Welcome to Google's post-racial America!

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Of the hundreds of thousands of people who read Crooked Timber, only three of them cheered when the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research was arrested. 

Racism in America is truly dead. 

(Except for the insignificant bit of it that motivated the arrest in the first place.)

Comments

[Rich Puchalsky]

Guilt by association? Not when what you're talking about is association! People join into political associations because they share beliefs or goals. They may have varying beliefs on many things not important to the association, but it's assumed that the core beliefs of the association have some importance to them. If someone joins the KKK, they don't get to say "Hey, you don't get to assume that I'm a racist just because I joined the KKK." Likewise, if the GOP has a political strategy based around racist appeals, which it does, you don't get to be a GOP pol and say "Even though it looked like I just did the same exact thing that every GOP pol does, you can't say I was racist." And when someone says "I'd much rather have the global warming denier with me", they are showing their system of values.

Meanwhile, Amac is -- oh, what a surprise! -- not saying anything to the point. It turns out that when his friends do things, it's justified, and "civility" amounts to "It's OK If You're A Republican". I wonder why I suspected that might be the case?

[happyfeet]

That's very shallow analysis Mr. P. Me I'm a lot content to be an R just cause it's not as rabidly dirty socialist and demeaning of individual liberty as the Barack Obama party is. A lot of people are like me, even some what believe in fairy tales about how squiggly bulbs have secret weather-controlling properties.

[Fritz]

Rich,

Is what you're saying that there is no possible honest, decent, or otherwise defensible reason for someone to join the Republican party, support Republican political ends, or vote for Republicans? Are you saying that Republicans must necessarily be written out of all decent political discourse?

[happyfeet]

You're also forgetting about how racist the bigoty Democratic party is. It's very sad. Not one sitting African-American senator is an elected Democrat. That's pitiful for the party that claims to stand athwart all the vile racisms of the world. Y'all use African-Americans shamelessly and when they try to speak up or question you say shut up you stupid African-Americans can't you see we're saving you from horrible racisms?

It's really uncomfortable to watch this, year after year after year.

[happyfeet]

That's why the Barack Obama was so eager to demonize that white cop. Barack Obama's dirty socialist party is so very very dependent on the perpetuation of the perception of rampant racisms, and since the Rs are out of power, they need to look elsewhere for people they can hang their scarlet R on.

At the same time, they also need to develop ways to market a mindset of racist victimization to the burgeoning Hispanic population. Evil white cops can be helpful there too.

It's a measure of how precarious their hold on power is, if you think about it.

[happyfeet]

(crack, I tell you)

[AMac]

"They don't need to be debated, they need to be defeated."
"I see no reason to be polite to you."
Rich Puchalsky, can you point to any instance where you have engaged in a productive and civil online debate with someone to the Center or Right of the political spectrum?
Given your online persona, it seems like only a fool or a fellow Leftist would agree to an online discussion with you, where you set the terms.
This is a blog whose pages are crawled by search engine spiders.
This is a thread in which one commenter has engaged in more misrepresentation, smearing, and lying than all the others combined. This same commenter throws down the victim card when another participant documents one of his lies. On a blog whose pages are crawled by search engine spiders.
As Rich Puchalsky sees it, Rich Puchalsky's behavior is not subject to any constraints. But everybody from the center or right must adhere to the rules of conduct dictated by Rich Puchalsky.
I think you should get your own blog.

[happyfeet]

My favorite fascist Puchalskyism was this one....

And the urge to debate is, I think, particularly harmful, because it trivializes politics.

- Richie P: My Struggle (2009)

[happyfeet]

Personally I enjoy debating Richie P and Mr. Dr. Steel and Josh Lawrence and all my other Acephalous friends. If I had one quibble it would probably be that in general they are rather quick to apply the label of racist to a fellow - some more quicker than others, certainly.

[Rich Puchalsky]

Amac, what total bullshit. You didn't even come up with a justification for your double standards. When I told JD that I might as well answer him in kind, I didn't preach to him about civility -- I said that if that was the kind of discussion he wanted, fine, he'd get one. You're just a hypocrite.

And sure, this comment thread is searched by search engines. In which people can see my name -- because I comment under my real name, unlike Patterico or JD or happyfeet or you -- and decide for themselves what to think of whom. You'd see the difference between that and what Patrick did soon enough if I set up a special Googleable page with his name on it and a couple of highly edited quotes and an offer for anyone Googling him to contact me for extra, offline badmouthing about what a racist he is.

[happyfeet]

Mr. Patterico is not a racist though Mr. Puchalsky.

This is key.

Have you never met a for real racist before?

[Rich Puchalsky]

As noted here and elsewhere, the GOP propaganda campaign to encourage racist feeling against Obama continues. Patterico's self-chosen person on his side, happyfeet, is repeating all those same tropes. Let's see, as this goes on, whether anyone who participated in the campaign to use the Gates incident as a GOP appeal to race can still claim not to be a racist by the end of it.

[happyfeet]

oh. Joshie Marshall!!! You don't seem to be familiar, Rich. When Joshie writes about stuff it's cause he's afraid. In this case he needs to spin something what is threatening to expose the dirty socialist Democrats racial manipulations. If the African-American ones ever catch on how bad they get played then it's all over very very fast for the Barack Obama party.

[happyfeet]

oh. *Democrats'* I mean. It's really stretching it to postulate a "campaign to use the Gates incident as a GOP appeal to race" when it's obvious that Barack and his Chicago news strumpet Lynn Sweet set up the whole question thinking they could get a nice angry backdrop of faux "racial profiling" debate to accompany the confirmation of that latina paralegal chick. Barack wants way bad to pit Hispanics against those white people what he finds so bitter and clingy and icky. I think he's more an opportunist than a for real racist ... it's just that the way he acts, you really can't tell him apart from your average racist really. A very very craven man.

[happyfeet]

You should come with me and Josh Lawrence to go see Jimmy Buffett.

[Rich Puchalsky]

Keep on going, happyfeet. You're exactly the kind of guy that Patterico likes having around.

[happyfeet]

You're one of those obtuse on purpose people. You can't be unaware that your whole message is hey wingnut. We got us a good thing going with our racism manufacturing operations and we're not about to let you meddling kids screw it up. Your dirty socialist thug party and its media recast a hurricane as deeply fraught instantiation of racial genocide. That's an abusive message. Cruel. African-American kids shouldn't have to grow up fearing racially genocidal weather, but you need 'em scared don't you? Sick sick sick sick sick.

[happyfeet]

oh. as *a* deeply fraught instantiation of genocide. This is how desperate you guys are to drag Hispanics into your racially-oppressive plantation politics. It's very very evil I think.

[cp]

It doesn't speak well of me that I still haven't quite gotten tired of watching RP help someone whom I can only assume is a half-bright high school kid (possibly hoping to make a semi-final or two in policy debate this school year) make a fool of himself. Some sense of pity or exasperation should have kicked in by now, but maybe my sense of humor is getting crueler as I get older.

[happyfeet]

Watching RP help someone = watching RP screeching racist! like a little girl and checking Joshie Marshall for newer more better talking points.

Y'all's stale and racist ossification is not going unnoticed - that lady cop yesterday sure had your number.

Get help.