How is labeling Conservatives as racist different from racists labeling all Black people?
...Conservatism isn't race specific so your comparison is a bit off there. One is being labeled for how they look (phenotype) the other is being labeled for their actions(in general). But it isn't your main point really. So on to it...Conservatism is a movement of championing old ways over new ways and as such in some countries conservatism is a movement of normalizing oppressive behaviors. For examples of this in action in countries like the US look at the current GOP strategy of winning elections; The Southern Strategy. This method relies on the demonization of a group of people (blacks) to be a rallying point for the conservative movement by collecting those that buy into that construction of the group of people it negatively targets. That was an explicit point when Nixon's strategist implemented the Southern Strategy and it continues even in todays elections. Here is what Nixons Political stategist said in an interview with New York Times; From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats. Secong citation, page three third column if you want to read on a bit. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ You are correct though in describing the broad brush that is used when someone is making claims of "conservatives are racist". To be clear, I am not defending the claim that conservatives are racist. I am just noting why in countries like the US conservatives are thought of as the party of racists. 1
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It seems to me that you (purposely), left out the word ALL before Conservative, and interjected it into the remark about black people.. Few of us label ALL conservatives racist. It's obvious that many kind of lean toward their far right base simply because there are so many votes there. (And so many racists). |