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Re: Image comments for Obamanation
Posted by: Mrkim
Date: 27/08/2011 02:40PM
Having done plenty of self exploration in the area of racism I put my thoughts as prejudicial though not really racist in nature.
I don't despise any race though I certainly do despise those using the PC tactic of playin the race card.

The concept of PC speech is a seemingly decidedly Orwellian concept and leads to an overall breakdown in the ability of people to just plainly say what's what. Vilification of people who refuse to participate in PC speech as racist does nothing short of throwing ever more fuel on an already raging fire.

The real pisser is how slanted the playing field becomes in popular perceptions of what is considered racism and what is not, most especially in determining who or what is or can be considered racism or racist, based more on the race of the speaker, not the actual statements they are making, which further divides the issue even further. In essence, whites are viewed as the most commonly perceived to be racist for whatever they say yet other races most often get a pass for having made obvious racially tainted and sometimes hate based racist comments ... "And the beat goes on, La de da da dee, la dee da da die"

Detractors of whites who are truly simply trying to effectively communicate a point or position are quick to cry foul in claiming such points are RACIST when in truth, often that's not even close to what is truth. This leads in turn to (white) people undertaking fancy two-step verbal jigs in trying to convey their points without being perceived as racist in nature and overall this just confounds the possibility of open and honest discourse, through which everyone suffers.

PC speech has done more to confound the possibility of anything resembling real communication than any other single tenet of our "modern" society. Once the ever popular Race Card is thrown into the mix it simply further confounds communication leaving many people no way forward in attempting to discuss anything with even the slightest possibility of being considered racial in nature.

My personal perception is such that utilization of the race card is the equivalent of sarcasm on a political level. While sarcasm is often called the "weapon on the weak" in discourse, I see the race card as a similar weapon for those politically incapable of winning arguments with logic and honest debate monty smiles

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