Friday, July 26, 2019

Democrats Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord

Democrats Use the Specter of Racism to Sow Racial Discord
"Democrats routinely blame Donald Trump for exacerbating racial tensions, but they're the ones who made the stoking of ethnic conflict a hallmark of their electoral strategy long before 2016.
...the practice really ramped up during the administration of President Barack Obama.
Image result for democrats and "white privilege"As the militant Black Lives Matter movement began calling for violence against police officers and rioting in the streets, Obama added fuel to the fire with his pronouncements on race. 
When the nation was divided over the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, for instance, Obama remarked that if he had a son, he would look like Martin....when Ferguson, Missouri was turned upside-down by protesters after a police officer shot a black teenager who was trying to escape custody...
...Today, one is just as likely to hear talk of "structural racism" and "white privilege" from the lips of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, or Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke as from Senator Elizabeth Warren or Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 
Biden, who is trying to run as a consummate centrist, even made the discredited Charlottesville hoax the center of his campaign launch.
Their goal is to galvanize minority voters by stoking the unfounded fears of white revanchism and by portraying Republicans as an imminent danger. 
While Democrats have long deployed racial division as a political tactic, today they appear to be constitutionally incapable of discussing anything else.
This has clearly had a pernicious effect on how Americans perceive race relations. 
In 2012, it was considered beyond the pale for then–DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to smear Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's welfare policies as racist dog whistles. 
In 2019, though, those sorts of senseless accusations of racism are daily and ubiquitous.
No wonder people think racial tensions have increased..."
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