Posted on 11/13/2014 5:14:15 PM PST by walford
Thug
As Richard Sherman pointed out after receiving criticism about his post Super Bowl interview, “It seems like [thug] is the acceptable way of calling someone the n word nowadays. Substituting the word thug doesn’t disguise the negative association with Black people.”
Urban/Inner City
The Black community is often referred to as urban or inner city when people are uncomfortable talking about Black people or where they live.
State’s Rights
During the Civil Rights Movement, politicians used racially coded appeals and words such as “state’s rights” to try and capitalize on the racial anxiety during that time.
Welfare and Food Stamps
When President Lyndon Johnson wanted welfare to include a racial component, it became possible to associate welfare with helping minorities. The same stigma is used with food stamps today. When Newt Gingrich called Obama “the food stamp” president, everyone knew what word he really was using.
Law and Order
During the Civil Rights Movement, the opposition said that “Law and Order” was needed to handle the racial tension and civil rights protests. In other words, we need to control the Blacks.
Cut taxes
Making the poor and people of color sound more threatening, cutting taxes has long been racial code for not using tax payer money to help Black and brown people.
And "Canadian."
Hey, it’s nothing new! You can’t articulate actually liberal thought, because the meaning of the term “liberal” was inverted in the 1920s. There is no other word for liberal but liberal. So you have to say you’re “conservative” - when what you really want is freedom, and the blessings of liberty, which is progress. Progress of, by, and for the people.
cut taxes? how stupid are these people...
CIA Undercover Agent
Marxist.
It’s funny that the only ones hearing coded racist messages everywhere are leftists. Either they own secret racist decoder rings, or their minds are pre-occupied with thoughts of racism.
fahrvergnügen
Thug --> Marxist!
Urban/Inner City ---> Marxist!
State’s Rights ---> Marxist!
Welfare and Food Stamps ---> Marxist!
Law and Order ---> Marxist!
Cut Taxes ---> Marxist!
Diversity ---> Marxist!
etc.
Kool, this makes things WAY easier.
Gesundheit.
LOL! I’m all about simplifying your life. And if “Marxist” is too German for you, you can say Communist.
Chevinists!
Stop acting like N-words and you'll stop being treated like N-words!
When the media doesn’t want to tell you that the perps in the latest criminal escapade they say “youths” or “teens”.
“It seemed to me more of a euphemism of the left.”
Definitely, only the leftists use “urban” in that sense. In fact, B.E.T., the television station owned by and run exclusively for blacks, markets itself as “urban” constantly.
I count 23 phrases in this screed that are just code words for “honky.”
Arthritis ;)
That’s REALLY offensive. Not only do whites keep the blacks down so you have so many healthy black males sitting on their front stoops, but sitting on that cold concrete causes arthritis.
“...stereotypes must be earned. You can’t get one for being benign.”
The fact is, certain demographics are indeed over-represented when it comes to crime. The response to that is to either insist that the police only arrest people for crimes according to their proportion of the population — and then let the rest go: “I’m sorry, but our prison population is already 12% black, so we have to let you go.”
Or perhaps they need to look within themselves and try to bring their children up better. This is why Michael Brown was shot; he was obviously raised w/o limitations or consequences and became violently outraged that anyone would tell him “no.”
Hence, he put his hand on the clerk’s throat when he dared to follow him after being robbed.
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