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February 19, 2010
Racism? I'll Show You Racism
Posted by Dave Blount at February 19, 2010 10:03 AM
The bizarre yet somehow predictable assertion on the far fringes of moonbattery that the Tea Party movement has something to do with racism isn't preventing Keith Olbermann's last few viewers from wandering off in search of someone with a clue, but that's no reason for UNC professor Jonathan Weiler not to take up the charge. When a New York Times piece showed too much subtlety in linking Tea Parties to racism, Weiler whined that
by burying the obviously ugly impulses and hatreds of many of the movement's elements, as well as bending over backwards to avoid making the salient point that one of our two major political parties is becoming a haven for racist extremism, Barstow ends up writing what amounts to a sympathetic puff piece, an Olympic-telecast-like human interest story that might as well have been placed in the style section.
True enough, one of our two major political parties is a haven for racist extremism. If you find someone who will admit having voted for Obama, they will probably also admit having voted for him because of his race. But being an unhinged moonbat, Viler probably didn't mean Democrats, although whether he was calling Republicans racists, or thinks Tea Parties constitute one of our two major political parties, or was simply duckspeaking incoherently cannot be determined.
Meanwhile, back in reality, there really is such a thing as racial hatred — right in Idaho, identified in the NY Times "whitewash" as a hotbed of racism:
Boise State's Cultural Center director, Ro Parker (photo), is at the center of campus controversy… because she put a racist illustration on her Facebook profile.
It began when Parker posted an image on Facebook. As the Boise State campus newspaper described, it's an "illustration" of "two black women, one of whom is pointing a finger in the face of a white man. He is holding his hands up in a position of semi-surrender. The caption reads 'shut the #### up, Whiteboy.'"
From Ro's bio:
Ro is the full-time Center Coordinator that works with students, departments and faculty in programming for the Cultural Center. … Her goal for the Cultural Center staff this year will be to plan programming that will raise awareness of marginalized groups, white privilege, identity and oppression.
Like many others in the liberal education establishment, Ms. Parker is paid in part by taxpayers to exacerbate racial hatred toward whites among impressionable college students.
To paraphrase Ann Coulter, if you want to know what liberals are up to, just listen to what they accuse you of.
On tips from Incitatus.
