Perhaps the Left doesn't understand that there is no difference between this and this...but I think they know exactly what buttons they are pushing and it's as ugly as it gets.
What is Slate and the MSM thinking? What message are liberals sending to their children? That it's okay to hate and ridicule minorities who disagree with their point of view? Is this not dangerous ground to sow? Haven't we been there, done that, and have hundreds of years of hatred, misery and too many graves to prove it?
Winfield Myers at The Democracy Project gathered a sample of what the left considers appropriate and clever political fare. The venomous and meanspiritedness of the racial slurs and the volume of hateful black imagery in the MSM aimed at conservative African-Americans is a little shocking in that it comes from those who claim tolerance, racial equality and harmony as a foundation of their political and personal philosophy.
Shame. on. them.
UPDATE:This link is for the Liberal apologists who think racial caricatures are harmless.
UPDATE II: More enlightenment and tolerance from the uber-sophiscated European Left.
(a hat tip to Glenn)
Posted by feste at November 17, 2004 08:16 PM | TrackBack
> Shame. on. them.
No way. The libs are shame-less.
It's one of their defining characteristics.
:)
Posted by: jaspar at November 18, 2004 06:19 AMWhile I applaud the second amendment stance, I'm not sure exactly what relationship the posted link ( about black communities defending themselves with weapons that might have been confiscated if the second amendment were abridged ) has to do with 'racial caricatures'.
Posted by: Steve at November 19, 2004 10:14 AMAre you really this obtuse? From whom do you think Rice's father was protecting his family? Do you not understand that negative stereotypical imagery fuels and reinforces simmering hatred?
Do you think the bigots who did this can discern the difference between hate literature and political caricature?
Sorry, but there is no place for racial epithets or denigrating imagery in a civil society. Period.