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Liberal Racism
Private Papers - Victor Davis Hanson ^ | Nov. 8, '07 | Bruce Thornton

Posted on 11/24/2007 2:58:25 PM PST by T.L.Sink

When Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of "playing the gender card," the hypocrisy that defines our public discourse on race descended into the surreal. Obama's whole career has been created by and has exploited the perception that he - son of a white mother and an African father, raised in Hawaii, graduate of Columbia and Harvard - is "black," that is, a victim of America's incorrigible racism and oppression. Obama has gotten to where he is by subtly playing the most powerful trump card in the game of social and political power. The rules of this game state that all blacks, no matter how privileged, are victims, all whites are racist oppressors, all black cultural dysfunction is a consequence of white racism, and only whites who loudly and repeatedly proclaim their guilt can redeem themselves by economic and political reparations. The Amarillo Slims of the game are racial hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Cornel West. But there is a more insidious consequence of this racial narrative - the institutionalizing of black dependence and inferiority. This is seen in the demonization of any black who strays off the liberal plantation. Discrimination is a heinous crime, yet liberals endorse programs like affirmative action that literally dicriminate racially. All the while postmodern minstrels like Cornel West are courted by by Princeton and Harvard. So why marvel that a laughable tyro like Obama, with no experience in the real world of performance and accountability, is taken seriously as a contender for the presidency based solely on the basis of his constructed "blackness"?

(Excerpt) Read more at victorhanson.com ...


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KEYWORDS: liberalism; liberals; racism; vdh; victordavishanson
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The "Oprahization" of American politics!
1 posted on 11/24/2007 2:58:25 PM PST by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink
This is seen in the demonization of any black who strays off the liberal plantation.

"Any African-American who votes Republican is a turncoat".
Je$$e Jackson

2 posted on 11/24/2007 3:03:34 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: T.L.Sink

Marlon Wayans agrees with Don Imus.


3 posted on 11/24/2007 3:07:44 PM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: T.L.Sink

Remember the “Condi and the don’t know nothin’ about no tubes” cartoon?


4 posted on 11/24/2007 3:10:49 PM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: T.L.Sink
When I was a graduate student at Ohio State, I was walking over to meet with my adviser. The time frame was about two weeks after the Kent State riots in the late '60's. As I approached the door, a rather large black male grabbed me by the shoulders and threw me down a flight of stairs. When I stopped rolling on the sidewalk at the bottom of the stairs, he screamed at me: "That's for holding me down for the past 100 years!"

I looked up and replied: "You don't look a day over 25." He started down the steps towards me, but backed off when several other students came over.

To this day, I am still puzzled by those who want to use race to explain away failure. While I know racism exists, it exists by blacks every bit as much as by whites. Jesse and Al have made a very nice life for themselves by keeping this lack of trust fueled over the years. If people just took responsibility for their own lives, I think much of these and similar problems would disappear. Alas, liberals have too much of a vested interest to ever let that happen.

5 posted on 11/24/2007 3:13:25 PM PST by econjack (If your only tool is a hammer, don't be surprised if all you problems look like a nail.)
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To: T.L.Sink

“raised in Hawaii,”

And Indonesia...


6 posted on 11/24/2007 3:14:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: T.L.Sink
Thanks for this post. This topic is a real hot spot for me. Liberals and even allot of moderates have this idea that racism belongs to the "Right Wing" of politics. The left holds to ideals of affirmative action that is racial preference. The race baiters on the left constantly make racial slurs and keep racial tensions high.

What really pushes by buttons is how the left sold this idea to the public that fascism is a Right Wing ideology. Fascism is a form of socialism that puts the state above the individual, and the state has all the rights, the individual has none. I can tell you how may times I have heard these people say that Communism is far left, and Fascism is far right. The only notable differences are how the fascists allow private ownership of government (though it be completely controlled by government) and the communists will completely own the business. Some writers of definitions will will say another difference is racial preferences are put in place in fascism, making it right wing. A fascist government takes away private gun ownership, private property ownership, rights to due process and fair trials, they take away all your possessions for socialistic distribution of wealth. And because some definitions include racism they call it right ring?!?!? All forms of socialism belong to the left.

Racism belongs to the left. The left but minorities into a "victim" mentality, and promotes government dependence on social programs. Keep tensions between races high, keep them dependant, keep them separated, and you have democrat strategy.

Wow... did I get all preachy or what? Like I said, its a hot spot with me.

7 posted on 11/24/2007 3:37:06 PM PST by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: GregoTX
Racism belongs to the left.

I'm glad you put it this way, because, reading the title, I felt compelled to make the distinction between "liberal" and "leftist." I wonder how Hanson would address it.

Either way, I think one can be a decent human being and be liberal in his views. I think anyone who consciously chooses leftist behavior and ideology has left decency and sanity behind.

Furthermore, the lines get blurred because the far right can be weird. My theory is that the left and right circle around and meet on the Dark Side at a place called Fascism.

8 posted on 11/24/2007 3:49:21 PM PST by the invisib1e hand
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To: T.L.Sink

Wait just a minute. I thought Barak was white. He keeps saying he is 50/50. Why is he black. Was it for political convenience. If things start going badly and he drops in the polls will he decide to be white for the rest of the election. After all he is 50/50.


9 posted on 11/24/2007 3:51:09 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: cquiggy

Whichever way the wind is blowing will be what color Obama will be at that given time.


10 posted on 11/24/2007 4:25:40 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: T.L.Sink

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.

Sen. Hillary Clinton drew criticism Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which she told a mostly black audience at a Harlem church that Republican leaders have run the House “like a plantation” and the Bush administration will go down as “one of the worst” in U.S. history.


11 posted on 11/24/2007 4:50:42 PM PST by PGalt
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To: T.L.Sink

bump


12 posted on 11/24/2007 4:52:38 PM PST by VOA
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To: P-40

I sure do and I’m still outraged that the MSM gave those cartoons tremnendous publicity while they in typically and cowardly fashion refused to print the (harmless) cartoons of Mohammed published in Denmark - which lead to the death of thousands in various riots throughout the Islamic world.


13 posted on 11/24/2007 5:29:15 PM PST by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

I remember looking for it on the creator’s website but he had pulled it permanently.


14 posted on 11/24/2007 5:33:18 PM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: South40

Right! Jesse is a shake-down artist of corporations and the media who is only interested in advancing his personal financial and political agendas. He’s a professional race-monger who has exploited the legacy of Martin Luther King for his own personal ambition. By the way, who’s paying for the “Reverend’s” little bastard? Excuse me, “love child.” And why hasn’t the MSM focused on this as much as it has on the so-called “religious right”? Could it be too embarrassing?


15 posted on 11/24/2007 6:21:07 PM PST by T.L.Sink
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And why hasn’t the MSM focused on this as much as it has on the so-called “religious right”? Could it be too embarrassing?

It's the media's version of suppression fire. You fire enough bullets over the head of a spineless enemy, they're going to sit and do nothing. Accuracy doesn't matter.
16 posted on 11/24/2007 6:38:04 PM PST by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: econjack

I think it’s partly human nature - we all tend to invent rationalizations for why we abdicate PERSONAL responsibility. I also think that it’s the organized race lobby which would blame all its malfunctions on everything but itself - the environment, dysfunctional families, history, institutional racism, etc.,etc. Those factors are all very real but there reaches a point where they become a crutch and are inconsistent with the realities of 21st century American life. I can tell you about some personal experiences I’ve had as a teacher with affirmative action students - but that’s for another time!


17 posted on 11/24/2007 6:42:09 PM PST by T.L.Sink
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To: econjack
While I know racism exists, it exists by blacks every bit as much as by whites.

Let me let you in on a little known secret. When those who say that the military was racists against blacks, etc., let me tell you that during the 1970s and 1980s I found by an extreme majority that blacks were more prejudice against whites than I found whites prejudice against blacks in the Army. If you were a white soldier, YOU DID NOT walk around alone on base at night. If you did, you were going to find your ass beaten by a group of black soldiers. However, a single black could walk around and not worry about a group of whites beating him up, because it rarely if ever happened. However, I am aware of many, many more cases of a group of black soldiers beating up a single white soldier they caught out after dark walking around. I also had more encounters with black soldiers over the years, each and every time, accusing me as a white of being prejudice against them. No matter the issue, if it were a black soldier involved, the race card was coming out to defend the black. Every time. It got better as the years went along. But the 70s and 80s were bad. Really bad.

18 posted on 11/24/2007 6:44:24 PM PST by RetiredArmy (If Marxist's Dimocrat Party & the Fed Gov want my guns, COME AND TRY TO GET THEM!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

My theory is that the left and right circle around and meet on the Dark Side at a place called Fascism.

Don’t necessarily agree with that one. I consider Fascism to be just another flavor of Left. The Fascist as being the “right wingers” was an invention of Josef Stalin’s propaganda machine, and yes Hitler was just to the right of Stalin. Keep in mind that the Stalinists are alive and well on college campuses, lamestream media, and at least one presidential candidate.


19 posted on 11/24/2007 6:48:25 PM PST by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, and as Hillary rightly pointed out, (much as I hate to admit she’s right) being in Indonesia at the age of ten, hardly constitutes being an expert in foreign affairs. But remember, his name is Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Maybe he discovered in his youth some ‘balanced’ and sophisticated reasons to hate America. Why not have a black Islamist-sympathizer as president? We can’t be prejudiced!


20 posted on 11/24/2007 7:08:40 PM PST by T.L.Sink
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