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.
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? :whatever:
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.
wants to avoid actually considering the role race plays in just about every aspect of life in America.
Denying you're motivated by racism is proof you're a racist.
Stuff it, race hustlers. :loser:
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? :whatever:at the very least it is him admitting that he has a paper thin skin and can't take any form of criticism
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
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 you just unwittingly condemned the entire democrat party for what they are.
...or seeing the black community succeed
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
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.
So if you say "I'm a racist" are you a racist? :p
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?
Democrat.