it's called PROJECTION...It isn't pretty, and it isn't going to change.
They aren’t liberals, they shouldn’t be called that.
Why would I want to get into a liberal mind and wade through 10 feet of bull sh@t?
No imaginary victims? No democrat party. Even to them, social justice is an unachievable fantasy, for the moment it arrives, it is the end of the party, which cannot be allowed to happen.
Why Liberals Think Conservatives Are Racist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I suppose the Left must have gastric fission and copious flatulant emissions when they encounter a “dude” like Col. Allen West.
The EPA needs to issue their cracks down on that.
This is overthinking it writ large.
To me, the much simpler explanation is (and this isn’t my original idea)
Calling someone a racist is a sweeping automatic claim on an ephemeral moral high ground. All at once, the accuser assumes the moral high ground, throws a dirtbomb that is in many senses inescapable because nobody wants to be known as a “racist”-—whereas you or I could have a scholarly, polite discussion not threatening eventual violence about whether you are, say, a Keynesian and I am an Austrian-school guy.
If the accuser is not a racist and you are, you (the accused) have all this freaking work to do to dig yourself out of this conversational hole, just to get to zero, while at the same time you have no convenient way to prove your non-racist nature. The claim by the accuser is largely irrefutable. But because they claim the high ground first, it immediately throws the accused at some level on the defensive. In other words, it is a tactic, a gambit. It is not the statement of a well-considered thought process. It is a “fake-to-the left” tactic that may or may not be genuinely felt by the accuser; it’s derailment and distraction tactic.
Even if there is no moral high ground claim being made, even if the assertion that you are racist has no bearing in discernable logic, the mere assertion is enough to claim a greater degree of sensitivity and thus sophistication on the part of the accuser. Meaning, even if you are completely innocent in your racism; maybe you made a clumsy statement or turned a phrase awkwardly; you’re not even sensitive enough to detect and prevent yourself from having made such a gaffe; thus you have much to learn from this person who’s calling you a racist so you should shut up and maybe you’ll learn something, you idiot.
It thus obviates the need for serious thought on the part of the accuser and that is a comfort. It is a drug that always works. Their thinking is done, the articulation of your protestations are in front of you and your next task is your defense...before you even get to make whatever your original point was. By the time you wander through the racist-defense maze, the attention span is gone three times over and your original point can never be made.
It’s a “shut your freaking mouth” tactic.
Why?
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Rule of thumb; Liberals are exactly what they accuse others of being or doing.
it's called PROJECTION...
Ever.
This battle will be endless through time, generations and eras.
You just can't fix stupid.
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Liberals know that generally conservatives are not racist - but they think conservatives can be easily bullied into keeping quiet if they’re called racist loudly and often enough - and sadly, they’re usually right.....
Nothing takes a leftist off his name-calling game quicker than calling him a Nazi.
Their heads explode. They completely lose their attack trajectory. They foam at the mouth, and their eyeballs roll back in their sockets. The word “Nazi” is a great way to stuff a leftist tirade down their gullets. It’s like handing an ape a grenade after pulling the pin. Just stand back and watch them sputter.
As a general rule, any time Democrats accuse you of doing something bad, it is because they are already doing it themselves.
Generally good article by Rachel. I don’t think she puts enough emphasis on what I think is the most significant reason American liberals assume American conservatives must be racist.
In their heart of hearts, they think of themselves as heroic battlers in the war against the ultimate evil of racism.
If there is no racism to fight, they lose their purpose of existence. Hence the many, many examples of racist hoaxing.
They are so desperate to have racism to fight that they will if need be create it.
It also follows that since progressives innermost self-identification is as fighters against racism, anybody who opposes them on any issue must by definition be a racist.
The anti-antiracist must be a racist himself or at least an enabler. Just like the anti-anticommunist is a commie or at least a commie symp.
IOW, this whole bit about conservatives as racists has little to do with what we believe. It’s mostly a result of how liberals think of themselves.
Rachel seems to be ignorant of term agitprop..
most likely the term propaganda confuses her as well...
It’s quite simple really.. racism is just a gambit..
like the “all the rich republicans” gambit..
Cloward-Piven tactics must not be in her language resume either..
-OR- she has that term scewed too....
Could be that Rachel is not too smart..
Looks for easy answers... a lazy thinker... or bored by actual “work”..
With liberals you got yer dumb tools and yer intelligent ideologues..
The intelligent ideologues know exactly what they are doing..
Consider their SUCCESS!..... they are very successful..
Heck they got the inventor of Romney Care to run against Barry Half-White..
Had the republicans eating out of their hands.. like monkeys... or maybe Lemurs..
STILL DO!..
Sadly. some conservatives forget to abide by ytheir principles and know get their definition of conservatism from MSNBC. There is an anti-black attitude among some on FR> that was not here 10 years ago, and I don't know why that needs to be.
I may be one myself, depending on how you define it.
However there are many more in the democrat party.
Racists, sexists, marxists, anarchists, they have more of all of those groups. They also have a corner on the naïve, needy victim class. They are the predators, and the prey on the same team.
we are the other team. We choose to be neither.
She has totally nailed it here. Great article.
They don’t. They’re just projecting.
bottom line- You gotta have a boogie man to sell what the left is pushing. The race card is the most coveted one in their deck.