{"id":7423,"date":"2012-03-19T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2012-03-19T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:07:25","slug":"profiting-from-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/profiting-from-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiting from Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has opened their arms to all manner of hatemongers, especially racists.  But just to support racism is not enough for some Republicans.  They are not content unless they can make a profit from racism.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RepublicanRacists\"President Obama\u2019s critics hate being labeled racists, but occasionally it\u2019s hard to argue with the charges. Paula Smith, the owner Stickatude.com, is defending a popular bumper sticker that is igniting debate on race and spawning widespread condemnation.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t Re-Nig in 2012<\/font><\/strong>,\u201d reads the sticker \u2014 a not-too-subtle play on a word that invokes one of the most repulsive racial epithets to attack the country\u2019s first black president. Yet, Smith sees absolutely nothing wrong with it<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

…Perhaps most upsetting of all is the fact that the sticker is currently the site\u2019s top seller<\/strong> [racist delinked]\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to make claims without actually seeing the site myself, so I checked it out, and it is unquestionably a pro Republican business.  Of their top ten stickers, six are anti-Obama, two are right-wing, and two are tasteless, but apolitical.<\/font><\/p>\n

Now I am not claiming that all Republicans are racists, but the existence of a party that panders to racism, bigotry, homophobia, misogyny and more, as the Republican party unquestionably does, is an insult to the vast majority of Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has opened their arms to all manner of hatemongers, especially racists.  But just to support racism is not enough for some Republicans.  They are not content unless they can make a profit from racism. President Obama\u2019s critics hate being labeled racists, but occasionally it\u2019s hard to argue with the charges. Paula Smith, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}