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  1. brett says

    That came up a lot whenever I read racist justifications of slavery and white supremacy. The idea that it was “impossible” for the races to live together peaceably without one enslaving the other, etc, etc.

    Certainly the excuses for the intolerable status quo never change. The cartoon reminds me of the anti-suffrage ones that depict women as “stomping on men/bigoted against men” MRA-style.

  2. brett says

    Sorry to add-

    I didn’t make clear that I know the cartoon above itself is anti-lynching. I’m just saying the arguments never change.

  3. vaiyt says

    We’re assholes, so we fear everyone else will be an asshole to us if given the chance. I believe there’s a Lex Luthor quote about that.

  4. laurentweppe says

    That came up a lot whenever I read racist justifications of slavery and white supremacy. The idea that it was “impossible” for the races to live together peaceably without one enslaving the other, etc, etc.

    That’s also how many rich bastards justify themselves behind closed doors: “We must crush the plebs less they rise up and do to us all the stuff we did to them
    Of course, anyone with half a brain and a modicum of historical knowledge know that this behavior only increases the risk of a bloody, retaliatory revolution, but then again, it seems that privilege and excessive material comforts often dull the cognitive abilities of their recipients.

  5. frankensteinmonster says

    That came up a lot whenever I read racist justifications of slavery and white supremacy. The idea that it was “impossible” for the races to live together peaceably without one enslaving the other, etc, etc.

    The authoritarian mindset knows no equality. Either I rule you or you rule me. There is no third option in authoritarian’s mind. So if you want to liberate his slaves, he will inevitably think that you are out to enslave him. And even when nothing like that happens, he will still consider himself enslaved if he is not free to enslave. As I said, equality does not exist even on a conceptual level in authoritarian thought.

  6. says

    One of the main witnesses used to exonerate officer Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown turns out to be a bipolar racist with memory problems.

    Sean Hannity, with a popular drive-time radio show and highly rated primetime television broadcast, is one of the 2-3 most important voices in conservative America. […] While he may not shape culture for you, he shapes and informs culture for millions of Americans.

    […] he regularly quotes and leans on one particular “witness” in the August 9 shooting death of Ferguson teenager Mike Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. This so-called witness, a middle-aged white woman, known only to us as “witness #40,” openly stated to FBI investigators a litany of bizarre and disturbing facts about herself including that she regularly calls African Americans “niggers and apes,” helped start a support group for Darren Wilson encouraging kids to make him Christmas cards, and that she only happened to be on Canfield Drive, which is not even in the town she lives in, the exact moment Darren Wilson killed Mike Brown, on a whim “to understand the black race better so I can stop calling Blacks niggers and start calling them people.”

    In her testimony, she stated that Mike Brown charged at Darren Wilson like a “football player.” It’s quite the mental image and Sean Hannity regularly quotes her testimony nearly any time he mentions the case—conveniently leaving out any mention of how she also calls African Americans apes and niggers and wanted school kids to send Darren Wilson cards for Christmas.[…]

    At this link>/a>, there’s also a video presentation of Chris Hayes’s expert takedown of Sean Hannity, along with questions about Witness #40.

  7. John Horstman says

    @frankensteinmonster #9: Word, and very much in line with the It’s Always Projection file Drolfe mentions in #4.

  8. Zimmerle says

    That cartoon really puts a point on how paranoid and absurd the entire racist paradigm is. It’s the worst sort of fear.

  9. carbonfox says

    Madtom @1,

    I live less than two hours north of where that teen was murdered and I had to find out about this from a British news source?!

  10. madtom1999 says

    #14 carbonfox. I can’t imagine why the US press would want to keep something as explosive as that under wraps. If its true (and I dont doubt it is) then there is going to be a lot more trouble!

    Just to clear up that link in my post #1 is to what looks very much like a recent lynching of a black boy that’s being covered up by the cops.

  11. kantalope says

    @15: of course the cops are covering it up. Don’t want the common vigilantes takin over killin the black folks, that’s cop work.

  12. ChasCPeterson says

    How long before some racist douchecanoe gives this the title “What should have happened in Kenya in 1961″?

    um, that was you who stepped up to do that, dude.
    Good thing you’re not a racist douchecanoe, eh?

  13. Azkyroth Drinked the Grammar Too :) says

    um, that was you who stepped up to do that, dude.
    Good thing you’re not a racist douchecanoe, eh?

    What.

  14. says

    Dick Cheney’s version of self-defense includes killing innocent people. It’s all fine with him to take out a few innocents if you “achieve your objective.” Sounds kind of like the policing that stops and harasses so many innocent people.

    This is cross-posted from the Lounge:

    Dick Cheney just gets worse and worse:

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday continued to fiercely defend the harsh interrogation techniques employed by the CIA under the Bush administration after 9/11.

    On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cheney said he would use the questionable interrogation methods “again in a minute.”

    Host Chuck Todd asked Cheney to respond to the Senate Intelligence Committee report’s account that one detainee was “chained to the wall of a cell, doused with water, froze to death in CIA custody.”

    “And it turned out it was a case of mistaken identity,” Todd said.

    “Right,” Cheney responded. “But the problem I have was with all of the folks that we did release that end up back on the battlefield.”

    “I’m more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent,” he continued.

    Todd pressed Cheney, asking if he was okay with the fact that about 25 percent of the detainees interrogated were actually innocent.

    “I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective. And our objective is to get the guys who did 9/11 and it is to avoid another attack against the United States,” Cheney responded.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cheney-torture-report-innocent-detainee