Posted on 06/01/2018 6:30:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Roseanne Barr posted what many are convinced was a racist tweet, and ABC summarily canceled her sitcom. As Roseanne is considered a Donald Trump supporter and Trump is widely accused of racism, people are loosely smearing Trump as responsible for her, however indirectly.
Maybe I'm defensive about loose charges of racism, but if so, I've acquired my defensiveness honestly, because racism has become the left's favorite categorical smear of conservatives and Republicans. It's not something I'm imagining. I've written about it many times, basing it on my observations of leftists and Democrats in action.
I don't believe that Democrats are racists, but I do believe they cynically exploit racial smears against Republicans as part of their strategy to retain a disproportionate percentage of African-American and other minority voters, without which they would be reduced to a permanent minority party. Considering the closeness of so many national elections, can you imagine the electoral impact of even a small percentage of African-American voters leaving the Democratic Party and voting Republican? Trust me, Democratic apparatchiks believe it -- and act accordingly. Their fear leads to such baseless, disgraceful claims as the one about how George W. Bush purposely left blacks stranded on rooftops in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because they were black and Republicans don't care about blacks.
It has always particularly frosted me that conservative policies are associated with racism even though our policies, historically, expand opportunity and prosperity for African-Americans and other minorities. Indeed, we aspire to colorblindness rather than the individually degrading identity politics habitually practiced by Democrats. We've recently learned, for example, that African-American and Hispanic unemployment numbers are at historical lows. You would think that after a while, word would get out that Republican actions speak louder than Democratic words and there would be a mass conversion of minorities from the Democratic Party to the GOP. Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't happened already, not just because of the serial failure of Democratic policies and the success of Republican ones but because of the drippingly patronizing attitude Democratic politicians have toward minorities. Why aren't minorities offended by their being used so conspicuously? My guess is that many don't have much faith in Democrats but they've been convinced that Republicans and conservatives truly are racist.
Think about how outrageous my statement is -- especially if it is true. But I can't imagine a better explanation for African-Americans consistently voting in the 90 percent range for Democrats. The Democrats' slander, by the way, doesn't just hurt the Republican Party and, by extension, the nation; it also hurts African-Americans and other minorities who believe the lie that roughly half the nation (Republicans) is somehow against them. How can it be healthy for minorities to believe such a lie? How could it possibly lead to improved race relations? Democrats constantly preach about diversity and racial harmony, but they do more damage with their vilification than with their destructive policies, and that's saying something.
Now back to the alleged connection between Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump. Democrats and Republican never-Trumpers are tweeting and writing that Roseanne's disgraceful Twitter outburst should be expected in the Trump era because Trump has ushered in an era of racism -- soft or hard, racism nevertheless. Plus, Roseanne is a Trump supporter, so her negatives must attach to him.
I think it's a major stretch to call Roseanne a conservative. She clearly is not a social conservative, and I doubt she's much of a conservative otherwise, but let's just assume, for discussion purposes, that she is a Trump-supporting Republican.
How about the claim that Trump is a racist or has created a climate conducive to racism? Well, the accusers have their talking points, and they can tick them off with the discipline of an A student on exam day, but instead of relitigating those specific statements (or actions, such as Trump's challenging Barack Obama's birth certificate or calling MS-13 gang members "animals"), I'll tell you what I think is at the root of the smear. Trump is now a Republican, and thus he is fair game to be cast as a racist for the reasons already stated. But a bigger point is that Trump's signature policy is immigration enforcement. The left -- and an increasing number of open-borders advocates on the right -- associates that policy with nativism, which is a euphemism for racism, and with outright racism. In addition, many believe that Trump is an alt-right white supremacist or, at the very least, encourages the support of this group through his policies and language.
I don't believe that Trump is a racist. I reject that his policies, including his immigration policies, are racist, and I don't believe there is a strong alt-right movement in this nation. Call me naive.
The charge is utterly predictable from leftists, but it is regrettable that people on the right are willing to so carelessly malign Trump as a racist and then blame him for the racially charged climate in this country. I suppose it fits the Trump opponents' narrative that Trump is the worst human being alive, someone with no redeeming character qualities, but it is lazy and reckless.
Attempts to blame Trump for Roseanne Barr's ugly statements are the same kind of categorical slur that makes racism a sin. Attempts to denigrate Trump supporters by extension are even more objectionable, and as you can tell, I'm using mild, nonincendiary language here that understates my indignation on this issue.
But as racism is probably the worst sin with which to be branded, people ought to be especially careful not to make such claims lightly. Shame on them for trying to shame the rest of us, for we abhor real racism every bit as much as they do -- probably way more, but as I say, my purpose here is not to inflame.
Anybody with an ounce of intelligence knows full well that it is Liberals that are the sole purveyors of RACISM. That is a FACT that cannot be disputed.
The left HATES!
This is an excellent article. I get so tired of The left calling conservatives racist. Hopefully more and more blacks and Hispanics will see through their deceit.
I saw the tweet. There is no racism there. Imaginary Racism is the insanity of the Left in this country and it’s destroying our country. However, that is the goal of the Left, to destroy this country
“Myth”
A myth in the sense that they keep on repeating it, but more so it’s slander and projection.
They are. Dummiecrats are collectivists who divide the country into groups and then create victims and victimizers, so that they can take the side of the victims.
Eugenics was a core Progressive belief for 100 years. The KKK was a Democrat terrorist organization. Planned Parenthood was formed to stop births of minorities and other undesirables. Institutional racism has always been a Left/Democrat policy. Now its just flipped around. The Dems are now weaponizing “race” against whites.
Roseanne is a sideshow. She’s a nut who always has said nutty things. She crossed the line and now is paying the consequences. But she’s no evidence of “conservative” racism. A few years back she was the Socialist/Green candidate for president.
* Given that this Barr woman has a history of political weirdness,
* Given that none of the enemedia networks would willing promote conservative viewpoints;
* While perhaps not anticipating the show's initial success, it was always intended as a weaponized bait & switch,
* Present an ostensibly conservative focus as bait, THEN deploy the switch via Barr's incendiary tweet.
* Sit back as the mile-wide tar brush reinforces the totalitarian meme that 'all conservatives are racist'.
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They want people to think racism is wide spread so they can keep affirmative action. For white liberals its to keep minorities as fans of their liberal football team.
I’m re-watching Ken Burns’ “The War.” I am struck by two things: that Burns uses his shows to make back-handed smacks at the U.S. and its soldiers, and that one vet who helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp finished by saying, ‘Some people will never admit the Holocaust happened, but it did; I was there.’ In the same vein, the Libtard Left will never admit to their murderous hatred of Trump ever happened.
I most certainly do, and it wasn't back in pre-Civil War days only. When I was in school in the '50's and '60's (hey, I'm old!) the history books talked about "The Solid South" that was solid Democrat because of the poll taxes and polling tests the Democratically controlled poll workers would use to deny voting rights to black Americans.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was supported primarily by Republicans and not so much by Democrats. And that was certainly not the end of it. It took years, decades through one Federal law suit after another to get the DemonRats to abide by the law.
But the DemonRats aren't stupid. They found corruptable black candidates to run for public office and bribed them through Federal and state contracts or good old fashioned graft. The DemonRats transformed themselves in a few short years to the heroes of the black community through money: there wasn't an entitlement program they couldn't embrace and turned many unsuspecting and poorly educated blacks into a weapon to use against their adversaries, the Republican Party which had acted in good faith to stop the racism of the Democratic Party.
I believe the blacks of America are waking up to the tactics used against them for decades now, slowly but surely. That is why the DemonRats are so frantic to embrace their new slaves, the Latin American immigrants both legal and otherwise. They need new slaves down on the Democrat plantation and anyone will do. Somalis, Northern & Central Africans, Latins whoever will dependably vote for the Democrats who are throwing citizenship and money in their direction.
The word “racist” no longer has any meaning at all.
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Racist - Someone winning an argument with a liberal.
The more they call us racists, the less it means to me. If their definition of racist is anyone who opposes them on any issue: abortion, global warming, tariffs, immigration, drugs, gun control, terrorism, taxes, etc... well, screw it then. It makes me more sympathetic to anyone else who gets called racist. Makes me less likely to believe the charges.
Regressive dhimmis rush to aid vicious vizier of the Obama caliphate (2008-2016) of North America.
Trump really isn't a Repub. He's a blue collar billionaire who's executed a hostile takeover of the party.
He's unlike any president in my lifetime. He's also the antithesis of what are alternatively called limousine liberals/Chamber of Commerce/country club/big government Repubs.
They say the medium is the message. In this case, the message one gets from these...creatures...is that there's a club, and you aren't a member. You'll find your entrance on the backside of the building, next to the dumpster.
Where's the appeal in that for anyone?
I don’t buy in to Roseanne’s tweet being racist. I reject the premise.
First, Valjar is Iranian, and muslims aren’t a race.
Second, she didn’t disparage anyone as a class, period.
Third, it was funny as hell.
Fourth, Valjar has been off limits forever, and it needs to stop. She is Obama’s handler and foster mommy, and was the actual president behind the magic facade. She still is.
She illegally got SS protection from day 1. Why? The powers behind her knew she was the key to destroying America. They put her there.
Valjar needs exposure for the treason behind her.
All being accused of “racism” today means is that you disagreed with a Leftist. Really. It’s been so weaponized and overused for so long it means nothing else.
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