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trumad

(41,692 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:42 PM Jan 2015

Dog whistles everywhere...

Here, there and everywhere.

Racism is alive and well in the 21st century.

Read between the lines, watch how people coach their words, notice the same old Boogie Men who are mentioned when the subject of race pops up.

I see and hear it....do you?

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Dog whistles everywhere... (Original Post) trumad Jan 2015 OP
Fearbola yesterday, FearIslam today, it goes round and round in fucked up fundie America. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #1
FearBlackMan is pretty much a constant. HappyMe Jan 2015 #7
FearBrownMan is fairly consistent as well, and handy as there are far fewer. Bonus fear for beards. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #10
Yup. HappyMe Jan 2015 #12
The media make it appear so, I agree with Obama it is generally getting better. The media is creating Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #13
I suppose you are right. HappyMe Jan 2015 #15
The media, 6 major companies, are owned by the 1% and their propaganda shapes the Dustlawyer Jan 2015 #16
^^^this!^^^ tblue Jan 2015 #17
+1 Scuba Jan 2015 #23
Loud and Clear! n/t 2naSalit Jan 2015 #2
Racism also has legs. Baitball Blogger Jan 2015 #3
Unfortunately, you are right. nt brer cat Jan 2015 #18
If it's a racism dog whistle and you can hear it Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #4
Huh? trumad Jan 2015 #6
No. It means you're not in denial about racism n/t sarge43 Jan 2015 #19
Recognition = practice? Why would it? tia uponit7771 Jan 2015 #21
Yup ismnotwasm Jan 2015 #5
there was an alert on one of your posts today La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2015 #8
But the alerter saw it on Fox, so the reverse must be true...they truly are brainwashed. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #11
I see. That puts the OP into much clearer context. HappyMe Jan 2015 #14
Reverse the races? And have black cops gun down white ppl every day tblue Jan 2015 #20
But the Polite Racists JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #9
It never went away...just underground. zeemike Jan 2015 #22
Limbaugh has been doing it from the start. Fox "News" too. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #24

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. FearBrownMan is fairly consistent as well, and handy as there are far fewer. Bonus fear for beards.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:48 PM
Jan 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
13. The media make it appear so, I agree with Obama it is generally getting better. The media is creating
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:54 PM
Jan 2015

it's own reality.

Again.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
15. I suppose you are right.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:05 PM
Jan 2015

Online and the media and real life are 2 different things. I notice it online more.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
16. The media, 6 major companies, are owned by the 1% and their propaganda shapes the
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:28 PM
Jan 2015

views of much of America. They displace the anger onto minorities, the disabled, and Libruls! They keep their viewers so angry and afraid, as well as uninformed, that they will not believe the truth when they hear it!
We need to demand Publicly Funded Elections and end campaign contributions, Super PACs, and the Revolving Door! Once accomplished we can bust up the media and banking oligopolies!

Now, where can we find the millions of people it will take to do this and how do we motivate them? Bernie Sanders stands for what I have laid out so I think that would be a great start! Let's get cracking!

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
3. Racism also has legs.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:37 PM
Jan 2015

Here in the hindquarters of Central Florida, you can follow how it spreads from generation to generation. There is reason to their madness. If they truly believe they are a superior race, it would help explain how they act in consort with each other to deprive everyone else of their legal rights.

 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
8. there was an alert on one of your posts today
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:47 PM
Jan 2015

and the alert really clarified some of what is wrong with the discussion around racism today. The alert seem to imply that the words white and black can be easily reversed. the reality is the context and history of whiteness and blackness are very different and we seem to want to move into a post racial society where one does not discuss race, because clearly everything is fine.

alert below
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bunch of white guys in this thread...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=989679

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Just reverse the races - see if it's disruptive then.

Tired of this.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Jan 16, 2015, 09:52 AM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: White privilege is a reality... Get over it and stop alert stalking!
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Races cannot be reversed quite that easily, unless there is a giant history of blacks oppressing whites that I am unaware of. LLP

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
14. I see. That puts the OP into much clearer context.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:01 PM
Jan 2015

Truthy truth gets alerted...and the truth prevails.

A Fox nooz alert if I ever saw one.

tblue

(16,350 posts)
20. Reverse the races? And have black cops gun down white ppl every day
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 03:07 PM
Jan 2015

including white children holding toys, to the point where all white parents, independently, decide to warn their children to be extremely careful how they conduct themselves, even all the many times each they get stopped & frisked by black cops who might well shoot them for no reason and who will for sure get away with it, while black cops circle their wagons and turn their backs on a mayor who suggested he fears for his innocent white son. Then have a white POTUS who black semiautomatic gun-toting crowds mock and accuse of being not-American, and therefore illegitimate, and who they call every unsubtle euphemism for the H word (honkey, forgive me for even typing that horrid word)...

Yes, reverse the races.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
22. It never went away...just underground.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 03:36 PM
Jan 2015

And when the N word became a no no it gave them cover in a way because as long as they did not use it you could not accuse them of it...and if you did they would quote MLK...you know the quote, it is the only one they know, about character content.

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