Comments on: A Brief History of Communism, from Race Mixing to the Public Option http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:38:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: formidable http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974669 formidable Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:06:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974669 <p>If anyone wonders where the knuckle-draggers get their “inspiration” for their rasict p.o.v.’s, here’s a hint: Gone With the Wind and Birth of A Nation — and, no, I’m not making that up.</p> <p>I’m white, and was born and raised in the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, and we were taught that the WORST thing in the world, was whites and blacks having sex together — it “diluted” us pure, white folks. Next, on the ladder of racial “atrosities,” was listening to Elvis Presley — who was condemned as a communist! tool, out to subvert all the “good” white American teenagers and turn us into n-ger-loving socialist slaves.</p> <p>GWTW and BofAN elaborated and reinforced this mindset, that black men were only interested in impregnating white women — and which, by extention, would lead to the end of the white race — and black women were only good for maids and street walkers.</p> <p>Unfortunately, many, many places in the South still hold and believe these warped ideas. The weepublican Party is evidence of this.</p> If anyone wonders where the knuckle-draggers get their “inspiration” for their rasict p.o.v.’s, here’s a hint: Gone With the Wind and Birth of A Nation — and, no, I’m not making that up.

I’m white, and was born and raised in the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, and we were taught that the WORST thing in the world, was whites and blacks having sex together — it “diluted” us pure, white folks. Next, on the ladder of racial “atrosities,” was listening to Elvis Presley — who was condemned as a communist! tool, out to subvert all the “good” white American teenagers and turn us into n-ger-loving socialist slaves.

GWTW and BofAN elaborated and reinforced this mindset, that black men were only interested in impregnating white women — and which, by extention, would lead to the end of the white race — and black women were only good for maids and street walkers.

Unfortunately, many, many places in the South still hold and believe these warped ideas. The weepublican Party is evidence of this.

]]> By: OsborneInk http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974666 OsborneInk Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:35:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974666 <p>Thank you! Yes, it’s an odd experience to visit the Civil Rights Museum in Montgomery, AL, read the press clippings from those days, and recognize the EXACT SAME talking points were in use fifty years ago. I recently created my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XklpS5joHdw" rel="nofollow">first YouTube video</a> examining the lineage of the rhetoric we saw in August town hall protests; the GOP has effectively raised the spirit of Jim Crow from the dead.</p> Thank you! Yes, it’s an odd experience to visit the Civil Rights Museum in Montgomery, AL, read the press clippings from those days, and recognize the EXACT SAME talking points were in use fifty years ago. I recently created my first YouTube video examining the lineage of the rhetoric we saw in August town hall protests; the GOP has effectively raised the spirit of Jim Crow from the dead.

]]> By: Blub http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974486 Blub Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:49:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974486 <p>communism? you mean democrat fascist islamo-communist nazism with socialist and homosexual characteristics, right? ;-)</p> communism? you mean democrat fascist islamo-communist nazism with socialist and homosexual characteristics, right? ;-)

]]> By: shekissesfrogs http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974436 shekissesfrogs Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:25:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974436 <p>I hope these state education boards do something about this. Clearly they are not capable of making critical decisions in order to impart the agreed upon enlightened values of our society to our children of whom they are entrusted.</p> I hope these state education boards do something about this. Clearly they are not capable of making critical decisions in order to impart the agreed upon enlightened values of our society to our children of whom they are entrusted.

]]> By: shekissesfrogs http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974406 shekissesfrogs Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:15:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974406 <p>Dallas wasn’t this bad when I left in May. I feel like this is blowback from the WH Triangulation strategy. </p> <p>Apparently the demagogues have removed the taboo from racism (couched as big scary “socialism”). The representatives are even role modeling the bad behavior. </p> <p>The Frankenstein mob has clearly taken on it’s own life, and this is not going to end well.</p> Dallas wasn’t this bad when I left in May. I feel like this is blowback from the WH Triangulation strategy.

Apparently the demagogues have removed the taboo from racism (couched as big scary “socialism”). The representatives are even role modeling the bad behavior.

The Frankenstein mob has clearly taken on it’s own life, and this is not going to end well.

]]> By: BargainCountertenor http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974372 BargainCountertenor Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:04:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974372 <p>Well, the onliest thing he could say that would make me happy would have been all the good stuff about the moral imperatives involved and followed it with, “And therefore, pass HR 676 and send it to my desk.”</p> Well, the onliest thing he could say that would make me happy would have been all the good stuff about the moral imperatives involved and followed it with, “And therefore, pass HR 676 and send it to my desk.”

]]> By: tbsa http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974367 tbsa Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:02:35 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974367 <p>Tained Obama love upstairs…</p> Tained Obama love upstairs…

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974365 CTuttle Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:02:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974365 <p>Keck II’s dome is open but,the sun’s still up so no real observing happening for a bit…! </p> <p>Obama was great tonite, but, I didn’t like what he was saying… However, I did like the phrase… “…the term Pre-Existing Condition will be a thing of the past…” That was about it tho….! 8-(</p> Keck II’s dome is open but,the sun’s still up so no real observing happening for a bit…!

Obama was great tonite, but, I didn’t like what he was saying… However, I did like the phrase… “…the term Pre-Existing Condition will be a thing of the past…” That was about it tho….! 8-(

]]> By: katymine http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974364 katymine Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:01:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974364 <p>After Van Gogh died from the effects of absinthe. It was wormwood that caused it. France outlawed this drink and the locals developed Pastis or Pernod. </p> <p>It is a lighter anise flavored rockgut hard liquor</p> After Van Gogh died from the effects of absinthe. It was wormwood that caused it. France outlawed this drink and the locals developed Pastis or Pernod.

It is a lighter anise flavored rockgut hard liquor

]]> By: BargainCountertenor http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974359 BargainCountertenor Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:57:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/09/a-brief-history-of-communism-from-race-mixing-to-the-public-option/#comment-1974359 <p>How are things atop Mauna Kea?</p> <p>And are you looking at anything cool through the world’s largest binoculars?</p> How are things atop Mauna Kea?

And are you looking at anything cool through the world’s largest binoculars?

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