(02-09-2021, 01:43 PM)mikesez Wrote: There is a version of right wing politics that is race neutral and benevolent to all races.
You can focus on that version, but you also have to admit that not everyone under the right wing tent is there for those reasons.  
You have to cope with what Lee Atwater said about campaign strategy before he died.  
You have to either admit that you're OK sharing a tent with those racists as long as you both get to "own the libs" or whatever, or you have to devote your life to outing and muting those people, to cleaning your own house.

Bro....  I can't even with u.  

This is part of the problem.  We get saddled with "racism" because of some perception about Nixonian campaign strategy while the left gets a pass for slavery, segregation and defacto extermination.  Biggest political scam of all time.

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(02-09-2021, 04:40 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-09-2021, 02:32 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: There’s plenty of racists under the left wing tent also. But rather than marginalize minorities, they leverage them for political gain.

That's a stretch, bro.
You concede that a racism that marginalizes minorities is bad. Thank you.
But if a racial minority is mostly unified in their policy goals, and chooses to join a political party in pursuit of those policy goals, does it make that party racist for accepting them and aligning their goals?

What % of the black vote did George Wallace get in his last election?

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(02-10-2021, 12:33 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-09-2021, 08:09 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: It's a stretch to say that racism is part of the conservative platform, yet you throw it out there like it's a fact. Show me one mainstream political figure that is courting racists.

I'm not going to post the quote due to the repeated racial slur in it, but, pull up Wikipedia's article on Lee Atwater and do a word search on 1954.

Go listen to malcom x the ballot or the bullet.

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