Another Leftist nut: Says that the word 'socialist' is racist
Leftists are real one-trick ponies. Everything they disagree with is "racist". The accusation of racism is about the only argument they've got most of the time so I guess they have to keep grinding away with it, no matter how implausible the accusation is.
"In the context of American politics, socialism has seldom been about the economy or state power alone, despite its political-economic roots. Instead, it has been a slur, synonymous with the charge of communism, but with meaning extending beyond this term as well.
Black leaders in particular have faced this accusation. In 1964, amid the momentous occasion of congressional approval for the Civil Rights Act, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina declared its passage the result of "Negro agitators, spurred on by Communist enticements to promote racial strife."
Martin Luther King Jr. was not an exception to this allegation, but a direct target. Indeed, he faced immediate pressure to distance himself from close aide, intellectual mentor, and key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin, who once had ties with the Communist Party.
When Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, among other Southern politicians, voiced criticism of Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists, they did so not on racist grounds, but on anticommunist grounds – a more publicly acceptable stance given the cold war climate of the time. But in hindsight we can easily connect the dots, if there were any doubts about their shared sense of white racial entitlement.
Understanding this history also informs the present. The passion surrounding the expression "socialism" has less to do with the actual meaning of the word, than its associations with foreignness, anti-Americanism, and racial difference. If its reemergence and use sound antiquated and anachronistic, the motivations for its revival become clearer when placed in a context of latent white anxiety toward a black president.
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Ah yes, tie the usage of "socialists" with blacks and then tie racism to that word. We'll ignore the little fact that the vast majority of people who were and are "socialists" happen to be/have been white.
And of course we'll also perhaps neglect to notice that desperate democrats will try to stick any charge that's unpopular onto people they are trying to fight so in the time frame of the references when it was still ok and even the policy of the Democratic party to be racist they would of course have tried to associate their opposition with the worst thing they could think of.
All this person has shown is that the Democratic party still uses the same tricks today as then.
"white racial entitlement", not quite. Everybody is entitled to the same thing; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
entitlement and reality are seldom the same
The dishonest non-sequitur - a favorite tactic of tyrants and would-be tyrants everywhere. Yet another false cry of "wolf!" from the statists.
That the civil rights movement of the 60's was financed and controlled by the Communist Party, USA, is now a well-known fact. Of course, the idea of MLK being his own man is much more attractive to blacks and their Leftist masters. (see: users) In fact, the same tactic was used by the communist-controlled ANC in South Africa to make Nelson Mandela look like his own man. He was not! In reality, it is the communist party that controls the agenda in both the above cases, not the puppet they put on TV.
The communist party and the Marxist movements have always used (and continue to use) blacks because they know how sensitive America is to "claims" of racism. The Left is also very well aware of how someone appears when an "allegation" of racism is made and they then are forced to defend themselves. In the court of public opinion, someone defending themselves always appears guilty, (with the MSM's help of course) no matter how bizarre or groundless the allegation. This is an old trick, but one that still works.
Rush Limbaugh said it best: "Our problem with Obama isn't his blackness but his redness."
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing"... Thomas Jefferson
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