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I don’t often post articles from the petulant Leonard Pitts, but his thoughts on how Republicans continue to defend neocon Herman Cain echo mine:
[T]hey scream in pious racial indignation when Cain is asked questions he doesn’t want to answer.
A “high tech lynching,” said blogger Brent Bozell.
“Racially stereotypical,” sniffed Rush Limbaugh.
“I believe the answer is yes,” said Cain himself when asked on Fox if race was the cause of his woes, adding honestly, if hilariously, that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that up.
If you didn’t know better, you’d think Cain was some hybrid of Emmett Till and Kunta Kinte. Nobody knows de trouble he’s seen.
Perfect! “Anti-Racism” in the DC Empire is the equivalent of “Socialist Liberation” in the old Soviet Empire, providing idealistic cover for the regime’s oppression at home and intervention abroad. Embracing the approved ideology demonstrates one’s loyalty and nobility. So pervasive is this ideology that Jeffrey Dahmer, who was a homosexual, murderer, necrophiliac, and cannibal, felt obligated to make clear he didn’t murder and eat people because of their race.
The Ultimate Good is easily weaponized for political debate. The Establishment Right accuses those who don’t support their agenda of perpetual war of racism. Any villain who objects to US taxpayers handing over $3 billion a year to wealthy Israel MUST be “anti-Semitic.” And because some Occupy protests have denounced Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, apologists of the Establishment Right gleefully use the same accusation against Occupy Wall Street protesters.
The tragedy of this is that “racism” is a Marxist term, and using it as an accusation legitimizes the evil philosophy that created it.
rjp on 07 Nov 2011 at 5:53 pm #
“I believe the answer is yes,” said Cain himself when asked on Fox if race was the cause of his woes, adding honestly, if hilariously, that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that up.
The irony is that he is only as “popular” as he is because of his race. Had the Tea Partiers not been continually called racists Herman Cain would have been laughed out of the presidential primary race as he should have been. He has just too many unknowns in my opinon.
Walter on 07 Nov 2011 at 6:09 pm #
Good post.
If Cain gets the nomination, maybe we can say that the presidency has “gone ghetto,” as they say in the real estate business.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 07 Nov 2011 at 8:12 pm #
rjp,
The inimitable Steve Sailer once wondered what two political neophytes like Obama and Cain had in common that enabled them to succeed so quickly. “What could it be?”
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/10/whats-secret-of-herman-cain.html
HarrisonBergeron2 on 07 Nov 2011 at 8:13 pm #
Walter,
What better way for a white to prove he’s an enlightened person than to vote for a black?
Sempronius on 07 Nov 2011 at 8:39 pm #
What is being missed here, and what Caracalla missed in his piece at The Daily Mail, is a slowly unfolding dialectic.
We have a thesis: All men are sex fiends!
And an antithesis (of sorts): Black men are innocent lambs, especially around white women. (I’ll pause as you compose yourself.)
You know what’s coming next don’t you?
Bruce on 08 Nov 2011 at 4:43 pm #
Is there better documentation for the idea that the term was first used by Trotsky? If true, this is a powerful argument that we should use all the time.
Jim Kalb, in his great article on anti-racism I think indicated that the term is less than 100 years old.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 09 Nov 2011 at 2:00 am #
Bruce,
Check it out:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch01.htm
Go to paragraph 10. This is the first time the word “racist” appeared in print. Trotsky used it to discredit those who object to communism’s universalism. The word still conveys that meaning along with the connotation that one is “insensitive” or has an irrational hatred of other races.
Bruce on 09 Nov 2011 at 4:48 pm #
HarrisonBergeron2,
Excellent. Should be an arrow in our conservative/reactionary quiver.
Blue Blood on 12 Nov 2011 at 12:29 am #
I oppose Cain because he’s a NWO neo-con shill.
That said, I don’t think he did any of it. Come on, the accuser lives in the same high-rise building as Her Axelrod? The guy has a 30 year career and he “went nuts” for only these three years at the Association? The accusation is straight out of Axelrod Campaign Tactics 101? Please. This doesn’t even come close to passing the “smell” test.
And finally I believe there are legitimate reasons to oppose him with out stooping into the gutter with the *&^($%! Marixists…