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So, between Rick Santorum and his comment that he tried to deny about blacks on food stamps - one of his many factually inaccurate statements, we now have the Nut Gingrich clarifying he believes the same thing. And some people wonder why we see racism in the right, especially among the Tea Party darlings. Rick Needs-a-Sanitarium and the Nut Gingrich are poster boys for racist stereotypes.
Which goes well with 'the Blacks' good buddy (if only in his own mind) the Donald rhymes with Duck, and Uncle Tom Herman Cain.
Larry Wilmore is one of my favorites among the Daily Show contributors.
This is a bit old; it was from before either the Nut and Needs-a-Sanitarium had peaked. It will be amusing to see if Huntsman's surge last a bit longer, or is better timed.
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And then there was 'Niggerhead' ranch Ick Perry, and of course, rounding out the cast of racist righties, Michele Bachmann who believes that blacks were better off under slavery than they are now, and that slavery was good for Christianizing the heathens from Africa offset any of that bad stuff about slavery.
So, in effect, Michele Backwards-mann believes that blacks were better off with good, Christian white slave owners keeping them in line with whips and telling them what to do and what to believe.......for their own good.
Yeah, I think MikeB has good cause for his position.
Dog Gone,
ReplyDeleteI take it that you haven't observed how little politicians actually represent the people that they claim as their supporters. A person can be conservative without being a racist, despite what a few prominent Republicans are.
That Gingrich is unbelievable. Great videos.
ReplyDelete"A person can be conservative without being a racist, despite what a few prominent Republicans are."
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah, THEM and whole shitton of SKKKrotalMerKKKinPatriotiKKK Front types.
Democommie,
ReplyDeleteDo you have that name filled with the Ks saved somewhere, or do you have to type it out anew each time? If so, you're putting a lot of work into your hate.
Greg Camp:
ReplyDeleteYou're so fucking stupid that I have a hard time believing you actually earned a PhD (or any sort of degree). Since you're curious (and, of course, have nothing to say about the rampant and highly visible racism that riddles both the GOP and it's current master the AWLMSOTF*), it's more like muscle memory. Sortalike when I type "FUCKING LIAR" while referring to a Campian whopper--of which there are many.
Of course politicians represent those who voted for them, at least until they are in office. In the case of the SKKKrotalMurKKKinPatriotiKKK Front, they've been assiduous in their attention to the folks that put them in office--to the detriment of the rest of the populace.
*Americans Who Like Men's Scrotums On Their Foreheads.
Democommie,
ReplyDeleteSo you type it out every time. That's a lot of work.
To everyone,
Gingrich's comments may be tone deaf and unaware, but I don't see them as racist. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another due to genetic factors. Gingrich may believe that everyone on government assistance is black, but he didn't say that they are in that position due to their ancestry.
Greg, it is not essential for Gignrich to believe the basis for a group of people defined by an ethnicity or race is genetically inferior.
ReplyDeleteIt is sufficient that he believes something is true of a group of people that he defines by their race.
This Gingrich does.
More to the point, Gingrich and the other candidates who play to these stereotypes ARE racist, and they are appealing to the racist beliefs of their base of supporters.
Believing stereotypes IS racist.
dictionary.com:
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
Believing something so derogatory IS a form of hatred and intolerance.
From wikipedia on racism:
"Racism" and "racial discrimination" are often used to describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of their somatic (i.e. "racial") differences.
When Gingrich talks about going to the NAACP to tell them how to fix their food stamp problem by replacing food stamps with paychecks, he implies that this is a problem for all blacks, that they are differently affected by poverty and by government support than other groups of people identified on the basis of race.
It is the assumption, the belief, the stereotype that blacks are lazy, that they don't know how to work or lack the desire to work.
THAT is a form of racism, regardless of the belief that it is a genetic or cultural cause for the deficiency.
So when Bachmann says that blacks were better off under a system of slavery, she is stating something similarly offensive about blacks as a group of people.
It is the worst, the most offensive, of negative identity politics.
It is about derogatory assumptions about a group of people that is factually inaccurate, arrogant, and should be called what it is. It doesn't matter a tinker's damn if it is culture derived, or genetic, in Gingrich's mind.
It is blatantly racist.
And it clearly appeals to the conservative base. If that is the ideology you wish to embrace, you choose to make common cause with an awful lot of racists, even if a few are not. I reject the thinking of people like Gingrich, and pretty much the rest of the right, for that very reason.
Dog Gone,
ReplyDeleteI'm not a Gingrich supporter, but I don't see him as a racist just for the comment quoted here. I'm not so quick to define everything that I disagree with as racist when it's said about some group of people. We spend far too much time worrying about such things, when we should be trying to make the economy better for everyone.