Notice how the right-wing will almost ALWAYS take the case of a white person versus a black person

[Bucky]

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There is certainly a racial element present in much of the right wing hysteria we see in the news. But class and ideology are much more reliable indicators when publicly prominent persons are in the middle of controversy. It's often African Americans as a group, as a surrogate for the primal fear of the Other, that conservatives instinctively turn on. It's more intense, but not all that much different from, their instinctive fears of hippies, professors, and Hollywood executives. And yet when they get to know a hippie or professor by name and find out they're Republican, they get all cuddly just as they did for Alan Keyes.