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Instead of asking the president whether he thinks opposition to health care reform is based on race, reporters might think of asking Republicans why they're using terms like "quota system" and "reparations" to argue against reform.
I linked to this in my last post, but it's worth a post all on its own. Despite the media clamor to get President Obama to absolve his political opponents of racism (and by extension, everyone everywhere), you have Senate Republicans sending out mailers asking questions like this:
Are you concerned that health care rationing could lead to:Not only are the president's political enemies accusing him of trying to implement "backdoor reparations" for slavery through health-care reform, now they're suggesting that he might institute a system where black people get health care and white people don't, because he's, you know, black. Obviously, there's no such thing in the bill, anywhere.23. Denial of treatment in cases where the patient's prospects are deemed not good?
24. A "lottery" system of determining who will get priority treatment?
25. A "quota" system which would determine who would determine who would get treatment on the basis of race or age?
Instead of asking the president whether he thinks opposition to health care reform is based on race, reporters might think of asking Republicans why they're using terms like "quota system" and "reparations" to argue against reform.
-- A. Serwer
