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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:25 PM Jun 2014

Damn, I guess I'm a racist




Reminds me of the joke, if you say "I'm not racist, I have a black friend". First off, he's not your friend and OF COURSE YOU'RE RACIST.

Not liking Herman Cain and Allen West makes me a human being with a central nervous system, not a racist.
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Damn, I guess I'm a racist (Original Post) NightWatcher Jun 2014 OP
Don't forget Clarence Thomas. muntrv Jun 2014 #1
Are they saying Cain got 100% of all Teabagger votes in the primaries? arcane1 Jun 2014 #2
Six of them are also female. KamaAina Jun 2014 #3
And about half aren't (or never have) running for anything underpants Jun 2014 #7
Not only would I not vote for any black conservatives, I wouldn't vote for them if they were white. Spider Jerusalem Jun 2014 #4
+1 n/t Aerows Jun 2014 #26
No, just wouldn't vote for them based on their RW views. bluesbassman Jun 2014 #5
Bold faced Lie. it was recently reported that Oklahomans would not support CBGLuthier Jun 2014 #6
oh dear La Lioness Priyanka Jun 2014 #8
If we forget about history and context, this is a pretty good argument. ZombieHorde Jun 2014 #9
Every single time I see BS like this- the poster pretends there's no context... bettyellen Jun 2014 #21
Every one is fundamentalist and extremist Old Testament religious nut case, erases all that black. Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #10
100% I'd like to see their evidence. n/t Gormy Cuss Jun 2014 #11
Jennifer Carroll RockaFowler Jun 2014 #12
about 99% of those people are losers... because they're fucking nuts NightWatcher Jun 2014 #14
Not to mention opportunists brush Jun 2014 #20
First, I'd have to know them & their opinions, then I'd have to know who their opponent was. . . Journeyman Jun 2014 #13
Wow, 20 African Americans! That shows us liberals! No doubt our party only Rex Jun 2014 #15
There's a black chair in the last picture Politicalboi Jun 2014 #22
Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Sowell are names ChazII Jun 2014 #16
What makes the right wing in America tick is not necesarilly racism; what it definatelly RDANGELO Jun 2014 #17
So they dug up 20 black people who don't hate the tea party, I guess world wide wally Jun 2014 #18
I've been told I'm racist sarisataka Jun 2014 #19
Can someone explain to me what prompted this thread? YoungDemCA Jun 2014 #23
My racist "friend" who posts obviously racist anti-Obama shit, posted this on FB NightWatcher Jun 2014 #24
Bullshit, some have been on ballots and 100% of teabaggers failed to vote for them already. TheKentuckian Jun 2014 #25
 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
4. Not only would I not vote for any black conservatives, I wouldn't vote for them if they were white.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:30 PM
Jun 2014

But then I wouldn't attack them on the basis of their race, either, which is immaterial to their politics.

Not voting for someone whose ideology is diametrically opposed to yours doesn't make you a racist. Not voting for a candidate with a Kenyan father because you're convinced he's a "secret Muslim" and wasn't born in the US, though? That might make you a racist, yes.

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
9. If we forget about history and context, this is a pretty good argument.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:33 PM
Jun 2014

However, there is a lot more to the racist claims than "has strong disagreements with President Obama."

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
21. Every single time I see BS like this- the poster pretends there's no context...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 05:26 PM
Jun 2014

Someone here whined to me that they were called a racist, even provided links. They weren't to anyone calling him a racist though. Interesting!

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
12. Jennifer Carroll
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:38 PM
Jun 2014

OK - she resigned in disgrace as Florida's Lt Governor. Which means she's worse than pRick Scott!!

Allen West - the man who couldn't win in a Republican Heavy district. Republicans voted against him
Mia Love couldn't win in Utah as a Republican. That's not Democrat's fault . . .

brush

(53,467 posts)
20. Not to mention opportunists
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 05:12 PM
Jun 2014

Last edited Sat Jun 28, 2014, 10:56 AM - Edit history (2)

The thinking seems to be that "being different" will bring opportunities not so readily available in the Democratic party that already has many blacks — 95% of blacks, btw, who prefer not to associate with a party that has many openly racist adherents and openly promotes policies damaging to African Americans — even if talk show slots or appearances, book deals, funded candidacies or under-the-table-cash and other gewgaws are dangled in front of them.

Journeyman

(15,001 posts)
13. First, I'd have to know them & their opinions, then I'd have to know who their opponent was. . .
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:40 PM
Jun 2014

If any one of them was running against, say, someone like California State Sen. Leland Yee (D), who had to drop out of his recent contest to become Secretary of State because he faces arms trafficking and corruption charges, then I would probably vote for any one of the people shown above (absent equally damaging criminal complaints against them).

And it would have nothing to do with race.

But that's probably too difficult for the person who made this silly "test" to comprehend.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
15. Wow, 20 African Americans! That shows us liberals! No doubt our party only
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:40 PM
Jun 2014

has 19 African Americans...

FUNNY, I sure don't see any of them in these pictures of the Tea Party!


My goodness! Just LOOK at that sea of diversity!

But probably the next picture I find will have some of them


Squinting real hard, maybe there is one of them somewhere in all those people!

Okay last try...no doubt the Tea Party is open to ideas from them


THERE! NO...wait...THERE! NO...wait...dammit...no doubt the liberal media photoshopped these pics!

DAM U LIBRUL MEDA!



 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
22. There's a black chair in the last picture
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 06:51 PM
Jun 2014

Perhaps a minority was sitting there. We'll never know now will we.

ChazII

(6,198 posts)
16. Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Sowell are names
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:46 PM
Jun 2014

I recognize from newspaper articles and talk shows. JC Watts and Mia Love are two that I remember being speakers at the RNC.

RDANGELO

(3,430 posts)
17. What makes the right wing in America tick is not necesarilly racism; what it definatelly
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 04:53 PM
Jun 2014

is is tribalism. They view society in terms of groups of people opposing one another. They are the good people; we are the bad people. That is the reason they are impossible to work with. They don't want to uplift society or help people; they want to punish people.

sarisataka

(18,215 posts)
19. I've been told I'm racist
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 05:06 PM
Jun 2014

The tell tale was I'm white. I guess people are entitled to their opinion.

When voting I prefer to go on their stance on issues. It leads me into voting for several skin colors; but they are always Democrats. Go figure

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
24. My racist "friend" who posts obviously racist anti-Obama shit, posted this on FB
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:10 PM
Jun 2014

I thought it was a funny way to use the "both sides do it" argument to justify his racism.

He tried to equate his posting pictures of Obama with a bone through his nose to my not supporting any of these nut jobs as "see, you don't like black politicians either".

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