Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Defenders of Equality Vs. Postmodern Nazis: Jessie Vs. Jessica--Colorado Decides


On Colorado Decides, Colorado Progressive Coalition's Jessie Ulibarri boldly defended equal opportunities for people of color and women in Colorado while debating Jessica Corry, someone I intuit from her creepy, right-wing appropriation of civil rights lingo is little more than a sophisticated, post-modern Nazi happy to destroy opportunities for women and people of color using a well crafted but patently false "civil rights" rhetoric. Jessica works for an organization called The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative which is working tirelessly to sponsor Amendment 46, the so-called "Civil Rights Amendment" which is working to roll-back equal opportunity hiring and higher education enrollment.

Ward Connerly, the initiatives key out-of-state funder, has enthusiastically welcomed the Ku Klux Klan's endorsement of past initiatives. Connerly perceives the KKK as an organization capable of logic and reason rather than hate. When the key funder of your organization/initiative is willing to accept the support of an organization guilty of a century of genocidal racism, lynchings, and pro-fascist, nationalist posturing to defend a so-called "libertarian" and so-called "civil rights" act, the true complicity between Corry, Connerly and white supremacy is obvious.

When will "American" "Libertarians" get it in their head that being complicit with fascist organizations, right wing policies, and globally destructive economic agendas will in no way help the cause of "liberty." Having appropriated libertarian rhetoric, these pomo fascists working tirelessly to destroy equal opportunities have had the audacity to steal "civil rights" discourse. Shame on them for bolstering white supremacy while degrading the spirit of justice.

Appropriations of civil rights and feminist rhetoric designed to attack the equal opportunities of women and communities of color must be criticized. Those who perpetrate legislative violence against communities of color and women and who thereby find alliances with the KKK and other fascists must be confronted as participants in the broader networks they associate with, networks bolstered by the support of hate groups and violent, racist extremists.

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