| Republican PSC candidate Travis Kavulla's current website makes no mention of his views on women and minorities.
Lucky for us, he does bring up the fact that he was: "the youngest editor on the staff of National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley, Jr."
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has a pretty good summary of the National Review's history of racist output including its support for apartheid, its opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and more like this:
Over the years many leading eugenicists and ''scientific'' racists have been warmly received by National Review. In a positive review of Race, Evolution, and Behavior, a 1994 book by Philippe Rushton, the current Pioneer Fund president, reviewer Mark Snyderman eagerly recounted the book's ''ambitious'' and ''fearless'' thesis (9/12/94): ''Orientals are more intelligent, have larger brains for their body size, have smaller genitalia, have less sex drive, are less fecund, work harder and are more readily socialized than Caucasians; and Caucasians on average bear the same relationship to blacks.''
Some might consider Kavulla unfit to serve in a Montana elected position because he has been as a top editor of a publication arguing so strongly that one race is inferior to another.
But we don't have to rely solely on the views of the publication, because, as Kavulla also writes of himself on his web site, "as a features journalist, Kavulla has written a large number of pieces."
In fact, to learn Kavulla's views, we can read them directly from Kavulla himself. Kavulla's writings, some of which are publicly available on the internet, include a defense of Pope Benedict for making one of the most dangerous, ignorant, and false statements ever made by a world leader when he told Africa's people NOT to use condoms--and even told them condoms would actually make their problems with AIDS and extreme poverty worse.
Kavulla may simply be unaware of this:
The percentage of female AIDS patients who are prostitutes, or drug addicts, is dwarfed by the percentage who are married women living upstanding lives in their communities.
The Pope advised them, according to the Reuters news agency, to exhibit, "correct behavior regarding one's body." Very helpful! That advice is completely useless to the typical "woman" in Africa who contracts the disease. Her profile is that of a teenage virgin sold into marriage against her will and "betrothed" to a much older man with many lovers who carries AIDS and refuses to use protection.
Other National Review online posts appear to be designed to provoke hatred of Obama and are riddled with racist undertones.
Check this guy out for yourselves. If Travis Kavulla and the National Review had their way, I might be writing this on a "women only" section of the Internet. |
