Racist Turing Test
I put someone in a box, and I’ll tell you they’re either a Ku Klux Klan member, or a Republican. You must devise questions to ask this person, to find out which of the two they are. You are limited to asking them yes/no questions about hot-button political issues.
For example:
1) In general, do you support welfare?
2) Do you support Arizona’s law SB 1070?
3) Do you support affirmative action?
4) Do you oppose the “Ground Zero Mosque”?
5) Do you believe the United States is a Christian Nation?
6) Do you believe president Obama is the legitimate president of the United States?
7) Do you support a ban on burqas, niqabs and hijabs?
8) Are you against immigration?
I think you’ll generally find the Republican position on the issue is indistinguishable from the racist position. Note, the default “conservative” position on questions 2, 4, and 7 is opposite the Republican position.
This is why conservatives get called racists. Because assuming there’s a little racist homunculus living inside their head is a perfectly reasonable way to predict their opinion on any given issue. In fact, doing so even explains their deviation from principles which might otherwise be considered conservative, like supporting constitutional freedoms of minorities.
March 4th, 2012 at 8:25 am
I’m not American, don’t know what SB 1070 is, nor too interested in Republicans, but I think those answers 4 and 7 confuse racists with atheists. They’re not interchangeable.
March 4th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
As an American atheist, I can say that many — if not most — of us were supportive of the concerned individuals’ right to build a “mosque” (read: community center) wherever they wanted. Not out of support for Islam per se, but in defense of religious minorities and in opposition to the right wing hype machine.
I’d imagine were pretty divided over the issue of Muslim garb, but for those of us who oppose it, our reasons are very different from those of republicans…