"All you have are a couple of assholes and two isolated incidents."
So those two guys are responsible for all the racism that's been oh-so-subtly aroused by competition with Obama and his baby-mama, Sarah Palin's disdain for them eddycated elitists, the slurs of the Pennsylvania GOP, (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/GOP_hits_rock_bottom_Calls_Obama_in_an_official_release_terrorists_best_friend.html) the effigy of Obama that was lynched in Oregon (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/racial_incident_rattles_george.html), racist news columnists (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015040.php), distribution of bizarre Obama-themed parody foodstamps (http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/10/17/american-racism/), etc.
A couple of assholes responsible for all that? Damn. They're good.
I guess they're also responsible for all the worries about the White House becoming the Black House, and the people in the video that was linked in the comments above. I hadn't intended to try and make this an entry primarily about the effect of race on the election (since I get two replies to those statements. Most people say, "well yeah, you'd have to be an idiot to miss it," but some tell me "talking about the effect of race on the election makes you racist. Race shouldn't matter so it doesn't.")
But it's a good example to use of who's encouraging hatred and to what degree.
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Date: 2008-10-18 10:30 pm (UTC)From:So those two guys are responsible for all the racism that's been oh-so-subtly aroused by competition with Obama and his baby-mama, Sarah Palin's disdain for them eddycated elitists, the slurs of the Pennsylvania GOP, (http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/GOP_hits_rock_bottom_Calls_Obama_in_an_official_release_terrorists_best_friend.html) the effigy of Obama that was lynched in Oregon (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/racial_incident_rattles_george.html), racist news columnists (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015040.php), distribution of bizarre Obama-themed parody foodstamps (http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2008/10/17/american-racism/), etc.
A couple of assholes responsible for all that? Damn. They're good.
I guess they're also responsible for all the worries about the White House becoming the Black House, and the people in the video that was linked in the comments above. I hadn't intended to try and make this an entry primarily about the effect of race on the election (since I get two replies to those statements. Most people say, "well yeah, you'd have to be an idiot to miss it," but some tell me "talking about the effect of race on the election makes you racist. Race shouldn't matter so it doesn't.")
But it's a good example to use of who's encouraging hatred and to what degree.