And that after this is accomplished,
and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing
and no man must pay for his sins
As surely as Water will wet us,
as surely as Fire will burn
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
with terror and slaughter return!
and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing
and no man must pay for his sins
As surely as Water will wet us,
as surely as Fire will burn
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
with terror and slaughter return!
Challenging the logic of socioracial mobilization:
when racist propaganda wears the mask of democracy
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"I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco," [Nancy] Pelosi said, suddenly speaking quietly. "This kind of rhetoric was very frightening" and created a climate in which violence took place, she said. . . . "Our country is great because people can say what they think and they believe," she added. "But I also think that they have to take responsibility for any incitement that they may cause." . . . The tone of the protests has sparked a debate over whether the criticism of Obama, the nation's first black president, is really about his race. Former President Jimmy Carter has said he thinks the vitriol is racially motivated, but Obama does not believe that, a White House spokesman said.
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Kurtz Accidentally Exposes Hypocrisy In Media's Race Baiting, By Noel Sheppard (September 20, 2009 - 11:51 ET) . . . [Howard] Kurtz and his panel discussed comments made by various press members last week that opposition to Barack Obama's agenda is being fueled by racism. . . . KURTZ: "My two cents is the President told NBC, "The media love to have a conversation about race," and I agree with it. You take any story -- it could be Jeremiah Wright, it could be Henry Louis Gates, it could be the Duke rape case -- and once you inject race into that -- as the media sometimes have no choice but to do, but sometimes love to do -- it's like pumping steroids into an ordinary story. It makes it live on for weeks and weeks and months and months. You know, a white Harvard professor gets arrested in a dustup with a police, or a misunderstanding with a police officer in Cambridge, it's a two-paragraph story. It happens to a black professor, particularly probably one like Gates, and we all jump on it."
[A question for Nancy Pelosi: Who will you hold responsible for the incitement that pumping steroids into an ordinary story will certainly cause?]
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When you have to resort to the race card and the violence card to counter widespread opposition to a political agenda, it's a sure sign of desperation; but the left wingnuts who rule the Democratic Party have neither the sense nor the grace to back off their highly resented efforts to run up enormous public debt, control major industries, and socialize American medicine.
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In case you don’t get the joke, this entire “debate” over whether opposition to Obama’s health-care reform is racist is totally, completely, and in every way conceivable an invention of the Left. . . . The good news is that the race peddlers have undermined themselves. The notion that opposing skyrocketing deficits and socialized medicine is racist is met with eye rolls by the vast majority of Americans, who do not need Sharpton and Carter to tell them what is — or is not — in their own hearts. . . . Maureen Dowd of the New York Times hears Rep. Joe Wilson shout, “You lie!” And her instinctive response is: “Fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!” . . . It’s the “fair or not” that gives Dowd away. She admits to hearing racism whether or not it’s warranted. That’s called prejudice. And unlike Wilson’s foolish outburst, Dowd’s was carefully considered.
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On Tuesday, MSNBCs Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: “A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.” Problem with this is, the “white person” who is a racist was really a black man, and MSNBC PURPOSELY cropped the head of the man (the only exposed part where you can see the person’s skin color):
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The Stay-In-School Conspiracy Theory, by Hunter (Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 02:03:07 PM PDT) It is rare, indeed, to have parents outraged-- outraged I tell you!--that the President of the United States of America is going to give a speech to their children about staying in school . . . . That said, America has a robust and colorful history of parents pulling their children out of school to prevent them from being exposed to a black person -- far more history of that than of being outraged--outraged I tell you!-- at exposing children to their President. It is unclear what, exactly, terrifies them so much. From the level of drama, one can only presume that Obama will be reading passages from the fabled Negronomicon. [Negronomicon: An ancient account of the old ass niggas, including instructions for summoning them. THE BIBLE, THE KO-RAN, THE EMANCIFICATION PROCLANATION. Damn, Soulja Boy, yo rhymes be weak. You best get yoself a negronomicon and get some inspiration from yo elduz. Submitted by: FOSHO. (Dolemite Dot Com: Ebonics Primer)]
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Michael Steele Plays The Straw Man Race Card, by BarbinMD (Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 01:30:04 PM PDT) After months of applauding and enabling the thinly (and not so thinly) veiled racist attacks against the President, the Republican Party has come out swinging against the suggestion racism drives a good portion of their base.
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Eyes on the Ball: Health Coverage Reform, Not Wilson, by Meteor Blades (Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 10:07:19 PM PDT) As nearly everyone in the political universe has noted by now, President Barack Obama got disrespected Wednesday night... I think it has to do with the truckloads of lies and despicable slursovertly racist . dropped on Obama in the past few months, many of them . . . Plus the fact that if a Democratic Representative had yelled "You lie!" during a Bush speech, she'd still be doing time in a secret prison.
[The conclusion I draw from the above story by Meteor Blades is that certain people who said "Boo" or "Liar" or threw shoes at Bush must still doing time in a secret prison. That explains why the media isn't reporting on their experience.]
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Democrats Boo Bush During 2005 SOTU
Bush gets booed as he hears Hail to the Chief one last time for him! Priceless!
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IF THERE were a monkey in the White House- and many reckon there is - then his trainer would be the world's most powerful person. In the case of George W Bush, almost everything he knows about foreign policy has been learnt from Condoleezza Rice.Where were you when Condaleezza Rice was being portrayed by the Left in vicious, racist cartoons and photo manipulation?
Get Over It!
libertyaintfree: Where was the outrage when the cartoon of Bush was drawn as an organ grinder and Condi Rice was drawn as his monkey--
sirdook: The cartoon wasn't very clever, but it clearly wasn't racist. It wasn't comparing the President to a chimp. By getting upset over this you're just feeding the right-wing outrage machine.
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Op-Ed Columnist, Rogues, Robes and Racists, By CHARLES M. BLOW (Published: May 29, 2009) Someone pinch me. I must be dreaming. Some of the same Republicans who have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years, are now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist. Oh, the hypocrisy!. . . . Even Michael Steele, the bungling chairman of "The Willie Horton Party" knows that the Republicans have no standing on this issue. . . . A report entitled “Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South” that was released last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center found “systemic discrimination against Latinos” that constituted “a civil rights crisis.” . . . The report noted: “And as a result of relentless vilification in the media, Latinos are targeted for harassment by racist extremist groups, some of which are directly descended from the old guardians of white supremacy. ”
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Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President, By Noel Sheppard (April 16, 2009 - 23:56 ET) On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt. . . . .
JANEANE GAROFALO: Thank you. You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. It sounds right and then it doesn't make sense. Which, let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. . . . because their limbic brain, we've discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring. . . . . because as I've said, the Republican hype and the conservative movement has now crystallized into the white power movement.
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Radical, Racist Signs Featured At 9/12 March Members of ThinkProgress attended today’s march and the signs carried by these protesters were hardly nonpartisan — and were often racist, radical portrayals of Obama. . . . When it was pointed out to him that almost everyone there was white, DeMint simply said, “It’s probably just the time and organization and the media that promoted it.”
Comments on this entry:
Zooey says: Not one of those teabaggers makes over $250K a year, so they’re not paying more taxes, and probably one trip to the ER would send them into bankruptcy — but they can’t contain their inner KKK anymore, so they march. The black blood is just that powerful. :-D
rick street says: maybe it is time for a second civil war. let’s give these morons what they want. they are not the only ones with guns and a hot temper. f**k these people. bill maher is right; there has got to be more direct action in the streets to counter these bacteria.
Republic of Stupidity says: Hmmm…Last fall, after the election, when the first hints of what to come started bubbling to the surface of this cell pool… I made a joke about “sweaty, balding, chubby middle-aged white men, arms linked together, marching down Pennsylvania Ave, chanting “We shall over come… we shall overcome… we shall overcome…”… I guess it wasn’t a joke after all… or at least, a funny joke.
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MSNBC, Thy Name is Racist, By Rusty Weiss (September 12, 2009 - 20:59 ET) MSNBC seems more determined and emboldened to portray conservatives and Republicans as racists. How? By continually defining those who oppose the President, an African-American man, as nothing more than angry white men of questionable intelligence. . . . As a general rule of thumb, those who continually play the race card to make an argument are, in fact, racists themselves.
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John Murtha: My constituents are RAAAACIST; Update: GOP opponent Bill Russell responds, By Michelle Malkin (October 15, 2008 04:19 PM) Jack Murtha, the pork-stuffed corruptocrat infamous for libeling our troops, has now moved on to libeling voters in his own district.. . . He agrees with Barack Obama’s assessment that Pennsylvanians are nothing but a bunch of bitter, clingy, bigoted rednecks. . . . Mr. Murtha said it has taken time for the state’s voters embrace a black presidential candidate. . . . “There’s no question Western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” said Mr. Murtha, whose district stretches from Johnstown to Washington County. “The older population is more hesitant.”
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It’s Time To Stop The ‘Redneck’ Slurs, Posted on 01.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:23 pm: . . . these words from a college student at the University of Washington, written after the presidential election last year: "People on the East and West Coasts tend to think of themselves as superior to everyone else. I am part of this imaginary 'master race,' as are most of us at the UW. We are given to imagining ourselves as more sophisticated, more tolerant, more world-wise and, essentially, above the ignorance of the hillbillies that inhabit the rest of the country. . . . [W]e coastal snobs, conservative and liberal, have at least managed to largely overcome our innate racial and gender prejudices. However, given the political baggage that the overly simplistic and wantonly polarizing 'colored state' dichotomy has created, we’re going to have a tough time overcoming our regional biases." . . . For whatever reason, it remains perfectly acceptable to openly insult a large swath of the U.S. population — the common folk who live in “flyover country” — as “bitter” or “racist” or “redneck.”
Rwanda: a modern example of what happens when racist propaganda wears the mask of democracy
Exactly who killed the president [of Rwanda]- and with him the president of Burundi and many chief members of staff - has not been established . . . Whoever was behind the killing, its effect was both instantaneous and catastrophic.. . . Mass murder: In Kigali, the presidential guard immediately initiated a campaign of retribution. Leaders of the political opposition were murdered, and almost immediately, the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus began. . . . Within hours, recruits were dispatched all over the country to carry out a wave of slaughter. . . . Encouraged by the presidential guard and radio propaganda, an unofficial militia group called the Interahamwe (meaning those who attack together) was mobilised. At its peak, this group was 30,000-strong. . . . Soldiers and police officers encouraged ordinary citizens to take part. . . . In some cases, Hutu civilians were forced to murder their Tutsi neighbours by military personnel. . . . Participants were often given incentives, such as money or food, and some were even told they could appropriate the land of the Tutsis they killed.
Media propaganda: According to recent commentators the news media played a crucial role in the genocide: local print and radio media fueled the killings, while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued events on the ground. The print media in Rwanda is believed to have started hate speech against Tutsis which was later continued by radio stations. According to commentators anti-Tutsi hate speech "became so systemic as to seem the norm." . . . Most of the victims were killed in their villages or in towns, often by their neighbors and fellow villagers.
Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) RTLM was established in 1993, primarily railing against on-going peace talks between President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose family supported the radio station, and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front. It became a popular station since it offered frequent contemporary musical selections, unlike the staid state radio, and quickly developed a faithful audience among youth-aged Rwandans, who later made up the bulk of the Interahamwe militia. . . . The station is considered to have preyed upon deep animosities and prejudices between the Hutu and Tutsi populations. The hateful rhetoric was placed alongside the sophisticated use of humor and popular Zairean music . . . .
RTLM Propaganda: the Democratic Alibi (Jean-Pierre Chrétien) This psychology of killers perpetrating mass slaughter makes the most sense. . . . when situated among the methods of an eminently modern propaganda. The psychology is explained in a handbook written by French psychosociologist Roger Mucchielli (1972), Psychologie de la Publicité et de la Propagande: Connaissance du Problème, Applications Pratiques. . . . The Mucchielli manual explains – without moral or ideological expectation – the mechanisms of mass conditioning and mobilization required to create a mass movement.
- It describes methods for moulding a good conscience based on indignation toward an enemy perceived as a scapegoat.
- It describes such tactics as 'mirror propaganda' or 'accusations in a mirror', the notion of ascribing to others what we ourselves are preparing to do.
- The good conscience would legitimize collective action based on widespread certainty of being on the side of the strongest and the just.
- In other words, the collective action would be the embodiment of the 'people'. . . . normalized the massacre perpetrated by the majority, which becomes an expression of democratic anger. . . .
Why were they [Tutsi people] killed?
“They were innocent, I know. I only heard that it was genocide. People were killed because they were Tutsis. Hutus killed them.”
You said Tutsis and Hutus. Do you know your ethnic group?
“I’m neither Hutu nor Tutsi. I’m Rwandan.”
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