roachboy

so what you're saying, otto, is the fact that in the past racism ran across party divisions means that now, faced with concrete republican proposals that would serve little purpose beyond playing to, reinforcing and extending good ole amurican racism that we can say nothing? or that contemporary republican recuperation of the discourse of the reconstruction period is of no consequence?

or is what you're saying that everyone who is not republican is a democrat and the democrats--your construction/version--cannot say anything about racism because there were prominent racist democrats in the past....

and you act as though this is all shocking news----i mean, it really isn't shocking information--this is all old information--what's curious is the way you try to use it. "you can't say anything" seems to be your argument. "sure racism exists, but you can't say anything about it."

or, better:

"the republicans may be using race as a mobilization tool now, but in the past democrats did that too, so shut up about it."

along the way, you assert the conservative canard of "reverse racism" as if it is other than an entirely ideological proposition.

nice going, otto.
way to foster an ecumenical conversation.

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