you deny the historical facts of racism and its role in our history,
culture and politics. That is an enormous blind spot among many
regressives, and casts serious doubt on their fundamental honesty and
intellectual capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Or, as leading Republican Political strategerist Lee Atwater explained
it in his usual blunt style:
"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you
can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh,
forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so
abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things
you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them
is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much
more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more
abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”"
Also, you're seeing this through your own stereotypes, and getting a
blurred image as a result. Please find the post where I accuse anyone
specifically of being a racist who wasn't proving it themselves at the
time, like the profoundly disturbed PoxImpotent ranting about "the
murdering Jew scum of Israel" and calling me a "traitorous Jew." Then
compare that number with the number of times I have responded to
accusations, mostly counter-factual, and many dripping with highly
personal and venomous hatred for Obama, without ever mentioning what
might well have been the racism underlying it. You might also count the
times I have been called racist out of the blue by some rightard nitwit
or other. I could also show you a recent post where I defended one of
your kind from being labeled racist, because his post was not, in fact,
racist.
So extract your cerebrum from your rectum, do the math and see just how
wildly off the mark you really are about this.
> Barry is just a flat disaster,
> a socialist boob and anti american to boot, none of which has a goddamn
> thing to do with the amount of melatin in his skin.
Okay. Pivot from a discussion about racism and the Republican Southern
Strategy to bitching about Obama noted. That's expected. You just
can't help yourselves. For many of you Regressives, it's all about
Obama, Obama, Obama, all the time, and no matter what the topic is, it's
the right time and topic for yet another Obama-bashing post.
> It is nice to see "peop;e" like you continusing to use race as a wedge
> despite all the progress we've made. You're a bit like a precancerous
> cells. Better to be removed from the body before it makes things worse.
I see little indication that most Regressives have made much, if any,
progress, other than learning to keep their racists elements on the
down-low. After all, they are the antithesis of progress and exist
mainly to roll back progress as much as possible.
But feel free to show me when or how I've used "race as a wedge."
You're a bit like the broken cellular debris of an infection that's
quickly being defeated by antibodies. You'll ooze out of the wound
you've caused as a foul, disgusting pus, and when you're gone, the
healing can begin.