Why did all these racists make this weird (kind of racist) ad?
Filed Under Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, Politics, Porchy
There’s good arguments for being opposed to the “Obama” healthcare plan. There’s also really bad arguments. Among the really bad ones are the racist ones. I suppose if you oppose the healthcare reform plan for any reason, you might legitimately welcome all the other opponents you can even if some of them are racists. But the truth is that some of your fellow supporters are racists! I’ve probably supported something in the past that was also supported by a racist or two. It’s politics and we have to be careful who we make coalitions with, but more often than not we are going to make coalitions with people with whom we have fairly substantial disagreements on other issues. In other words, I don’t really care that sometimes I will be aligned with racists–it’s inevitable. I opposed the Iraq War, if it turned out that one of the people opposing with me was a racist, well, so be it. On that issue, at least, he was right, and that’s what were fighting for that day. I marched in the pro-immigrant march back in April 2006. Maybe there was someone in that crowd of 20,000 that was a racist. So be it. So, I don’t think that healthcare opponents should care very much that there are racists in their midts. But just because some of the opponents are racist and some healthcare reform supporters call the racists racists is no reason to act like all the liberals think all the conservatives are racists. If I ever say, hey! some of those people who hate everything that Obama does are racists doesn’t mean I’m talking about you. If you are a racist, I am but otherwise, no. You won’t let me act like a mindreader to your motivations, so you shouldn’t act like a mindreader about mine.
Shorter me: methinks the conservos doth protest too much.
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One Response to “Why did all these racists make this weird (kind of racist) ad?”
Agreed! It is the strangest deflection I’ve seen in a while. It’s clearly not aimed at the 12% who believed that in September. I guess now that I know that opposing health care reform isn’t a race issue I can oppose it with a clear conscience?