Republican Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder was recently interviewed on the Steve Malberg Show by host Steve Malberg, courtesy of the conspiracy-obsessed network NewsmaxTV, with regard to the Department of Justice (DOJ) report on the Ferguson police force. Here are just a couple of Mr. Kinder's more "interesting" comments from the interview:
- "[The DOJ is staffed with] hard-left radical leftist lawyers..."
Yes, as opposed to hard-left radical rightist lawyers or hard-right radical leftist lawyers...
Given his statement, I have to believe the Missouri Lieutenant Governor will soon write a how-to book, called, "How To Master the Art of Being Redundant and the Mastery of Redundancy."
- "There is more racism in the Justice Department than anywhere I see in the St. Louis area. We've come an enormous way in 50 years, that's not to say that we don't have still more to do. It is the left, it is the Eric Holder and the Obama left and their minions that are obsessed with race while the rest of us are moving on beyond it."
This line of thinking has always baffled me a great deal. To Peter Kinder and those with his mentality, "moving beyond" race means not discussing it, for if race isn't discussed, racism can't exist. However, when people choose to discuss race and racism, they're only adding to the problem, for the issue then can't be ignored, and with that, it still exists. So, in other words, the true racists are those that bring up the topic of race or racism because they can't simply move beyond these issues by pretending they don't exist, whereas the non-racists prove such by ignoring the issue to such a grand extent, they believe it's not an issue at all.
Of course, that rationale is ludicrous, yet it doesn't surprise me given the source and how the far-right tends to think nowadays. To them, if a person contends that the U.S. is flawed or needs to improve in a certain area, this is often times translated as, "Well, it's obvious he doesn't love this country." When someone questions a biblical interpretation of a pastor or conservative politician, that's often times met with, "That person needs to read their Bible again" or "How can a true Christian say that?" No pun intended, but most of these individuals think in black-and-white terms. Something is either right or wrong; there's no grey area. Due to this kind of thinking, they feel it's best to not discuss certain issues, because that will just leave open the possibility of another poking a hole in their belief system, especially when a certain belief can be fact-checked. This is why often times when another calls them out on a myth or lie through a fact-checking site, they'll respond with, "You know all those things are all liberally-biased." Many with this mentality also believe that admitting any kind of flaw is a sign of weakness, and it's better to accept oneself flaws and all than to admit any and attempt to improve upon them. No matter how hard I try to understand their rationale, however, that still doesn't make their rationale actually rational. Just because one doesn't talk about their drug addiction doesn't mean they're not addicted. Just because an alcoholic doesn't outwardly admit his problem to the world doesn't mean he doesn't have a problem. Just because one refuses to talk about racism doesn't mean racism doesn't exist. As the saying goes, the first step to overcoming a problem is admitting the problem exists, for how can one overcome this problem if they don't believe it to exist? That's the biggest problem with Peter Kinder's (and those like him) line of thinking. The fact is no country is perfect, including the U.S. We have areas in which we need to improve, such as with: Education, infrastructure, obesity, poverty, equality, pollution, gun violence, prisons, etc. However, unless the GOP realizes it's okay to admit this isn't a perfect country that's in need of some improvements, they're going to be hard-pressed to vote for such improvements to be made. Likewise, unless we as a country admit that racism is still a problem here, we're not going to be able to progress much in that area and will continue to have these ridiculous debates on whether it's a better method to end racism by admitting it and making necessary changes to overcome it or to ignore it altogether. Denial may at least temporarily rid oneself of feelings of guilt, but it does nothing to deal with the problem at hand or to overcome said problem.
Department of Justice (Eric Holder, Barack Obama, and the "hard-left radical leftists"): "Upon further review, the Ferguson police force did exhibit numerous signs of racism toward blacks and something needs to be done to improve on that."
Peter Kinder: "Say what?!? We're not the racists! You're the racists! You know how I know?!? We don't talk about it!"
Yes, on that note, expect Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder to soon release a book entitled, "The Art of Denial and Redundancy, Redundancy and Denial."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/16/peter-kinder-ferguson_n_6882538.html
- "[The DOJ is staffed with] hard-left radical leftist lawyers..."
Yes, as opposed to hard-left radical rightist lawyers or hard-right radical leftist lawyers...
Given his statement, I have to believe the Missouri Lieutenant Governor will soon write a how-to book, called, "How To Master the Art of Being Redundant and the Mastery of Redundancy."
- "There is more racism in the Justice Department than anywhere I see in the St. Louis area. We've come an enormous way in 50 years, that's not to say that we don't have still more to do. It is the left, it is the Eric Holder and the Obama left and their minions that are obsessed with race while the rest of us are moving on beyond it."
This line of thinking has always baffled me a great deal. To Peter Kinder and those with his mentality, "moving beyond" race means not discussing it, for if race isn't discussed, racism can't exist. However, when people choose to discuss race and racism, they're only adding to the problem, for the issue then can't be ignored, and with that, it still exists. So, in other words, the true racists are those that bring up the topic of race or racism because they can't simply move beyond these issues by pretending they don't exist, whereas the non-racists prove such by ignoring the issue to such a grand extent, they believe it's not an issue at all.
Of course, that rationale is ludicrous, yet it doesn't surprise me given the source and how the far-right tends to think nowadays. To them, if a person contends that the U.S. is flawed or needs to improve in a certain area, this is often times translated as, "Well, it's obvious he doesn't love this country." When someone questions a biblical interpretation of a pastor or conservative politician, that's often times met with, "That person needs to read their Bible again" or "How can a true Christian say that?" No pun intended, but most of these individuals think in black-and-white terms. Something is either right or wrong; there's no grey area. Due to this kind of thinking, they feel it's best to not discuss certain issues, because that will just leave open the possibility of another poking a hole in their belief system, especially when a certain belief can be fact-checked. This is why often times when another calls them out on a myth or lie through a fact-checking site, they'll respond with, "You know all those things are all liberally-biased." Many with this mentality also believe that admitting any kind of flaw is a sign of weakness, and it's better to accept oneself flaws and all than to admit any and attempt to improve upon them. No matter how hard I try to understand their rationale, however, that still doesn't make their rationale actually rational. Just because one doesn't talk about their drug addiction doesn't mean they're not addicted. Just because an alcoholic doesn't outwardly admit his problem to the world doesn't mean he doesn't have a problem. Just because one refuses to talk about racism doesn't mean racism doesn't exist. As the saying goes, the first step to overcoming a problem is admitting the problem exists, for how can one overcome this problem if they don't believe it to exist? That's the biggest problem with Peter Kinder's (and those like him) line of thinking. The fact is no country is perfect, including the U.S. We have areas in which we need to improve, such as with: Education, infrastructure, obesity, poverty, equality, pollution, gun violence, prisons, etc. However, unless the GOP realizes it's okay to admit this isn't a perfect country that's in need of some improvements, they're going to be hard-pressed to vote for such improvements to be made. Likewise, unless we as a country admit that racism is still a problem here, we're not going to be able to progress much in that area and will continue to have these ridiculous debates on whether it's a better method to end racism by admitting it and making necessary changes to overcome it or to ignore it altogether. Denial may at least temporarily rid oneself of feelings of guilt, but it does nothing to deal with the problem at hand or to overcome said problem.
Department of Justice (Eric Holder, Barack Obama, and the "hard-left radical leftists"): "Upon further review, the Ferguson police force did exhibit numerous signs of racism toward blacks and something needs to be done to improve on that."
Peter Kinder: "Say what?!? We're not the racists! You're the racists! You know how I know?!? We don't talk about it!"
Yes, on that note, expect Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder to soon release a book entitled, "The Art of Denial and Redundancy, Redundancy and Denial."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/16/peter-kinder-ferguson_n_6882538.html
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