re: #374 engineer cat
limbaugh and gingrich and their ilk are the ones who have taught these people the rationalizations that come after the “but”. they are generally nice people who really don’t want to believe they are prejudiced - “but”
To the rationalizations, add the paranoid delusional conspiracy ideology. Weird-ass organizational relationship charts connecting Ayers! ACORN! Black Panthers! Labor unions! Soros! The Liberal Media! etc! And of course they’re all being puppeteered by Dark Lord Hussein Obama, who is some mysterious foreign-born necromancer. Nobody knows anything about him (“who IS Barack Obama?”) except that he’s history’s greatest monster who wants to enslave all of humanity and force white Christians to get gay-married to Muslims and have mandatory abortions prescribed by death panels.