Subj : Re: Dr Oz!
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Thu Jun 09 2022 18:08:31

On 09 Jun 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > "You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N*****, n*****, n*****.' By 1968 you 
 MP> > say 'n*****' -- that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, fo
 MP> > busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstra
 MP> > Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're tal
 MP> > about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get
 MP> > worse than whites... 'We want to cut this' is much more abstract than ev
 MP> > the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'N*****,
 MP> > n*****.'" -- Lee Atwater
 MP> So this how you can spin anything into "racist."  Nice, but now we know
 MP> your secret.

Lee Atwater was a Republican strategist.

 MP> Your problem here is that most of us who were not alive in the 1950's and
 MP> 1960's don't think like that.  I guess pointing out the runaway
 MP> inflation, high gas and grocery prices, and several other messed up
 MP> things is somehow (1) racist, and (2) are things that are not affecting
 MP> blacks worse than whites?

Nope. Not everything is a dog-whistle, but that does not mean that
dog-whistles don't exist.

Jeff.

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