Jerry Falwell's interests function as a religious organization. The NAACP is now, blatently, a poltical organization. They can pretend that they aren't partisan, but the fact is they are now the African American wing of the Democratic party.

I think it is a moot point, since the NAACP openly states that they are non-partisan, and that they don't endorse Presidential candidates... Pretty laughable of late.

So you really can't base your ideas about that their tactics, methods AND goals on what they say. Once organizations start behaving that way, you pretty much have to look at the results of their tactics and methods, and take their stated goals with a grain of salt.

Members of their leadership have been very hateful and disingenuous with their characterizations of Republicans and the choices available in this election. Once you have have crossed that line, and I think it was crossed probably 20 years ago, you lose the right to be judged in an "It's the thought that counts" manner...

"Any group that calls its political opponents Nazis and worse deserve no respect. "

and what makes is especially heinous is the fact that as a supposedly non-partisan organization that refuses to endorse candidates, they should have no "political opponents" at all.

> The KKK is a nasty racist organization even today. But they're not terrorists
> today. They are a white supremacy group just like the NAACP has become a
> black supremacy group.

Oh, what a bunch of left-wing, liberal, whiny "moral equivelance" claptrap. I expected better of you. That's garbage, and -you know- it's garbage, and you're just saying it to be controversial. It fails even the most basic sniff test. Here's how you can tell.

I want you to imagine yourself walking in to your church. Y'know, YOUR church. The one your friends and neighbors go to.

Imagine yourself standing up and saying "I was thinking of going to an NAACP meeting." Man, that might be a little embarassing. You might even get some funny looks.

Now imagine yourself standing up in your church and saying "I was thinking of going to a KKK meeting." What would happen? Well, assuming you don't go to a racist church -- and I think that's a safe assumption -- here's what would happen: your pastor would talk to you after the service about your problem. Most of your friends and neighbors would probably stop letting their children play with yours. And, _they would be right_.

So don't give me this delusional, drama queen, typical no-social-skills CS geek "all people I disagree with are in the same hash bucket" attitude. The NAACP has a lot of problems, but being like the KKK in any substantive, non-left-wing-lawyer's-argument way is not one of them. You're wrong, and you know you're wrong. You would be ashamed if one of your children made such a stupid argument. Your father would be ashamed of you if he knew you were making such a stupid argument. And you should be ashamed of yourself for making it.

What's left wing is trying to make a moral equivelance argument that an organization that engages in peaceful political protest -- even for causes that one disagrees with -- is "the same" as an organization with a 100 year history of committing public murder and dismemberment.

There is, quite simply, no comparison whatsoever. Claiming that those two organizations are effectively the same is utterly and completely morally bankrupt.

All I meant was if he apologized to the NAACP his image with African Americans might improve, not whether it was right or wrong.  I also said it was unlikely to happen.

psychx: Aye, it all boils down the emotional majority who are too lazy to grasp real issues.

the emotional majority

Heh, the phrase I have always used for this group is "the mass moronacy".