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Old 09-22-2017, 04:15 PM
 
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If racism were to disappear completely tomorrow, would that serve the political goals of the left? Would they be happy about that situation? I suspect that they would not be. Not at all.
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Old 09-23-2017, 01:22 AM
 
Location: California
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Racism isn't going to ever go away completely but it's not going to be much of a big deal either. There are many things that people do to harm one another and this is just one of them. What we do it deal with things as they come up and avoid things/people we know are problems for us. What we don't do is try to ferret out everyone with a bad thought and punish them because eventually we're going to get to you.
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Old 09-23-2017, 07:55 AM
 
Location: USA
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link to someone - anyone - doing what you claim here.

we'll wait.
Have you been asleep from the 2016 election season up through the events in Charlottesville?

I'll wait for you to provide any actual evidence that the far right is not being heavily supported by racists. And, no - calling out "uh, well, uh... there are some black rappers who also suck!" doesn't disprove what I've said, nor does it support your position since those rappers are NOT supported by the progressive mainstream, nor do they have any political power - unlike the right-wing bigots who control every branch of the government currently.
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Old 09-23-2017, 08:01 AM
 
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If racism were to disappear completely tomorrow, would that serve the political goals of the left? Would they be happy about that situation? I suspect that they would not be. Not at all.
Bull. Provide proof of this claim. You can't, because you know it's BS.

Racism is a tool of the right on a national level in this nation. Look up the Southern Strategy and witness the sheer idiocy of the 2016 election and the right-wight extremist bigots who supported Trump even more every time he spouted off racist drivel. Hell, just look around this right-wing dominated and heavily out of touch forum, and you'll see right-wingers all over the place spouting off bigoted nonsense ranging from outright lies to conspiracy theory lunacy. Meanwhile, the best the right can do to justify their petty malice is single out unpopular, non-mainstream powerless nobodies, like rappers, and claim "uh, well... since the left has some bigots, that means we should ignore the far greater number and power of them on the right." Nobody is buying such laughable claims.

Like most of the far-right on this forum, you are creating laughable strawmen based on nothing to support your position, and when confronted with actual facts - actual racism straight out encouraged and supported by the far-right - all you resort to is silly "beliefs" about what others think, or child-like defenses of, "Well, some of them do it, too!"

Right-wingers are in NO position to speak of the evils of racism until they clean out the powerful, numerous, and dominant bigots - both public and "Kloset Klansmen" - that fill their party.
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Old 09-23-2017, 08:18 AM
 
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What a crock of BS !!!

Its been the constant narrative of the left promoting racism that people are sick of and pushing back against. Trying to twist it around and redefine it isn't going to work anymore.
I agree, but that is what liberals/leftist do. From before the campaign began, groups funded by Soros like David Brock's Media Matters, has been trying to promote the narrative of Trump being racist. This of course is nothing new, as they do it against most (R's).
In this case they started with trying to morph the term "nationalist" to "white nationalist", then trying to intermingle that term with "white supremacist". Ergo, Trump being a populist/nationalist (nothing wrong with those terms) has become Trump is a white nationalist racist.
The lemmings and sheeple don't know any better because they are useful idiots. But those behind the scenes creating the false narrative are reveling in their dirty smear.

Another thing the OP missies is not that there is PC against those who decry racism. True racism should be shunned and called out.
The issue is what people define as racism, which does not meet the definition of the word. It is thrown around so often for such innocuous crap that it actually diminishes the true nature of racism. Thus when you here fools like pitbull apologists saying that someone is racist for pointing out how much more dangerous pits are compared with most breeds of dogs, "it's racism".
That is but one of many absurd examples, but even criticizing a social welfare program that might be ineffective and saps the very spirit out of the community it is designed to help, will be called racism.
So the liberals who cannot logically and rationally defend their emotion based beliefs, want to suppress all opposition to their indefensible view. The tool they use to suppress opposing speech is Political Correctness.

That is one of the things they hate about Trump, because he was unafraid to call it like he saw it, PC pussyfooting around be damned.
They couldn't understand how a politician didn't fall all over himself going through the many steps to apologize, then being able to use it against him to scuttle his candidacy.
Back when I thought he likely would not get the (R) nomination, I said at least this guy has struck a blow for stopping this PC nonsense. He was showing people that they need not have to walk on eggs for fear of saying one word or phrase that might get them labeled a Nazi or KKK member.

Needless to say, now that the lefts favorite weapon is not working like it use to, they want to try and pretend their tactics are being used against them, and they don't like it.
In reality, it is not reverse PC, rather just pointing out how they are the boy in Aesop's fable that cried racism one too many times. Then when real racism occurs, it is more likely to fall on deaf ears, because of all the previous false alarms.


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Old 09-23-2017, 08:41 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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Have you been asleep from the 2016 election season up through the events in Charlottesville?
So you couldn't provide a single example? What a shocker
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