And then some claims--well, they're just straightforwardly ridiculous

You don't really need to watch the following clip; suffice it to say that former Congressman Tom Tancredo equates La Raza to the Ku Klux Klan:


Of course, this is ridiculous: the KKK was a murderous organization that systematically terrorized black people. It is an organization that committed many horrible, violent crimes. But La Raza has committed zero violent crimes. It has terrorized precisely no one.

And the thing is, even if we grant for the sake of argument that La Raza really is a racist organization, and that it advocates policies that really are racist, it still isn't remotely comparable to the Klan. Even if we grant Tancredo's crazy worldview, he is still wrong because he fails to distinguish between a peaceful law-abiding racist organization and a violent vigilante racist organization.

So that's an impressive trick: to be so wrong, that you're still wrong even when the other side grants all of your points. At this point I'm just kind of curious to see what new and ingenuitive ways of being wrong Tancredo will come up with next.