THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
(apologies to Keith Olbermann)
Jack Whitley
The chairman of a county Republican Party in Minnesota who believes that big government is actually a form of satanic “witchcraft” is not backing down from controversial comments he posted on his Facebook page about Muslims. Big Stone County Republican chairman Jack Whitley said he opposed waterboarding terrorists because he believed that Muslim “parasites” should be killed…. “I am opposed to waterboarding muslim terrorists because it is a waste of resources,” he wrote Wednesday on Facebook “They are muslims, they are terrorist, we know where they are from, we know where their buddies are, we know where thier mosque’s are, we know millions of these parasites travel to Mecca every year and when…FRAG ‘EM! Simplicity. I love when it all comes together!”
Some are born stupid. Some spend their whole lives achieving stupid (sometimes without even the self-awareness to realize it). Still others have stupid thrust upon them and embrace with all their heart and soul. Then there’s Jack Whitley, a small-town Minnesota Republican with some serious big-city stupid street cred.
Not content to stick with the conventional, garden-variety Muslim-bashing so characteristic of the Far right these days, Whitley decided it was time to up his game, to take stupid to a whole ‘nother level, if you know what I mean. In a different situation, I might applaud Whitley for his willingness to go against the grain, to speak his mind in all its unvarnished glory. I might, but the guy’s an ignoramus, a racist, and an embarrassment to humanity…AND it appears he’s built to stay that way. When given the opportunity to walk back his no-holds-barred racism, Whitley declined…and even doubled down by saying all Muslims in the U.S. should convert to Christianity or leave the country.
He seems nice….
Here’s my takeaway from this lunacy: What is it about being White and (allegedly) Christian that allows some to act as if they sit at the top of the socioeconomic/theological food chain? The prevailing misconception seems to be that, since American was founded by White Christians (which is not completely accurate, but OK….), White Makes Right. American democracy may be predicated on the quaint, outdated principle of “one man, one vote,” but nowhere in the Constitution is primacy expressly given to White Christians. Intellectual and moral black holes like Whitley have taken it upon themselves to assert the self-perceived and unquestioned (at least in their minds) dominance of White Christians. You may believe your skin color and faith tradition makes you one of God’s chosen people…but all it really does is serve as a wedge that can be used to divide us one from another.
The good news is that the vast majority of decent Americans rejects Whitley for the racist jackass he is. Sure, there are those who take him seriously…but they’re prime examples of self-parody in their own right. That anyone could seriously public put forth ideas and lunacy of the sort Whitley sees fit to broadcast and maintain any claim to humanity seems laughable at best and inhuman at worst.
Whitley told the StarTribune that he didn’t like Muslims because Islam was a violent religion.
“I don’t really see much of Islam being peaceful at all,” he said. “Don’t come into this country, infiltrating this country with your terrorist activities and terrorist agendas and call it a ‘holy war.”
He also explained to the StarTribune that he doesn’t believe Muslims deserve First Amendment rights.
“Your association with those in your religion who have those terrorist activities, and your unwillingness to call them on the carpet for it? No, you no longer have the right to practice that religion if it infringes on the peace and the tranquility of this nation and the people around you. That nullifies your constitutional right to practice your freedom of religion.”
I’ve long since grown tired of providing attention to loons whose idea of a good time is spreading hatred. That said, Whitley is so balls-to-the-wall ignorant that it’s difficult to imagine anyone taking him seriously…especially when he goes off on a rant claiming that
“Hollywood, the NFL, the NBA, televangelists, the Christian music industry, the health industry, and academics were all part of the “government of Satan,” which he claimed had infiltrated the Christian church.
Wow…I’ll bet Thanksgiving dinner at the Whitley house was all sorts of fun this year.
I can only hope he was back on his medication by then.
