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"Potentially" Racist - 10/26/2009 7:46:02 PM

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So I'm reading some online commentary at lunch today, and I stumble upon a nifty phrase. "Potentially racist." You can find the article here, with the words in the lead paragraph, but my interest is more in the phrase itself.

What is that supposed to mean, exactly? Potentially racist? It refers to something said by those opposed to President Obama? Is that all it takes?

My personal feeling is that way too many people are way to eager to shriek "racism." When they can't do that, or can't get it to stick, as with the Obama/Joker art, they fall back to it being "suggestive" of racism, or, as with this, "potentially" racist. I think it is mostly a counterproductive crock of shit.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/26/2009 7:53:45 PM

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What is that supposed to mean, exactly? Potentially racist?

Possibly but not yet actually.

As in, for example, most women are potentially pregnant.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/26/2009 7:58:02 PM

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Hey another subject for Rush...imagine how he can turn that phrase into a liberal attack on free speech...send him the link. You know he needs some more joke material.

Potentially racist...is ridiculous as is Potential life republicans like to use for stem cells…what do you think… both silly?

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/26/2009 8:16:37 PM

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My personal feeling is that way too many people are way to eager to shriek "racism." When they can't do that, or can't get it to stick, as with the Obama/Joker art, they fall back to it being "suggestive" of racism, or, as with this, "potentially" racist. I think it is mostly a counterproductive crock of shit. ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

I agree with you, Heritic. Any carelessly aimed charge of racisim is a counterproductive crock of shit. It is just as bad as the whining of those conservatives who claim that everyone who doesn't agree with their criticisms of Obama is calling them racists. Both are nonsense and both far too common these days.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/26/2009 8:45:55 PM

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I don't get it. There have been numerous attacks on Obama, both legitimate and not, based upon the stances he has taken or has been accused of taking. But with the exception of some true loonies, even the racists have all been smart enough to realize that there are ways to attack him without invoking race that are much more effective. I'm grateful that the climate is such that overt racism is disapproved of.

I suspect that the term "potential racism" means that when viewed in a certain light, a statement could be interpreted to be racist. The term bothers me a lot.

I believe that some of the antipathy towards the man is based on racism, but that the haters would dislike him anyway if he were white. Just like all those blacks who voted for him were not really racists - they would have voted for a Dem anyway.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 6:10:20 AM

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WTF. Get over it. -> I mean the fake left right paradigm. Specifically much of the mainstream media. They insult our intelligence.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 6:32:30 AM

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umm Pa. Most of the general public has no intelligence to insult. Why do you think reality shows have such great ratings?

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 7:09:11 AM

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In the context of that article it seemed like what it was - a vague smear. "We have no real proof there is racist intent but Obama is black so it must be there somewhere". Personally I don't really have any problem with the race card being played even by buffoons like Jimmy Carter. The more often it is played the less powerful it becomes. Most intelligent people of both races can tell when it is legitimate. The sad downside to that is what happens when there is a genuine issue of racist behavior somewhere. Peter learned that lesson too late in his dealings with the wolf. If people want to squander it until it becomes meaningless I cannot stop them.

We are going to continue to see many more of the type of statements similar to the one in that article in the coming months and years. It really was inevitable. It's an easy cheap shot that doesn't have many good comebacks. Wasn't it Voltaire who said "If there were no God man would have to invent one." or words to that effect?

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 9:53:25 AM

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Funny! "Potentially" eh?
Is that like "potentially" growing tomatoes in your back yard in Maine in January?
The thing about Anal - Retentives is that they don't realise that they're doing it.
Boy, this is a good one! "Potentially Racist." Hey!!! How about, "Potentially Offensive!" lolol
"Well, it (could) be "Potentially Offensive",.....ten years from now!"
Man, these people need a good beating. Sounds like a business opportunity; "Popeye's Artificial Testicals,....for people who never grew a pair."
What's probably going to happen to these "pc" morons, or is it imbeciles is that they'll just keep getting more rediculous until people deem them totally irrelevant! Yup, "potentially irrelevant."
The further they go into the twilight zone the less people they'll have with them.
"Hey, you have to follow me, potentially I have potential."
You know, 50 years ago we had state hospitals for these kind of people. Because they were,....."potentially harmfull" to the public.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 12:21:39 PM

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My personal feeling is that way too many people are way to eager to shriek "racism." When they can't do that, or can't get it to stick, as with the Obama/Joker art, they fall back to it being "suggestive" of racism, or, as with this, "potentially" racist. I think it is mostly a counterproductive crock of shit. ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

I agree with you, Heritic. Any carelessly aimed charge of racisim is a counterproductive crock of shit. It is just as bad as the whining of those conservatives who claim that everyone who doesn't agree with their criticisms of Obama is calling them racists. Both are nonsense and both far too common these days.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...so now conservatives are stating that anyone who criticizes their criticism of the President is calling them "racist"? Where has that begun happening? Are there news sources to prove that is what conservatives are doing? I know there are news sources that cite the liberal claims that any criticism of Obama has "racist" tones underneath...ala Jimmy Carter. But where is the proof that conservatives are now using this tactic?

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 4:08:49 PM

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[/quote] Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...so now conservatives are stating that anyone who criticizes their criticism of the President is calling them "racist"? Where has that begun happening? Are there news sources to prove that is what conservatives are doing? I know there are news sources that cite the liberal claims that any criticism of Obama has "racist" tones underneath...ala Jimmy Carter. But where is the proof that conservatives are now using this tactic?
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Try reading the postings in the threads for good anecdotal evidence, CD. Or just continue to pretend it doesn't exist.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 8:25:03 PM

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Well, I was never considered a racist before because I was on a crew with 16 black guys and 3 White guys. But now I don't agree with Obamas policies, I am now a bigot./ Go figure.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/27/2009 9:28:14 PM

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Well, I was never considered a racist before because I was on a crew with 16 black guys and 3 White guys. But now I don't agree with Obamas policies, I am now a bigot./ Go figure.

Case in point. Thank you SFU. I couldn't have summed up the "poor me I'm being called a racist just for disagreeing with Obama" conservative mentality better if I had tried.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 10:25:56 AM

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Well, I was never considered a racist before because I was on a crew with 16 black guys and 3 White guys. But now I don't agree with Obamas policies, I am now a bigot./ Go figure.

Case in point. Thank you SFU. I couldn't have summed up the "poor me I'm being called a racist just for disagreeing with Obama" conservative mentality better if I had tried.

Spinner, bad thinking has no political boundries.
And, your remark is *"potentially"* inflamitory. See? I said *"potentially*"! It may not be but it has the *"potential*" to be,......maybe "someday."

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 11:12:04 AM

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...so now conservatives are stating that anyone who criticizes their criticism of the President is calling them "racist"? Where has that begun happening? Are there news sources to prove that is what conservatives are doing? I know there are news sources that cite the liberal claims that any criticism of Obama has "racist" tones underneath...ala Jimmy Carter. But where is the proof that conservatives are now using this tactic?

Try reading the postings in the threads for good anecdotal evidence, CD. Or just continue to pretend it doesn't exist.

Actually Spinner, what you will find in terms of anecdotal evidence are posts in which:
Conservative calls Obama's policies misguided, wrong-headed or out and out B. S.
Progressive (such as rml, lucy, slavemike, etc.) calls the conservative's view "racist"
Conservative defends themselves by stating it is the POLICIES that they are in disagreement with, not the color of the man's skin
Progressive says that is a lie because 'no one could NOT be in love with these enlightened policies' so the disagreement MUST stem from a racist viewpoint

Now in those cases, yes...I WOULD say that the conservatives are stating that the criticism directed at them is purely based on stating that their viewpoint is racist.

But I tell you what Spinner...you are the one who mentioned anecdotal evidence. Why don't you bring forth a post by a conservative, and then the post in which the conservative was criticized by a progressive WITHOUT the use of the term "racist" and then show the post in which the conservative said that the progressive was calling him a racist when the progressive did not?

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 11:13:05 AM

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Well, I was never considered a racist before because I was on a crew with 16 black guys and 3 White guys. But now I don't agree with Obamas policies, I am now a bigot./ Go figure.

Case in point. Thank you SFU. I couldn't have summed up the "poor me I'm being called a racist just for disagreeing with Obama" conservative mentality better if I had tried.

You know Spinner...if the person IS called a bigot, it is not a mentality...it is a fact.

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 11:45:30 AM

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How come i missed the racist memo?????

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 11:47:20 AM

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you didn't make it past the list of potentials.

Sorry,

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 11:53:41 AM

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well, damn!!

that means i cant be all liberal like you guys

guess im stuck in da middle of the road!!

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RE: "Potentially" Racist - 10/28/2009 11:54:46 AM

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with a dead skunk, and have realized your potential.

or does that mix too many metaphors?

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