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Ialdabaoth -> RE: A heads up vis a vis socialism (8/10/2009 5:13:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Let me try to clear it up for you.
When you argue in favor of racism as you did in post 38, you risk becoming a caricature of the thing which you held up as a caricature.
And so, why did I say we're watching "Blazing Saddles" with a twist?
Because in this case, instead of the townspeople being racist, it's the sheriff who is racist.
The current comedy we have going on in Washington D.C. is similar to but backwards from the movie.
But not nearly as funny, because the racist clown in Washington D.C. is our real life president.
No, I get it, I'm just rendered speechless by the inanity of it. Here's a hint: If the majority-controlled hegemony is racist, threats to that hegemony are not themselves racist, even if they have racial elements. If most people propping up the hegemony are white, then you can't fight the hegemony without predominantly fighting white people. This doesn't make you racist - if any thing, it exposes their racism.
A black person saying "white people want to hang us" isn't a racist statement if, in fact, white people have been lynching black people.
A white person saying "black people want to rape our women" *is* a racist statement when, in fact, incidents of inter-racial rape are lower than intra-racial rape, but you want people scared about niggers so you can hang one from a tree.
At this point, certain groups have been trying to twist the debate around to the point that nothing means anything anymore. It's funny that the same people who have always accused the left of "rendering everything meaningless" with appeals to semantics are finally picking up the same tactics. Or it would be funny, if they weren't polluting the whole debate with their inanity. But hey, give us a bit and there won't be any way to talk at all - and then we'll have to come to blows. Won't that be fun?
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