Proglodytes baying and howling to tones only they can hear

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Coyotl (10,789 posts)

The Dog Whistle Politics of Race
  
The Dog Whistle Politics of Race
February 26, 2014 http://billmoyers.com/segment/preview-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race/

It may be hard to believe but the 2014 midterm elections are just nine months away. With the campaign season now gaining momentum, you may already be witnessing political stump speeches, advertisements and diatribes hoping to sway your vote. You may also need to tune your ear to the sound of dog whistle messaging, says Bill’s guest, author and legal scholar Ian Haney López.

This week on Moyers & Company, López, author of the newly released book, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, joins Bill to talk about how racism has changed in America since the civil rights era. The dog whistle of racism, says López, is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests. Politicians have mastered the use of dog whistles – code words that turn Americans against each other while turning America over to plutocrats.

And yet, “dog whistle politics doesn’t come out of animus at all,” López tells Moyers.“It doesn’t come out of some desire to hurt minorities. It comes out of a desire to win votes. And in that sense, I want to start using the term strategic racism. It’s racism as a strategy. It’s cold, it’s calculating, it’s considered, it’s the decision to achieve one’s own ends — here, winning votes — by stirring racial animosity.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024577045

And yet, they are the only ones who can hear it.



ETA: Privileged white boy stops to brag about how another privileged white boy likes him enough to republish one of WilliamWhoreson's posts at BillMoyers.com, a site frequented by whites; because it's more important to pay attention to white people congratulating each other than actually addressing what ails minorities:

WilliamPitt (56,361 posts)

11. I like Bill Moyers.
 
He likes me, too.

Grind on, boss.

[USA4ME]

Once you start with the premise of "The ideology of the political left/progressives is the economic system best suited for the furthering success of the USA," then anything you can come up with to prop that foundation up is justified. Race care, feminist card, class warfare, etc....., doesn't matter. All that matters is forcing a square peg into a round hole.

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