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Donald Trump, Racial Figleaves, and The Breadth of Bigotry
Huffington Post ^ | 01/21/2016 | Jennifer Saul

Posted on 01/22/2016 10:00:26 AM PST by detective

The racial dogwhistle has been an important political technique in recent decades-- a carefully coded message, designed to tap into racial prejudices without the unwitting target realizing that this is what is happening. Tali Mendelberg has argued that such techniques gain their force from twinned but countervailing forces: there is a Norm of Racial Egalitarianism, which brands outright expression of racism unacceptable. But there is also, in most white people, a high level of what is called 'racial resentment', simmering unacknowledged and unarticulated. A dogwhistle utterance exploits this: by talking about 'the culture of the inner city' or 'welfare' a politician may avoid mentioning race, while still causing voters to bring their racial resentment to bear on their voting decisions

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: msm; trump
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To: detective

Everybody’s a bigot on HuffPo. LOL!


21 posted on 01/22/2016 11:45:58 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: detective
there is also, in most white people, a high level of what is called 'racial resentment', simmering unacknowledged and unarticulated.

And she knows this how?

22 posted on 01/22/2016 12:03:47 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: VanDeKoik

I support Cruz because I think he IS the true conservative. However, I like Trump and will vote for him if he gets the nomination. Does that make a “pleb” or ignorant? I don’t think Trump is a racist anymore than I am a racist for wanting the illegals out of my country. Thanks!


23 posted on 01/22/2016 1:48:45 PM PST by Xenodamus
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To: oncebitten

You have your categories, others have different ones.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 3:08:09 PM PST by Jack Black ( "Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide")
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To: Albion Wilde
"And she knows this how?"

Good point.

It says a LOT about HER, though.

25 posted on 01/22/2016 3:59:57 PM PST by boop ("That's a hell of a price to pay for being stylish" -Dirty Harry)
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