it's called PROJECTION...
Posted on 05/03/2014 11:37:51 AM PDT by mojito
....The Ballad of the Civil Rights Movement has long been liberals’ favorite bed-time story. Martin Luther King Day may be the only day of the year when they feel completely, unambiguously proud to be Americans. It’s hard to exaggerate how important this is to liberal political thinking. They are perpetually looking for new ways to recapture that high.
Conservatives tend to miss this because we see the Civil Rights story as settled history. We’re all pleased to have sloughed off the bigotry of our ancestors. Of course we want people to be judged “by the content of their character” and not by their skin. What’s left to debate here?
Liberals have yet to turn that page. This is their favorite series, and like every loyal fan base, they always want another sequel.....[O]ne of the most appealing things about a 2008 Senator Obama was the perception that he could be the star of a particularly thrilling new episode. Of course, if that’s the storyline, it’s no mystery which role was available for conservatives. “Racial coding” became a convenient fix for a glaring plot hole: Republican politicians’ refusal to follow their racist script.
Of course, for conservatives this is a pretty bad deal. We can’t stop being the racist party if that’s the only “role” our political enemies have available.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
It isn't pretty, and it isn't going to change.
They aren’t liberals, they shouldn’t be called that.
Why would I want to get into a liberal mind and wade through 10 feet of bull sh@t?
No imaginary victims? No democrat party. Even to them, social justice is an unachievable fantasy, for the moment it arrives, it is the end of the party, which cannot be allowed to happen.
Why Liberals Think Conservatives Are Racist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I suppose the Left must have gastric fission and copious flatulant emissions when they encounter a “dude” like Col. Allen West.
The EPA needs to issue their cracks down on that.
The problem is, they don't "think." Its all about emotion and reflex with them.
This is overthinking it writ large.
To me, the much simpler explanation is (and this isn’t my original idea)
Calling someone a racist is a sweeping automatic claim on an ephemeral moral high ground. All at once, the accuser assumes the moral high ground, throws a dirtbomb that is in many senses inescapable because nobody wants to be known as a “racist”-—whereas you or I could have a scholarly, polite discussion not threatening eventual violence about whether you are, say, a Keynesian and I am an Austrian-school guy.
If the accuser is not a racist and you are, you (the accused) have all this freaking work to do to dig yourself out of this conversational hole, just to get to zero, while at the same time you have no convenient way to prove your non-racist nature. The claim by the accuser is largely irrefutable. But because they claim the high ground first, it immediately throws the accused at some level on the defensive. In other words, it is a tactic, a gambit. It is not the statement of a well-considered thought process. It is a “fake-to-the left” tactic that may or may not be genuinely felt by the accuser; it’s derailment and distraction tactic.
Even if there is no moral high ground claim being made, even if the assertion that you are racist has no bearing in discernable logic, the mere assertion is enough to claim a greater degree of sensitivity and thus sophistication on the part of the accuser. Meaning, even if you are completely innocent in your racism; maybe you made a clumsy statement or turned a phrase awkwardly; you’re not even sensitive enough to detect and prevent yourself from having made such a gaffe; thus you have much to learn from this person who’s calling you a racist so you should shut up and maybe you’ll learn something, you idiot.
It thus obviates the need for serious thought on the part of the accuser and that is a comfort. It is a drug that always works. Their thinking is done, the articulation of your protestations are in front of you and your next task is your defense...before you even get to make whatever your original point was. By the time you wander through the racist-defense maze, the attention span is gone three times over and your original point can never be made.
It’s a “shut your freaking mouth” tactic.
I think that your observations here are absolutely correct. But I think the article is attempting to explain why and how accusing others of racism, as opposed to some other trumped up charge, has assumed such a central place in liberal/democratic party politics.
Why?
Celebrating 100 years!
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
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Rule of thumb; Liberals are exactly what they accuse others of being or doing.
it's called PROJECTION...
It reminded me of how some have explained it in terms of the dialectic. My recollection of events over the past 70+ years is yes.. it works that way. Especially from the late 1950s vis-a-vis race.
Many a time liberals screaming Racists! 24/7 had the conservatives slinking away looking back over their shoulders protesting, "We're not racists.. OK we'll yield [on this or that point]."
So point by point we got.. two Americas which will not change "until a crisis shall have been reached and passed."
Or we can just respond, in a bored tone, "If you say so, but you're still full of sh**".
We will not be free until we stop caring about whether somebody claims we're racist/sexist/homophobic, or whether somebody else is.
I agree. There is NO LIBERTY in the left. They are the party of big authoritarian government. Fascism, communism, progressivism, socialism all hide behind the label liberal. They are not liberal.
Yes. And it has changed it is that way today. Totally changed compared to the way it was through the '60s, 70s', 80s when even Republicans like Mitt Romney's father was calling the emerging modern conservative movement "purveyors of hate."
Today screaming racism at everything is a joke. That started to happen when free speech returned to radio in 1987 -- and the Internet began to replaced TV as the major source of news.
We now have the freedom to say, "If you say so, but you're still full of sh**." without fear of costing the radio station owner his license to broadcast.
Ever.
This battle will be endless through time, generations and eras.
You just can't fix stupid.
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Liberals know that generally conservatives are not racist - but they think conservatives can be easily bullied into keeping quiet if they’re called racist loudly and often enough - and sadly, they’re usually right.....
/johnny
“That’s why I preempt the tactic by calling the liberal out on racism first. ;)”
That’s probably the best tactic. Seriously!
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