@DrewDad,
No, you don't get the logic, though maporche does a pretty bad job of explaining it.
There are not-so-subtle hints in this thread that specific people are racist. And the argument for it tends to fall back on the fact that there are some who are, indeed, obviously racist.
But that doesn't substantiate the specific claims. Nobody here has said that there are
no racists opposing Obama, so the existence of
some racists doesn't mean much to the
specific allegations of racism.
This is a stereotyping that we wouldn't accept in a racist so we shouldn't accept it here either. When Pamela Rosa takes the existence of "some" black criminals to portray them all that way we rightly reject it. As we should when the only argument for specific individuals being racist is that "some" out there are racist too. If she is wrong to extrapolate that behavior based on race then it is also wrong to do the same with racism.
You guys are doing the same thing that racists do. Stereotyping (what is the point of the "angry white" comments? How is that not the equivalent of the stupid "angry black" brush?) and tarring with a broad brush. The motivation may be much more noble but the logic is just as flawed and this is more of the same kind of stereotyping nonsense.
Of course maporsche is angry, that comment about white sheets was way out of line. It's not because he's white, it's because using that kind of imagery for a guy who voted for Obama is as unreasonable as it is pernicious. That kind of person is not the enemy that the white sheets kind of person is.
It does a great disservice to real civil rights causes by causing moral outrage fatigue and outright resentment at the labels being misapplied.
