Dana Perino promised a “robust discussion” on racism during Friday’s edition of “The Five.” It went down pretty much the way you’d expect.
After Perino brought up Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-NY) latest insistence that President Obama’s critics are motivated by racism, middling comedian Tom Shillue — filling in for Fox’s wannabe comedian Greg Gutfeld — had a novel idea.
“This race thing is – you know, at this point, I can’t believe they’re still saying it,” Shillue said.
“I might even agree with you that there may be some racism left in America, but who cares?” he added. “Anyone who does or says anything racist is always punished for it immediately. So why do we even talk about it anymore?”
The mostly conservative panel agreed. Perino wondered if “playing the race card so promiscuously actually drains the power of calling someone a racist.” Eric Bolling and Andrea Tantaros said that most Americans aren’t even concerned about racism anymore. It was left to the show’s hapless liberal Bob Beckel to feebly put up a fight.
“When a black man walks down the street here in a suit, and they cross the street and all of a sudden you hear the click, what I call the click, everybody locks their car doors, that is wrong,” Beckel said.
Shillue found that argument hilarious and said that he’s been unfairly maligned for locking his car.
“I hear that all the time,” he said while laughing. “I lock my car door all the time…If a black guy happens to be walking by my car, I click it every time, he’s gonna think it’s me because you keep telling him that I’m the guy who clicks my car because he’s black.”
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I’ve missed my TPM fam terribly and I do hope each and every one of you guys (well, not all) will come back rearing and roaring even better than before.
Anywho, it’s never, ever about race. There is no racism. There’s just silly black people who only became full citizens 50 years ago and at the behest of a federal government who had to send in the national guard to protect a fucking five year old from racist Southerners who were threatening to kill her for going to school with their children. But, yeah, it’s us that perceive all this racism. It’s never, ever existed.
What kinds of eyesight do Republicans have where they can’t see racism, but manage to see invisible voter frauds leaping out of ballot boxes?
Yeah . . .
It’s like this page I’m trying to see here on my computer screen.
If I keep my eyes closed long enough it isn’t here.
~OGD~
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What kinds of eyesight do Republicans have where they can’t see racism, but manage to see invisible voter frauds leaping out of ballot boxes?
[/quote]They really do see the world differentl" The way I think about them is that they lack the cognitive tools to understance much nuance. The marker of conservatism most noticeable to me is the intellectual inconsistency and hypocrisy. Of course, not all conservatives are authoritarianns but the sorting of authoritarians to the Republican Party is real and not insignificant.
White only FOX snow blindness…Dana should wear goggles.