Opinion: The GOP is not even trying to disguise its racism a

[pixy0stix]

Opinion: The GOP is not even trying to disguise its racism anymore - www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/25/gop-is-not-even-trying-disguise-its-racism-anymore/

I'll also throw in the treatment of Deb Haaland during her confirmation hearing this week as an example.

[NewOrleans]

I thought they hadn’t since Reagan.

[mouse]

Feb 25, 2021 17:31:10 GMT -5 kellady said:

I hate these people so much. They will gladly vote to confirm someone as unqualified as well, most all of Trump’s nominees, but make up shit about Biden’s, just because they’re not Republican white males. Fuck them.

Before that weren’t Goldwater and Nixon, etc fairly flirtatious with the John Birchers?
ETA: somehow I quoted the wrong post. That was supposed to be in response to Regan. 😅

[seeyalater52]

Fuck this entirely.

[basilosaurus]

Feb 25, 2021 18:53:57 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

I thought they hadn’t since Reagan.

IDK. I think if you compare Reagan's welfare queen to Trump's shithole countries and Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, it seems a pretty strong shift toward the overt. They're both openly racist, but with Reagan you have to be attuned to the dogwhistle rather than understanding simple English.

[WOT?*]

This is DailyKos but I've seen it a couple times. I just thought I'd pop it in as another "dog whistle" of their white supremacy. Nazis in 2016 adopted the Odal Rune as an identity symbol not so known or affiliated to them as the swastika. The CPAC stage takes the same/similar shape as the Odal Rune. I thought it was a rather interesting interpretation. www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/26/2018367/-The-Nazi-Stage-at-CPAC-is-the-Odal-Rune

[NewOrleans]

Feb 27, 2021 3:43:20 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Feb 25, 2021 18:53:57 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

I thought they hadn’t since Reagan.

IDK. I think if you compare Reagan's welfare queen to Trump's shithole countries and Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, it seems a pretty strong shift toward the overt. They're both openly racist, but with Reagan you have to be attuned to the dogwhistle rather than understanding simple English.

Oh, I meant Reagan was the last one who bothered trying—Lee Atwater designed the Southern Strategy of dog whistles for Reagan:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N***** n***** n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N****”

[basilosaurus]

Gotcha, NewOrleans. Reagan was craftier than T**** but with the overall same messaging. I don't know how much of that is a shift in environment and its rhetoric vs a reflection of their abilities, or lack thereof, to handle nuance.

[ellipses84]

Feb 27, 2021 3:48:02 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

This is DailyKos but I've seen it a couple times. I just thought I'd pop it in as another "dog whistle" of their white supremacy. Nazis in 2016 adopted the Odal Rune as an identity symbol not so known or affiliated to them as the swastika. The CPAC stage takes the same/similar shape as the Odal Rune. I thought it was a rather interesting interpretation. www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/26/2018367/-The-Nazi-Stage-at-CPAC-is-the-Odal-Rune

I saw this posted somewhere else. Talk about an overtly racist dog whistle. That shape makes no sense for a stage and takes some effort to build.

[mbcdefg]

A bill to restrict ballot drop boxes, require more ID for absentee voting and limit weekend early voting days passed the Georgia House on Monday amid protests that the proposals would make it harder for voters to participate in democracy.

The House voted 97-72 on the sweeping elections bill supported by Republicans who want to impose new voting requirements after losing presidential and U.S. Senate races in Georgia.

www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-house-to-vote-on-election-restrictions-amid-staunch-opposition/46SNHMIYGZGMZDG5KLGHAB6NQ4/

Would also prohibit giving food or drink to people waiting in line to vote:

[downtoearth]

Mar 1, 2021 16:53:30 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

A bill to restrict ballot drop boxes, require more ID for absentee voting and limit weekend early voting days passed the Georgia House on Monday amid protests that the proposals would make it harder for voters to participate in democracy.

The House voted 97-72 on the sweeping elections bill supported by Republicans who want to impose new voting requirements after losing presidential and U.S. Senate races in Georgia.

www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-house-to-vote-on-election-restrictions-amid-staunch-opposition/46SNHMIYGZGMZDG5KLGHAB6NQ4/

Would also prohibit giving food or drink to people waiting in line to vote:

So much of this is wrong, wrong, wrong. To be on the side of suppressing the vote while claiming that there was fraud and voter suppression is so messed up. Plus food and drink have nothing to do with voter influence. What if you brought your own food/drink and then they said you couldn't vote b/c they thought someone fed you? That is some next level BS!