Liberal and Conservative Racism
Very interesting article about racism. Questions the motives behind the moral or immoral (depending I suppose on what side of the fence one is on) aspects of racism. Does the liberal stand against racism because of who stands for it - which is the conservative who views race issues - even in such things are fair housing, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc. - as a threat to them and their core beliefs. If so, is the gap between the two so wide that nothing can be done?
A loaded article-
"Race, always the deepest and most volatile fault line in American history, has now become the primal grievance in our politics, the source of a narrative of persecution each side uses to make sense of the world. Liberals dwell in a world of paranoia of a white racism that has seeped out of American history in the Obama years and lurks everywhere, mostly undetectable. Conservatives dwell in a paranoia of their own, in which racism is used as a cudgel to delegitimize their core beliefs. And the horrible thing is that both of these forms of paranoia are right."
http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/index.php/the-color-of-his-presidency/#more-261265
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