You know how I know you're racist?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

You claim there's a "race card"

CreekDog (40,731 posts)

"Using the race card" --does the phase cast doubt on all claims of racism?
 
 Yes, the phrase casts doubt or sheds negative light on all claims of racism 6 (100%)

 No, the phase does not cast doubt or shed negative light on all claims of racism

Erich Bloodaxe BSN (423 posts)

1. I am instantly suspicious of anyone who uses that phrase.

It seems to almost always simply indicate the person using it wants to avoid actually considering the role race plays in just about every aspect of life in America.

cthulu2016 (10,705 posts)

4. Do you mean when the phrase is applied to a claim of racism?

It is a disparaging term, yes.

CreekDog (40,731 posts)

5. yes, that's what i mean

i've never heard it used in any other way.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024818564

[Gina]

So when I hear Obama say that people don't like his policies because he is black that's not him playing the race card? 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So when I hear Obama say that people don't like his policies because he is black that's not him playing the race card? 

Denying you're motivated by racism is proof you're a racist.

[Gina]

So if you say "I'm a racist" are you a racist?   

[98ZJUSMC]

Erich Bloodaxe BSN (423 posts)

1. I am instantly suspicious of anyone who uses that phrase.

It seems to almost always simply indicate the person using it wants to avoid actually considering the role race plays in just about every aspect of life in America.

What an idiot.....

wants to avoid actually considering the role race plays in just about every aspect of life in America.

Says the (D)oUcherocket who has never seen a foreign country.  You want to see racism?  Go to Canada sometime.

Denying you're motivated by racism is proof you're a racist.

  That's exactly what they are saying.

[FlaGator]

You know how I determine who is racist? If they vote democrat then they are racist. It works with almost 100% accuracy.

[Skul]

Without looking, I can pretty much guarantee the card is being played in several comments in the DUmp, right now.
Without merit, without proof of any kind. It makes them feel "empowered".
It's their nature to accuse others of what doesn't exist.
It takes up most of the deck. The rest of the cards are jokers. 
Stuff it, race hustlers.   

[Dori]

Stuff it, race hustlers.   

That ^.  The left needs to get a new deck of cards. 

[DLR Pyro]

So when I hear Obama say that people don't like his policies because he is black that's not him playing the race card? 

at the very least it is him admitting that he has a paper thin skin and can't take any form of criticism

[Carl]

In other words "We have so over played this mindless attack now we have to try to make people not talk about what we did".

[Carl]

el_bryanto (6,748 posts)
8. Why does it work? Because rhetoric and argument in politics is a game much of the time.

We are conditioned to believe that people who say things we agree with are honest and open and speaking from the heart, while those who disagree with us are duplicitous and disingenuous, saying whatever is most effective without regard to the truth.

If you are opposed to civil rights, or seeing the black community succeed, or even if you are just a garden variety Conservative who doesn't want to see social programs for the poor continued or enacted, well "playing the race card" whenever anybody mentions the plight of Black America fits into your narrative - it underlines that to the people you disagree with, this is just a game, and they are simply pulling out the most emotional jackhammer they can find to "win."

Bryant

I would say you just unwittingly condemned the entire democrat party for what they are.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

In other words "We have so over played this mindless attack now we have to try to make people not talk about what we did".

I would say it's more like, "We have so over played this mindless attack now we have to try to make people not talk about what we did but it's really the only thing we've got so we have to keep doing it and we don't want to people wising-up to our scheme."

I would say you just unwittingly condemned the entire democrat party for what they are.

I'll put Thomas Sowell and Ben Carson up against Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton any day.

[Happy Fun Ball]

...or seeing the black community succeed

No, YOU are the ones that don't want the black community to succeed. Why? Because if they did start to get out of the slums and start doing well (and especially if he's a consesrvative), out pour the "Uncle Tom", "House Negro", "Oreo", etc. insults. Because if they start doing well, they will no longer be dependent on welfare or other government programs, which is where you democrats get your power. No dependents equals no permanet underclass voting bloc to keep the democrats in power.

You say that you want the black community to succeed? It was your Great Society and similar government programs which put them in the state they're in in the first place, most likely by design.

[USA4ME]

That's funny, because if I hear someone claiming race when it has nothing to do with the issue at hand I automatically dismiss anything they have to say anymore. Throw whatever name you want towards me, but I'm not going to deny reality just because it doesn't fit how you want things to be.

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[Dori]

You say that you want the black community to succeed? It was your Great Society and similar government programs which put them in the state they're in in the first place, most likely by design

Spot on.  This tactic was written about back in the 60's by the CPUSA.

They looked at blacks (and other minorities) as a group to use to further their goal of revolution.  Everything we've seen happening in today's left can be traced back to them.

More Deadly Than War: The Communist Revolution in America

This address by G. Edward Griffin, given in 1969, is as current as today's headlines. Mr. Griffin shows that the Leninist strategy for conquest involves two kinds of revolution. One is violent. The other is non-violent. While most people think only of violent revolution, the non-violent phase is where most of the action has been in the United States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Tk4zraz-Q

[Wineslob]

(Jeff Foxworthy voice)

"If you are obsessed with racism, you might be a racist"

[miskie]

So if you say "I'm a racist" are you a racist?   

This flowchart should help you out.

[Carl]

Response to CreekDog (Original post)

Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:40 PM

 JI7 (45,393 posts)
15. i see the term as racist , there have been times when someone may have thought

something was racist and i disagreed but i would never use that term against the person.

i would explain why i didn't think it had to do with racism.

What is the exact Orwellian name for this kind of idiocy?

[miskie]

What is the exact Orwellian name for this kind of idiocy?

Democrat.

[BlueStateSaint]

Democrat.

Steel on target.  H5.