Openly Racist Candidate Wins GOP Primary In Tenn.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- An openly racist candidate is the winner in a Tennessee congressional primary.

James Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics, has handily defeated write-in opponent Dennis Bertrand in the Republican primary for the Eighth Congressional District.

Most of the votes have been counted and Hart has a big lead.

The 60-year-old doesn't expect to defeat Democratic Rep. John Tanner, who's represented the district for 15 years. But he says he wants to get out his message -- that people from what he calls "less favored races" should be discouraged from reproducing or immigrating to the United States.

His explanation of "less favored races" includes people on welfare and those from "sub-Saharan" African countries.

Hart says the Republican Party would like him to go away -- but he'll probably go to the GOP convention.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

at least he's open about it.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Eugenics is more than just racist. It's classist, too.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm...not sure about the haste with which the 'eugenics is racist / classist' arguments have emerged, unchallenged no less, but, yeah, sounds like another nutjob.

― people get ready (roger adultery), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, that's an actual quote from the AP? Using the word "phony?" Jesus christ.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm...not sure about the haste with which the 'eugenics is racist / classist' arguments have emerged

Do you know what "eugenics" means?

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

eugenics isn't inherently racist. you could advocate, say, killing disabled children, or people with dandruff.

― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, wait... that wasn't a joke, was it?

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

His explanation of "less favored races" includes people on welfare and those from "sub-Saharan" African countries.

not much ambiguity here, though.

― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

eugenics isn't inherently racist.

No, not inherently, but racism follows close behind. First you're castrating hillbillies (America really did this, BTW, in the 40's an 50's, against their will), and sure, they're white. But if you start trying to selective breed based on who is most capable and financially able to take care of their children, the south side of Chicago suddenly becomes a killing field (or at least a castration field). And it's hard to argue that's not racist.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

An excellect book.

Sure, we gave Saddam weapons. Sure, we supported terrorism abroad for decades. Sure, we claim Henry Kissinger as a citizen. Fuck all that. We gave Hitler all his most popular ideas.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

get over yourself pal

― apocalypso the scumfuck (roger adultery), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what you mean.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm...not sure about the haste with which the 'eugenics is racist / classist' arguments have emerged, unchallenged no less

I missed the "unchallenged no less" part the first time, but it doesn't clear anything up. So you do think eugenics is racist and classist, but you are unsure about ILX's quickness to call it such? And you think I'm being arrogant somehow by outlining the problem with eugenics?

I think you may be acting like an ass.

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He believes the country will look "like one big Detroit" - which has a large African-American population - if it doesn't eliminate welfare payments and immigration. He believes that if blacks were integrated centuries ago, the automobile would never have been invented.

Mr Hart has been said to turn up at voters' homes wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a gun, telling them that "white children deserve the same rights as everyone else".

taken from http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=547684

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He believes the country will look "like one big Detroit"

is he a member of p-funk?

― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like a lot of great records could be made. I'm all for "one big Detriot."

― Harold Media (kenan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"white children deserve the same rights as everyone else"

yep, nutjob.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 7 August 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Whether eugenics is racist and classist is secondary to the fact that it's complete bollocks.

― fcussen (Burger), Saturday, 7 August 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Whether eugenics is racist and classist is secondary to the fact that it's complete bollocks.
-- fcussen (fcussen33...), August 7th, 2004.

OTM.

That book "War Against the Weak" that Harold Media linked to is excellent, I bought it from my mom's bookstore several months ago.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 7 August 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeh, a complete idiot. Eugenics...

Detroit is a mess, no doubt...not sure, even given the music, I'd want an America like one big Detroit. Which isn't an imminent danger anyway. Memphis loves its "eccentrics."

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 7 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh, don't mind my uncle, he's old and set in his ways."

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 7 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone always blames Detroit on black people!

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 7 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hart ran in the 8th Tennessee CD as an independent last time. Tanner beat him and Republican opposition with over 70% of the vote. The 8th goes from far west Nashville suburbs to the northern outskirts of Memphis, and includes all of northwest Tennessee-- strong Dem. territory except a couple counties in the corner, and a little bit of the area around Clarksville that includes some Fort Campbell folks. No chance this nutcase will win, but it's not like Tanner would be solidly behind a Kerry agenda.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Saturday, 7 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, also: the problem is that the definition of "unfit to live" might suddenly change while the purge is going on. First the so-called "cleansers" get rid of the "obvious losers and wastes of vital resources" and then they suddenly add "suspected losers and wastes of vital resources"; and then they start weeding within their own ranks. Eventually, everybody is fair game in the Coming Cull.
Like my uncle would've said "hey...if the bad buys can do it to a Jew, they can just as easy do it to you."
and so forth.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 8 August 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And that's really the scary part, isn't it. Like when everybody started saying "hey you should really pay attention to AIDS: straights can get it too!" I mean before it was like, hey, no biggie. Errr.

The awesome thing about this guy's position is that he kind of has to favor abortion.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

nitsuh OTM

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

they should blame detroit on ford motor co. i guess.

― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

its not as if crime in cities gets worse after massive, class-based suburbanization or anything.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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