re: #73 Lidane

I’m a little late to the party here, but what Palin is claiming is that Obama, as a black man in authority, clearly aspires to or desires a world where white people are enslaved by The Blacks, either out of a sense of payback or “reparations”, or because this is obviously what every race wants to do to another. Note that this is seriously Stormfront-level shit, but it’s pretty obviously what she’s getting at: Obama wants white slavery.

And, while it’s kinda weird to be focusing on Sarah Palin at this particular point, the ad has a point here: this sort of overt white nationalist conspiracy-mongering absolutely is completely wrong and dangerous, exists several steps beyond the pale for serious and civil discourse, and says a great deal about how heavily white supremacist and other far-right memes have been mainstreamed by conservative media. None of us should be comfortable with the fact that a major news network and Republican candidate-making machine is mainstreaming white supremacism.

For me, the only question is whether Palin’s claim, with all it signifies, would have been as well-received if it had been expressed plainly, without the obfuscating word-salad. And frankly, I’m not terribly sure one way or another at this point.