well...all of that was very interesting. the thing i love about these boards is i can stay away for months...years even...and when i come back it's like i never left. the same people are making the same arguments and, while some of the rhetoric is hateful and sad, quite a bit of it is funny as all hell.
my two cents: the e-mail was overtly racist. you can't make an obvious comparison between a black person and a chimp and not consider it racist.
having said that, the situation was a story for maybe one or two days...some anonymous republican in orange county forwarded an inappropriate e-mail to her inner circle. is she racist? maybe. maybe not. is she stupid? maybe. maybe not. does she have piss poor judgement? pretty much, yeah.
she should be fired or step down and that's the end of it. the whole episode does not deserve the amount of vitriol wasted on it here.
You were the first regular I interacted with, way back, on the DC message boards, Bast (way back when you were Year Of The Bastard). I always marveled at how vastly divergent our views were, and yet how we always got along, and never got uncivil or parted with bad feelings.
And this post is no exception. We disagree on smaller points, that are already clear in contrast to what I already posted. But the thrust of what you say is reasonable.
From the context that comparing blacks to monkeys is a longstanding tradition among racists, it can be interpreted that way, as racist.
From the context that Bush and others have been portrayed as chimps, it could be argued that it was not necessarily racist, but will certainly be portraayed that way by Democrats.
I'll leave the whole thing about pschoanalysis of Rex boiling down to fear/love/hatred (or all three) of black cocks for others to discuss.
