This is racist, that is racist and you're a racist! Not a supporter of President Obama? Racist. Republican? Racist. Founding Fathers? American values? 'Birther'? Libertarian? Racist. Think Obama plays enough golf to qualify for the PGA? Racist. Wait...what? Seriously?
Seriously. MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell said that Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was racist because he suggested President Obama should try for the PGA since he played so much golf. Apparently, in 'Republican Code', that meant McConnell was trying to associate Obama with Tiger Woods and 'that lifestyle'! Where do they come up with this garbage? In another instance, MSNBC host Chris 'I felt this thrill going up my leg' Matthews claimed that using the word 'Chicago' was racist! There's also 'code words' like "food stamp president", "Closed borders" and "poor work ethic". Remember the accusations of racism when Attorney General Eric Holder was asked about Fast and Furious?
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker wrote, "There isn't a political strategist, political scientist or political journalist who doesn't know that 'welfare' is code for 'poor black people.'" Where do these outlandish claims come from? Groups like the Obama Campaign and Obama's 'Truth Team' know these techniques work in their favor. Liberals are using race as a dividing point more often than ever in recent history. For people who actually face racism in their lives, there is nothing more polarizing. What better way to ensure the support of minorities?
The Obama Campaign has used race-baiting techniques to make sure that the minorities will come back to the polls and vote for Obama, no matter how poor his performance has been over the past four years. Minorities are in no better shape than they were four years ago. Yet they are supposed to believe the next four will be different? Maybe not, but they believe it's better than voting for the 'racist' team of Romney/Ryan! They claim the 'lack of diversity' at the Republican National Convention (RNC) is proof of racism. Rather, at least in part, it shows that the nefarious motivations of the left have been successful.
Mitt Romney nailed it when he said Obama's "campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the presidency. This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. Mr. President, take your campaign of division, anger and hate back to Chicago." Rush Limbaugh recently went on a rant about the race-baiting on his radio show. He said, "They're going to find a link between whatever any speaker says, to racism. They are a political operation. MSNBC is not a news network. They're not a cable network. They are a political network."
The campaign and their supporters habitually belittle journalists and other people in opposition to their failed policies. Their tactics have backfired several times on Twitter when they have started hashtags that were quickly taken over by conservatives. The liberal extremists may have a high-profile online, they are masters of social media, masters enough to decide you are a racist, even when nothing could be further from the truth. But the fact remains, conservatives are the great majority in this country. After four years of President Obama and several months of bullying, perhaps this time they will come out on voting day to prove their mettle.
"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal" --Peter Brimelow
© Margie Wilson-Mars 2012 for Gather Politics
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Comments: 146
If "yes", then racist.
If "no", then not racist.
And as you imply, bigotry is not the same as racism, and is much much harder to sort out.
2 of the dumbest statements I've ever seen here on Gather!
A girl friend of mine was recently suspended from work for 1 day for telling the people under her that they all were going to have a 'pow wow' the following week. Apparently one of the people who received it claimed to be 'offended' by her choice of terms. But it gets worse ...Obama's "Diversity Czar" sent out a memo listing other harmless terms people should no longer use ...top of the list? "Circle the wagons" and "hold down the fort" are you freaking kidding me?
Next time learn to read or find someone who can to read it for you. I just assumed that everyone knows that the democrats of today weren't the same democrats from the civil war ...mostly because there aren't any civil war era people left alive anywhere on the planet (who runs your home appliances for you?)
I was thinking about the filibustering the Dems of the 60's did to try and stop the Civil Rights Act from being passed (thanks to the GOP) do you remember names like "Al Gore" and "Robert Byrd" ring any of those rocks in your head?
They claim the 'lack of diversity' at the Republican National Convention (RNC) is proof of racism
Ironically it is the left who are devoid of diversity. In every thread we see to usual suspects parroting the same responses as if, like the borg in Star Trek, all their thoughts are fed from one control centre.
C'mon guys, it's unfair to expect a guy who looks like a zombie to show flair and origniality in decomposing his comments.
As for what you think of me, I couldn't care less.
@mickey d - I will acknowledge some of those in your list are racist. However, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Please give proof that the Obamas are, in fact, racist.
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person." Barack Obama Speaking of his Maternal Grandmother.
"The other race (white) Would always remain just that: menacing, alien and apart" Barack Obama Dreams of my Father
"If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence." Barack Obama
"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before." Michelle Obama
"They (Americans) are not my people!" Stanley Ann Soetoro- Dunham: Barack Obama's mother.
Is the appeal of the Republican Party primarily racist? No. They appeal to social conservatives who may be mostly white but are often enough broad minded on questions of race, though many are prejudiced in areas that are non-racial. They appeal ideologically to fiscal conservatives despite a long standing record of talking the talk but not walking the walk. They appeal to small government ideologues, who may be the least likely sub-group within the party to be racially motivated. They appeal to the habitually partisan who vote Republican primarily because great-granddaddy did. But, they also appeal to racists to a great degree.
Does the Republican Party use thinly veiled racism as a political tactic? Frequently it does, especially in the Obama years. Republican political behavior over the past three and a half years can be equated with the post-emancipation behavior of southern American whites after the Civil War that turned freed slaves into indentured servants and prevented blacks from exercising their rights to work. Both were deliberately obstructionist tactics.
Is opposition to Obama a sign of racism? Of course not. But the tone of that opposition can certainly reveal racism that fears to openly express itself, the best example of which is the birther movement.
Is Rush Limbaugh a racist? Well, duh! This is just one of a host of accurate pejoratives he must wear.
how noble of you. I just don't what I would do if a jack-ass like you didn't think some of us weren't racists.
Listen to yourselves...
The have won three consecutive elections but only in the last one (2011) did they win majority legislative control over parliament. However, in Canada one can get a majority with about 40% of the vote. The remaining 60% tend to be pretty strongly opposed to their policies, little good though that does us.
I am a dual citizen, though not one of the USA. I am an Irish and Canadian citizen.
On Gather there are only one 2 people who are at least part black that have accused me of being racist, one being the commenter below me. The other calls herself cookie.Every other time it has been a white liberal.
In the same way that those that dwell on tallness are tall?
That has to be one of the dumbest comments I have ever seen BM.
Well Windy,
Problem is, is that you progressives take a cute little black bunny paint a white stripe down it's back, spray it down with some smelly stuff....Then point your fingers, flail about and holler Skunk! (Racism)
Yes! Quiet true Big Mama!
R.F. is a racist! Willy Windy is a Racist!
It's our own Damned fault, People.
Keep acknowledging and giving credence to "Political Correctness" as we do, and as we have for years, and you've fitted your own damned selves for to wear the "suit that fits."
It's time to cut through the pantywaist garbage, and speak frankly.
When next you hear one of we "conservatives" using perverted words like "HATE" or "TOLERANCE," it'll serve us right that Leftist scum use these words THAT THEY'VE DEFINED against us.
Wake up, Conservatives...kick this bullshit to the Curb...and berate the next "conservative" imposter fool who uses it.
"P.C." is the destructive Tool of our Time...and it is our fault for allowing it.
Indifference is the seed we've sown...and now...the consequences are the misery we reap.
- mmerlinn
Censorship is now called 'Political Correctness!'
- mmerlinn
Thank You, mmerlin.
By God, but must I teach you everything?
You cannot teach anyone who REFUSES to learn.
This is just as ridiculous as Tucker's statement!
It takes one to know one... :)
If you didn't vote for Obama in 2008, you're a racist.
If you don't have an 'Obama 2012' sign in your front yard, you're a racist.
If you think that someone else of any party might do a better job as president, you're a racist.
If you live in a southern state that generally votes conservative, you KNOW are definitely a racist.
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That's just how it is and it is damned sure a shame before it's funny.
Look at ANY KKK site, try Aryan 88. The first page says they are NOT racists, they merely want to save the white race from the mongrel races that want to destroy them. They claim they are NOT the racists, the blacks are!
Please check out aryan 88 and if you did not know what kind of site it was, you'd swear it was a GOP site.
Put America FIRST in all foreign matters
Abolish ALL discriminatory affirmative action programs
Put American troops on our border to STOP the flood of illegal aliens
Abolish all anti-gun laws and encourage every adult to own a weapon
Abortion should be outlawed except to save the mother's life or in case of rape or incest.
We support a national law against the practice of homosexuality
http://www.kkk.bz/program.htm
Do they sound Republican enough for you?
Tell the truth - did you flag it yourself?
Great marketing - people want forbidden fruit!
As the Bomber Pilot once said:
"You know you're over the Target...that's where all the Flak is..."
LOL.
Ah now I get it, connie is 'liberal' code speak for the C word (from the Latin cunni)
RF, you're a foul mouthed thug.
But I am not a conservative. You see the world is more diverse than your dull, narrow little mind can cope with and the fact that I disagree with people who call themselves liberals but behave like fascists does not make me a conservative. I went to some lengths to explain this in a recent article, Captive minds and intellectual cowardice People like you are just not brave enough to turn your backs on the crowd and think for yourselves.
BTW in my example it's Connie who is screwed and Mellors who is screwing, I am not part of the equation. Clear now?
You're about as funny as ebola fever, don't give up the day job.
And like the other libtards around here, your idea of with it to repeat back what I've said with the positions of pronouns reversed. Is that what passes for intelligent banter among you libbies? Pathetic.
But it's "Thank you, Mister connie ," when the band begins to play-
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you Mr connie ," when the band begins to play.
Then it's connie this, an' connie that, an' " connie' ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of ' connies" when the drums begin to roll-
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's " Thin red line of ' connies," when the drums begin to roll.
So how do I account for great white athletes? Because body building, training, and practice are sufficient to overcome an inherited physiological deficit in a single individual. Unfortunately an inherited cognitive deficit cannot be overcome so easily. That can only be done by acquiring the necessary missing genes that determine brain power, by at least several generations of inter-breeding with another race having that natural endowment.
You're not a race "realist," you just sound like an ignorant fool whose education was primarily focused on the achievements of western civilization while ignoring the accomplishments of the rest of the world. Typical for American education which is one of the reasons our education system is such a failure.
And with reference to your not surprising gutter talk, I'd be curious to know what evidence to you have as to the marital status of my parents when I was born.
It might surprise you to learn that I would prefer a "black" like Thomas Sowell over Mitt Romney. The reason I despise Obama is primarily because of his Marxist background, but I am also concerned (speaking of his dual European/African heritage) about the upredictable results of combining a superior civilized intellect with inherent savage impulses.
I'm not going to waste my time trying to educate you when everything that comes out of your mouth is an attempt to make me feel inferior. Guess what? It's not working. I'm just happy to know that the image of Barack Obama as our president pisses you off--even though you cannot begin to match his intelligence, I'm sure you've convinced yourself that you're somehow more superior-- but yet you're not president. You're probably a deadbeat Joe. I'm sure it adds to your displeasure to see other black people doing better than you despite your biological “advantage.” I'm sure you're igniting some of the same emotions that some whites felt when slaves were freed and blacks were allowed to dine in the same restaurants as whites. I almost which I was born in that time period simply to see the aggravated faces of those who felt like they were being robbed of some God given right to hierarchal treatment. Your dissatisfaction and discomfort excites me more than your hatred for my race-- because no matter what people like you want-- we're moving forward and no one's going to stop that. Not you and your small mind and not anyone else who thinks like you. My spirit is greater than yours, my love will defeat all your negativity--so spew as much of it as you want if it makes you feel better--but I'm still as proud as ever.
I just hope that you will not be one of those black women who will be made to "feel inferior" by the tendency of post-liberation potential mates from among "your people" being attracted to white women.