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Originally Posted by Badger52
None of those quoted are anyone I would pay attention to anyway, although there are several who could go "walk out on the ice" and I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep.
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Well, your "walk out on the ice" statement is obviously a secret coded reference to the dearth of black hockey players and ice skaters, so obviously you are just another racist.
I think there are at least two aspects to this matter.
First is that they genuinely believe all of this. For these leftist ideologues, this worldview - that conservatism is racism, conservative views are racist, and conservatives are racists - is an article of faith, immune to rational analysis. This is partly because, convinced of their own moral superiority, they cannot credit those who disagree with them with good faith. So they are certain that any otherwise even-handed or innocuous statement is really a racial code word or "dog whistle" for the racists. It is also partly because the leftist worldview is itself racist, or at least racialist. It sees people not as individuals but as members of their particular tribe. This is why we see blacks who are conservative or Republican not only attacked as wrong-headed or "Uncle Toms", but described as not "real" blacks (and why a liberal white can be made an honorary black person by virtue of having the correct beliefs).* And since in this mindset apparently the most important aspect of the founding of the US was that the Founders were a bunch of white guys, obviously any appeal to core American values is racist.
Second is pragmatic politics. Blacks have become the most reliable constituency to the Democratic Party. The Left is forced to ratchet up the rhetoric about race in the face of black social, economic and political progress in America in order to ensure that blacks do not question their partisan affiliations. This is especially the case with the South, since the reversal of the Great Migration of the 1910s-1960s has seen "black flight" from predominantly Democratic Party-controlled failed Northern and Upper Midwest urban centers to the West and back to the South, as well as to the suburbs nationwide. Blacks may be moving back to the South in search of a better quality of life, but the Left has to make sure they damn well don't forget that their new neighbors are one change of clothes away from a white hood.
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* I should note that this groupthink is not limited to race. It also applies to matters such as class, which is why leftists are bewildered that lower and middle class people would vote Republican since it is so obviously against their class interest to do so. Of course here, they also fall back to race. In Marxian terms, poor whites are alienated against their true economic interests by racial appeals and other distractions (clinging to guns or religion, for example). And to be fair, conservatives are also sometimes susceptible to this manner of groupthink, such as when they wonder why certain rich people would support Democrats despite that party's class warfare rhetoric, or when they wonder why lower middle class blacks don't seem to share their concerns about illegal immigration, despite its effect on jobs and wages.
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