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

[cigfran-lwyd.livejournal.com]

all good points.

i'm well familiar with the "you're an angry person so i'm not going to listen to you" thing. it's infantalizing, and further infuriating, which is often the point. it is certainly a standard strategy used against trans people, who are often pretty damned twitchy to begin with, and easy to trigger.