Comments on: Code Words For Racial Setback

By: betsybounds

betsybounds — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:01:35 +0000

Nice. I’ve been wondering for a while now why anyone would think we “racists” need a code word for “black” in the instance of this election, when all a body has to do is LOOK AT THE MAN IN QUESTION: No code is required. He is quite clearly black. The only possible reason for declaring so many words to be racist code is to render the words themselves unusable–for any purpose. The language is debased and the plain meaning of words is destroyed. If they can do this with these words, they can do it with any words. So–now we have not only “the N-word.” We have also the “S-word” and the “U-word” and the “L-word” and all the rest, and soon there will be no words we can actually, you know, SPEAK. This is the logical outcome of classifying speech; soon we will criminalize some of it–as in “hate speech.” Then we come, logically, to thought crimes–speech being, as it must be, the exposition of thought.

Well, God help us, is all I can say. We are at war with East Asia. We have always been at war with East Asia.

The only thing Orwell got wrong was the date.

By: Is there no word that isn’t Rethuglican code for “negro”?

Is there no word that isn’t Rethuglican code for “negro”? — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:41:16 +0000

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By: David M

David M — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:50:31 +0000

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By: RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:34:18 +0000

For a while after 9/11, Americans of all flavors were united. It felt good. But I’ve watched it all split apart over this interminable campaign season, just as if it never was. IMO, the major blame falls to Obama, the “post-racial” candidate, whose real color is greed for power.

By: Sean Bannion

Sean Bannion — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:39:19 +0000

the candidacy of Barack Obama has brought out some of the ugliest sides of our society, and could scar us for decades to come.

I’ve thought this for a while now. When everything is “racist” then nothing is. I guarantee you’re about to see “Don’t Blame Me, I’m a Racist” t-shirts after the first year of an Obama presidency.

While playing the race card (and then consistently denying doing so), this is Obama’s true contribution to civil society – he and his followers have so leached the word “racism” of any meaning that the charge no longer stings.

So he’s right, he is post-racial.