04-25-2014, 01:50 PM
(04-24-2014, 03:59 PM)Maggot Wrote: “And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to work. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as workers and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
The media is what makes it racist, they tell you how to think. But a person that speaks the truth in their way is going to be attacked. The media controls the mindset in many people. Watch there will be more dirt dug up on this guy from now on as the PC Police flock to the front of the line.
Well, the only reason what this guy Bundy said is news is because the extreme right media (hi, Hannity) positioned him as a kind of folk hero for refusing to pay the $1.50 per head (IIRC) that every other rancher pays to have cattle grazing on federal/subsidized land.
IMO, it's not the media that's exclusively making Bundy look racist -- I watched/heard him deliver his words myself and can see how in the eyes of many he did a damned good job of that all by his lonesome. I do think that some of the headlines and analysis surrounding "his truth" (not the same as mine) -- which I believe he has a right to express as much as others have a right to express their opinions that he's a racist -- have sensationalized the story. But, that's not surprising -- the media cuts both ways.
Anyway, I don't know or care if Bundy is a racist. Either way, he's not a hero or a patriot to me. I do believe he's ignorant for opening his big fat mouth and generalizing about negros being better off as slaves back in the day than criminals and subsidy recipients when he is, in fact, taking advantage of subsidies and has resorted to armed criminal action in the process.
To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Bundy's never been a slave or a negro. But, he's certainly a hypocrite in my eyes.