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In reply to the discussion: Constantly referring to President Obama as a "used car salesman" is expected of a RW racist. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Now am I racist against everyone but some island and aboriginal folks (largely due to lack of exposure to enough to find the sure shitballs).
There is no special tie into racism with "piece of shit", not that it is anything but raw invective, white hot with ZERO kindness inferred but racist? Only when tied to racist overall argument.
Call it vile, call it nasty, call it beyond the pale, call it absurd and uncalled for but racist is really reaching and seemingly depends on some weird telepathy and a bizarre take on human psychology that thinks a turncoat (doesn't matter if you agree with that assessment, if the person does woe be unto them that they think sold them out to the enemy) should draw less ire than an enemy.
Also, I have to say the tact seems somewhat selectively dishonest. Plenty of white folks get the shit slammed out of them and called everything but a child of God. Even supposed Democrats like Lieberman, Landrieu, Harry Reid gets killed by both sides and the middle, I've seen Alan Grayson treated like shit to his fucking face right here on this site, MAX BAUCUS! (are you kidding?), Hillary Clinton gets shredded and TeaPubliKlans? Never seen the grave pissing road trip threads, the frogmarch their asses to the guillotine threads? Dubya? DICK CHENEY (are really you being serious?) Rick Scott (of course it is all true)?
Even your examples are wrong, you can surely find plenty of hot pokers being poked are returned all three, especially Issa and McShame when he was of any relevance to anyone aside Sunday morning talk shows.
You seem to have decided that talking shitty about a black President is inherently racist and I argue that is silly because it doesn't really explain the preceding 200+ years of talking shit and nasty about Presidents that has clearly been the case even at the highest levels from the very beginning.
Not to say there isn't a TON of very racist shit in the mix too because there is no shortage at all but you can't wrap all discontent, disrespect, nastiness, or even outright contempt up in that same package just because some is motivated exactly by that doesn't mean all of it is at all.
You can't even articulate what the racism you are calling out is. You are talking about teabaggers and vitriol you "haven't seen" to turn a common expression that usual makes one think of a poorly dressed and unsavory looking middle aged white guy as a racial slur when it just isn't and now you and others want to INSIST it must and can only be so despite it not ever being such before in this culture.
This has crossed into looking for the boogieman territory now. Being black is no defense from people talking crazy about you.