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Jefferson23 (28,640 posts)
What happened last night. MoveOn.org Civic Action
Dear fellow MoveOn member,
I’m Heather McGhee, president of Demos, a progressive think tank and MoveOn ally.
Last night in Chicago, peaceful demonstrators responded to increasingly hateful and violent rhetoric from Donald Trump. But that violence isn't coming out of nowhere, and it isn't just inside the Trump campaign. It's the predictable outcome of years of dog-whistle politics which use hate and fear as a political tool.
For the past 40 years, the right wing has peddled a winning strategy to keep Americans divided: sell the economic agenda of the 1% to working- and middle-class white voters through a hidden formula:
Fear People of Color --> Hate Government --> Trust the Market and the 1%
And they've been selling us this agenda even as it has hurt Americans of all races whose wages have plummeted and whose economic insecurity has soared.
Will you take three minutes to watch and share We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality, a new video I've made with my colleague Ian Haney López in partnership with MoveOn? Especially now, as Trump's hate speech washes across the country, drawing out and inflaming deep-seated racism, it's important for all of us to have the tools we need to fight back.
<insert leftist propaganda video here>
Donald Trump's tactics exist in a historical context. Ronald Reagan was able to draw millions of former Democrats to the GOP with this race-baiting formula. He gave us the fictional character of the Black "welfare queen" to prey on resentment against struggling African-American families, but the real targets were government and labor unions. Why? Because these are the only public institutions powerful enough to hold corporations and the wealthy accountable.
The result? No Democrat has won the majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson. Further, this has lead to "The Inequality Era": corporations writing their own rules, tax cuts for the wealthiest, slashed social spending, and unions on the ropes.
Politicians like Trump are using the same playbook today—whether it’s blatant attacks on immigrants or subtle coded language like "makers and takers" and "free stuff" to pit white voters against people of color and undermine our willingness to fight together for progressive solutions that work for all of us.
This scheme to use race to divide Americans who would otherwise be united in their economic goals is the best-kept secret in American politics—everyone knows it's true, but few political leaders are willing to address it head-on. That's why I teamed up with UC Berkeley law professor and author of Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney López, my colleague at Demos, to tell this story of how racism fuels economic inequality and what we can do about it. We’ve made a video with MoveOn that makes it easy to learn and share this call to action over social media and email.
Please click here now to watch We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality now and share it with your friends and family.
We can’t win against economic inequality without understanding the right’s best weapon against a unified 99%. Everything progressives want—debt-free college, universal health care, campaign finance rules, climate change solutions, workers’ rights—requires a belief in government and trust in each other. We are better than this, and we won’t stand for politicians denying the humanity and worth of our fellow Americans. Our future depends on creating a multiracial progressive movement that will fight for racial and economic justice together, and we are ready.
Thank you for watching and sharing We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality with your family and friends.
And thanks for all you do.
—Heather McGhee
P.S. MoveOn and Demos are starting a pledge for progressives to show that, in the age of right-wing populism, we won't be divided anymore by race or ethnicity. If you agree that combating racism is crucial to the progressive movement, sign our pledge to make implicit dog whistles explicit and call out politicians who use them.
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Just more of the same old shit the left has been saying forever. Blame the rich white republican guys for all of your problems. Us liberals know what is best for you, so just listen to us.
Never anything about taking responsibility for their own failings to raise their children not to be thugs.
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Notice how they are the only ones who ever hear these 'racist "dog whistles?"'
I wonder why that is . . . :whistling: :confused: :whistling:
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Can't wait for a REAL President to get in who will prosecute these idiots.
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Can't wait for a REAL President to get in who will prosecute these idiots.
Everyone currently working at the top levels of the DoJ...especially in the "Civil Rights" division will represent them pro bono.
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Everyone currently working at the top levels of the DoJ...especially in the "Civil Rights" division will represent them pro bono.
Um some of them, most of them should face charges too.
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Um some of them, most of them should face charges too.
Agreed. But I'm willing to bet there are blanket pardons waiting to be signed for them on Obama's last day in office.
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Agreed. But I'm willing to bet there are blanket pardons waiting to be signed for them on Obama's last day in office.
Probably one for himself also.
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Notice how they are the only ones who ever hear these 'racist "dog whistles?"'
I wonder why that is . . . :whistling: :confused: :whistling:
And yet, they view the genuinely, blatantly racist garbage that people like Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and the New Black Panthers types spew against white people as perfectly acceptable if not flat- out heroic.
"Last night in Chicago, peaceful demonstrators responded to increasingly hateful and violent rhetoric from Donald Trump."
In other words, a bunch of drug- crazed ultra- liberal protester scum swarmed into a public area and pretty much immediately set about starting fights and riots in an effort to silence those whose views they disagree with.
"Will you take three minutes to watch and share We Must Talk About Race to Fix Economic Inequality, a new video I've made with my colleague Ian Haney López in partnership with MoveOn?"
I'd rather spend seven hours watching Rosie O'Donnell taking a bath.
"He gave us the fictional character of the Black "welfare queen" to prey on resentment against struggling African-American families, but the real targets were government and labor unions. Why? Because these are the only public institutions powerful enough to hold corporations and the wealthy accountable."
1. Fictional character? Is this DUmmy really so stupid as to say that there aren't any blacks who exploit the welfare system, taking from people who work for a living without doing anything themselves?
2. I suppose the labor unions can be considered powerful, considering that most of them are in bed with the Mafia.
"subtle coded language like "makers and takers" and "free stuff" to pit white voters against people of color and undermine our willingness to fight together for progressive solutions that work for all of us."
So, to liberal scum like the DUmmies, encouraging people to work for a living and make a positive contribution to society= Racist. They've been parroting that for so long.
" That's why I teamed up with UC Berkeley law professor and author of Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney López, my colleague at Demos, to tell this story of how racism fuels economic inequality and what we can do about it. "
IN other words, a long- winded, ultra- liberal professor at a college whose faculty and students alike consist almost exclusively of dirty hippies.
"Everything progressives want—debt-free college, universal health care, campaign finance rules, climate change solutions, workers’ rights—"
Don't forget full legalization of all drugs, the banning of any foods that taste good, giving free everything to illegal immigrants, full legalization of child pornography, making quoting the Bible in public a felony, schools having mandatory sex ed in preschool, and abolishing Age of Consent laws.
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"Dog Whistle" is nothing (and I do mean NOTHING) more than an umbrella-cliche to enable calling any word or phrase racist, sexist, whatever-ist.
Just as invoking "Tolerance" was the 1990s game for whipping up hatred against certain points of view. The smokescreen changes, but the sources and purposes remain the same.
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Donald Trump's tactics exist in a historical context. Ronald Reagan was able to draw millions of former Democrats to the GOP with this race-baiting formula. He gave us the fictional character of the Black "welfare queen" to prey on resentment against struggling African-American families, but the real targets were government and labor unions. Why? Because these are the only public institutions powerful enough to hold corporations and the wealthy accountable.
The result? No Democrat has won the majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson. Further, this has lead to "The Inequality Era": corporations writing their own rules, tax cuts for the wealthiest, slashed social spending, and unions on the ropes.
Reagan's tactics were so powerful that he was able to influence elections 12 years before he became President.
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"Dog Whistle" is nothing (and I do mean NOTHING) more than an umbrella-cliche to enable calling any word or phrase racist, sexist, whatever-ist.
Just as invoking "Tolerance" was the 1990s game for whipping up hatred against certain points of view. The smokescreen changes, but the sources and purposes remain the same.
Exactly.
Hi-5.
CMD
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Reagan's tactics were so powerful that he was able to influence elections 12 years before he became President.
The Schwartz was strong with that one.
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But I'm willing to bet there are blanket pardons waiting to be signed for them on Obama's last day in office.
Actually, that's his most likely strategy for closing Gitmo, and it would work.
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Obama' s last couple of months in office will be pretty harrowing I believe. Given his tendency towards being petulant and vengeful I can see him running a slash and burn campaign on the way out the door. Especially if the (anything but)Democratic party loses this election.