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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (12298)	12/14/2009 6:47:21 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

that video wouldn't be providing cover for racists. It in know way advocates racism, or any racist idea. Are you saying that to give cover to racists it would have to advocate racism? That doesn't make sense to me. There is a meme out there that opposition to Obama is racist. Doesn't have to be true. It just has to be out there. As you say, it's most likely true in some cases so there is, indeed, some opposition to Obama that springs from racism. The authors of the meme, including Carter, would have us believe that opposition to Obama and his initiatives are ALL racist. So that video comes out and makes fun of the notion that opposition is racist on the basis that it clearly isn't for most people. Doing so without acknowledging the complexity of the opposition, however, makes it look like ALL opposition to Obama and health care reform is substantive. That gives cover to those who oppose it based on racism. They can chime in with "I'm racist" along with those who actually aren't and blend right in. It gives cover against the charge of racism (to the extent that any such cover is really needed) for those who oppose Obama and/or proposed changes in health insurance. It doesn't give them cover. They don't need cover because they aren't racist. It's the racists who have something to cover up. By over-exonerating, the piece gives the racists cover.