Not racist "dog whistle": Washington (Macaca) Post with headlines like:
Posted on 08/31/2012 11:31:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
American racism is starting to remind me of American alcoholism. At the founding of the republic, in the days when beer was thought of as "liquid bread" and a healthy nutritional breakfast, Americans drank about three-to-four times as much as they do now. Today the United States has a lower per capita rate of alcohol consumption than almost any other developed nation, but it has more alcoholism support groups than any other developed nation – around 164 groups per million people. France, which drinks about 50 percent more per capita than America, has one-twentieth the number of support groups. The French and Italians enjoy drinking, the English and Irish enjoy getting drunk, and Americans enjoy getting drunk on ever more absurd stigmatizatory excess. At Walmart they card you if you "appear to be under" – what is it up to now? 43? 57? And the citizenry take this as a compliment: Well-preserved grandmothers return from failed attempts to purchase a bottle of wine with gay cries of, "I was carded at Costco! They've made my weekend!"
And so it goes with American racism: The less there is, the more extravagantly the racism-awareness lobby patrols its beat. The Walmart carding clerks of the media are ever more alert to those who "appear to be" racist. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews declared this week that Republicans use "Chicago" as a racist code word. Not to be outdone, his colleague Lawrence O'Donnell pronounced "golf" a racist code word. When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell observed that Obama was "working to earn a spot on the PGA tour," O'Donnell brilliantly perceived that subliminally associating Obama with golf is racist, because the word "golf" is subliminally associated with "Tiger Woods,"(continued)
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Not racist "dog whistle": Washington (Macaca) Post with headlines like:
On the matter of those racist dog whistles all these middle-age white liberals keep hearing, the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto put it very well: “The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else,” he wrote. “The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.” And a very rare breed at that. What frequency does a Mitch McConnell speech have to be ringing inside your head for even the most racially obsessed Caucasian NBC anchorman to hear the words “PGA tour” as “deep-rooted white insecurities about black male sexuality”? That’s way beyond dog-whistling, and somewhere between barking mad and frothing rabid.
“lashes obama”? Oh no they didn’t. Where is Hissy Matthews about this outright racist attack?
Who’s the real racist ping?
Oh yes they did. That is an unadulterated (except rotation) picture I took personally of the print edition copy in my office’s lunchroom. The online edition has changed it to “rips Obama”.
They have to accuse us of using racial code words because they are using racial code words.
Great catch!
Steyn ping! (Or are those racist codewords?)
Spread it far and wide. I want this to be the Post’s own personal “macaca moment”.
Classic Steyn!
“That’s way beyond dog-whistling, and somewhere between barking mad and frothing rabid.”
Perfectly describes the LSM over the last few days.
Freaks
Good post! I see a play on your tagline: “When you’re a racist, everything sounds like a dog whistle.”
-——”Chicago” as a racist code word.-——
I may be guilty of treasonous posting but he got it wrong. The correct code is “Chicago Amish”
Amazing how it’s always the liberals who are able to hear and interpret the so-called “racist dog whistles”.
Unbelievable yet not really!
Who are the real racists ping? Please send this out. It needs broad coverage.
Lashes and chains..... I think the plan of attack is evident now.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
And when the only idea you have is an obsession with race,
everything looks and sounds like racism.
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