re: #30 WindUpBird

At first, I sort of chalked it up to just flailing paranoia and anger during the campaign (note Hillary made a move towards the muslim-hatas with her “AS FAR AS I KNOW!” thing) but the fact that it’s still around now, a year after the campaign, that’s racism. it’s being deliberately stoked by the GOP, it’s being deliberately kept alive to pander to people who think Obama is a muslim, that a black president is illegitimate, etc, etc.

A friend of mine frequents a large video fighting game forum (Shoryuken) with a lot of diversity, and the black people on the forum who have been there for years say that in the last several months, the amount of outright unabashedly racist comments on the forums is many many times what it was a couple years ago. And these aren’t old crusty GOP types, they’re younger people who play video games.

The thing that the GOP is doing, is they’re legitimizing racism with this stuff. They’re giving cover, they’re making it okay to be racist in public because the mainstreaming of paranoid anti-Obama rhetoric gives them power.

The dogwhistles, they are a symphony, and people hear them.

That would be a cool name for a book. Dogwhistle Symphony.