-- Luke
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at tsoft.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: Re: Conservative Promotes Racial Divisions to Undermine Welfare State
>
> An interesting little article arguing for conservatives to promote
> multicultural divisions and immigration to undermine the welfare state,
> since conservatives can count on racism to keep people from identifying
with
> the poor of other races. Nice sometimes to see racist strategy so clearly
> expressed-- Nathan
>
> [fwd: "My Trial Balloon: Immigrants and socialism." Source: National
Review
> Online Published: 18 July 2001 Author: Jonah Goldberg]
>
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>
> Most of the time my loathing and murderous hatred of the US right,
> their scum in public office and their court appointee, our official
> idiot, Gorge the Impaler, seriously gets in the way of my thinking
> about them rationally.
>
> After reading this article, however, I got the strangest thought in my
> mind, that Goldberg's absurd idea formed an election trial balloon. It
> lays out a crude logic of how the repugnants can create a new
> double-think to suck in more ethnic and racial minorities to boost
> their impending demise. I say impending demise because the
> demographics on a national scale have got to be heading in the same
> direction as California---toward a much more diverse and increasingly
> important hispanic voting population that really will not buy into the
> current repugnant encoded racist rhetoric. So they need to creat a new
> rhetoric, if they are going to survive.
>
> Here is how I think their new double-think might work. And I think
> Nathan is right about the racism---it depends on a strategy of divide
> and conquer, separating out the newer hispanic and asian immigrants
> from the established african american underclass.
>
> Socialism, welfare statism, and of course all the liberal agendas that
> go with these commie and anti-american ideas, are all racist at
> heart. In fact they are the origin of racism itself. The formula is,
> liberal=>racism=>welfare-statism=>dependence=>anti-americanism.
>
> Once the liberals realized their government programs were not going to
> develop more people like them, they contented themselves with
> oppressing african americans by creating a permanent and dependent
> underclass--so don't let this happen to you.
>
> Meanwhile, the new, true americans, all the freedom loving,
> entrepreneurial immigrants who came here during the golden Reagan-Bush
> years of open opportunity, to work and get ahead, didn't need their
> anti-american dependency welfare anyway---and we the real republican
> americans, are with you new americans all the way. We don't want it
> either. It's all basically a racist, subservient, and dependence
> enforcing system that flies in the face of an authentic and liberating
> american spirit, you and we all share.
>
> We know welfare only breeds a slavish dependence and cripples the get
> ahead american spirit---just look what it's done to african
> americans. The little guy, all the new little brown and yellow guys
> know better. They (the little guys) will never grow up to be big guys
> like us (us, totally repugnant, fat old white bastards), as long as
> they are deluded by these evil socialist, liberal, and anti-american
> ideas, because these racist ideas are holding them back, keeping them
> from becoming true americans. As soon as african americans get it
> through their heads, they have been oppressed by these same bleeding
> heart liberals, they can join us too.
>
> These `liberal' programs like welfare and bi-lingual education are
> exclusionist, racist oppression incarnate. They deny our new americans
> the right to become true and complete americans. These liberals, these
> democrats are the ones that are pushing abortion to keep down your
> numbers. They are the ones that are pushing these so-called liberation
> movements for sex and pornography and so-called drug treatment that
> are ruining your children. They are the ones pushing bi-lingual
> education to keep you in a barrio of the mind. They are the ones who
> are keeping you from competing on equal footing in our great american
> system. They are the ones who have no faith in you, because of their
> racist ideas. But we, on the other hand, are not racists, because we
> believe and know you can make it on your own, just like we did. We
> are with you all the way brothers and sisters, so vote for us....
>
> Something like this twisted up bullshit has to become the repugant
> line. The big problem is getting enough hispanic and asian talking
> heads to mouth this crap with young looking, sincere, well manicured
> smiles on tv. Guess this is what all the money is for.
>
> Now, for the tv spot, story boards. Open on slow street level pan of
> run down urban, mostly black neighborhood, trashed cars on the street,
> young hoods on the corner, hopeless looking women holding babies on
> broken down front porches. Voice over: this is what fifty years of
> closed liberal social policies have produced (insert local democratic
> candidate name here).
>
> Cut to: middle class suburban neighborhood, racially mixed, mostly
> asian and hispanic families, men out cutting the lawn, women talking
> over the fence, small children riding by on new scooters, new cars in
> clean driveways. Next cut to same people entering new suburban
> industrial park building from parking lot, going to work. Next, cut to
> a small, probably not-public school, with same racial mixed
> kids---little ones sharing on computers, older ones raising hands in
> class to kindly looking teacher speaking perfect english. Voice over:
> this is what our new economic spirit of open opportunity for all has
> achieved and wants for you (insert bland repugnant drone's name
> here).
>
> Since I think I can smell them before I see them, it must be racial.
>
> Chuck Grimes
>
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