The first Instalanche I ever received was for a throwaway blog post I wrote about “professor” being a racist code word:
Someone needs to make a list. I’ll go ahead and start it.
Articulate=racist.
Left wing=racist.
Socialist=racist.
Palling around with terrorists=racist.
And now, because they said so, condemning an approach to terrorism as a criminal act rather than an act of war=racist.
I should have kept that list going. Maybe I’ll start a side project, similar to warmlist, the website that tracks all the things caused by global warming.
Here are a few more code words or dog whistles or whatever they are called this week: “entitlement society,” “Constitution,” “poor work ethic,” and “Founding Fathers.” It’s true because Juan Williams said so:
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.”
The code also extends to attacks on legal immigrants, always carefully lumped in with illegal immigrants, as people seeking “amnesty” and taking jobs from Americans.
There’s a part of me that wants to vent and break the All American Wife’s editorial prohibition on dropping F-bombs in my writing, but there’s another part, a larger part, that accepts what is going on and is resigned to the reality that whatever is said or done for the next 10 months, regardless if the person is black, white, Cuban, Mexican or Asian, if it is in any way against the left, it will be maligned as racist.
Everything.
When you can’t mention the Founding Fathers without it being a racist dog whistle, you know what I am saying is true. You need to accept that as fact. This isn’t going to be a campaign about the positives and negatives of a particular candidate’s economic philosophy, or their particular belief in the role of government. It is going to be a campaign designed to divide the nation by class and race.
And they have a head start. (That’s probably racist.)
Of course we also cannot reference things in terms of white or black, shades of gray, or anything remotely related to such topics. It’s already been demonstrated (by Eric “My People” Holder and others [re: what's a racial "hate" crime]) that in current Animal House America some pig(mentation)s are more equal than others.
Brings to mind a DC council-critter (I live not too far from the Emerald City of Odds) who went racially ballistic a few years ago, launching all missiles, when another council member remarked that something was “niggardly”. Oh the hyperventilating vapors caused because one person was vocabulary-challenged! (I’ve since wondered if that would be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act, under the subsection of Willfully Stupid?)
In the 1970′s a liberal (but equal-opportunity sacred-cow-slayer) song satirist named Tom Lehrer wrote a song called “Smut” which contained the line: When correctly viewed, everything is lewd!
We have a bunch of professional race-baiting-whore hammers seeing nothing but nails everywhere that need to be pounded down.
OOPS!! Animal House should have read “Animal Farm”….but then again, considering the typical Lib emotional/mental/psychological maturity on display, perhaps Animal House is not all that far from accurate…
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