No One In This Post Was Raped

[proud2BlibKansan]

It is astounding that in the Year 2010, so many people still treat the word rape as if it’s a clever description from everything from taxes to actions at sporting events. The pictured cartoon made the rounds on the heels of the passage of health care reform. At seemingly all levels in the world of politics, many consider “rape” to be a true conversational gem:

* “President Obama feeds people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier who have lived and worked in a democracy that understand that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy… a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it he rapes this nation…” — Actor Jon Voight.
* “The spectacle of a far leftist president literally forcing socialized medicine down the throat of an unwilling center-right America is reminiscent, perhaps more than any other contemporary metaphor, of date rape.” — David Kupelian, WorldNetDaily
* “Do you people in the White House, do you people in the media, do you ever stop to consider that you have an intelligent, informed electorate who simply doesn’t like being raped, and being raped is what is happening to people in this country by their government. No other way to put this.” – Radio Entertainer Rush Limbaugh
* “Get ready to get gang-raped again, folks.” – Limbaugh.
* “This Country is being raped.” — Robin of Berkeley, American Thinker.
* “People in New York, you’re being raped by your government — raped.” – Glenn Beck, on his radio show.
* “Yes, America is being raped, pillaged and plundered every day by the very people who have been elected to run the country.” – James H. Lilley.
* “Obama is raping America. Obama is raping our values.” – Radio Entertainer Michael Savage.

more . . . . http://www.alan.com/2010/04/14/no-one-in-this-post-was-raped/

[Deep13]

1. Another racist slur, it plays on the irrational fear of Black men raping white women. nt

[lame54]

2. I think you nailed it

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. That's exactly right.

[zipplewrath]

4. Bingo

Lived through this before. "Black men are after 'your' women".

[pipi_k]

5. Yeah, because everyone knows this country is populated

by only blonde-haired, WASP women who are trembling uncontrollably at the thought of being ravished by a half-black man who looks like the character Mandingo, not a college professor or someone's dad...

:eyes:



Why, oh why, is nearly everything all about racism here? Sometimes dumb remarks are just gross stupidity...not racism.

People can't even say, "I don't care for Obama" without it being called !!!racism!!!!

Gets a little tiresome.

[Deep13]

6. You forget who we're dealing with here.

Republicans and American conservatives have a long history of exploiting racist fears for their political ends. The RW media is all reading from the same playbook in exploiting racist fear. Nixon's "Southern push" was designed to split the Dem. party by exploiting the backlash against civil rights legislation. The whole Black man rapes white woman thing has been a mainstay of RW paranoia throughout the 20th century. Personally, I think the roots of this come from a fear that the white race will be bred out of existence. Before Loving v. VA, interracial marriage was illegal in many states. Look at Emmit Till who was brutally murdered because he whistled at a white woman. Look at the Willie Horton thing in 1988. He was a Black rapist. Look at the remarks cited in the OP. What about the overt racism of the Teabag movement? Did anyone accuse Bush or Clinton of raping the country, our values etc? If so, it was not systematic like now.

Tiresome or not, your dismissal of this shows a lack of understanding of race dynamics in this country.

[pipi_k]

7. I forget not with whom we're dealing here

and I'm well aware of "race dynamics" in this country.


that having been said, not every comment involving rape or some other "racist buzzword" is a racist comment.


To insist that the rape comments are racist because people are afraid that big black boogeymen are waiting around every corner waiting to rape poor defenseless white women is silly.

Maybe they are racist, maybe they aren't.

But it gets really tiresome to see people insisting that their own opinions...when they don't even really KNOW what's in the minds of the speakers...are God's Own Truth and that's that.

In other words, you may "see" racism, but that doesn't make it true.