Rick Santorum compares ObamaCare to apartheid

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.

Is an inability to empathize with those who have suffered from racism it itself sufficient to label one a racist?  If so that's a fairly low standard, which helps explain why he and O'Reilly are such terrible racists when compared to such great racists as Theodore Bilbo, Ibn Khaldun, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda or even middling ones such as Woodrow Wilson and Rudyard Kipling.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.

Is an inability to empathize with those who have suffered from racism it itself sufficient to label one a racist?  If so that's a fairly low standard, which helps explain why he and O'Reilly are such terrible racists when compared to such great racists as Theodore Bilbo, Ibn Khaldun, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda or even middling ones such as Woodrow Wilson and Rudyard Kipling.

Those five (although I'm puzzled why you included Ibn Khaldun in there) all have something in common which would improve my (and I'm sure many others') opinion of Santorum and O'Reilly immensely.

Just trying to be multicultural in my racism references.  While better known as a philosopher, he also generated this particular turd which I found in the Wikipedia article on racism: "beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.""Therefore, the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Negroes) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated."

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ernest,  I think the problem with your references is it is now 2013.  The human genome has been sequenced so there really isn't any excuse for having such backward thoughts.  If you have to reach back to the early twentieth century or in fact the 1800s to calibrate your racism measuring device that right there should tell you there's a problem.

I don't think it's a problem that racism today is generally far less pervasive and virulent than it has been in the past.  But even if I used only living racists as the standard to measure racism by, O'Reilly and Santorum aren't particularly high on that measure either. There are quite a number of other things about them for a progressive to complain about that are both far more relevant to their overall character and far more objectionable.

Also, your implication that if blacks were a separate species, then racism would be excusable indicates you may need to start taking some lumber out of your eyes before you resume complaining about the sawdust in the eyes of others.