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one way to look at the use of the "reverse racism" canard in all it's forms is as an attempt by those who wield conservative-speak to position themselves as arbiters of the debate. in the process, they try to set the terms of the debate. it's an obvious move for rhetorical power. to the extent that these moves seem to elicit short responses from others, they work for a time. but the fact that there's nothing to the term "reverse racism" or the logics built from it or the attempts to link one or another abitrarily chosen factoid that may or may not have anything to do with glenn beck or the boycott to it gets in the way.
conservatives are not in any position to try to take over the question of how glenn beck's actions are to be evaluated, or to set the terms for thinking about the boycott.
conservative discourse has lost it's power to speak to or for anyone but conservatives.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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