Joan Walsh of Salon: "Drudge won't link to this"

[ohgeewhiz]

We are living in a moment when right-wing extremists are casting any critical observation about white people as racism — and the mainstream media, already tongue-tied about race, has no idea how to respond.

Ironically, I get criticized from the left sometimes for downplaying the role that race plays in the backlash against President Obama. More frequently, though, I’m trashed from the right for overplaying it. Journalists like to comfort themselves by saying that when both sides are mad at you, you must be doing something right. But I know from experience: Sometimes it means you’re wrong. I don’t think I’m wrong here – although occasionally I am wrong about this tough racial stuff. I’m just wondering if it’s possible to get it right, in an atmosphere where one side is determined to prove the divisive and ludicrous idea that Obama-era liberalism is animated by anti-white racism.

But it is just a fact that Republicans today are disproportionately white and older than the rest of the country. It’s almost certainly a fact that Mitt Romney is more comfortable around white people (unless he leads a secret multi-culti life that we don’t know about). Look at his crowds. Look at his friends. Look at his advisors. Look at that video where he sings “Who Let the Dogs Out?” with black people on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Jacksonville, Fla.

Much more, a great read

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/05/drudge_wont_link_to_this//

[erpowers]

1. When Obama Leaves Office

I do wonder what these Republicans will do when President Obama leaves office and none of the horrible things they predicted would happen have not happened.

[reACTIONary]

2. They will have a whole new list of horrible things...

...just like all the right-wing paranoids who have been predicting horrible things for decades.

[JHB]

4. As the saying goes, "You keep using those words..."

..."but I do not think they mean what you think they mean."


For someone who claims to have been a Democrat and a liberal for "longer than most people here have been alive", have you simply not been paying attention to the decades-long assault on liberal values?

Somehow this brings to mind the image of a Roman legate ensconced in a city under siege by barbarians, berating a messenger from the walls for having a mussed uniform and speaking in impolitic terms about the "guests" outside the gates.

[ohgeewhiz]

6. So when Joan calls for honest open dialog, and uses facts

you find her disgusting?

I don't think you have a high level of understanding what the printed words in here column say. Either that or you ignored them.

Perhaps I should have quoted her main question in my initial post:

"Is it possible to have a dialogue on these issues without name-calling and finger-pointing about who’s the real racist? "

I guess you never bothered to read the entire article, but I could be wrong.

And by the way, Rachel's last name is "Maddow" not "Maddows".

[DCKit]

5. I told a sister who's being harassed by Teabaggers to call them racist.

It's worked for me.