Example: Forget what the Tea Partiers SAY they're about. I am a Marxist academic, and I see they are angry white property owners threatened by the rise of a black socialist in a capitalistic society. Thus, the Tea partiers are obviously a racist cabal rising up to stop progress and return us to a slave state.
(I'm sure you think I'm joking, but I ain't!)
“Thus, the Tea partiers are obviously a racist cabal rising up to stop progress and return us to a slave state.”
Hi Darkwolf377!
Your comment reminded me of something. I work with some very liberal leaning people. They equate everything said in a conservative tone to racism. A woman responded to my Facebook comment to a “friend” that my perception of Muslims was wrong. I had stated that Juan Williams got a bum rap over his comments and that NPR was out of line to fire him. I also said that Williams vocalized what most Americans feel when they see a Muslim or even hear a Muslim sounding name. The woman jumped all over it, accusing me , politely of course, of lumping all Muslims in the same terrorist boat and that she knew a Muslim family who were so against the terrorist activities of those who share they faith. She also cited the KKK and insisted that she, as a black woman, did not consider all whites accomplices in this organization. She also said that in the days of Jim Crow laws, the KKK killed whole black families and you didn’t hear black people on TV insisting that all white people were racists. Therefore, she ( naturally reasonable, calm, and righteous) was very worried about a Republican win on Nov.2 because the racist momentum will take hold. I am wondering if this woman would take her critiques back if Bubba and his buddies hung out around the airport in their Dodge pick ups and then boarded a plane she was on in their white robes. Would she get a chill up her spine the next time she heard the roar of a truck engine? Undoubtedly she would. Because Williams reaction was visceral and so would her’s be.
Bingo. From National Review the other day:
“we see the common conflation of “anti-illegal-immigration” and “anti-immigrant,” the belief that welfare reform was essentially anti-black, and the reduction of concerns about Islamism to a kind of phobia. Conservatives’ ostensible reasons and supporting facts are dismissed without consideration, because it is presumed that those reasons and facts aren’t what really motivate them.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/250660/psychoanalytic-politics-matthew-shaffer