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Why calling everybody who disagrees with you a "racist" cheapens that charge!
I just read a great column by Joe Concha on The Hill web-site about how political-progressives calling everybody a racist actually makes it easier for racism to exist & even flourish!
https://i.imgflip.com/u3fsr.jpg - (If I can't have my own way, I'll just cry "RACISM" until you give in!)
Once, saying that somebody was a racist was a SERIOUS charge! But that was then & this is now. CNN and MSNBC both used the word "racist" more than 1,100 times from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a tally conducted by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service. That count, which doesn't include on-screen graphics, came two days after President Trump said in a Sunday tweet that four Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to their home countries. All four congresswomen are U.S. citizens, members of minority groups and three were born in the U.S.
The president and his Republican allies were quick to point out that his criticism was an IDEOLOGICAL one based on the four congresswomen's open embrace of pro-socialist, anti-American, anti-Israeli, & anti-Semitic polices.
The president's liberal critics (including the media) argued the opposite, charging that the president's comments were naked, fascist racism, adding that Trump is mentally unstable and a 21st-century Hitler. In this insane climate, this kind of unstable rhetoric is all perfectly acceptable — as it has existed since Trump first announced his candidacy.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put things in proper perspective: "Something I have learned: If you are a Republican nominee for President – or President – you will be accused of being a racist," he tweeted earlier this week. "Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) compared John McCain’s campaign to being like that of George Wallace. Such absurdity unfortunately comes with the territory." Graham is 100 percent correct. John McCain was attacked in the 2008 presidential campaign as being a grumpy, get-off-my-lawn racist running against then-Sen. Barack Obama.
Everything seems to be racist (or soaked in racism) these days, even the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing: "America may have put the first man on the moon, but the Soviet Union sent the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the U.S. would follow suit," wrote the New York Times on Thursday in a piece marinated in identity politics titled: "How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality."
But the Times' perspective on the Apollo moon mission pales in comparison to the Washington Post's on Tuesday: "The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male," opined the Post.
There's an old children's book we've all read called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Now we're seeing it again — and again, and again. Thousands of times in the past week we've heard or read to the word "racist" or have seen it blatantly implied. Call it, "The Media That Cried Wolf."
And we all know what happened to the boy who cried wolf too often: People stopped listening.
http://lingoport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-boy-who-cried-wolf.jpg - (The Boy Who Cried Wolf!)
I just read a great column by Joe Concha on The Hill web-site about how political-progressives calling everybody a racist actually makes it easier for racism to exist & even flourish!
https://i.imgflip.com/u3fsr.jpg - (If I can't have my own way, I'll just cry "RACISM" until you give in!)
Once, saying that somebody was a racist was a SERIOUS charge! But that was then & this is now. CNN and MSNBC both used the word "racist" more than 1,100 times from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a tally conducted by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service. That count, which doesn't include on-screen graphics, came two days after President Trump said in a Sunday tweet that four Democratic congresswomen should "go back" to their home countries. All four congresswomen are U.S. citizens, members of minority groups and three were born in the U.S.
The president and his Republican allies were quick to point out that his criticism was an IDEOLOGICAL one based on the four congresswomen's open embrace of pro-socialist, anti-American, anti-Israeli, & anti-Semitic polices.
The president's liberal critics (including the media) argued the opposite, charging that the president's comments were naked, fascist racism, adding that Trump is mentally unstable and a 21st-century Hitler. In this insane climate, this kind of unstable rhetoric is all perfectly acceptable — as it has existed since Trump first announced his candidacy.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put things in proper perspective: "Something I have learned: If you are a Republican nominee for President – or President – you will be accused of being a racist," he tweeted earlier this week. "Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) compared John McCain’s campaign to being like that of George Wallace. Such absurdity unfortunately comes with the territory." Graham is 100 percent correct. John McCain was attacked in the 2008 presidential campaign as being a grumpy, get-off-my-lawn racist running against then-Sen. Barack Obama.
Everything seems to be racist (or soaked in racism) these days, even the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing: "America may have put the first man on the moon, but the Soviet Union sent the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the U.S. would follow suit," wrote the New York Times on Thursday in a piece marinated in identity politics titled: "How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality."
But the Times' perspective on the Apollo moon mission pales in comparison to the Washington Post's on Tuesday: "The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male," opined the Post.
There's an old children's book we've all read called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Now we're seeing it again — and again, and again. Thousands of times in the past week we've heard or read to the word "racist" or have seen it blatantly implied. Call it, "The Media That Cried Wolf."
And we all know what happened to the boy who cried wolf too often: People stopped listening.
http://lingoport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-boy-who-cried-wolf.jpg - (The Boy Who Cried Wolf!)
