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what most of them apparently don't realize (I know, shocking) is that much like the way the consent of complicity can be found in their silence and tolerance for their racist brethren, the noisy sister of silence known as defensiveness, like stupid claims that racist rhetoric is just "PC running amok", etc, provides much the same if not more support to the racists.
Rather than denunciations, etc, the modern rightwinger finds numerous ways to be part of the problem as opposed to participating in any solutions. Obviously this has several causes, ranging from them being racists themselves, to being able to find all kinds of what they feel to be justifiable reasons to be enablers of it all by way of the aforementioned methods and more.
Santorum may not be the proud racist type that shamelessly and freely shares it with others, but he sure knows how to speak the language of those that do, and certainly has no more compunctions about welcoming them aboard than Ron Paul does.
To the modern rightwinger, being a racist, homophobe, islamophobe, aren't disqualifying as they should be, whether we're talking about for a political office or in their interpersonal relationships, which is why I've long contended that islamophobia after 9/11 was what let their racists outta the shame closet. Add the hompohobia most of them already had in large numbers, and how can they claim their racist brethren are "all that bad", since the "superiority" element is undeniably behind all three efforts to otherize them respectively?
Evil begets evil, and the modern rightwinger has intimate knowledge of it and an endless supply of it -- as well as blindness to it. That's one of the reasons why their minions granted them a license to lie without fear of any reprisal -- they don't see it as a sin but rather as justifiable means to an end -- like keeping those lazy, etc black people from "taking" their money from them. Stealing far more often than not, is a worse sin than merely lying, no?
"c" y'all
Rather than denunciations, etc, the modern rightwinger finds numerous ways to be part of the problem as opposed to participating in any solutions. Obviously this has several causes, ranging from them being racists themselves, to being able to find all kinds of what they feel to be justifiable reasons to be enablers of it all by way of the aforementioned methods and more.
Santorum may not be the proud racist type that shamelessly and freely shares it with others, but he sure knows how to speak the language of those that do, and certainly has no more compunctions about welcoming them aboard than Ron Paul does.
To the modern rightwinger, being a racist, homophobe, islamophobe, aren't disqualifying as they should be, whether we're talking about for a political office or in their interpersonal relationships, which is why I've long contended that islamophobia after 9/11 was what let their racists outta the shame closet. Add the hompohobia most of them already had in large numbers, and how can they claim their racist brethren are "all that bad", since the "superiority" element is undeniably behind all three efforts to otherize them respectively?
Evil begets evil, and the modern rightwinger has intimate knowledge of it and an endless supply of it -- as well as blindness to it. That's one of the reasons why their minions granted them a license to lie without fear of any reprisal -- they don't see it as a sin but rather as justifiable means to an end -- like keeping those lazy, etc black people from "taking" their money from them. Stealing far more often than not, is a worse sin than merely lying, no?
"c" y'all
Santorum's remark was made in Iowa and plays right into the white fear of blacks taking from makers, as is pointed out later in the discussion. But SE Cupp does her best to rehabilitate him.
CUPP: Look, this is taken completely out of context. Rick Santorum talks about social economics all the time. [crosstalk] He talks about how two-person families are better economically for the country. He talks about how conservative social policies are better for white people. You cannot take --
[crosstalk]
CUPP: That's not what he says.
WILLIAMS: That's what he says all the time. Rick Santorum is a homophobe and a bigot. Let's call it what it is.
CUPP: He absolutely isn't. He talks about the economics of these policies and these social issues that we talk about. It's all theoretical without ties to anything. And that's what he does.
Oh, I see. Theoretical. Of course. Because theoretically, it's all blacks on welfare and Medicaid who need the opportunity, right?
Alex Wagner took a moment to set them straight.
WAGNER: In that comment, he's singling out black folks in particular --
CUPP: In a 2-second sound bite --
[crosstalk]
WAGNER: 84 or 86 percent of the people on food stamps in Iowa are white; 9 percent of them are black. What it speaks to is a contention and an idea in the back of some people in the Republican party's heads which is the people taking from the makers are people of color and they don't deserve these handouts any more.
Wagner said it straight up, and that just flustered everyone, including SE Cupp. But no fear, Matt Lewis is to the rescue with this gallant defense:
more here: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/se-cupp-and-matt-lewis-defend-racist-remark
CUPP: Look, this is taken completely out of context. Rick Santorum talks about social economics all the time. [crosstalk] He talks about how two-person families are better economically for the country. He talks about how conservative social policies are better for white people. You cannot take --
[crosstalk]
CUPP: That's not what he says.
WILLIAMS: That's what he says all the time. Rick Santorum is a homophobe and a bigot. Let's call it what it is.
CUPP: He absolutely isn't. He talks about the economics of these policies and these social issues that we talk about. It's all theoretical without ties to anything. And that's what he does.
Oh, I see. Theoretical. Of course. Because theoretically, it's all blacks on welfare and Medicaid who need the opportunity, right?
Alex Wagner took a moment to set them straight.
WAGNER: In that comment, he's singling out black folks in particular --
CUPP: In a 2-second sound bite --
[crosstalk]
WAGNER: 84 or 86 percent of the people on food stamps in Iowa are white; 9 percent of them are black. What it speaks to is a contention and an idea in the back of some people in the Republican party's heads which is the people taking from the makers are people of color and they don't deserve these handouts any more.
Wagner said it straight up, and that just flustered everyone, including SE Cupp. But no fear, Matt Lewis is to the rescue with this gallant defense:
more here: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/se-cupp-and-matt-lewis-defend-racist-remark
