Powerline adds their stupid right-wing opinion to the growing mass of wrong-headed right-wing opinion piled up around the Henry Gates arrest:
This suggests to me that, as far as African-Americans are concerned, ‘race politics’ will continue unabated, as if Obama had never been elected president.
This suggests to me that right-wingers insist on pretending as if racism is solved. As if the election of President Obama is just the latest marker they can point to (previous faves were Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell) in order to minimize and delegitimize every other incident of racism.
We’re a long ways from Selma, but that doesn’t mean racists and racism doesn’t still influence our lives in America. And when it does flare up we have to snuff it out immediately and without equivocation. In the process of doing that, it would help a lot to have the aid of conservatives and the conservative movement rather than the casual acceptance of bigotry that is the default position of so much of the right. Try it. It isn’t hard.
So he is trying to say that Obama was elected so all racism was immediately erased?
Maybe he’s been watching too much Colbert Report and actually believing what Colbert says.
Obama’s election did not signal the end of racism. It’s just that racists are no longer a voting majority.
The election EXPOSED all the racism still muttering to itself in the dark corners of the conservative world.
Powerline is right on about this, just like I am sure they would agree that since we elected a conservative, evangelical Christian to office in GWB means that there is no bigotry against conservative, evangelical Christians anymore. That ended instantly when he took the oath.
(Note that I am an atheist, and in all seriousness think that claims of bigotry against conservative, evangelical Christians are bs. They do not though, and I am just using their same “logic” against them.)
Brian
And when it does flare up we have to snuff it out immediately and without equivocation.
…Still waiting for you to call out the racist officers who called Crowley’s partner an Uncle Tom.
Yeah, like that’ll ever happen, SaveFarris.
Don’t you know that when they say “racism,” what they mean is “white racism,” because it’s physically impossible for other races to be racist towards anyone, especially whites?
The words “cracker” “gringo” “ferungi” and “gwai lo” do not actually exist, and were clearly invented by evil Republican linguists.
Personally, I think the Gates situation involved class as much as it involved race.
The words “cracker” “gringo” “ferungi” and “gwai lo” do not actually exist, and were clearly invented by evil Republican linguists.
Who were historically enslaved and oppressed by the Black, Asian and Hispanic…
Wait.
Unfortunately you run into that nasty thing about how people are actually free to say what they like and generally associate, or not associate, with whomever they wish. I mean, if you’re advocating that people shouldn’t be allowed to say things that hurt your feelings, just go ahead and admit that instead. It’s a lot less thuggish than saying that a group of people should have their opinions “snuff(ed) out immediately and without equivocation.”
Yes, but “wealthy man pissed about being inconvenienced by police” doesn’t get you invited for a brew at the White House.
Repack Rider has such guilt. How unfortunate.
How unfortunate as well that his historical education has been so poor as to have completely ignored all same-race repression as well as all nonwhite repression of other nonwhite groups.
That is the reason he does not know “gwai lo” is Japanese, and comes from a culture known throughout China, the Phillipines, the Koreas, and other locations in Asia for their long history of “cultural sensitivity” and lack of savage oppression of other Asian peoples.
Or, rather, the exact opposite of that.
Perspective. It does one good, but only provided one has not already blinded oneself.
But what do I know about cultural oppression? I’m only Scots/Irish/Polish/Iroquois.