The Rise Of The New Hate

[tinydancer]

Arthur Goldwag: The Rise Of The New Hate

No, all Republicans aren't racists--there are any number of reasons that a principled person might oppose Obama that have nothing whatever to do with race. But as the contest for the Republican nomination tightens, the clamor of racial, McCarthyist and conspiratorial dog whistles--what I have come to call "the New Hate"--has become as deafening to those who can hear them as the blare of vuvuzelas at a World Cup soccer match................






This is the power of the New Hate. What reels susceptible voters in isn't the policy prescriptions that go with this or that expression of it, but the narratives that justify them - horror stories about the impending erasure of white Christian heartland values (and at their most highly wrought, of white heartland Christians themselves). This is how a serial adulterer can lay claim to the moral high ground--by channeling a set of meta-stories whose antagonists are still lurking in the darkest corners of the collective imagination. Gingrich and other angry populists evoke the specters of Godless Dr. Frankensteins, tinkering with human life in their sinister laboratories; of angry black men and wandering Jews, thirsty for revenge; of predatory women who've strayed from their husbands' kitchens, and gays who've emerged from their closets, like vampires from their coffins, in search of new blood. Peel back yet another layer and there are witches and devils and changelings.

Heartfelt and sincere or cynical and opportunistic, the New Hate poisons our political discourse and divides us even more than we are already. But it operates most effectively beneath the threshold of consciousness. Subject its premises to critical or historical analysis, or merely expose them to the light of day, and they lose much of their potency. Just ask Ron Paul.

Why do the heathen rage?

Crackers being Crackers. Nothing new.

I know. You have to kill us. King Shabazz says so.

Tell ya what. I don't have to turn a small gun sideways and rap when I shoot.

 

[Nosmo King]

Oh, the ole 'Hate' accusation game. How stale & boring. The word 'Hate' has gone the way of the word 'Racist.' They've been over-used so much, they no longer have any real meaning & significance.

Like "Socialist" or "Marxist" or "Palin".

 

[rdean]

Sounds like something HuffPo would print... More BULLSHIT!

Or something Republicans would apologize for after a political rally.

 

[rdean]

Oh, the ole 'Hate' accusation game. How stale & boring. The word 'Hate' has gone the way of the word 'Racist.' They've been over-used so much, they no longer have any real meaning & significance.

Like "Socialist" or "Marxist" or "Palin".

So Palin is a "Socialist Marxist"?

 

[Mr.Nick]

Arthur Goldwag: The Rise Of The New Hate

No, all Republicans aren't racists--there are any number of reasons that a principled person might oppose Obama that have nothing whatever to do with race. But as the contest for the Republican nomination tightens, the clamor of racial, McCarthyist and conspiratorial dog whistles--what I have come to call "the New Hate"--has become as deafening to those who can hear them as the blare of vuvuzelas at a World Cup soccer match................






This is the power of the New Hate. What reels susceptible voters in isn't the policy prescriptions that go with this or that expression of it, but the narratives that justify them - horror stories about the impending erasure of white Christian heartland values (and at their most highly wrought, of white heartland Christians themselves). This is how a serial adulterer can lay claim to the moral high ground--by channeling a set of meta-stories whose antagonists are still lurking in the darkest corners of the collective imagination. Gingrich and other angry populists evoke the specters of Godless Dr. Frankensteins, tinkering with human life in their sinister laboratories; of angry black men and wandering Jews, thirsty for revenge; of predatory women who've strayed from their husbands' kitchens, and gays who've emerged from their closets, like vampires from their coffins, in search of new blood. Peel back yet another layer and there are witches and devils and changelings.

Heartfelt and sincere or cynical and opportunistic, the New Hate poisons our political discourse and divides us even more than we are already. But it operates most effectively beneath the threshold of consciousness. Subject its premises to critical or historical analysis, or merely expose them to the light of day, and they lose much of their potency. Just ask Ron Paul.

Why do the heathen rage?

I love how progressives rationalize their hate of others..

So now these days all you have to say is "no not all" but then go on to attack ALL.

Republicans aren't racist, its the democrats that are the racist tormentors and perpetrators of racism.

Democrats continue using blacks as pawns - this article is no fucking exception and quite frankly a fantastic example.

Besides, Jesus died for our sins, therefore someone can be a hypocrite when it comes to morality, however I wouldn't expect a Godless sociopathic democrat to understand that.

Not to mention there are plenty of democrats who claim they're morally conservative yet do the same - like John Edwards who was cheating on his wife while she was dying of cancer....

Of course you have Robert Byrd and David Duke (as far as recent examples) of Democrats who were FUCKING VOCALLY RACIST.. Hell, LBJ was a fucking racist..........

Oh and then you had Clinton honoring the guy when he died....

The audacity democrats have attempting to label republicans as racists or a racist party is fucking ridiculous..

 

[Nosmo King]

Oh, the ole 'Hate' accusation game. How stale & boring. The word 'Hate' has gone the way of the word 'Racist.' They've been over-used so much, they no longer have any real meaning & significance.

Like "Socialist" or "Marxist" or "Palin".

So Palin is a "Socialist Marxist"?

If you read it online, it must be true!