Mitt Romney stood up in front of the NAACP yesterday and said that free enterprise was in the best interest of America in general and the black community in particular. He didn’t adjust his message to an audience he knew was overwhelmingly liberal. While I've long been skeptical about Romney’s commitment to free enterprise, when he tells a roomful of Obama supporters that “free enterprise is still the greatest force for upward mobility, economic security, and the expansion of the middle class,” I start to believe he really means it. Maybe we’ll finally get the debate between capitalism and socialism that the pandering weasel John McCain should have given us, but didn't.
Of course, what made headlines in the mainstream media was not Romney’s eloquent defense of free enterprise, but the boos he received when he promised to repeal the Unaffordable Care Act (The standing ovation he received at the end of his speech received less coverage from the fair and impartial MSM. A search of Google News for “Romney NAACP boos” returned 109,000 hits, compared to 23,100 for “Romney NAACP ovation.”).
According to numerous liberal commentators, the boos were part of the Romney Master Plan. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and TheGrio.com's Goldie Taylor were typical. “It was a calculated move on his part to get booed,” said the former speaker in an interview with Bloomberg Television (don’t you love that phrase – “former speaker”?). Ms. Taylor got her turn when asked by Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC whether it was “too cynical to think that the Romney campaign actually went in that room today with the hope of getting booed, at least three times, because they want the video of their candidate being booed by the NAACP to play in certain racist precincts where that will actually help them.”
“I don’t think you’re being too cynical at all,” Ms. Taylor replied.
What amazes me is the certainty with which the liberals know what Romney was thinking. Now they could be right about Romney’s Machiavellian intent. Or it could be, as an anonymous Romney advisor told Buzzfeed.com, that the candidate just wanted to “send a message that he's going to be president of the entire United States.” Fortunately, we know the answer thanks to the ability of liberals to read other people’s thoughts. This ability is central to their being: it takes formidable mental powers to detect racism where no one else can see it. Their powers also come in handy for staffing bureaucracies with clairvoyants able to make economic decisions better than all the millions of producers and consumers interacting in markets, combined.
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It’s too bad that liberals disdain markets – and the profits that go with them – because they could profit handsomely from their psychic powers. Since the voters took her oversized gavel away, Nancy Pelosi no doubt has some free time on her hands; she should consider a second career as a psychic. She could set up a 900-number (do people still use 900-numbers?) and guide callers to the hiding place where poor-departed Uncle Albert concealed the stock certificates. Also, I invite Ms. Taylor to come with me to Las Vegas. If we pooled my knowledge of probabilities with her ability to read minds, we could really clean up at the poker table.
Mostly, I did well in college on my lab test in inorganic chemistry. The test was to analyze a few unknown samples using what we had learned about reactions and color changes. I got the wrong answer detecting iron. The testing guide said that iron would produce a red color. My sample gave a faint pink result, so I concluded "Yes - iron".
ReplyDeleteI was wrong; there was no iron in my sample. The teaching assistant told me that any iron produced a deep red result. I hadn't seen that positive test, so I could only guess that the light pink color showed iron.
I don't think that most people have seen real prejudice or racism, so they are subject to manipulation by false claims made for political advantage. Biases, experiences, and mistakes in judgment are everywhere. These are usually the result of inexperience or habit. Certainly it is good to actively discuss prejudice and challenge people who have biases.
But, that is not real, iron-positive prejudice or racism. It is dumb to analyze every action, preference, word-choice, or bias as if it is discovering rabid, hidden, racism which must be punished. These false accusations of racism must be resisted and opposed.
Real racism and prejudice is not mild, hidden, or hard to detect. That is, I think that is the case, because my only personal examples are from past news videos. Those racists didn't just use this or that word, or subtly hint at their feelings. A real racist prevents you from ordinary participation in life.
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Thanks, Andrew for the enlightening comparison between detecting racism and detecting iron. You are quite correct that "Real racism and prejudice is not mild, hidden, or hard to detect."
ReplyDeleteActually I gained some respect for Romney for going, even if he did know he would get booed. I thought he handled it well.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what he did he was going to get hammered, if he didn't go he would be a racist, by going and criticizing the beloved leader, he is racist. So all things consdiered he made the right move.
Good point. Romney will never win in the MSM. Good thing we have alternative media to get the truth out.
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