The Left’s Obsession with Race
Townhall,
by
Derek Hunter
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/13/2019 6:10:50 AM
There was a time when people aspired to a world where race was an afterthought. It was always a tough slog, but we’d moved closer and closer over time. Then something funny happened – a political party realized they could benefit from division and that unity was bad for business. Unity would require a debate on issues and their merits, which was one they had been losing, so they opted for backsliding; divide to conquer. If you divide people into groups it is much easier to win. Groups of people are easier to manipulate than millions of individuals.
When your ideas won´t win, it´s all they have left.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/13/2019 8:07:32 AM (No. 62855)
The democrats just haven’t been the same since the Republican Party took away their slaves back in 1865.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/13/2019 8:07:59 AM (No. 62845)
And which American president´s obsession promoted this racism?
I´ll give you a clue. He was Halfrican American.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Krause 5/13/2019 8:12:16 AM (No. 62851)
These people who tak about race all the time....where do they live? They should move. The vast majority of people, all colors, just go about their lives, bothering nobody.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
raspberry 5/13/2019 8:13:05 AM (No. 62849)
The Left forces even the socially liberal like myself to see everything in terms of race equity. We all are American and live in the present and not the distant history of race. The Socialist Democrats are bankrupt of ideas on how to keep America great and are desperate for votes and so they remake this world into one of fiction and untruth. Foolish people follow them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/13/2019 8:24:10 AM (No. 62854)
What bothers me the most about the left and their obsession with race is this - they want to tear down all the statues of “racists” from 150 plus years ago but they will never admit that every one of those people portrayed in those statues were Democrats. And they will never own up to the fact that all of the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, segregation, standing in schoolhouse doors, fire hoses, etc were all committed by democrats.
We can’t allow them to have it both ways
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FunOne 5/13/2019 8:28:20 AM (No. 62848)
I used to think I understood what a "racist" was. It required the elements of pigment and/or national origin.
But I have come to understand that the label "racist" is quickly applied to any person who challenges liberal thinking on any matter such as "climate Change".
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Marxism is essentially an economic proposition. You have it, they want it, and will use force to get it.
Everything - EVERYTHING - else is window dressing. Race. Sexuality. Gender. You name it.
Keeping you on the defensive, on the wrong foot, cowering in fear is the aim of Marxism as you timidly hand over your property to total strangers who demand it.
The problem, of course, is that most on the left don´t understand their own endgame and get hung up on the rules rather than the outcome. And so it´s race race race with people who don´t even benefit from it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 5/13/2019 9:22:57 AM (No. 62852)
- what racism actually is
- what the Left pretends "racism" means
- what the Left demands you believe about "racism"
these are three entirely different things, and the semantics today are so utterly smokescreened that any rational discussion about "racism" is simply not possible (which is exactly what the Left wants).
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nephilim 5/13/2019 9:23:31 AM (No. 62856)
While reading this FTA "But their favorite, and most effective, tool is race – the hyphen has been fully weaponized.", I was reminded of "The Hyphen" by John Wayne https://youtu.be/_fuzLTrwVbc
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Franz 5/13/2019 9:27:23 AM (No. 62857)
The writer of the article is correct. The Progressives/Democrats are specializing in divide-and-conquer politics. By creating hatred between different groups, they distract us from the fact that they are incompetent, deceitful, liars that use office to screw us over.
Most galling of all is they are the ones guilty of the crimes and offenses of which they accuse others.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/13/2019 9:58:16 AM (No. 62850)
The race card is a tactic that the leftist and liberal Democrats know usually works against the wimpy Establishment Republicans who have ran to hide under their mattresses at the first sign that the Democrats were getting ready to swing into action and play the race card against them.
So far that underhanded Democrat tactic has not worked against President Trump, who much of the Black population that votes knows as the Donald, from his days being exposed to them over years through the sleazy entertainment industry, and that if he was really a racist that he never would have been able to exceed in very diverse and liberal New York City.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/13/2019 10:00:29 AM (No. 62844)
Prince Harry has said that his children will be brought up in a ´gender fluid´ manner. Maybe they will also be race fluid. I have no idea what that would look like. But then I have no clue what gender fluid (sounds gross!) is either.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Laotzu 5/13/2019 10:13:10 AM (No. 62847)
We have truly arrived in the era of Fake News. What never got reported upon was that for a generation, we got Engineered News -- real events hand selected (and deselected) and spun to serve the Left´s purposes. It still forms the bedrock substrate of journalism upon which the more sensational Fake News rests. And the race pieces mentioned are epitome of that.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Arby 5/13/2019 10:33:01 AM (No. 62859)
Of course this is an obsession. They´re currying favor with a key portion of their base. The sad thing is that so many black voters accept the verbal support that is not coupled with positive action that will lift them out of poverty.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
zek 5/13/2019 11:38:25 AM (No. 62858)
What the left does is really very simple. They clump people together in a group and label them. Then, they make the label toxic, and spread it via social media and a very friendly press and by the next day a new group that should be hated is born.
Just look how quickly they did this with the Tea Party, or a simple red cap. If you wear a MAGA hat anymore you are putting yourself in danger because the left has made it the newest "allowed to hate group".
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