NOW THAT’S A RACE CARD
Mar. 22nd, 2010 01:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogYr atavistic headline of the day:
Which suddenly gives the claims that the anti-Obama sentiment is fueled by racism a bit more gravitas than before.
Or maybe not. But while the majority of the racism accusations up to now could plausibly be spun and explained away (barely) as a case of reading too much into this statement or that sign, it’s kind of hard to parse the nuances of a bunch of angry white people screaming “nigger” at a black dude – especially when the President is also a black dude.
“Um, they weren’t chanting ‘nigger’, they were chanting ‘bigger’, as in bigger govt, which we don’t want. Yeah, that's it.”
So far, I haven’t heard anyone from the Tea Party step up to explain it (though I have ten American dollars that by Monday lunchtime, at least two conservative talk show hosts – one of them likely Rush Limbaugh – will deploy the old “How come gangsta rappers get to call each other ‘nigger’ all the time but white people don’t get to say it? That’s RACIST!” routine). I look forward to their excuse.
Either way, it’s worth remembering that these are people the GOP thinks it has to cozy up to in order to take back Congress and the White House. It’ll be interesting to see if this convinces them to backpedal and take their chances without them.
Major uncool,
This is dF
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PRODUCTION NOTE: Apologies in advance to anyone who might be offended by the use of the word "nigger" in full even for journalistic purposes. Believe me, I understand. I grew up in the South and consider it one of the most vile words in the English language. But I don't believe in banning words just for vileness, and when it comes to people using racist epithets, I think their words need to be reported in full. Racists should be exposed for the useless, atavistic meatheads they are. I won't help hide that by cleaning up their language for them.
Which suddenly gives the claims that the anti-Obama sentiment is fueled by racism a bit more gravitas than before.
Or maybe not. But while the majority of the racism accusations up to now could plausibly be spun and explained away (barely) as a case of reading too much into this statement or that sign, it’s kind of hard to parse the nuances of a bunch of angry white people screaming “nigger” at a black dude – especially when the President is also a black dude.
“Um, they weren’t chanting ‘nigger’, they were chanting ‘bigger’, as in bigger govt, which we don’t want. Yeah, that's it.”
So far, I haven’t heard anyone from the Tea Party step up to explain it (though I have ten American dollars that by Monday lunchtime, at least two conservative talk show hosts – one of them likely Rush Limbaugh – will deploy the old “How come gangsta rappers get to call each other ‘nigger’ all the time but white people don’t get to say it? That’s RACIST!” routine). I look forward to their excuse.
Either way, it’s worth remembering that these are people the GOP thinks it has to cozy up to in order to take back Congress and the White House. It’ll be interesting to see if this convinces them to backpedal and take their chances without them.
Major uncool,
This is dF
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PRODUCTION NOTE: Apologies in advance to anyone who might be offended by the use of the word "nigger" in full even for journalistic purposes. Believe me, I understand. I grew up in the South and consider it one of the most vile words in the English language. But I don't believe in banning words just for vileness, and when it comes to people using racist epithets, I think their words need to be reported in full. Racists should be exposed for the useless, atavistic meatheads they are. I won't help hide that by cleaning up their language for them.
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