Notice to the mods and liberals:
Mods: I put a copy of the song below purely for historical "context," I suppose. Personally, I love the song. That said, it strikes me as a particularly revealing piece of 60s, 70's conservative political propoganda. It's directly relevant to the arguments at issue here. I am offering the link to provide a context for my arguments/discussion, not specifically and explicitly to provide explicit support or propaganda in favor of racism.
Liberals: If you don't like these kinds of songs, nobody is forcing you to listen to them.
Argumentum:
I was listening to the song linked below, "Segregation Wagon." I don't know who the author is. It was alleged to be a Johnny Rebel song, but I don't actually know who the author and singer are.
What struck me is the insistence on the notion of State's rights as an ideological/legal defense of segregationist policies.
"Wait for the wagon, the segregation wagon. States' rights is the wagon, so let's all take a ride!"
In this respect, the conservative rhetoric really hasn't changed over the past 150 years or so.
That upstart Lincoln's meddlesome policy of waging an imperialistic war against the Confederate
States of America rather than recognizing their inherent right of secession was, it seems to me, a most unforgivable trespass, a sheer trampling against on the notion of states rights, i.e., of the legislative and sovereign authority of the individual states to decide in favor of their own interests.
Likewise those meddlesome upstarts Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy as well as the utterly despicable court which penned Brown vs. Board of Education.
What the policies of Johnson and Kennedy effectively said is that the federal government has the authority, right and duty to overturn the customs and policies of local jurisdictions (i.e., at the State level). And who could bring up a greater instance of sheer judicial activism, of legislation from the bench, of liberal court usurpation of legislative authority, than Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned the popular legislative authority at the State and federal levels.
The sole reason that conservatives nowadays do not decry these despicable men and this loathsome piece of supreme court liberal nonsense is because today's conservatives are yesterday's liberals! The sole reason why today's conservatives take no issue with Brown v. Board of Education is because they just so happen to agree with its contents.
Ultimately, there is no difference, in principle, between Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, that most recent court decision legalizing homosexual "marriage" in all states, and all of those other court decisions and federal pieces of legislation (e.g., in favor of homosexuals and transgendered persons) which violate State authority and individual conscience.
Yet conservatives today will continue to use this same exact argument in every single instance: "It violates individual conscience!" "It violates the authority of the State to decide what is best for itself!"
Fact is, however, at this point in history, it is a losing argument. And it has to lose: because we already lost at Brown v. Board of Education. We already lost at the civil war.
So long as Brown v. Board of Education stands, "State's rights" has no argumentative or legal force.
Therefore, I raise this exhortation to conservatives:
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION MUST BE OVERTURNED!
So long as Brown v. Board of Education stands, conservatives have no compelling argument against judicial and federal overreach. The precedent's already been set.
If the courts have the right to tell a man that his children have to go to school with the children of non-white persons, then there is no legal reason why the courts shouldn't think of themselves as having the right to tell a bakery owner that he must sell cakes to homos.
Mods: I put a copy of the song below purely for historical "context," I suppose. Personally, I love the song. That said, it strikes me as a particularly revealing piece of 60s, 70's conservative political propoganda. It's directly relevant to the arguments at issue here. I am offering the link to provide a context for my arguments/discussion, not specifically and explicitly to provide explicit support or propaganda in favor of racism.
Liberals: If you don't like these kinds of songs, nobody is forcing you to listen to them.
Argumentum:
I was listening to the song linked below, "Segregation Wagon." I don't know who the author is. It was alleged to be a Johnny Rebel song, but I don't actually know who the author and singer are.
What struck me is the insistence on the notion of State's rights as an ideological/legal defense of segregationist policies.
"Wait for the wagon, the segregation wagon. States' rights is the wagon, so let's all take a ride!"
In this respect, the conservative rhetoric really hasn't changed over the past 150 years or so.
That upstart Lincoln's meddlesome policy of waging an imperialistic war against the Confederate
States of America rather than recognizing their inherent right of secession was, it seems to me, a most unforgivable trespass, a sheer trampling against on the notion of states rights, i.e., of the legislative and sovereign authority of the individual states to decide in favor of their own interests.
Likewise those meddlesome upstarts Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy as well as the utterly despicable court which penned Brown vs. Board of Education.
What the policies of Johnson and Kennedy effectively said is that the federal government has the authority, right and duty to overturn the customs and policies of local jurisdictions (i.e., at the State level). And who could bring up a greater instance of sheer judicial activism, of legislation from the bench, of liberal court usurpation of legislative authority, than Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned the popular legislative authority at the State and federal levels.
The sole reason that conservatives nowadays do not decry these despicable men and this loathsome piece of supreme court liberal nonsense is because today's conservatives are yesterday's liberals! The sole reason why today's conservatives take no issue with Brown v. Board of Education is because they just so happen to agree with its contents.
Ultimately, there is no difference, in principle, between Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, that most recent court decision legalizing homosexual "marriage" in all states, and all of those other court decisions and federal pieces of legislation (e.g., in favor of homosexuals and transgendered persons) which violate State authority and individual conscience.
Yet conservatives today will continue to use this same exact argument in every single instance: "It violates individual conscience!" "It violates the authority of the State to decide what is best for itself!"
Fact is, however, at this point in history, it is a losing argument. And it has to lose: because we already lost at Brown v. Board of Education. We already lost at the civil war.
So long as Brown v. Board of Education stands, "State's rights" has no argumentative or legal force.
Therefore, I raise this exhortation to conservatives:
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION MUST BE OVERTURNED!
So long as Brown v. Board of Education stands, conservatives have no compelling argument against judicial and federal overreach. The precedent's already been set.
If the courts have the right to tell a man that his children have to go to school with the children of non-white persons, then there is no legal reason why the courts shouldn't think of themselves as having the right to tell a bakery owner that he must sell cakes to homos.
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