What do you do as a political leader to gain ground?
Make the opposition look like the bad guys, of course.
Now everyone knows that nobody likes a racist. I certainly don't, and it seems that Monday's article by "Guest Columnists," Chris Brook and Susan Navarro deriding Republicans as being racists followed the same logic.
What bothers me most is that, although Brook places a caveat that he doesn't mean to call all Republicans racists, he uses terms like "Republicans' bigotry" freely, and his dominant impression is still very clear.
Although a conservative could make an equally bad argument about Democrats' infidelity, I would rather point out that Brook is making group stigmas based on a few members of a diverse association. Seems to me that such generalization and ignorant thinking is the how we got the problem of racism anyway!
Consider the intentions of Brook.
I doubt the leader of the campus' Young Democrats wrote such an article right before his group's first meeting to enlighten the populace with a one-sided and myopic story that tries to be a one-page political history.
Great advertising, just short of the plug.
I've been on campus two weeks, and I consider myself a moderate in most forms, but so far the only thing making me want to be more conservative is the behavior of the Democratic leadership.
