When All You Have Is the Race Card . . .

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National Review/The Corner:

Jonah Goldberg

October 20, 2014

 

I just received a very earnest press release touting this piece over at Bill Moyers’s website (the e-mail subject line: “Will GOP Racial Appeals on Ebola Translate into Votes?”). The article is written by Ian Haney López. Here’s his bio:

 

 

This is the fifth in a series of posts that Ian Haney López, the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, will be writing in the weeks leading up to the November election.

 

 

This may come as a surprise, but a writer who is professionally invested in the idea that coded racial appeals explain everything in politics has found that coded racial appeals explain the Ebola panic. Indeed, the article is just a long list of bombastic assertions that every Republican comment about Ebola is not only racially motivated, but cynically and deliberately so. López concludes:

 

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When All You Have Is the Race Card . . .

Ga. Democrat Campaign Flier Warns of ‘Another Ferguson’
Andrew Johnson
October 21, 2014

 

The Democratic Party of Georgia is warning black supporters that there may be “another Ferguson in their future” if they do not vote. Referring to the unrest in the Missouri city following the shooting death of Michael Brown earlier this year, the literature encourages supporters to take part in early voting.

 

“If we want a better, safer future for our children, it’s up to us to vote for change,” the flier reads.

 

The flier seems to acknowledge some of the party’s nominees this cycle may not be so attractive. “The choices may not always be perfect, but the cost of inaction is simply too great,” it says.

 

 

 

 

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