Posted on 09/28/2009 9:49:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
“You’re all racists!” That’s the meme sweeping the mainstream media and left-leaning Web sites these days. Conservative opposition to the Democratic policies championed by President Obama. Everybody is saying it. Former President Jimmy Carter is saying it. Frank Rich of The New York Times is saying it. Orlando Romero of the Santa Fe New Mexican is saying it. All the cool people are saying it, so it must be true, right?
The fact is, conservatives oppose leftist politicians because they try to enact leftist policies. Barack Obama is a leftist politician and therefore conservatives oppose his policies. Because the swing voters who joined committed leftists to elect Obama are now having second thoughts, the liberal media elite is now desperately searching for a way to bring those swing voters back, and has decided that guilt-tripping them with accusations of racism is their best bet.
I frequently hear how racist people still are in the South and in some other regions of the United States. I will admit that I have never lived in the South (as opposed to the Southwest) so I cannot speak personally of the Zeitgeist concerning matters of race in conservative circles there. I do have a number of friends who are Southerners and Republicans, and I can say that I’ve never heard any of them make racist remarks about Barack Obama even though I have heard them attack his policy positions.
This is not to say that there aren’t younger racists in the South and other regions of the country. I’m sure there are. I just do not believe that there are even a tenth as many of them as the recent glut of opinion pieces suggests.
There will always be people with anti-social and even pathological attitudes in our society. There are people walking the streets among us who will at some point in the future commit murders and rapes, people who will kidnap and molest children, people who will swindle the elderly and the feeble-minded. The fact that there are sadists and sociopaths among us does not make us a nation of sadists and sociopaths, however.
There are men in our society who hate women, men like George Sodini, who last month went on a shooting spree in which he murdered three women and injured nine more, because he felt as though women rejected him sexually. The fact that a small percentage of men burn with murderous rage against women does not make American men as a whole misogynistic.
Likewise, there are people in our society who hate blacks. A few are violent, pathological racists, who think the murderous violence of the KKK was fully justified. More are racists of a milder degree, people who would never condone the murder of a black person, but who would be distressed if their son or daughter dated one.
In personal conversations with other conservatives, I have heard exactly three people make racist remarks about the president. All three of them are in their 80s. These are people who were already well into adulthood during the 1950s, when segregation was still considered acceptable by a large minority, if not the majority, of the white population of this country.
The vast majority of Republicans, Libertarians and registered independent conservatives who voice opposition to Barack Obama do so because they oppose his policy positions. This is true of the overwhelming majority of conservatives under the age of 60. For the most part, Baby Boomers, Gen X-ers and people younger even than that do not share the often frankly racist sentiments of some elderly people. President Obama wants to take the country in a direction those of us on the right see as the wrong direction – dangerously wrong. That is why the great majority of us oppose him.
The allegations of racism against conservatives are not only slanderous, but ignorant. Didn’t we vote against John Kerry, a white man, in 2004? Didn’t we vote against Al Gore, a white man, in 2000? Didn’t we vote against Bill Clinton, a white man, in 1992 and 1996? And did not Barack Obama, a black man, win a great many more votes from white Americans than either Kerry or Gore?
The case of Bill Clinton is particularly damning to the “they’re all racists” argument. Imagine Bill Clinton had been a black man rather than a white man. When Republicans in the House of Representatives impeached Clinton, the pundits would have cried racism, arguing that conservative targeting of Clinton’s sexual peccadilloes was playing to the stereotype of the highly sexualized black male, that the right was demonizing him because we were afraid of a sexually predatory black man who threatened white women. But, alas, Bill Clinton was a sexually predatory white man, and so the argument could not be made.
In the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, it was mainly crackpots like Janeane Garofaolo who were insisting that everyone who wasn’t in lock step with the president’s policy agenda was a racist. Now, more respectable voices are picking up this slanderous rallying cry. Shame on actual racists, but shame on those who slander principled conservatives as racists, too.
Never been called a racist in my life, until Obama ran for President....
btw— of course we are— Obama said so- we are “typical white..” it is “inbred”— he says so....
love the words of unity, eh?
I opposed Hillary Clinton’s national health care takeover because she’s black, and I was a long-term opponent to teh black Ted Kennedy’s national health care schemes.
Plus, I don’t like Romneycare from Massachusetts, I’ll oppose it’s going national because Mitt Romney is black.
You’ll see the common thread of blackness in my dislikes and political leanings- so I must be a racist.
Now on to immigration...
Life has shown me, some things need hating..
Ones that DON'T HATE certain things... ARE EVIL...
Here ya go!!
If “racist” is code for “anti-Marxist”, then, yeah, I’m one.
By the same logic, all Pro-Obamanationists are commies.
quote of the day...
“In the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency,”
I know it SEEMS like he’s been President for years, but it’s really only been months... ;o)
You can’t get past political opposition to apply the label racist.
And by golly, so they are....:)
They know this won't work because the very idea has been thrown back in their faces as the joke that it is.
And I feel nothing but contempt for those who are so insecure and spineless that they ever would fall for that.
we are “typical white..” it is “inbred”— he says so....’
Sooooo—What is ‘inbred’ into blacks?
Not even a year in and the Obamabots are already playing the race card.
This guy is going to tank worse than Jimmy Carter.
As much delight as I will take in seeing this one-term wonder get the boot, the damage to our country may take decades to repair, if ever.
I’m not racist, I only criticize the white half of him
The biggest self proclaimed racist is blowing smoke in the WH.
Well said.
Liberals resort to unfounded charges of racism when nothing else is working, and up until fairly recently, this was a fairly effective tactic, because people have been so afraid to be labeled as racists. Now, the racism attack is so overused that it has lost much of its effectiveness. Americans still dislike racism, but now are inclined to want to see some evidence of it before blindly accepting accusations of it.
The Left’s problem with this label is that no one is flinching when called a racist.
They think I’m a racist. They think that you’re a racist. They thing that everyone is a racist. So what?
They don’t really think we’re all racists, but that has been an effective weapon for years and they will use anything that works.
Anything.
If we flinch, show hesitancy, try to explain or deny, then it works.
If we shrug it off it doesn’t.
The author being a particular dim specimen of conservative. It seems only whites can be what she calls “racist” (whatever that means?).
unity and diversity, of course!
I LOVE it. With this effort liberals are cheapening the charge. Soon it won’t matter if someone charges racism. It will be old. stale, and ineffective.
The mere use of Barry's three initials in a written comment I made on FB a few days ago was called out to me (by a homosexual advocate) as proof that I am "a hater."
I continue to be pleased that anyone might read that exchange, though I did not reply further. Hopefully people how sick, weak and degenerate such thinking is. It speaks for itself.
HF
And that is why using a word that has now come to be a cheap ass imitation for a phony intellect, is just a rhetorical commodity, that we don’t even raise an eyebrow over it.
It no longer has meaning. Have fun with that.
I didn't recognize you because I thought you were Jennifer Wilbanks.
Respectable voices like who? Frank Rich? Jimmy Carter?
No, it's still just the crackpots who use the race card incessantly. Only difference now is that more libs every day, desperate to call others names because they have no rebuttal to legitimate criticism of their Messiah's programs, are joining the ranks of the crackpots.
Blacks are racists....they keep playing the race card all the time. If they are not, then why do they keep bringing race up. Because if an opportunity that is favorable to them at some one else cost, and they are denied that opportunity...then a rant and rave chant will come on the scene saying that they are “disenfranchised” of their so called rights to have what the other has. In their mind if you have it, then it ought to be theirs, without cost.
Yes I am racist, bigot, rebel, honkey whitey, cracka, and any things else that i may be. I am happy to be who I am, it is my right, and it doesnt cost you one damn red dime
Blacks are racists....they keep playing the race card all the time. If they are not, then why do they keep bringing race up. Because if an opportunity that is favorable to them at some one else cost, and they are denied that opportunity...then a rant and rave chant will come on the scene saying that they are “disenfranchised” of their so called rights to have what the other has. In their mind if you have it, then it ought to be theirs, without cost.
Yes I am racist, bigot, rebel, honkey whitey, cracka, and any things else that i may be. I am happy to be who I am, it is my right, and it doesnt cost you one damn red dime
See tag line below:
A local paper printed a letter from some nut who claimed all Republicans were “racist” because they supported George Bush. I don’t think these idiots even know what racism is.
OMG lol lol lol!!!!
They can go piss up a rope for all I care. Is there a law against being racist? No, I didn’t think so. They are making this such a effing issue they are causing people to become racists. If someone doesn’t want to hang out with a black, or swim with them, or work with them, they can’t force it anymore than they can force a black to do the same things if he or she doesn’t like whites.
I’m sick of this racist PC BS. They can go #@$% &^%.
“In the early years of Barack Obama’s presidency, it was mainly crackpots like Janeane Garofaolo who were insisting that everyone who wasn’t in lock step with the president’s policy agenda was a racist. Now, more respectable voices are picking up this slanderous rallying cry.”
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WTH? Absurd statements like this make me cringe. Are we now supposedly in the later years of Obama’s presidency?
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