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Katie Kersten, boiled down: "It's the blacks' fault they're profiled."

by: TwoPuttTommy

Sun Aug 02, 2009 at 10:23:09 AM CDT


It seems the Strib disabled "reader comments" under Katie Kersten's bizarre screed today.  Perhaps Strib misManagement knew - just KNEW - that Katie's ideologically-driven "blame the blacks" ravings would ignite a flame war that even the Strib couldn't stomach.

Kersten and her ilk hate everything that has to do with government; Kersten specifically has railed about "the nanny state."  In Kersten's world and among those denizens, the only good government program is a cancelled/eliminated program. Keep that in mind, while you read how Kersten ends her diatribe:

It's tragic that a small group of black Americans commit such a high percentage of our nation's violent crime. But until this changes, we'll continue to have a steady stream of Henry Louis Gates-like incidents.  (Strib.com)

Amazing, isn't it?  Oppose every program that could possibly eliminate the problem  and cause change (after all, government "is" the problem), but bemoan the lack of change.    

Karl Rove would be proud of the fine job Kersten did today in demonstrating the basic principle underlying every single play in today's GreedOverPrinciples playbook:

"More hate - less tolerance."

So I'm not going to take the time to fisk the intolerant tripe Kersten serves up today; no one should - Kersten's insenstive divisiveness speaks for itself.  

Instead, I'm recommending everyone should forward that pathetic piece of rightwing rubbish to everyone they know.

Kersten and her clan advocate holding people "responsible" - by forwarding Kersten's bile, you can hold both her AND her party responsible for the destructive divisiveness they preach.

 

TwoPuttTommy :: Katie Kersten, boiled down: "It's the blacks' fault they're profiled."
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I posted the following feedback at the Star Tribune (0.00 / 0)
Based on your Star Tribune article, "Katherine Kersten: Don't accept racial profiling as a simple fact. Police go where the crimes are, and it's the crimes that are disproportionate.", we should start profiling Republicans for sexual crimes. I don't believe that, it is just is a logical extension of the Katherine Kersten twisted logic. Really profiling is just another word for discrimination instead of fact-based policing. Why do you publish this awful type of social discourse? Is the Star Tribune really professing coded racial bias?


but she's getting read (0.00 / 0)
I doubt they care what she says, as long as she gets read. I usually ignore her columns, but in those rare cases I read her, I read the print edition. Encouraging people to read her on the web will make it look like she has a big readership, and that's probably why they brought her back. Complain to the Star Tribune certainly, and maybe quote noxious parts, but looking at her on the web site just encourages her.

What startles me, a little, (0.00 / 0)
is the contempt the Strib is showing for its remaining readership.  Or maybe their editorial board has no idea that that's how printing this comes across.

Why do you rob banks? (0.00 / 0)
Because that's where the money is.

Oftentimes there is a fairly simple answer for questions, but that simple answer is not popular.  This, of course, does make the answer any less true.



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