Mixing the Races is a Communist Plot!
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Kevin
No, seriously, that’s her argument:
But maybe it’s not so simple. Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics. (During the Clinton Administration we were all introduced to then U. of Pennsylvania Professor Lani Guinier — also a half black/half Jewish, red diaper baby.)
… Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama’s mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student. Love? Sure, why not? But what else was going on around them that made it feasible? Before readers level cheap accusations of racism — let’s recall that the very question of interracial marriage only became a big issue later in the 1960s. The notion of a large group of mixed race Americans became an issue during and after the Vietnam War. Even the civil-rights movement kept this culturally explosive matter at arm’s distance.
It was, of course, an explicit tactic of the Communist party to stir up discontent among American blacks, with an eye toward using them as the leading edge of the revolution.
Like the little bit about how it was almost always a Jewish woman marrying the Black man? This rolls up all the dark demons of the far right wing id n one place: Jews, Blacks, race mixing and communists, oh my! And, of course, Obama is not to be trusted becasue his parents were obviously inter-racial at a time when interracial couples got together for not other reason to advance the communist plot for world-wide domination!
This smear has it all: hints of antisemitism, racism, the implication that Obama’s parents are huge phonies who only got together to advance Marxism, and, of course, that peculiar aristocratic/racist obsession with a person’s parentage. In one short blog posting, this moron has dumped every bit of insecurity and warped nonsense that festers in the minds of some on the far right all over the internet, like a baby who takes off his diaper and smears feces on the nursery wall.
God, what disgusting people.
Via Balloon Juice.
UPDATE [tgirsch]: TPM has a great take on this. Go read.
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Wait I though Obama was a secret Islamo-fascist infiltrator, not a secret Marxist-Lenninst-Trotskyite.
I guess it’s kind of like that Simpson Episode where Ranier Wolfcastle fights off the Commie-Nazi aircraft squadron…..
the video is 2/3 of the way down the page
http://www.236.com/blog/w/chris_kelly/jonah_goldberg_to_base_under_a_3608.php
Comment 2/20/2008
Interracial marriage is a communist plot? Oh, my.
I’d say this was hilarious were is not for the fact that this is the kind of crap that gets generated for, inserted into, sloshed around in, and five years later regurgitated by the mass media as conventional wisdom.
Still, I did get a kick out of the bit about “political correctness” being “invented” for the precise purpose of foreclosing questions about why Obama’s parents got married. Damn, those commies plan far in advance!
Comment 2/20/2008
Well, I don’t know about you, but I have trouble getting to sleep every night worrying about the commies and how they are trying to infiltrate our government and subvert our way of life.
Furthermore, the fact that Obama might have had contact with a communist should automatically make him ineligible to run for president. I want my leaders to be completely ignorant of everything other than what we have here in the good ole USA - the greatest country on the face of the earth.
Comment 2/20/2008
That’s ridiculous, disagree with the man on policy. Who cares whether his parents were commies or not?
Though this is not a whole lot different than some on the left’s criticism of Bush because his grandfather sold stuff to the Nazis or something like that.
That doesn’t excuse anything, however, both sides are guilty of bullshit like this.
Comment 2/20/2008
That doesn’t excuse anything, however, both sides are guilty of bullshit like this.
That’s rather like saying that a jaywalker and a thief are both “criminals.”
Don’t get me wrong, the left is guilty of more than its fair share of name-calling and guilt-by-association, but they’ve got nothing comparable to the well-oiled right-wing slime machine that exists today.
Comment 2/20/2008
This must be the new right wing talking point, since the Muslim thing didn’t stick. For another take on this, read this nonsense. Apparently the fact that Obama was friends with a black guy named Frank in Hawaii, and there happens to be a black poet named Frank in Hawaii who was a member of the Communist Party once, is all they need to connect the dots and arrive at the conclusion that Obama is a Communist!
Comment 2/21/2008
So calling Bush a Nazi by association isn’t as bad as calling Obama a communist by association? I respectfully disagree. Both parties are made up of humans who are looking for any reasons they can find to hate the other party’s candidate or leader. Lies and slime come from both sides of the aisle and they should be fought equally by honest people from both sides of the aisle. The argument of, “We’re bad, but not as bad as them.” is a poor way to excuse your own side’s shortcomings.
Comment 2/21/2008
Matt
Ah yes the cry of the Sensible Centrist: everyone is just as bad as everyone else!
Show me where the New Republic or the Nation or the American Prospect made an issue out of Bush’s grandfather, please. And show me the equivalent of the sustain, prominent, and repeated on mainstream media sources equivalent of the “Obama is a Mulsim who went to a Madrassa” story from the other side, please.
Comment 2/21/2008
Poor little Barry Hussein Obama. Everyone is picking on him. Can’t we all just get along?
Comment 2/21/2008
So calling Bush a Nazi by association isn’t as bad as calling Obama a communist by association?
Nice try, Matt, but that’s not even close to what I said. As Kevin alludes, there are three issues at play here: severity of the slimes, frequency of the slimes, and source of the slimes. With a few notable exceptions, the left can’t keep up with the right on any of those counts. I’m not interested in getting into a tit-for-tat war with you over this, but I could find more despicable slimes, coming from higher-profile sources on the right than you could match looking at the left.
I’m not talking about commenters at LGF or DKos, either. I’m talking about elected officials, MSM columnists, TV pundits, etc. It’s not even close. When was the last time “the left” rallied around disparaging the record of a war hero? Yet the right didn’t just do it to our guy, they’ve done it to their own guy when it suited them.
Hell, just look at this primary season! The Republicans have already started to equate electing a Democrat with “surrendering to terrorism.” What anti-GOP rhetoric have Obama or Clinton engaged in that comes even close to that?
Do both sides engage in nasty tactics? At times. Are they equally guilty of it, or even anywhere close to equally guilty of it? Not on this planet…
Comment 2/21/2008
Poor little Barry Hussein Obama. Everyone is picking on him.
I think he can take it, considering how many people continue to vote for him.
Comment 2/21/2008
We’ll see how Barry Hussein Obama takes it as the campaign goes along. He has not had to reveal his socialist positions yet.
Comment 2/21/2008
Morris wanna cracker?
Comment 2/21/2008
Hmm, I guess I don’t keep a record of where slime is coming from or how much of it there is. It’s equally pathetic no matter what side it’s coming from, IMO.
You equated it to a jaywalker and a thief. I think that’s flawed. Perhaps a better analogy would be a thief who stole $1000 vs a thief who stole $5000. Both are guilty of committing the same crime. Should the thief who stole only $1000 get off with a defense of “That other guy stole way more than I did!”?
Comment 2/21/2008
Matt, you mean like petty larceny vs grand larceny?
re nazis, if my memory serves me correctly, at least one of the Kevins has either called Bush a nazi or compared him to one on this site, for what that’s worth. I can’t cite a specific piece where this occurred, but I am pretty sure it has happened.
Comment 2/21/2008
I must admit that it is impressive when a politician gets an applause when he blows his nose. When Barry Hussein Obama blew his nose during a speech at Reunion Center in Dallas, the audience broke out in applause. I wonder if Barry Hussein Obama’s hanky will be on ebay. They could raise millions selling his snot.
Comment 2/21/2008
“re nazis, if my memory serves me correctly, at least one of the Kevins has either called Bush a nazi or compared him to one on this site,”
Most liberal loons get around to that eventually when they have no legitimate point.
Comment 2/21/2008
Ted:
I did a search of the terms “Bush” and “Nazi” in our blog archives, and looked at every post that had them. There were a couple dozen, dating back to October of 2002. The closest I could find to what you’re alleging are these two, and I don’t think it’s fair to classify either of them as (A) calling Bush a Nazi; (B) comparing Bush to a Nazi; or (C) engaging in the sort of “Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympathizer, therefore W must be a Nazi sympathizer” sort of guilt-by-association that Matt alleges. So I’m going to have to suggest that you’re remembering incorrectly.
Comment 2/21/2008
hey I never said it was on this blog, just that some on the left have made the association. Certainly google will verify that.
Comment 2/21/2008
Matt:
I was responding to Ted, not to you. I wasn’t saying you were alleging we were guilty of that particular slime. You mentioned that slime, and Ted accused us of being guilty of it.
And I still contend that while some on the left are indeed guilty of this, it comes more frequently, more viciously, and from more prominent sources on the right.
Comment 2/21/2008
And, just so I’m clear, it’s just as wrong when people on the left do it as when people on the right do it. I’m just arguing that one side is a lot more guilty of it than the other.
Comment 2/21/2008
It’s interesting following this interaction because it is the exact opposite in Canada. The left-wing people are incredibly aggressive and very happily throw out the terms Nazi, etc. when speaking about anyone on the right. Any lies they can throw out to make the right wing look bad they use. For the most part, the right wing in Canada is fairly quiet or out of the mainstream.
Comment 2/21/2008
OK, I retract that. I felt a bit queasy posting it without verifying it, but the search option is no longer available. You do have to admit that the list of names KTK has not called Bush is a pretty short one
Comment 2/21/2008
You do have to admit that the list of names KTK has not called Bush is a pretty short one
Admittedly true.
(Then again, the list of names KTK has called Bush that I felt were unfair is probably equally short…)
Comment 2/21/2008
“The left-wing people are incredibly aggressive and very happily throw out the terms Nazi, etc. when speaking about anyone on the right. Any lies they can throw out to make the right wing look bad they use.”
It’s the same in the USA.
Comment 2/22/2008
I’m speechless from the irony.
Comment 2/22/2008
“I’m speechless from the irony.”
Ah, if only that were true.
Comment 2/22/2008
First of all, TG, I believe you are guilt of a type-o in post #15. I believe in relation to the topic at hand, your comment should read, “Morris is a cracker.”
Secondly, the difference between the Bush thing and this is that while the respective conclusions may be equally flawed, one is at least surmising from verifiable fact while the other is an assumption based on yet another (sophistry-filled) assumption.
Obama a pinko, we can only dream, huh…
Oh, and in case Jay-Z happens to be reading (hey, you never know, he started the Che shirt craze) please pardon me while I slide up in Beyonce… you know, for the cause!
Comment 2/22/2008
Sorry, I meant post 14, TG. Post 15 is guilty of far greater errors.
Comment 2/22/2008
“Morris is a cracker.”
Liberal bigotry and discrimination are alive and well. Thanks for helping to reveal it.
Comment 2/22/2008
Oh shit, it’s educated blacks fucking white women, not rich black women fucking white men.
Damn, some will probably chalk that up to wiggerish delusions, but I’m going with sexual frustration (the lady’s on vacay)!
Comment 2/22/2008
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