2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Dog Whistle Politics of Race
Haney López is an expert in how racism has evolved in America since the civil rights era. Over the past 50 years, politicians have mastered the use of dog whistles code words that turn Americans against each other while turning the country over to plutocrats. This political tactic, says Haney López, is the dark magic by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.
It comes out of a desire to win votes. And in that sense Its racism as a strategy. Its cold, its calculating, its considered, Haney López tells Bill, its the decision to achieve ones own ends, here winning votes, by stirring racial animosity.
Politicians manipulate deep prejudice to rouse hostility against minorities and the government, according to Haney López, and summon support for policies that make economic inequality even worse. And its not just Republicans and the tea party who have used this strategic racism to win votes, but Democrats as well.
Democrats have understood, even as early as 1970, [that] race was gonna be an effective wedge issue against them. And when the Democrats responded they responded not by contesting that politics but instead by embracing it. And this is part of the story of dog whistle politics Republicans shift right and the Democrats have tracked rightward, following them, Haney López tells Moyers.
The two also discuss dog whistling and the debate over food stamps, the presidency of Barack Obama and the rise of the tea party, as well as the origins of this election strategy. Haney López also tells Bill that he expects the racial provocations will evolve to target members of the Latino and Asian communities in the coming years.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/ian-haney-lopez-on-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race/
http://billmoyers.com/episode/ian-haney-lopez-on-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race-part-two/
Some people seem really proud of their dog whistles.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Now who referred to black youth using those terms when laying out the Clinton plan of mass incarsaration of black men?
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Check
But Clintonian speak is getting spun as speaking to black issues from their perspective.
It's baffling.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)!
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)that's what people do. But the elders are criticizing Bernie for not knowing how to speak to black people. Mind boggling.
People think Bernie is going negative now and then? He could dismantle Hillary over this and her wars. Hillary supporters are dismissing her Iraq war vote because it was just one vote, it was a dozen years ago, and she said it was a mistake. Somehow, that offsets our permanent presence, trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the destabilization of the Middle East. Then she double downed on stupid and repeated this in Libya. Bush 41 said leave Saddam otherwise you'll destabilize the region. She was told that, and that's what happened in Iraq and Libya.
The fact that Hillary is getting a free pass is the only reason she leads Bernie. He could ruin her and Bill.
You're welcome, Hillary supporters.