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MSNBC: "Angry" is a racial code word

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MSNBC's Toure: Romney Engaging in the Niggerization of Obama

That's right, accusing a republican of wanting to put Blacks in chains is ok, but calling Obama angry makes you a racist.

I wish Democrats would give us a cipher of all the racial code words we use and what they mean so that we know how to avoid them in the future. If you are a Democrat and you have the racial code word cipher, can I borrow it so I don't accidentally be a racist when criticizing Obama? Hook a brother up. Crap! I just screwed up, didn't I.

Or maybe Toure is the racist for thinking that every time someone calls a Black person angry they are saying that because the person is Black, and not because, for example, they accused you of using cancer to kill someone's wife.
 



I liked to see them all talk about the issues. Tell me you're plan on how to turn this crappy economy around.

All the rest of this "stuff", as in this MSNBS article, is media slight of hand.
 
This is the silly season...MSNBC would do much better for themselves knocking that stuff off....no one pays attention to it anyway
 
Still better than CNN's incessant regurgitation of social media. Look, I just don't care what @sweetiegurl218 thinks about the health care reform bill, ok?
 
friday said:
MSNBC's Toure: Romney Engaging in the Niggerization of Obama

That's right, accusing a republican of wanting to put Blacks in chains is ok, but calling Obama angry makes you a racist.
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Certainly possible.

friday said:
I wish Democrats would give us a cipher of all the racial code words we use and what they mean so that we know how to avoid them in the future.
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Oh, I think many conservatives know what they are already. Of course, they'll never admit that, even though some are stupendously obvious (food stamp president, uppity, halfrican American, magic negro, racist with a deep seated hatred for white people, etc).

friday said:
Or maybe Toure is the racist for thinking that every time someone calls a Black person angry they are saying that because the person is Black, and not because, for example, they accused you of using cancer to kill someone's wife.
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Well, no one accused Romney of using cancer to kill someone's wife, so since you have to resort to hyperbolic falsehood I think any chance of a rational debate here is pretty much dead out of the gate.

Further, I would note that no one has even accused Romney of killing anyone's wife, although if you listen to Romney, the GOP, and right wing talk media, you'll certainly think otherwise. Again, hyperbolic falsehood rules the day for the right. Daily question: what is the right yelling about today? Answer: who cares, they probably made it up.
 
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I don't know that the word "angry" in particular has any code meaning, but certainly that is the thrust of Romney's freakout, right? All the talk on the right about Obama being "divisive" is just that Obama is trying to appeal to voters who aren't white, straight, Christian and male, which apparently many on the right think ought not be done. Adding "angry" into the mix, when Obama is so obviously not angry in any conventional sense does seem to be an attempt to invoke racial fears. So, yeah, I think MSNBC is on the right track. When I heard Romney's freakout, certainly that seemed to be his clear message. He was wading in to the culture wars trying to paint Obama as "the other" and trying to spread fear of "the other" taking over the country. The non-whites, the non-Christians, the gay people, and the educated are banding together to take control of the country away from the straight, white, Christian, male, less educated, folks. Aiieieeie! I mean, what else was his speech about if not that?
 
You know, it has become impossible to take your posts seriously.
 

The really scary thing is that I think a lot of them actually don't realize what it is all about even as they fall prey to it. They aren't introspective enough. They just hear "food stamp president" and it makes them angry at Obama and pulls up all these images in their head from the library of stereotypes about black people that they carry around, but the whole process is often unconscious. They never sit down and think "huh, why is that particular image resonating with me more than it usually does?" IMO "code words" is kind of the wrong metaphor. It is more like they are words that are designed to manipulate racist sentiments into political action.
 
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Do you have a link to this Romney "freakout?' Or is that just the latest party line you are regurgitating?
 
Wow, such fascinating insight into what others, you have never met, think and feel. Do you mind sharing the credentials you have that allow you to make such analysis
 
Fletch said:
Wow, such fascinating insight into what others, you have never met, think and feel. Do you mind sharing the credentials you have that allow you to make such analysis
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Ask him about why republicans oppose Obamacare.
 

MSNBC mid-day roundtable discussion... What's your point?

You think this representative of every Dem, moderate, independent?
 

You do know deep down that the whole campaign is a f-----ng joke don't you?
I find it very funny and may the best hypocrit win!!
 
hazlnut said:
MSNBC mid-day roundtable discussion... What's your point?

You think this representative of every Dem, moderate, independent?
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Well we already have two lefties defending it and the thread is still young.
 
friday said:
I wish Democrats would give us a cipher of all the racial code words we use and what they mean so that we know how to avoid them in the future.
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You'll never get what you ask for.

For them to give you a list, they would be limiting themselves to the words on that list. That would prevent them from their possible fake outrage at any other words that might be uttered.
 
Fletch said:
Do you have a link to this Romney "freakout?' Or is that just the latest party line you are regurgitating?
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It is the speech the OP is about.

Fletch said:
Wow, such fascinating insight into what others, you have never met, think and feel. Do you mind sharing the credentials you have that allow you to make such analysis
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It's pretty obvious. It isn't some deep, tricky, insight lol. You guys pretty much wear it on your sleeves.
 
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It is the speech the OP is about.
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And where is the part that shows Romney "freaking out?" Oh, and the liberal buzz word you are supposed to be using is "unhinged" not "freaking out."


It's pretty obvious. It isn't some deep, tricky, insight lol. You guys pretty much wear it on your sleeves.
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If you want to accuse me of something, then do it. Unless you lack the guts, of course.
 
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Fletch said:
And where is the part that shows Romney "freaking out?" Oh, and the liberal buzz word you are supposed to be using is "unhinged" not "freaking out."
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What he has done is to descend from the realm of rational debate about real issues to just blurting out teabagger character attacks about how Obama is "divisive" and whatnot. I call that a freak out. He's actually a pretty smart guy, but obviously he has gotten increasingly frustrated by his massive string of ****ups with his taxes, with his international insult tour, with it coming out that both his and Ryan's plans are to raise taxes on the middle class and cut them for the rich, etc., but teabagging like this isn't exactly presidential obviously.

Fletch said:
If you want to accuse me of something, then do it. Unless you lack the guts, of course.
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I don't even know you personally, but I clearly explained what I am accusing much of the right of doing- lacking introspection. Letting themselves be transparently manipulated by con artists using words designed to dig up racial stereotypes.
 
MSNBC is in the bag for Obama. The problem with idiotic comments like the one spewed by that moron Toure is that it will likely have the same impact the attack on ChickFilA had. People are TIRED of the morons that think they can spew the empty headed rhetoric and everyone is just going to nod their head in agreement.
 
teamosil said:
What he has done is to descend from the realm of rational debate about real issues to just blurting out teabagger character attacks about how Obama is "divisive" and whatnot.
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The realm of rational debate??? LOL!!!

Tell you what...when Obama starts rationally debating anything, THEN I'll expect Romney to follow suit. Until then, I'm satisfied with Romney calling Obama out about his divisiveness.
 
friday said:
[I wish Democrats would give us a cipher of all the racial code words we use and what they mean so that we know how to avoid them in the future.
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I think I heard somewhere, that anything negative said about the O, qualifies as racist, and if you don't say anything negative, but are a republican, then you are still a racist, and either don't realize it yet, or won't admit it.
 

MSNBC = Fox for liberals.

That's about the only difference.
 
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