Star Member MrScorpio (56,340 posts)
GOP Racism Protected by the Conservative Culture of Victimhood
If anything structurally supports racism, it's a collection of myths. Stereotypes and caricatures that a closer look at reality tosses to the wayside. Behind a lot of the support for George Zimmerman is a lot of these myths. And it's possible to be racist without realizing it is racism. You just have to believe the myths. Being racist doesn't necessarily mean you're a nazi. It may mean you're wrong. When you refuse to be corrected, then you get into more dangerous moral territory. Then you're not falling into racism because of ignorance, but by choice.
But there's a resistance to the charge of racism that's hard to explain from a logical standpoint; if everyone tells you your shoe's untied or your fly's open, you check. You believe them. There's no reason why you shouldn't. If everyone tells you you keep spelling a word incorrectly, you check. You believe they may be right.
But if everyone keeps telling you you're being racist, you do not check. You don't believe them. And -- if you're a conservative -- the more people tell you this, the more you claim to be the victim of some sort of slander. They're constantly being warned about their racism and they're constantly claiming to be the victims of a massive smear campaign because of it. They refuse to be corrected and make that choice.
The George Zimmerman trial and verdict is only the latest to bring this trend to the forefront. But every time an issue involving race arises, Republicans and conservatives take the side opposite whatever minority is at the center of the controversy. Like Stephen Colbert's "colorblind" shtick, they pretend not to see skin color at all and want everyone to believe this means they aren't racist -- as if ignoring the specific and all too real problems faced by people of color is the very opposite of racism, rather than a hallmark of it.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023267066What a load of horseshit. The only people who give a damn about the color of Zimmerman's and Martin's skin is the Saint Skittles crowd.
The right didn't simply just jump on a bandwagon when the story broke. What we did was waited until the facts started to emerge. It was only after the facts came out when we started to think that perhaps Zimmerman was not the grand wizard that the media so desperately tried to make him out to be. Everything from the choice of photos to editing tapes. Then when we found out that Trayvon was part of the thug culture and witnesses claimed that Trayvon was beating Zimmerman possibly to death we started to reach the conclusion that yes it looked like Zimmerman was defending himself. At no time did the race of either individual come into consideration for a lot of us.
Face it folks the left needs racism in order to maintain power. As long as they can convince the low information crowd that we are all KKK members none of what we say or do will matter and people will flock to the party that claims to care about them.
The left pushes the narrative that even when a black person is a bad person that it is not his or her fault it's all the fault of us creepy ass crackers who dare to exist. Only a true racist would give blanket amnesty to everyone of a certain skin color and blanket conviction to people of another.
Are there white racists? Of course there are, and there will always be, but there are plenty of black racists too. Only when we reach the point in our society that being a racist no matter what skin color you have is looked at as a bad thing can we move forward. I'm sick to death of the racial division and the double standards. I'm sick of whitey automatically being the bad guy and black folks automatically being the misunderstood victims. Until we realize the dream of MLK and start judging each other based on our character society is going to decay even further.
