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pjohns
10-30-2012, 05:24 PM
There are still some people who insist that anyone who opposes President Obama--and especially anyone residing in the South who does so--must harbor racist tendencies.

The "R" word is the rhetorical equivalent of a nuclear missile.

When Andrew Sullivan tried that approach on ABC's This Week last Sunday, regular panelist George Will was prepared. He noted the following:


Democrats have been losing the white vote constantly since 1964. So, that's not new. ...

Here's what we're trying to talk about. 2008, from Obama, gets that many white votes. This time, the polls indicating they get this many, we're trying to explain this difference. Now, there are two possible explanations. A lot of white people who voted for Obama in 2008 watched him govern for four years and said, "not so good, let's try someone else." The alternative, the Confederacy hypothesis, is those people somehow for some reason in the last four years became racist.

And the link, including the transcript: Andrew Sullivan: Racist Romney Voters Like 'The Old Confederacy' (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/28/Andrew-Sullivan-Racist-Romney-Voters-Like-The-Old-Confederacy)

Chris
10-30-2012, 05:30 PM
Liberals tend to emotionalism (see also emotivism). Race is an emotional issue. So is poverty, so is fairness, etc.

Mister D
10-30-2012, 05:31 PM
One of the problems with any contemporary discussion about racism is that racism has become a lot like fascism. It's simply ill-defined.

Mainecoons
10-30-2012, 05:44 PM
No it is not. Ask Cigar. All whites are racist, all blacks are not.

:grin:

JohnAdams
10-30-2012, 08:29 PM
No it is not. Ask Cigar. All whites are racist, all blacks are not.

:grin:

Maine what a simplistic and idiotic world view that is too huh?

It would be laughable if there weren't idiots out there who actually believe that.

Especially given I have personally known both racist blacks and racist whites in my short time on this ball of rock we call Earth.

As I am sure, have lots of other individuals as well.

When it comes to racism the frank truth is there are racists no matter where you go on this planet.

Because HATE is found anywhere you find human beings. Note the period liberals.

It was after all, blacks who HATED other blacks, because they saw those blacks as being of a "different race".

Which happily for a few trinkets sold their fellow blacks into slavery in the first place during the colonial period.

(A little bit historical fact cigar likes to ignore so he can cling to his simplistic and idiotic world view.)

Larry Dickman
10-30-2012, 08:37 PM
You don't want to go up against George Will with half-baked head up your ass theories or idiotic exclamations emanating from your rectal cavity; just ask Bill Maher.

The racist mantra is dying the death of a thousand paper cuts. A majority who hear it no longer buy it, and those of us who have it thrust upon us as a last resort, no longer give a flying fuck. It's as dead as Teddy "the swimmer" Kennedy.