Gov. Nikki Haley: 'We've never in the history of this country passed any laws' based on race

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/14/1469530/-Gov-Nikki-Haley-We-ve-never-in-the-history-of-this-country-passed-any-laws-based-on-race

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley continues to defend her (gentle) criticism of Donald Trump in her State of the Union response, saying that Trump's demands to "ban all Muslims" were “the one thing that got me."

After all, she says:
"When you've got immigrants who are coming here legally, we've never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion. Let's not start that now," she said while speaking to reporters in South Carolina.

Nikki Haley is the current Republican governor of South Carolina, an American state.

Discuss.

Is she Ben Carson's sister?!

[403Forbidden]

1. Maybe she was home-schooled...

...and her parents skipped US history...specifically anything prior to 1970.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. In Ala. public schools history is taught POST Civil War.

Starting with 1878, post Reconstruction.
NO slaves are mentioned except for one glossed over saccharine paragraph.
Sorta like sex education, they leave to the parents to teach.

[malthaussen]

24. Even so, it's not like racist laws ended with Emancipation.

Most Jim Crow laws (plus miscegenation laws) were passed after Reconstruction.

-- Mal

[tblue37]

35. The US has frequently passed racist and ethnically biased immigration quota laws. nt

[enlightenment]

2. Good Grief.

That tops the GOP stupid comment of the day list (for a half hour or so, at least).

[Scootaloo]

3. Well, her heart seems to be in the right place, here. God only knows where her brain is, though

[Zorra]

4. The enormous number of narrow minded, ignorant people Americans elect to political

office is astounding.

[lapfog_1]

5. she might want to read the original version of our constitution

which only counted black people as 3/5ths of a person for the purposes of the US Census.

[HughBeaumont]

6. The internets are lighting her up for that willfully stupid shit.

50 years ago, her own marriage would have been illegal in her state.

[TwilightGardener]

7. Not so much Carson's sister, as Palin's Indian cousin.

[treestar]

8. maybe not in her lifetime

though I'd not be so sure of that.

People ignorant of history seem to get elected to high office these days, though.

[truebluegreen]

9. Oh fer f@ck's sake. nt

[403Forbidden]

10. She graduated from Clemson...

...do they not teach US history (Jim Crow) there?

[KamaAina]

11. Well, they don't teach special teams, that's for sure

[underpants]

13. Or fashion design

Purple and orange?

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. Or how to cover a tight end. (nm)

[trof]

19. Could I get a ROLL TIDE?

[KamaAina]

20. On behalf of southlandshari, with whom I Facebook,

[yellowcanine]

12. Apparently she is unaware that Asians in particular were discriminated against in the early 1900s.

Not race per se, but the national origin laws and quotas were essentially about excluding certain races.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. AND in WW2, the Japanese were put in concentration camps here.

Not the Germans, tho.

[trof]

21. Well, the krauts looked just like 'us'.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Double the irony for Nikki's bone headed statement...

Aren't her parents from India?

[Wounded Bear]

28. Ahhh, but that was an 'executive action' IIRC...

doesn't really count.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe"- Gerald Ford, 1976. n/t

[malaise]

17. Is she that dumb?

Must have been to Business School

[malthaussen]

23. Where did she go to school again?

Sometimes I amuse myself by trying to imagine what these idiots think they're saying, but other times the ignorance (or mendacity) beggars imagination.

-- Mal

[KamaAina]

26. Clemson

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027532205#post10

[malthaussen]

29. Yeah, saw that upthread.

But I was thinking more about her primary and secondary education, where she should have learned such simple truths. It's hardly college-only material.

-- Mal

[csziggy]

37. My sister in law went to Clemson

And was converted from a liberal Unitarian to a right wing rabid fundamentalist Christian. I'm not very sure how much of that came from the university or if it was from the Christian group she joined on campus. Her husband will not let me talk to her privately - though she seems to have no problem with his total domination of her and their children.

I'm sure I would be a bad influence on her and the kids.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Nicky I liked your call out of the Trump

But gad, this is one ahistorical comment. I will be nice and save the rest of the comment that comes to mind

[Rex]

30. Why are republicans so stupid? How did they get into office being this completely ignorant

to THEIR OWN history? America baffles me at times.

[stillwaiting]

31. That's a WHOLE lotta stupid. Damn. nt

[JI7]

32. fuck her

[KamaAina]

33. Not with a ten-foot pole!

[tblue37]

34. With GOP politicians it is sometimes difficult to tell where ignorance ends and lying begins. nt

[Solly Mack]

36. Idiot or liar.

I'm going with both.