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We need to countercharge when we are accused of racism.
I suggest using the following:
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Straight out of their playbook...
Anti-racism’s only meaning in today’s vernacular is anti-white, these race card hustlers are nothing but proto-nazis of a different color.
He has yet to do that. He tepidly has made comments that can be spun as doing this but his responses have been so weak as to be almost meaningless.
That 0 does not do come out and publicly rebuke the race baiters indicates he not only condones the accusation, he is in fact encouraging the accusers to keep making the blatantly fraudulent accusation.
Sounds good. I suppose it will turn up in the library in 2012!
Why am I NOT surprised?
“Racist!” supersedes the real problem of class.
Yes, it does, and this is a fairly important point. The distribution of poverty among black citizens was very different a half-century ago from what we see today and the mapping of race to economic class, although not entirely valid, was far more valid than it now is. The black middle class has solidified and the argument has had to devolve, in classic Marxist fashion, from poverty/economics as a class identifier to other forms of oppression - "disparate impact" for example. That's harder to prove to be sure but proof is not important; the accusation is sufficient.
This accounts for the viciousness with which middle-class blacks who do vote class interest over race, are marginalized, cursed as race traitors, intimidated, silenced. Ironically this is done most enthusiastically by tenured professors and activists in thousand-dollar suits who derive their political legitimacy not from protecting black people, but (ostensibly) from protecting poor people. If that mapping fails, their influence fades.
In short, there is an inverse relationship between noise and substance on the issue. There is yet another class relationship going on here: between an influential elite that considers itself the rightful proprietors over progressivism and the rest of us who are to be (1) led, (2) "educated", (3) silenced, and (4) milked for all we're worth. That's the class relationship the phony screams of "racism!" are protecting.
"used subliminal imagery to scare us"
They liked finding the Da Vinci Code in the McCain "fame" ad.
But it revealed more about the fantasies of a liberal New York Times writer.
Not to be outdone by the McCain camp,
they enlisted the president of France in reviving the legend
and adding some more subliminal symbolism.
