The Race War comes to Freep

Glad you found the second, more interesting thread, Anon!

Free Republic's spiral into maximal levels of hatred against blacks has been quite a thing to see. And it's wanted to kill all Muslims for as long as I remember. But they're not (yet?) quite white supremacists. Check out the arguments that grow over whether Bollywood dancing should count as Miss America's talent:

bray knows no nonwhite can ever really win anything these days, even a beauty contest!

Isn’t Affirmative Action wonderful?

Pray for America to Wake Up

I do love the repeated "Wake up White People" theme racists keep coming back to. I think it's a Simpsons quote to boot.

Nea Wood holds America to the high standard of India when it comes to inclusiveness:

Any blonde the right age for Miss America, who happens to be living in India because her parents immigrated there, should try out for Miss India next year. Think she’ll win? Think there’d be outrage if she did?

a fool in paradise knows who the REAL racists are:

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton both made ugly stereotypical comments about Indians and Pakistanis, yet both are in “serious contention” for the 2016 DNC nomination.

Identity politics only matter if you serve THE Party.

grania wants only square dancing and hot dog eating in the talent competition:

Personally, I don't think she's that attractive (I know, meow). The other thing is her talent. It's just like with AI or AGT. When people vote, they almost always choose someone with a talent that's part of our culture. I don't watch Miss America, I got fed up with it many years ago. But they've just given me another reason to be fed up. The winner, in fact all the contestants, should culturally represent the US....not Bollywood. JMHO

But MadIsh32 wonders exactly what 'American culture' is"

I suppose it depends on your outlook. Does the Constitution, Liberty, Levi’s, Gone With the Wind, the Blues/Country & Rock n Roll = White to you?

Does it matter?

Multiculturalism = the death of the host culture. Ask an American, a Gaul, a Celt, etc...

False acts of “tolerance” won’t save of from an ignorance of history.

Blues/Country “rock and roll” simply mean ‘50s and ‘60s to me, not white.

Constitution and liberty are enshrined in this country for everyone, that certainly isn’t white to me whatsoever (unless this is 1856 and it only applied to white men)

You are going to find more whites from age 15-25 listening to Drake, Jay Z, Diplo and T.I on their IPods and occasionally Kenny Chesny (who of course does some great collaborations with rappers like Nelly, are dating a non-white and generally have a more lassiez faire keep gov’t off my personal life approach to things.

As with everything, the culture is evolving. Miss America represents that

Our commenters did some Internet sleuthing of their own and may have uncovered some interesting info on DwFry, who only knows American culture is sick:

So define American culture in 2013

Balkanized.

Now lets talk about what history tells us that will usually leads to...

RinaseaofDs is not the only one who sees only one white girl in this picture...

And the white chick is five times hotter than the others. I realize that ‘hot’ isn’t a criteria, necessarily. She may be dumber than a bag of hammers, but . . .

DwFry - white Europeans are American:

Look at all those damn cultures spoiling America!!! Scots-Irish (Andrew Jackson, Daniel Morgan), Welsh (Daniel Boone), Highland Scots(Andrew Carnegie), Scandinavians(Erickson - the guy who deisgned the Monitor, Dahlgren - the guy who designed the Civil War Cannon), Germans (Albert Einstein, Dwight Eisenhower), Finns(invented the log cabin), Frenchmen , Italians, Irishmen!!!!

WHEN WILL IT END?????

(Sarcasm)

Being a smartass (and not understanding the term “multiculturalism”) doesn’t change history.

All White European Christians you listed by the way....do you even know what point you were going for?

CodeToad knows accepting Indian culture means we're destroying America:

"I always viewed myself as first and foremost American." Why not take her at her word?

Because she still acts like an Indian. Sorry, can’t be an Indian but claim to be an American. We DO have a culture. If you don’t think so then you must believe any American girl can win an Indian contest without any problems. Acceptance of all cultures within the US is forsaking our own culture. This acceptance of anything and everything is not healthy for our culture. It is saying we shouldn’t have borders either, but any nation without a border isn’t a nation.

Nepeta is kind of all over the map on this issue:

I would slow immigration down to a trickle & promote English as an official language but that’s about all I’ve got. The horse may have left the barn by now.

I do know joining in & pretending we’re special, that history will be different because we’re “special” won’t help anything.

We need to absorb the immigrants already here. We are doing a poor job of that. We should be very picky about immigrants--we do not need unskilled people.

Multiculturism is a disaster. We need to be teaching the root culture and values, and we need to use English as the one and only official language.

CodeToad again:

What I am claiming is that American identity is flexible enough that it doesn't require--and, indeed, has NEVER required--people to abandon their roots abroad, be it food, music, art, or the like. What I am claiming is that American culture is strong enough that it is not threatened by a beauty pageant contestant performing a Bollywood dance

But it is. We’ve even had to go to court in several States to rid ourselves of Sharia Law. We no longer can be Christians without offended these foreigners. We have had too much foreign influences and need to stop it.

Conscience of a Conservative's EPIC comeback:

So, the threat of creeping Shariah means that our culture is threatened by an American performing an Indian dance during a beauty pageant???

Also, I hope you're not referring to the new Miss America when you talk about "these foreigners." She was born in New York, raised in Oklahoma and Michigan, and now lives back in upstate New York. She's no foreigner.

And there, the thread ends. Though take heart! jmacusa reminds us:

Muslim is not a race.