Nothing says “totally not racist and totally not defending Republicans” like bringing up Africana Studies on a post about how Republicans are failing at making the most bland DSA policies sound like “ooh scary communism!”
I’ve seen you uncritically accept the narrative of “parents rights” from right wingers, or continue to obfuscate it behind the “iTs AbOuT eThIcS iN gAmEs JoUrNaLiSm” type obfuscation.
My ears perk up because I have been seeing the same barely concealed strategies for the last 70+ years, the specific words might change but the meanings certainly haven’t and don’t need to be Lee Atwater to understand the dogwhistles and point them out.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you see everything through the lens of racism, then we can’t even have a conversation because I’m not talking about anything race related at all. Race is literally irrelevant to my point.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nope. I pick and choose which lenses seem most appropriate to any given scenario. Ive got quite a few lenses to choose from. Most of the time my preferred lens is owners vs workers. Unfortunately that lens doesn’t really provide much when you are clearly more vocal about the education standards of brown people in politics than the education standards of white people in politics.