to be a Minority in Their Own Country" Sorry? "Their own country? Doesn't America belong equally to all its citizens.
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