8 February 2012, 9:37 am
We’re pretty familiar with some of ‘em: -Criticizing quotas based on skin color is racist -Citing the fact that Muslims commit most terrorist acts is Islamophobic -Condemning Obama’s policies is racist -Insisting that poor people work if they are able to is insensitive -Stating that government union workers shouldn’t make more than private sector workers is capitalist-speak for slavery -Declaring that America is the best nation on earth is warmongering -Condemning OWS mobs for trashing our public places is oppression -Believing illegal immigration is...illegal is promoting slavery And so on. But now we’re being condemned for “code-word hate-speech”! How the h#$@ do we know what that is? Isn’t there a Federal Bureau of Hate Speech Words Czar in Obama’s junta who can help us out here? On 9/17/08 the International Socialist Organization published this (socialistworker.org): “But most have been silent about another aspect of McCain's campaigning--an increased willingness to invoke a new lexicon of racist code words, aimed at stoking bigotry among white voters”: -He's [Obama] out of step with the “rest of us.” And the us, of course, are "hard-working white Americans," as Hillary Clinton put it toward the end of her failed bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination. -Reagan and his successor, George H.W. Bush, declared a war on drugs--which, in reality, meant a war on young Black men. -In office, Reagan regularly invoked fictitious characters like "welfare queens" to justify his program of cutting back on social programs. -When he ran for president in 1992, Bill Clinton made fighting crime and ending welfare big aspects of his campaign--both of which were used to convey a message that he was not beholden to Black "special interests." 1/31/12 National Review: Juan Williams, Fox News contributor said: The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” — as used by Mitt Romney — and “poor work ethic” and “food stamp president” — as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the “Founding Fathers” and the “Constitution” also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core “old-fashioned American values.”... Read More »
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