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  • blacks may not have been respected much back then but they at least had more self respect and were strong on family values.

  • "when negros could be described as christian, conservative, and patriotic"

    sounds about right to me.

    I doubt anyone, even blacks, would use those words to describe themselves today.

    stop thinking with your emotions and read the text you moron

  • Yep, the 50's were great. Lets go back.

  • Pat Buchanan is a nazi, racist, and anti-semite. Pure and simple.

  • Man I wish I could have been around in the fifties.

    Majority White nation? Hell yeah!

  • The problem with you racists and bigots is that you don't actually believe in the main concept behind the U.S. Freedom.

    Personal responsibility? Degenerates with no morals? What responsibility, and whose morals? As long as you don't transgress on others' rights, how you live and what you view as moral is up to you.

    You guys don't really believe in freedom. You believe that people should be free to live the way YOU feel is right, and that they should be persecuted for living any other way.

  • That fat guy turkish guy isnt even European so ofcourse his picture of the USA is not the anglo america, that is the real US , and the country that Pat Buchanan loves and defends.

  • @Carpediem8110101 I recommend that you go to your psychiatrist and ask about Haloperidol (trade name Haldol). What you claim to be morals, I call delusions. Want to know why this country is fucked up? Those same organizations that you worship (corporations, religious institutions) are the ones that are secretly sucking the life out of everyone and teaching you idiots that the problem is "those animals". So do us all a favor and go and take an antipsychotic you closet bigot!

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  • Pat Buchanan is the man.

    Bring back the 50s. And Fuck you fat turks who use white guilt to make the west weak and pussified. A return to the 50s today doesnt need to have black segregation.

    But i guess all of you mediaculture, jerking dopehead, hippes just love how the west has turned into a shithole where you can live like a degenerat animal with no morals, or have no responsibility for your own society or nation.

    Let us all sing kumbaya, while the west is rotten from the inside.

  • Other words I bet Pat used in fifties for "negro". Boy, coon, N!gger, and egg plant. Fuck Pat fuck the fifty.

  • The '50s where a social engineering project that failed, because it excluded minorities. An unsustainable economy based on ever growing consumption by a country that was running out of it's own natural resources.

  • we need to bring back the good things of the 1950s: hot chicks who wear dresses and actually know how to cook, rock 'n' roll, fair trade, gretsch guitars and men who actually work for a living. Today we have fat ugly women and pussified lazy men and the music sucks balls and our cars suck too.

  • The 1950's blacks had the highest college graduation rate we can have that now can we?

  • Who the fuck still says "Negro"? Isn't that a term we've left in the time machine with "ballyhoo", "shucks", and "fiddlesticks"? Second, the 50s weren't that great for everyone. Don't believe me? Learn some history and you'll see why we don't need the 50s again, we need the modern day, not the idealized past.

  • My good Knee Grows!

  • Reagan wasn't for re-segragating the US

  • Pat Buchanan....America's crazy uncle.

  • Obama is a joke

  • Pat Buchanan, an embarrassing anachronism, taking way too long to become extinct.

  • You go Cenk; these guys crack me up because it's true Buchanan he wants the 50s to continue; he wants blacks sit back on the bus, eat in the back, and drink from hydrants while the whites have safe nucleic lives. Whatever

  • Yous can't teach a middle aged Christian fanatic Republican about racism or any progressive issues because a) they are just to ignorant to accept the facts, or b) they really are so idiotic as to think that the 50's are awesome for the black community.

  • Look at the white uncle tom on the right, furiously burnishing his self-image as a warm fuzzy non-racist. "Please don't hate me!" he implores us. "Hate Buchanan instead." Like the creep Albert Speer before him, he holds himself up as a "good" member of an "evil" group. Blacks laugh at liberal whites who constantly endeavor to ingratiate themselves. And they're right. It's truly pathetic.

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  • the 50's was the best era you be back in turky you dirty durka

  • commandermike13221: He speaks English better than you.

  • There is two types of White and Black. You have the White & Black people who think logically and concentrate on being successful. Then you have those who waste their time trying to spread hate based on stupidity, which ultimately leads to the same results. If a race disappeared off the planet would that make your house bigger? Would your family be richer? or would there be a different complaint?

  • most of the comments here show me how stupid white people are (and i'm not black)

  • 1950's were the best in this country. Now it is a big mess.

  • shasha1873: No it wasn't. It was full of racism and conformity. Blacks were legally second-class citizens in the South, there were still lynchings, the culture was glib, conformist and stupid, the music for the most part sucked, and the government was propping up brutal dictators around the world and renting Cuba out the the Mafia, women had no rights in a relationship, and had to have their husband's signature on anything they bought.

  • Well, I am not for lynching black people. But it is an iferior race and should know its' place. Music was much better. Today all we do is insult women in music. Also, we were a white nation. Look at us now, we are mexican third world.

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  • Dude, the whites are a minority in the world. Just look at the world map and populations and add up.

  • I wasn't talking about the world. I was talking about the US. The point I'm trying to make is that people are ignorant. They don't look at it from the other perspective. This is why I wish one of these Hollywood producers created a movie where the history of Blacks, Whites, Latinoes, etc. was flipped around. Create a film in which Whites came from Africa and Blacks were the KKK. Create a film showing Latinoes as terrorist and the Latin Kings were Arabs. Paint the world in a different perspective

  • so are you.

  • I hope you are being sarcastic...

    If you aren't then that is pretty ironci because by saying what you said makes you what you said, an idiot and ugrateful uncivilized and unhuman.

    I mean seriously where are you people from? I bet you never even saw a black person for longer than 30 minutes in person. I just don't understand where people get these thoughts.

    Seriously where are you from? You know what. I can't say these things to you it's not fair. It's not your fault you had bad parents.

  • Yeah its tragic. Something went wrong in early life. These unhuman views must have started from a child. There is no way a happy unimpoverised educated child grows up and arrives on youtube with those sick views.

  • Good negros good negros HAHAHAHA

  • cenk, i get bewildered by the constant recurring prejudices all the time - i sometimes wonder if people are trying to get a reaction from me , but no , they really are saying NIGGER & monkey & raghead with more conviction than i can muster day to day , sometimes i despair ,fuck sake when are we going to get the basicsof getting along ironed out.ffs.

  • When people start using their brains that's when racism will stop. I find that it is natural for a human to protect his or herself by sticking with those who are like them. When I lived in Germany, I found that racism practically didn't exist. Americans stuck with Americans for protection. The problem is people fair what they don't understand. Racism would immediately disappear if we were to get visited by aliens. LOL

  • I understand what you are saying. But that is far from fact. The white people came from Europe, the most advanced continent for centuries. Of course they were powerful and that is why they rulled and made slave of the others. No one gave them this superiority. They worked hard for it. The blacks are lazy and Latinos are dumb. That is why Mexico is nothing close to USA and Canada.

  • Let me get this right, because the Whites went and killed everyone to get the land, that make them smarter? In the history books that I have read, Whites killed innocent people (indians, muslims, jews, blacks, etc.) and your saying "They worked hard for it". Did your forget that Whites killed Indians to get this land and used Blacks to accumulate wealth, but that's being smart, right? Well, it seems Blacks are getting smarter now and aren't putting up with the BS anymore look at your President!

  • Well, you have a good point. We have gotten weaker thanks to traitors among us.

  • ouch. so true

  • @Ramel34 Millions of white americans not only did not slave or killed anyone but are descendants of poor immigrants from Germany, Italy, Poland, Ireland... that arrived in the second half of 19th and first half of 20th and were often victims of bigotry. What are you talking about?

  • shasha1873: At the time when the Europeans first found out about the New World, they were not the "most advanced continent for centuries." They were barely out of the Dark Ages, and the Arabs had helped them with that. Europe was still run by feudal aristocrats, just a few generations removed from the days when the lord of the bailey had the right to take the virginity of every peasant girl in his domain on their wedding nights, before their husbands got to even be with them.

  • I agree with you. That is very correct. But look at what the Europeans built even during this dark ages. The structures Europe build do not even exist in Arabia. Not only that, just look at what Romans and Greeks did 2000 years before that. Now all we do is bomb the shit out of these Arabs thanks to Israel. They will never have a chance to catch up now.

  • shasha1873: What are you talking about? The pointed arch, the defining feature of Gothic architecture, is from Arabia. The idea was probably brought back by returning Crusaders, who'd been dazzled by the pointed arches and brilliantly tiled domes of the great mosques. Before the Gothic era, European architecture had been Romanesque, lots of bulky, short, squat cathedrals with tiny windows that let in almost no light.

  • shasha1873: The Greeks and the Romans had their influences too. The Greeks were inspired by cultures farther to the East. The earliest Greek Koroi (statues of young men) are heavily influenced by Egyptian statuary. On early Greek vases, the human figure is abstracted in ways that would seem more familiar in ancient Mesopotamia.

  • shasha1873: Jews, heretics and accused witches were burned alive in public. In Spain, the Inquisition had already started, which meant that if you didn't like pork, they could arrest you for being Jewish, herd you into a pit with a dozen other people accused of the same thing, cover all of you in dried wood, straw and pitch, and set the whole thing on fire. Only 160 years before, people's response to the Black Death was to whip themselves and burn more Jews, rather than take a bath.

  • I agree with you. I never said Europeans did not have their "backwards" times. As a matter of fact, they had a lot. But at the same time, the progress has been insane as well. I have a lot of respect for that.

  • shasha1873: The progress was slow in coming, and got a lot of help from other cultures. The Arabs re-taught the Europeans all of the math and science they had forgotten during the Dark Ages. The Chinese gave us paper, without which we would still be writing everything on bulky, yellow parchment, and gunpowder, one of the main things that made it possible for Europe to become dominant.

  • OK. So we are saying that the Greek math did not count. Everything is from Arabia and China but for some magical reason Europe ended up on the top although they were and are a minority of global population! It just does not sound right.

  • shasha1873: No, that is not what I am saying. However, without the Arabs, we probably wouldn't have had the Renaissance. Europe didn't "magically end up on top," it clawed its way there through brutal force, deception and no small measure of luck, and it wouldn't have even been able to do so without gunpowder, which is from the Chinese, and iron, which was first smelted by the Assyrians. Do you really think Cortez could have conquered Mexico with bronze swords and leather armor?

  • shasha1873: What I'm saying is, most of what you're trumpeting as the great achievements of European civilization, including the things that made it possible for the West to become dominant in the first place, are actually borrowed from other cultures.

  • Well, you have a good point. I have a lot of respect for Mesopotamia. After all, it was the first civilization and was powerful for a long time till Alexander the great of Macedonia crushed it. But keep in mind that when Europeans care to Americas, there were only Indians here that had no technology at all. They were not even as good as Romans were 2000 before that. So it was easy to take over North America.

  • shasha1873: Without steel and gunpowder, they wouldn't have been able to do nearly as much harm. It would have been slower, kept in check by the limited technology. It would have ended up being more like the Roman conquest of Europe, the Indians would have had time to adapt to whatever limited technology the West would have had without the East to help them over the centuries, and it would begin to resemble a fair fight. Eventually, the Indians would have defeated the Europeans through numbers.

  • Notice you said "would have". The reality of history turned out to be far different. That is why a small island like England domintated this large Idian population. You also have to keep in mind that Europeans are way more to aggressive than Indians. Perfect example, look at the Hymalayan mountains. They lived there for centuries and never got to the top until the white man came and went to the top. You need to give the white man a brake.

  • Your thesis is rife with falsehoods and fallacies, but I'll just mention one thing. The Indians ultimately were OUTNUMBERED by a wide margin. That is the situation that developed "eventually."

  • OutlanderWarrior: Only if by "outnumbered" you mean continuously slaughtered until they were the minority.

  • I don't know where you get this (actually, I do). The Europeans didn't "forget" any math and science during the so-called Dark Ages, which actually weren't all that dark. Sorry, pal, but you've fallen victim to revisionist history.

  • yur insane, of coarse they did, maybe it wasent a total wipe out, but it was severly diminished, the lack of indoor pluming is one thing they forgot

  • I suggest you read historians who actually understand the age and aren't peddling an agenda. I suppose you could say that every civilization forgets something, but the Middle Ages were not at all "dark." And do you know how the idea that they were got started? It grew out of the battles between the Protestants and Catholics during the early 1500s. The Protestants used the printing press to great effect, printing up propaganda against the Catholic Church. And one of the ideas they spread was that

  • OutlanderWarrior: So did the Protestants invent the "knights in shining armor" (armed thugs working for petty despots,) "free companies" (large groups of armed thugs who went around killing, raping burning, and sometimes taking over cities,) and bandits (often lords moonlighting as criminals for some extra cash?)

  • No, and the Catholics didn't invent them, either. In case you didn't know, brutality was the status quo in the ancient world, but the Church was the first entity to actually start to change that pattern. Anyway, what is your problem? Are you an angry black man or a self-loathing cracker? Whatever the case, I see the peeeerfessors at the propaganda mill you attended did a good job on you.

  • OutlanderWarrior: The Church solved the problem of brutality? Oh really now? I guess the offices of the Inquisition didn't get that memo, because even after the rest of Europe had stopped killing people for witchcraft, the Inquisition was still holding Auto Da Fe's well into the 18th century. Voltaire narrowly escaped the flames. I don't hate white people, I am white, I just choose to look frankly at history, rather than through rose-tinted glasses.

  • Oh, I'll mention one more thing. It's too bad that those blessed Crusaders couldn't finish the job. If they had been able to, we wouldn't be bedeviled my Muslim terrorists today.

  • OutlanderWarrior: First off, there is no way that the crusaders could have "finished the job." They were already disorganized and plagued by factions, and they were outside invaders, far outnumbered by the Arabs. Also, they didn't just kill Muslims, they also killed a fair number of Jews and Christians. They invented the motto "let God sort them out," meaning basically, kill anyone with a tan, and the Christians among them will go to heaven, so no loss.

  • I'm not sure it was a "motto" (perhaps you need to look the word up), but, yes, I'm aware that at least one Crusader leader did utter that sentiment. And, so what? The Romans murdered a million people when invading Gaul, and I'm sure my ancient European ancestors were pretty angry about how the Romans were trampling their culture. But guest what, the cultures were ultimately the better for the Roman influence, and I don't lament the loss of my pagan ancestors misbegotten ways. The point is that

  • OutlanderWarrior: What the Romans did to the Gauls was genocide, and nothing excused it. The genocide was not necessary in order for Caesar to conquer Gaul, Rome conquered other places without it.

  • I'll be stupid enough to entertain this. You completely miss the point. Much of what man has done to his fellows is inexcusable, but a wise person also knows that he must take the longer view. Slavery was wrong, but would a black person today rather be languishing in poverty in Africa? Thus, should he really lament that his ancestors were brougt to what would become the most prosperous nation on Earth? We shouldn't do evil, but, nevertheless, good sometimes comes out of evil. That's reality 101.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Africans wouldn't be "languishing in poverty" if it weren't for the Euorpean colonial powers who destroyed African civilizations, enslaved the people, then uproooted the entire economy when they left. The thing is, Africa did not need slavery in order to have any of the benefits of European civilization.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Look up King Afonso, the last king of Congo. He adopted European technology and art, and tried to form alliances with the European nobility, but his kingdom was ultimately destroyed by slavers. His own sons were kidnapped and sold into slavery on their way to a European university.

  • Why are you spending time with me, punk? Just so you know, I don't have to listen to Beck, as I'm more like one of his colleagues. I'm not interested in your stupid theories and delusional grasp of history. You won't be convincing me of anything. And I also know I won't be convincing you, which accounts for my attitude. You are the enemy. You cannot be reasoned with, only defeated. And when the dark times come, you will either bow down and accept reality or you'll be in the crosshairs.

  • It comes down to slavery. If it's the worst evil imaginable, then those who demonized it and ended it are the moral champions of history. And those who did it are white English bible-thumping Christians. And if those Christians aren't the moral champions of history, then slavery's not that bad. It's read 'em and weep for white liberals. If you hate slavery you must love Christians. You don't like it, too bad. And btw Outlander, why are you messing with this twit?

  • Yes, I've made that argument myself many times, and it's irrefutable. Admittedly, I did waste too much time with the brainwashed child. However, I made it clear he was wasting his time, because he wasn't receptive to truth and certainly wasn't going to shake me from it. But I think he got the message because he stopped responding. People like him are the initiated, the enemy, and they have no idea what they're sowing. They also don't realize that if they don't have us as allies, they'll die.

  • OutlanderWarrior: What "truth" was I not receptive to? Look, I've read your posts, and there is so little substance in them, the bulk of it seems to be childish insults. Can you actually argue, or can you only call names, then pat yourself on the back? I never stopped posting, I took a momentary brake. It may surprise you to know that not everyone is chained to the keyboard by your ineffable charistma. I spent Saturday buying school supplies, and ate lunch at a café. Sorry if you missed me.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Nobody needs you as an ally. Why would we die? It seems you're not really about white "pride," but simply hatred of everyone else.

  • It's just that I'm not stupid enough to believe this is the consensus view among other groups. Anyway, you are a cultural traitor and part of an infection that needs to be destroyed.

  • OutlanderWarrior: How am I a "cultural traitor?" Who are we at war against? Why do you hate all other cultures so much? Culture is a continuum, not a small group of rigidly defined factions as you seem to think. In some sense, i was never part of your "culture" (racists.)

  • I should have said, they have no idea what they're sowing. They don't realize that when the dark times come, if they don't have us as allies, they'll die.

    Because if they think the "victim groups" will be on their side, they'll be in for a rude awakening.

  • orthoman1000: Yeah, but the people who started the slave trade were "white English bible-thumping Christians" as well. So it's not about race or religion, but ideology.

  • Wrong, slavery, along with prostitution, is one of the world's oldest institutions. By the way, I didn't offer you substance because it would be to no avail. I use a triage system in these matters, and you are not in the right third, chief. I consider you an enemy, nothing more, nothing less. I should also mention that I never said anything about "white pride," as pride (although it's meant in different senses) is a sin. I also know that everyone is a child of God.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Where did I say that slavery hasn't been around for thousands of years? So you admit that you didn't offer substance, then spew some bullshit about how you chased me off the comment section with the unassailable logic of your meaningless, childish shit-fit. You basically just revealed yourself to be a common troll, no better than those fuckers who write "FIRST!" or "PENIS!" on comment sections because they weren't hugged enough as children.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Listen, the only reason someone would come to the table without bringing any logic, is if they have none. Mindless name calling is a sign that someone has run out of ideas. It is impotent rage. If you had the ability to argue with me using logic, you would have. If you're not interested in interacting with me, why do you keep responding to my posts? I already knew you didn't like me, from your first reply, what where the rest for?

  • OutlanderWarrior: What particular thing that is good have I not defended? Slavery? That seems to be the only specific thing you defended here, aside from the belief that white culture is somehow innately superior to all other cultures. Obama is not my "messiah," he's actually fairly milquetoast, he keeps carrying on this ridiculous "bipartisanship" bullshit, when the Republicans want no part of it, but in stead want to have all the power for themselves again.

  • OutlanderWarrior: I voted for Obama as the lesser of two evils. He's a milquetoast and seems to be laboring under the delusion that the Republicans want to do anything other than bite his head off, but at least he isn't an out-of-touch geriatric who wants a 100 year war, or a fake-folksy, moose-eating dittohead who doesn't have the first clue what she's doing.

  • OutlanderWarrior: You may not have said the exact words "white pride," but it goes right in line with the sentiments expressed in your posts, the idea that everyone who isn't a white supremacist is a "traitor" or "white uncle tom."

  • orthoman1000: Also, have you heard of Olaudah Equiano? He was a key abolitionist in the 18th century, and was instrumental in bringing more people into the cause. Because he had actually been a slave, and knew first-hand what it was like, his words carried more weight than most white abolitionists of his day. He was the first to write about conditions on slave ships, and the horror of the Middle Passage.

  • all men do evil; thus, cherry-picking examples of brutality cuts no ice. Sure, the Crusaders couldn't finish the job, but if they could have, we wouldn't be worrying about the Taliban and Osama today. Anyway, I'm not going to waste my time debating the brainwashed. You're a spoiled little cracker brat who has been indoctrinated by what we euphemistically call the educational system but who thinks himself sophisticated. You don't know philosophy, and you don't even know history. Take a walk.

  • OutlanderWarrior: This is not cherry picking. You made a statement, that the Church were the ones who made Europe less violent during the Reneissance, and I showed you a direct counter-example. The existence of the Inquisition well into the 18th century throws a wrench into your assertion that the Catholic church made Europe somehow less violent. When other European powers were coming up with the Enlightenment, the Inquisition was still burning people at the stake.

  • You're wrong, kid, but I'm not going to waste my time reasoning with a sheeple. I don't think you're the least bit interested in truth; I think that like the rest of your odious ilk, you'll rationalize it away when it conflicts with your agenda. The only thing I'll say for you is that you've taken my slights well and didn't stoop to obscenity like your fellow travelers. This country is coming apart, and if another civil war comes, you'd better choose the right side. There won't be much mercy.

  • OutlanderWarrior: The only "sheeple" is you, who apparently need a mythologized history in order to not hate your own race. The difference between me and you is that I can have respect for all people, white people included, while still looking at the past without it being sanitized and sugar-coated with national creation myths. I have no agenda, I just prefer my history unfiltered. OOooh, you called me some mean names, I think I'll go cry now. Do you really think this helps your argument?

  • No, you're a cultural traitor who is complicit in the decline of the West, and you WILL pay the price. Unfortunately for you, by the time your eyes are opened, it will be too late. This is the eleventh hour. Useful idiots like you can't perceive that the ship is sinking, and because you hate it you keep on poking more holes in it. Oh, and I couldn't care less about my argument here with you. I have a much wider audience than you ever will, kid. And thanks a lot for visiting Obama on us, moron.

  • OutlanderWarrior: I do not hate European civilization. Your entire post is a straw-man argument attempting to paint me as some radical, but I'm not, I just read history from a third-party perspective. "Visiting Obama on us?" What is Obama going to do to you? Are you one of those "death panel" lunatics? I bet you listen to Glen Beck like every word he said was gospel. Who'se drinking the Kool-Aid now?

  • Or are you one of those followers of Orly (O RLY?) Taitz, with her ridiculous fake Kenyan birth certificate, which has been revealed to be not only a forgery, but an incompetent one?

  • OutlanderWarrior: The only other Europeans to burn people at the stake even into the 1600s were the Puritans, and they were a tiny, fanatical sect. You can call me names all you like, it won't make a dent in my argument, it only makes you look petty and bitter.

  • the Middle Ages — seen as a Catholic era — were dark. It was something made up out of whole cloth. As for indoor plumbing, how many homes even within ancient Rome itself do you think actually had it? Now, how many outside of Rome do you think had it? It was not a matter of "forgetting" it most likely, as it was simply a function of poverty. Even today, there are many areas in the world where indoor plumbing is unseen. Did their inhabitants "forget" about it, too?

  • they didnt "forget" they simply were not exposed to it, and the 1500s are no longer considered part of the dark ages in case you didnt know,the dark ages more or less ended in the 1400s, but yes they did forget plenty of the romans and greeks works such as some medicine and philosophies

  • I don't think this is going anywhere, since you seem to have a problem with reading comprehension. I never said that the 1500s were part of the Middle Ages; I said that the IDEA that they were "Dark Ages" grew out of the conflict between the Protestants and Catholics in the early 1500s. Get it? If that's the way you comprehend information, it's no wonder you believe nonsense such as that the Middle Ages were "dark." It's impossible to reason with someone who can't even assimilate simple facts.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Was it that, or could it have been the fact that whatever written knowledge there was was controlled by a small number of clerics, with the bulk of the population, even the nobility, being illiterate? Before the Black Death, the nobility had more or less total control over vast numbers of peasants, who were constantly on the brink of starvation.

  • I think your handle is one letter off, by the way. Obviously, if you have the dissolution of a super-power (Rome), there is going to be some dislocation, but this doesn't mean the age was "dark." As for the toilets, it's a little ridiculous to compare 1300 with today, don't you think? It's significant that even people today don't have indoor plumbing; it isn't significant that no one in the Middle Ages did. The Indians? Due to immigration, they were eventually going to be outnumbered regardless.

  • OutlanderWarrior: The thing is, the technology actually regressed. The 1300s weren't a good representation of the "Dark Ages," they had already had several centuries of progress. I'm talking about the era when even the nobles were illiterate, and lived in wooden castles because they didn't have the infrastructure to make large stone buildings.

  • OutlanderWarrior: Also, one word: feudalism. Society can only go so far when government consists of warlords using most of their resources to fight each other. To see what feudalism looks like without the shiny armor or men in tights, look at Afghanistan or parts of Africa.

  • OutlanderWarrior: If it were a "function of poverty," the lords would have had flush toilets in their castles. Even in parts of the world where there are people without indoor plumbing, these people are the poorest of the poor. Even in those countries, the rich have all of the amenities.

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  • The republicans have reached the breaking point. They will literally utter anything that comes to mind and think that its true, not only that, but their very small and shrinking constituency will be convinced that its true.

    They are the epitome of irrelevance.

  • They may have a small constituency but they won't lose the people they have now. There is a small fraction of the population that are like Sarah Palin. These are people of FAITH, not reason or logic. They will believe in the republicans just like they believe the ENTIRE WORLD was flooded and Noah built a boat and somehow managed to put two of every species ON THE FUCKING PLANET onto one boat. These people will cling to the republicans like they cling to thier dogma.

  • They are definitely not irrelevant, they are a virus.

    I would say they are more the epitome of irrational that irrelevant!!!

  • wow i never thought it was possible to have your head so far up your ass...pat buchanan proves me wrong

  • 50's sound pretty good to me!

  • How do rates of illegitimacy, crime, high school graduation, etc. among blacks today compare with their rates in the 50's? Institutional racism has been worse for backs than segregation.

  • I guess Mr. Young Turk is speaking out of experience, having lived through the 50's like Buchanan.

  • In the 50's you could leave your doors unlocked, most had 2 parents, almost everyone finished high-school, gas .25 a gal., only 1 parent had to work! Bring back the 50's! Please!

  • Yes, a great time, when minorities were discriminated against, the KKK was on the rise, and the constitution was being used as a toilet by the idiot republicans.

  • I guess your ok with the murder rate of Blacks on Blacks today? In the 50's it was almost nonexistent. Black on Black crime has sky-rocketed since the 50's, I guess that is Whitey's fault too, right!

  • Black on black crime goes back to the days of slavery. Its always been high, because of the high rate of poverty (Which is our fault)

  • Yes, when you are held on a leash for a long time like that and then let goyou arte no longer on a leash.

    The same would have happened with whites if they were in the same position. I bet you though if we were in the same position we would definitely NOT want it to be like that fifties and would happily have a sky rocketed white on white crime as apposed to being the way it was in the 50ss (let's not forget this example puts whites as blacks, so your not confused)

  • Just like a liberal always blaming someone else instead of taking responsibility for your own actions! Most people make their own problems, because there are to many success stories to prove otherwise!

  • I look at the facts & draw conclusions.The right wing tends not to

    Also, wen u say shit like "Typical libs blaming their problems or societies problems on someone else. Well Mr. ignorant. Sometimes when something goes wrong it's someones fault. I don't know if you knew that. if u have brothers or sister you should know very well. When you were young and your brother shit on the floor and your mom came home and you said "wasn't me" and mom says "Typical you, always blaiming it on your sibling"

  • fuck the white male conservative, i grew up with them, and any time there little thrones were threatened or challenged by a woman or a minority, it was like their blood would boil out of their pores, and nothing but violence and hate would insue. Fuck them all!

  • HAHAHA AWESOME!!!

  • i hate the 1950s

  • very good point

    fuck Pat Buchanan

    only Fox would hire an asshole like that

  • HE'S WITH MSNBC IN THE MORNING.

  • He works for MSNBC u can catch him in the mornings.

  • If blacks in the 50's were alive today and young black america would be alot more better because they wanted an oppurtunity. This guy has no idea what he is talking. The 50's were a time when we didnt have so many problems and we got ball rolling on civil rights. This guy is wrong about the black mindset in the 50's. It was certainly better than now. Listen to BILL COSBY and what he has to say. This statement was in no way shape or form racist.

    OH BTW IM BLACK.

  • "The 50's were a time when we didnt have so many problems and we got ball rolling on civil rights."

    The point is that this was also a time when we *needed* civil rights, because we didn't *have* them. And Pat doesn't understand that.

    Pat also doesn't understand that the civil rights movement was *not* a conservative movement. So those Blacks could not be described as conservative.

    The conservative mindset Pat is talking about is *not* the mindset that got us the civil rights movement.

  • Conservative and Liberal have nothing to do with CIVIL RIGHTS.

  • Oh i so wish you lived in the 50's republicanknight...i would love to see you trying to get into a nice restaurant. You'd see that rope around your neck faster than you could say "oh my"

  • your a fucking idiot.

  • Way to stand up to the whiners,therepublicanknight. Most people no matter what color, bring on thier on problems themselves. There are to many success stories from all races, 99% got there by being honest hard working citizens, living happy lives

  • Buchanan wants to live in a place where whites are 100% of the population., I can't take him seriously with his hate for every group that is not European-American christians.

  • What evidence do I have of what? I'm not sure what comment you're responding to.

  • Fuck christianity. I'm rolling with Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad and all the other Muslim of the world.

  • amen

  • This fat fuck probably has no experience in US ghettos. I personally invite him to spend a week in a choice part of Detroit so he can see how far africans in america have come since the 1950s. He obviously prefers the destruction of US cities to order, and that tells me he's the racist.

  • These guys deserve to live in the middle east. In the middle of the desert. With no air conditioning or TV or even running water.

    Why come to America if you hate Whites so bad? Unless you just want war.

    TYT is a racist organization through and through, racist against Whites.

  • "based on everything I've read, seen and heard about that era it seems to indeed have been a much better time to live.... even if you're black."

    Right. Because legalized discrimination, lynching, and murders of anyone who tried to change any of that was just peachy.

  • The "changes" that did happen still resulted in legalized discrimination (affirmative action), murders and rape (40,000 white women raped by blacks every YEAR). Is this the civil rights & equality that was fought for?...

  • Life in the '50s was not perfect, but based on everything I've read, seen and heard about that era it seems to indeed have been a much better time to live.... even if you're black.

  • how can u be that ignorant look at black people now ..... they have 70% out of wedlock they were better in their place ... now their dieing at the hands of their own terrorists (gangs) Yup and we will make it swell again mty child will not grow up in this fake America!

  • 80% oh White AMericanswant to bring America back to the 1950's your turks what do u expect!

    Do u live around blacks?

  • pat > ftw!

  • Pat Buchanan is a piece of crap. He is human garbage. He and his point of view can't be removed from America fast enough.

  • Typical of the Left. Anytime someone disagrees with you, you want them "removed." I find it funny that our thought farms (public education) rips apart Hitler for doing removing people who disagreed with him, yet I always see the Left doing it. You and you're kind are hypocrites.

  • The only thing we need to restore from the 1950s is Eisenhower's 91-92% top marginal tax rate

  • distortions and deceptions....

    American Conservatism made America great!.....phock sakes i hate Liberal cacksuckers...

    go back to Turkey

  • What have blacks gained since the 1950's?

    Higher illegitimacy rates

    Higher crime rates

    Lower graduation rates

    Higher rates of stds

    Lower literacy rates

    Higher rates of divorce.

    Pat Buchanan's point is that the 1960's unleashed a damaging cultural hurricane, that damaged all segments of society. And the eye of the hurricane passed directly over the black community doing the most damage.

  • Every stat you site in which African Americans under-perform is directly correlated to poverty, and they are disproportionately poorer. (i.e., If you look only at poor whites vs. poor blacks their stats will line up fairly closely for these indicators). The root cause of the disproportionate poverty is centuries of systemic/institutional oppression and continued de facto segregation. New Deal and Great Society type proscriptions are exactly what's needed; they simply didn't go far enough

  • Wrong. Even when leaving out social factors, Blacks still score lower than Whites and East-Asians still score higher than Whites.

  • everybody makes mistakes - the nostalgia for the 50s is for an innocense lost - not for racism. Should be obvious.

  • these turkish pieces of shit come over here and criticize our way of life fucking scum! YOUNG TURKS that name says it all their fucking proud turks, if they wur born in america why not YOUNG AMERICANS, their fucking scum, Mr.Buchanan made no such comments in his book, iv read all his writing and these "young turks" stoke the fires of racism as do al sharpton, and all those other scums, hope they get killed, really dont care, if you want to come to my country and say shit like this fuck you!

  • Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!

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  • this turkish piece of junk is part of whats ruining this country...go back to your homeland and take your politics with you

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  • who are you kidding? you really think if tytk could get pat buchanan on the show, they wouldn't talk to him, and they wouldn't debate him about these issues?

    don't be ridiculous. cenk took what pat buchanan said and evaluated it. simple as that. if pat buchanan didn't want his comments evaluated publicly, then maybe he should have took out a pen an wrote it in his diary, instead of publishing it in the washington Ppost.

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  • Both these pieces of crap, really

    need to get the hell out of this

    country -and take there kind with

    THEM !