| theprof00 said: sqrl there is no question that racism is a large part of dissent in this country. The Obama bucks people were giving out with Obamas face, fried chicken and watermelon on them. Pictures of the koolaid pitcher with Obamas face superimposed. Accusations of him being muslim, as if its a bad thing. |
See you're taking something that is true (ie that a small group of misguided folks do dissent just based on skin color) and being completely ridiculous by trying to say that it is a large part of the dissent of the entire group. This is absolutely false, the folks who dissent on that basis in any way are an extreme minority and Garofalo and others are simply using them as a reason to marganalize the whole group. Hell Garofalo is more racists than the average tea party-goer...most people simply don't look at the race issue but folks like Garofalo are obsessed with it and view most of the world through a race-based prism...they mean well but they end up engaging in racism themselves (ie she can't imagine how a bunch of white folks can disagree with a black man and it not be based on racism, she certainly doesn't provide any support for her claim, but most people don't see it as white man/woman disagrees with black man...they just see one man/woman disagrees with another man).
The fact that you believe the worst about over 400k people based on what nutjubs like Garofalo and the crazies MSNBC and CNN interviewed is no more valid and no less offensive than if these networks would have put up Black Supremisists at the Million Man march showing them talk about "Black Power" and then laughing at them while declaring that the protest was mostly racist and engaging in crued sexual jokes to marganlize them.
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