Posted on 08/14/2019 6:55:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It should be clear to all Americans by now that the word the left loves to spew indiscriminately -- racism -- often now means nothing, absolutely nothing. That word is meant to be an accusation of the worst order, an epithet that is supposed to destroy all those so charged. But now it's used so frequently, it has no meaning at all.
It's like the f-word, overused and merely a sign of one's lack of a wider vocabulary. Like the overused f-word, calling someone a 'racist' is a sign of sloppy, uncritical thinking. The word "racist" now means nothing more than any other bit of profanity hurled at those whom lefties have been directed to hate. As the eminent Charles Kesler said a few weeks ago, it just an all-purpose epithet.
Martin Luther King, Jr., someone who knew about real racists, would have been appalled by the cheapening of the term, as much as he would be horrified to learn that one's character no longer counts at all; not one bit. Only skin color, sexual orientation or some other fabricated victim grouping of which one can claim membership matters, or perhaps having a sufficiently Alinskyite ideology.
President Trump is no racist by any definition of the word and all those Democrats calling him one know it. The president has a long record of color-blindness in business and in his personal life. The Dems know that as well. They are the people who see skin color first and foremost. They think their abdication to its primacy above all is crucial to their taking back the presidency.
In reality, they are the actual racists. But the word no longer has any meaning and they know it. That is why they have escalated their attacks on Trump as a "white supremacist."
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I’m not sure how deliberate it has been, but I feel like President Trump has somehow manipulated the Left into grossly misusing their favorite term. Now so many people see it for what it is. “Racism” as a political insult is pretty much dead, and it was the last arrow in the Left’s quiver.
Time to stop with the meaningless epithets. Time to start talking about policies that help people. Look at Baltimore and the other cities controlled by Democrats. Their policies are no good. People need to wake up and vote for something better. Worrying about nonexistent “racists” isn’t helping them.
so they’re changing it to White Supremacists ,LOL
It’s like the word ‘special’.
If everybody is ‘special’, then nobody is ‘special’..............Just substitute ‘racist’ for ‘special’..............
I strongly believe that every human being on the planet is racist to some degree. I also believe that every human being on the planet is a liar to some degree.
The challenge is, where is the line that one crosses to be classified as a “racist” or a “liar”, since we all do both to one degree or another?
Which should work, except for the fact that 76% of America is WHITE..............
My tag line....
I take everyone as individuals, not a ‘group’. There is no segregation in Heaven..............
Same here. I just see things like racism, liar, etc. as saying someone has a spleen, a leg, an eye, etc. It’s part of being human. However, it is a serious problem for some, and less for others.
WHOA..!
I just said practically the same thing on another thread!
GMTA or are we both just racist posters???!!!
We could be both!............
Racist is almost meaningless now. It was once a great weapon of the Left, but as usual they overplayed their hand.
Truth.
Truth is still in our old history books... Look it up.
George Wallace (who stood in the School House Door blocking black children from school) was a Democrat.
Bull Conner was a democrat.
Robert Byrd (recruiter for the KKK) and head of the US Senate was a democrat...
Bill Clinton's mentor (William Fulbright) was a powerful democrat racist and segregationist...
Ernest Hollings was democrat governor of South Carolina and was the person who put the Confederate Battle flag on South Carolina's State Flag as a way of giving the finger to the Civil Right Movement of the 60's... The REAL racist were ALL democrats.
Democrat went from 'blacks can do no right' to 'blacks can do no wrong'... Both positions have damaged the black community.
That comic meme (not original Schultz work) has been around for years!................
True then - true now...
Left-wingers are racists. Period.
The boy who cried wolf, SJW edition.
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