Comments on: Redefining the term racist so that it suits ME *UPDATED* http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 24 May 2013 19:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: tejas http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-95109 tejas Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:13:31 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-95109 I reckon I’m a racist too, when you you put it that way.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94975 Ymarsakar Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:08:13 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94975 One of the things that Dems have learned works is that Republicans will back down if you call them racists.
 
The thing is, Republican leadership has often been spineless. Because they revolve around DC politics, shame or some kind of personal assassination campaign, works on them. Because their power is centralized, given the national party’s structure. A select targeting of one person, can then lead to an entire change in Republican PR frontage.
 
The Tea Parties are different, however. It’s like Helen here telling us we’re racists. Some of us may feel more or less offended. Some of us may back down or ramp up. Some of us may agree or disagree. But we’re not centralized in our views. Helen can’t just target one person and that gets all of us singing the same tune.
 
With the Republican party structure, they can do it. They’ve done it. With the Tea Party’s decentralization security scheme, it’s impossible for the Left to accomplish that. So all the Left is doing is ramping up public fervor. The more they talk about racism, the less it appears to work, the more they think they just need to ramp up the pressure.
 
 
Every single time, almost, when they have used this tactic, it has worked on Republicans. Why not on the Tea Party as well? Because the organizations are set up differently. TP leaders actually have spines, for example. Cause many of them are alphas, not betas.

]]> By: suek http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94973 suek Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:01:57 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94973 This is a link to a relevant post.  I’m not exactly how to fit it in, but it does – somehow.
 
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/04/grievance-politics-and-entitlement.html

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94958 Ymarsakar Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:33:22 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94958 I don’t mean that as a joke. From her perspective, it is true. Black and white are less color or dna and more of a cultural matrix. If you believe in the US Constitution, you are white. If you believe in social justice, you are black. If your skin color is black yet you believe in the US Constitution and don’t believe in the Democrat party, then you are a race traitor, period.
 
 

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94957 Ymarsakar Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:32:03 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94957 Helen’s black too, don’t forget.

]]> By: BrianE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94951 BrianE Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:55:39 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94951 Helen,
That’s like the pot calling the kettle black, er, white… no black…well, kinda black.
 
OK, the kettle is definitely black, but the pot was white… well kinda aluminum actually, but that’s  the new black, so it all makes sense now.
 

]]> By: Charles Martel http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94949 Charles Martel Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:21:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94949 I’ve always loved Helen’s inability to see the gigantic beam in her eye while she’s tsk-tsking the racist motes in ours.

I see that our resident critical race theorist subscribes to the thoroughly and despicably racist notion that the teensiest eensiest drop of “black” blood makes a person black, but that a drop of white blood—hell, 10 million drops of white blood—can never reverse the process.

This was the lie that southern racists introduced generations ago with their fiddle-faddle over quadroons, and octaroons and all the other gradations they used to establish their racial superiority. It’s nice to see that Helen, a southern white woman, is continuing the farce. Barack Obama is not a black man. Nor is he a white man. He is half of each.

Good luck, Helen, with explaining to people how a man who is half of something is all of it.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94947 Ymarsakar Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:18:35 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94947 “on nation, under God.””
 
 
That’s one nation under Obama.
 
“Being a racist is about refusing to listen to what the minority says it needs.”
 
Wants, not needs. People need the cooperation of social contracts under the US Constitution. They want special privileges, but that’s not what they need.
 
“Electing a black president was obviously not a sign we are going forward. ”
 
That’s what cults say. When one thing doesn’t work, it is always because of those evil enemies getting in the way. Thus justifying even more radical and extreme behaviors for the cult.
 

]]> By: BrianE http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94946 BrianE Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:48:39 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94946 “Anyone can redefine anything to suit his/her beliefs.” – Helen
 
Et tu, Helen?

]]> By: Helen Losse http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/04/01/redefining-the-term-racist-so-that-it-suits-me/comment-page-1/#comment-94945 Helen Losse Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:05:51 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=11430#comment-94945 Hi Bookworm,  Just dropped by to see how things are going on your blog.  The fact that this piece won says that a lot of people agree with you.  That doesn’t surprise me a bit.    Anyone can redefine anything to suit his/her beliefs.  This article remind me of how very far we have to go in America before we truly become “on nation, under God.”   Being a racist is about refusing to listen to what the minority says it needs.  Electing a black president was obviously not a sign we are going forward.   Otherwise, we’d be doing just that.  Racism is about fear, and so many afraid of change, because they know it will cost them something.    And, of course, they are right;  equality will cost us.  Equality (justice) will come, but apparently the majority of Americans are just too selfish for it to come yet.  We shall overcome (just not yet).

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