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Mugged by Ann Coulter : Comments

By Ben-Peter Terpstra, published 6/11/2012

Coulter reminds us that: Republicans opposed slavery, Democrats protected slave owners; Republicans supported anti-lynching laws, Democrats protected lynching mobs, and so on.

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The Democrats, like the Left in Australia,develops amnesia for its past if it does not serve their current purpose. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and was perhaps the major force in the abolition of slavery in the US, while in Australia, it was the Labor Party spurred on by the Unions, who were the main proponents of the White Australia Policy. Calwell even tried to expel non-white immigrants.

It was in fact the Catholic Church who railed against the poor treatment of the Chinese by the Labor Party.

Coulter seems to be breaking some unwritten rule that you can't criticise the morally righteous,lest they be publicly unmasked. I guess she'll cop their vitriol over this one.

How easily these things are forgotten when it no longer suits.When Labor Party figures speak of traditional Labor Party 'values' one can only laugh.
Posted by Atman, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 3:07:32 PM
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Runner says nasty things one day and hateful things the next,
its being so happy that keeps him going !!
Posted by Kipp, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 5:37:58 PM
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Atman,

It is true that long ago the Labor Party supported the White Australia Policy. It is also true that the legislation to establish it was introduced to Parliament by the forerunners of the Liberal Party, under Edmund Barton.

The Liberals did eventually move away from the White Australia Policy, but they were a bit late to do so. The DLP was the first of our parties to demand the abolition of the White Australia Policy – before the Liberals, before the Country Party and before the ALP – but that did not suit the SBS narrative and so was not mentioned in the program, Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us.
Posted by Chris C, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 9:02:45 AM
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The term 'half-black' was the first bit that put me off. Which half of the guy is black? What colour is the other half?

His opponents tried to demonise him by 'proving' that he wasn't born in the USA. When that didn't wash, he turned out to be a Commie. Now he's not black enough?

The Democrats may have a racist past, but they certainly showed courage when they put forward a candidate who wasn't entirely white.
Posted by Otokonoko, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 6:36:56 PM
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The article is dreadfully one-eyed. For one thing it ignores the fact that the South has swung from Democrat to Republican. This makes the racist past irrelevant to the Democratic Party of today.
Posted by Michael T, Monday, 12 November 2012 7:40:57 PM
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