Source: www.alternet.org - Monday, March 23, 2015
He remarked that America would perhaps strip blacks of the vote if black nations had attacked us. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's racist campaigning did not cost him the election, but it did cost Obama administration support. The U.S. rarely openly disagrees with Israel's leaders, but the administration issued a statement condemning the remarks. Yet even as the American government and others in the West are finally moving towards pressuring Israel over its government's intransigence, comedian Bill Maher, nominally a liberal supporter of President Obama, has sought to instead defend Netanyahu's racist campaign. Maher praised Israel for allowing Arabs to vote at all, saying that America would perhaps strip blacks of the vote altogether if “12 or 13 completely black nations” had attacked us – which seems to endorse the idea that America itself is a white nation and blacks are merely second-class and unrepresentative of our own nation: MAHER: Let me ask the question I was going to ask about this, which is when he said that, 'Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls,' I heard a lot of commentators here say, it would be as if Mitt Romney in 2012 on the eve of the election said black voters are coming out in droves to the polls. But I don't know if that's really a great analogy. I think that would be a good analogy if America was a country that was surrounded by 12 or 13 completely black nations who had militarily a
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He remarked that America would perhaps strip blacks of the vote if black nations had attacked us. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's racist campaigning did not cost him the election, but it did cost Obama administration support. The U.S. rarely openly disagrees with Israel's leaders, but the administration issued a statement condemning the remarks. Yet even as the American government and others in the West are finally moving towards pressuring Israel over its government's intransigence, comedian Bill Maher, nominally a liberal supporter of President Obama, has sought to instead defend Netanyahu's racist campaign. Maher praised Israel for allowing Arabs to vote at all, saying that America would perhaps strip blacks of the vote altogether if “12 or 13 completely black nations” had attacked us – which seems to endorse the idea that America itself is a white nation and blacks are merely second-class and unrepresentative of our own nation: MAHER: Let me ask the question I was going to ask about this, which is when he said that, 'Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls,' I heard a lot of commentators here say, it would be as if Mitt Romney in 2012 on the eve of the election said black voters are coming out in droves to the polls. But I don't know if that's really a great analogy. I think that would be a good analogy if America was a country that was surrounded by 12 or 13 completely black nations who had militarily afrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1boFzqv
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