Do you know that when I called George W. Bush a socialist for nationalizing the banks and spreading America's wealth to reckless financiers I was really calling him black? Well, that's at least what Lewis Diuguid of the Kansas City Star contends. He believes "socialist" is "an old code word for black." Why didn't anyone crack that code to me? If just for that thought, and I use that term loosely, the piece would rank high, er, low, in the stupid department. But as a bonus, Diuguid finds the use of "socialist," though not, presumably, socialism itself, as a word with "long and very ugly historical roots." As proof, he cites the fact that people called W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson "socialists." Interestingly, two of the people who called Du Bois and Robeson socialists were Du Bois and Robeson. "On this first day of October, 1961, I am applying for membership in the Communist Party of the United States," Du Bois wrote Gus Hall. "Communism--the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute--this is the only way of human life.... In the end Communism will triumph. I want to help to bring that day." Does this make Du Bois guilty of using racist "code words" too?
Perhaps you can feature this man in a sequal of Intellectual Morons.
Dan, it should also be noted that in the future we are not allowed to call African-American meteorologists "weathermem." LOL
Be well,
Sponge
Dan,
Perhaps your next book could be titled "Lies the Liberals Told Us." Of course any politician who vaults to such high levels can be accused of lying, I'm sure. And this isn't to say that those of other party affiliations don't lie. My point is that the lies by Liberals are quite atrocious and ignored by mainstream media. You provide a few excellent examples. By the way, does Obama have a birth certificate indicating he is in fact a "natural born citizen"?
Have a good one.
Is "code word" a code word for "straw man"? As in "I'm going to make a straw man argument because I have no better argument against yours."
Is you is, or is you ain't my constituency?
We need to get our own little man.
Yep, Clinton had a migdet (Reich). Why don't we go and get us one?
Racism, in the guise of Affirmative Action, and Political Correctness is destroying this society and this country.
I thought that when Clinton was called the first black president, "black" became a codeword for "socialist." I always get things backwards.
