Racism isn't just "a card" some people "play"

[bcholmes]

Blaming people of color for Prop. 8 passing in California is racist. So cut it the fuck out. Ditto for veiling your racism with "this is because of turnout for Obama" or "you know how conservative those immigrants can be."

sparkymonster states one of those things that I wanted to believe was obvious, but which apparently is not.

Edit: Here's another good response to the "let's blame the brown people" phenomenon.

Edit the second: Here's a statistical analysis of a white election.

Edit the third: Daily Kos has a good analysis, too!

Comments

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

See my response to xthlcm, below. For context, I've been seeing a lot of pretty crass blog entries that pretty much sound like people regret voting for Obama because of the statistics of the African-American vote on Prop 8. And that Obama is now responsible for somehow making amends.

Which, well, is far from a nuanced view of the relations between African-American communities and LGBT communities.

[cigfran-lwyd.livejournal.com]

agreed. there is no warrant for crass remarks on this question... it's all far too raw and hurtful on too many edges.

but i also found sparkymonster's approach to be reductive, simplistic, and no more useful than the kinds of things being reacted to.

by the same token, however, i'm not entirely sure why out-of-state mormons are being "blamed" for this, either. they didn't cast the votes, and are the consciences of californians so weak that a more effective ad campaign is really supposed to have been the "cause" of the loss?