“Just a Yellow Woman Doing a White Man’s Job”

Posted November 20, 2005, 11:26 a.m.

I read a post with this title today from Michelle Malkin, one of my favorite conservative bloggers and columnists. Malkin—a woman of Filipino heritage—is constantly insulted, sometimes brutally, in a manner that would be roundly condemned as racist and sexist if directed at a liberal. In this case, she lashes out (rightfully) against those who have now directed this mindless wrath at her husband.

It has become popular among the far-left to trade more in baseless insults than in ideas, but the double-standard with regard to race and gender is just appalling. Malkin, though I disagree with her on some issues, is one of the smartest and most well-researched political writers I’ve ever read. Yet she often gets dismissed as a brainwashed whore and worse.

Meanwhile, Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele gets called an “Uncle Tom” and a “Sambo” because he’s a black Republican, and don’t even get me started on the tripe I’ve heard about Condoleezza Rice. It is time for civil, rational human beings to reclaim the liberal movement; this blatant racism/sexism and close-mindedness now passes for its mainstream rhetoric.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thought?

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone—until they do.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn’t.

A tax, in the general understanding of the term, and as used in the Constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word has never been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another.

I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . [But] from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

The ancient world did in fact experience the birth of Christianity as a liberation from the fear of demons that, in spite of skepticism and enlightenment, was all-pervasive at the time.

But rulers have the same propensities as other men; they are as likely to use the power with which they are vested, for private purposes, and to the injury and oppression of those over whom they are placed. . . .

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosed by her faith.

One of the pressures on governments . . . is to ‘do something’—even when there is nothing they can do that is likely to make things better and much that they can do that will risk making things worse.

Arrogance and reproach have now become strong; it is a time of ruin and furious anger. Now, my children, show zeal for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of our fathers.

Let us not forget that unity is a symptom of life; disunion is decay, a sure sign of being a corpse.

If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing. . . .

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘facts.’ They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Corporations (and other associations) do not have liberty and property rights because they are ‘people,’ but because they are created, managed, and controlled by people.