<p>Thankfully, we live in an era where it's generally no longer acceptable to be openly racist, at least in civilized parts of the country. However, that doesn't prevent desperate campaigns from using what they believe are subtle codewords to trigger the latent feelings of racial resentment in some people. Let's try to define them all.</p>
<p>community organizer: somebody who rallies angry black people to harm white people</p>
<p>socialist: somebody who takes money from "hardworking Americans" to give them to the undeserving poor that mainly consists of urban minorities</p>
<p>ACORN: ambiguous catch-all term for a black conspiracy to steal elections</p>
<p>arrogant; The One; the messiah: "uppity" black guy who dares to think he can do better than the incompetent (mostly) white folks who have messed up the country in the last eight years</p>
<p>small town values: being white, Christian, and militantly ignorant about anything outside of one's immediate surroundings</p>
<p>Muslim: ambiguous catch-all term for dark-skinned people who are against Ameri-Christian values like capitalism and white hegemony.</p>
<p>Arab: See "Muslim"</p>
<p>elitist: anybody who dares to think that he or she is more capable of doing something than semi-educated and mediocre white Christians (aka "real Americans")</p>
<p>If anybody wants to contribute to this ever-growing list, please go ahead.</p>
<p>"You know, they listen to the wrong talk radio shows or watch the wrong TV networks, um, but they’re, they’re basically decent, they’re basically sound. "</p>
<p>There are crazies in both camps, and in every camp. There’s a difference between confronting reality and bending it. You want to talk about racial realities? You just characterized millions of people by the actions of a few, and tied them together using their skin color and their religion. Did your sharp satirical mind miss the irony completely? Did you honestly expect not to get called out on it?</p>
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<p>Actually, as the Supreme Court will tell you most of the time, it does. It’s a good thing for you, too, because your post has the first and second in spades.</p>
<p>And before your knee starts jerking wildly, I’m letting you know that this is all coming from an avowed liberal.</p>
<p>Nobody’s threatening to kill McCain at Obama rallies. At worst, maybe some people at Obama rallies make ageist or sexist jokes about the Republican ticket. And you’re going to try to equate that with KKK lynch mob-like behavior from McCain/Palin crowds? History shows that angry rural white crowds assembled to hate on a black guy produces violent and savage results. </p>
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<p>How did I do that? I just characterized the kind of people who throw around terms like “socialist” without even knowing who Karl Marx is, and the people who firmly believe Obama is a Muslim because he’s dark-skinned and spent time in countries with lots of dark-skinned people. And what I said about them is largely correct. </p>
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<p>Yeah yeah, I get it. You’re trying to carve a niche out here for yourself between the likes of me and the likes of pugfug/cuse by trying to be the “moderate” voice. I call it pulling a Lieberman. Weren’t you the one who brought up the fallacy of middle ground some time ago?</p>
<p>I hate living in a rural area. It’s still perfectly acceptable to be racist here. Racial slurs are a part of every day speech. Since there aren’t many blacks, the slurs are usually directed at Hispanics. Muslims and homosexuals take the most heat.</p>
<p>Faulty comparison. Obama’s crowds don’t need to work themselves into frenzies because they aren’t losing. There were more than a few frothing Democrats calling for Bush’s head four years ago.</p>
<p>Does everyone who yells a death threat in a passionate moment mean it? Some probably do, most certainly don’t. Is it still worrying to hear at a high-profile moment such as this one? Of course it is. But should one voice in a crowd be used as a platform for insulting the rest of the crowd? The answer is no, and this is the critical facet you’re still missing.</p>
<p>In any case at all, comparing a McCain rally where some wacko yells an obscenity or racial epithet to a KKK lynch mob is trivializing actual human tragedies. So way to go there.</p>
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<p>If you can’t see it then I don’t even know how I could begin to point it out to you. Replace every instance of the word “white” in your OP with any other color, and every instance of the word “Christian” with any other religion, keep the condescending tone, and you and any other PC hypocrite would be vomitting with rage.</p>
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<p>Faulty comparison. I don’t claim to be correct solely by virtue of being in between two extremes. I claim to be correct using careful logical reasoning. The only niche I’m carving out for myself is “liberal that the other liberals aren’t a little bit embarrassed by.”</p>
<p>Completely faulty comparison. The only apt comparison would be between the Bush of 2000, who like Obama right now was not an incumbent. If people were screaming “Kill Bush!” at Kerry rallies (and they never did), it was based on the truly heinous act that was the Iraq War; it wasn’t based on his race, religion, sex, etc. </p>
<p>Give me proof of one instance where there was a consistent pattern of violent threats shouted against Bush at either Gore 2000 or Kerry 2008 rallies that went tolerated by the Democratic presidential candidates. </p>
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<p>These people ARE white, they ARE so-called Christians. And when they say “socialist” and “unpatriotic”, they sure as hell aren’t reading Milton Friedman and Thomas Jefferson to support their points. If you can’t accept that fact, then maybe you should join Teach for America or something and go to these places full of such ignorance and hatred.</p>
<p>Don’t take my word for it. Even Colin Powell says that in the upper echelons of the Republican party, there has been a deliberate attempt to associate Obama with terrorism and Islam; in other words, do everything to make people associate his dark skin colour and unfamiliar name with something dangerous and threatening to them. </p>
<p>Or what about David Gergen? He said on CNN that even seemingly innocuous terms like “arrogant” and “the one” are code-words for “uppity black guy who doesn’t know his place”. </p>
<p>Colin Powell and David Gergen. What a couple of embarrassingly leftist liberals that you need to temper with your moderating wisdom.</p>
<p>As a military spouse, I was pleased to see Colin Powell’s endorsement of McCain. Powell spoke very movingly about what the “really right” answer is to the charge that Obama is Muslim.</p>
<p>My spouse has done two tours in Iraq. On the second one, he worked with the Iraqi Army; brothers in arms. These men were all Muslim, willing to die for the larger cause but also ready to die for my husband and he for them. </p>
<p>What is wrong with being Muslim? Nothing. I wish I could meet the Iraqi officer that my husband worked most closely with but that man has made the greatest sacrafice. </p>
<p>These words have been twisted into a code and that has to stop. Now.</p>
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