Just like Obama has no responsibility for the FUBAR economic situation we are in, so any criticism of his policies and performance are really the result of racism.
We know this because, gasp, racially-tinged searches
[Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard University] chose a common racial insult that starts with “N” and looked for searches that used the singular and plural forms of the word. “The most common searches including the epithet… return websites with derogatory material about African-Americans,” he writes in his study. “The top hits for the top racially charged searches are nearly all textbook examples of antilocution, a majority group’s sharing stereotype-based jokes using coarse language outside a minority group’s presence.”
That held true for searches from 2004 through 2007 (searches for “n**ga” led mostly to rap lyrics, which he disregarded for this study). “I used data from 2004 to 2007 because I wanted a measure not directly influenced by feelings toward Mr. Obama,” he writes in the New York Times.
But from 2008 on, he discovered, “Obama” was one of the most prevalent search terms in racially tinged online searches. […]
“The results imply that, relative to the most racially tolerant areas in the United States, prejudice cost Obama between 3.1 percentage points and 5.0 percentage points of the national popular vote,” Stephens-Davidowitz points out in his study. “This implies racial animus gave Obama’s opponent roughly the equivalent of a home-state advantage country-wide.” […]
What does this mean for this year’s contest? “Losing even two percentage points lowers the probability of a candidate’s winning the popular vote by a third,” Stephens-Davidowitz explains. “Prejudice could cost Mr. Obama crucial states like Ohio, Florida and even Pennsylvania.”
h/t Pundit Press
One cannot even use the word “cool” about Obama without it being found “racist”. From James Taranto
Another adjective has been added to the ever-growing list of Obama-era racial slurs. Angela Rye, executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, identifies it in a C-Span interview:
I think that some of the language that’s used; I’ll give you an example. There’s an ad talking about the President is too cool. Is he too cool? And it’s this music that reminds me of you know some of the blacksploitation films from the ’70s playing in the background; him with his sunglasses. And to me it was just very racially charged.
They weren’t asking if Bush was too cool, but yet people say that that’s the number one person they’d love to have a beer with. So if that’s not cool, I don’t know what is. But I just think even cool; the term cool could in some ways be deemed racial in a sense.
If one doesn’t genuflect in the direction the White House anytime Obama (PBUH) is mentioned, you maybe are a RAAAAACIST.
I say we stop worrying about being called racist since, no matter what, we will be.
Race ‘science’ was a big deal back in the ’30s Norm Ornstein wants to refer to. A very big deal science to the extent it became a controlling instrument over all the other sciences (which, happy day for the racist ol’ USA since she had the benefit of the reception of the Einsteins and Szilárds and Tellers). Tom Sowell has newer thoughts on that.
If Candidate Stephens-Davidowitz becomes Dr. Stephens-Davidowitz you will know Harvard Economics has finally completely abandoned rigor over political expedience. This nonsense first popped up a few months ago; it’s still BS.
You can not estimate a variable that is never observed, you can only guess. Seth has absolutely no data whatsoever on how the person who searched for ‘nigger’ voted. One MMFA stringer living in Texas using Google daily to scour those right wing nutjob web sites for ‘nigger’ and Obama? Texas is racist.
Well you say how often does that happen? It’s just common sense that people who use the search term “nigger” are racist, while the people who search for the word “nigga” are not.
Common sense tells you a lot of things, including about 1000 that will get you kicked out of the faculty club before you can say “IQ Gap”, but you didn’t used to get a PhD for it.
Never pay attention to the droning morons and their “studies”.
I wonder if Dude-That-Ridiculously-Hyphenates-His-Name factored in how many white folks voted for Obama in the 2008 election, because he was black, rather than because he was experienced, qualified and/or the best person for the job. Spoiler alert : Its almost certainly higher than the 3.1 to 5% points cited in this survey as votes lost due to racism. If Obama was white, he wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the Oval Office.
My whole concept of people who use that kind of language has been shaken. I need to go lie down.
As for racial voting, the degree to which people twice as non-white as Obama still insist he’s the cat’s pajamas despite everything he’s fucked up, might be something worth looking at.
Even in 2012 a greater proportion of white people will vote for Obama than black people will vote for any other candidate. Who are the racists?
As I’ve said many times I don’t care about racist thoughts and tendencies much. We all deal with what is in our own head. Fixing everyone’s minds to spec is a fool’s goal. It is Utopian nonsense and leads to programs of oppression and exploitation cloaked behind a veil of “good” intentions.
I care about harmful racist actions. By that I mean I care about aggression, libel, theft, destruction of property, invasion of privacy, violence, and other things are are already criminal conduct. And there is a distinction between speech about someone and speech AGAINST someone or TO Someone.
Hate or distrust whoever you want to on whatever basis you want, talk about it if you must (people will let you know how interested they are in your opinions) but keep it in your own head because society needs to punish you once you start robbing or hurting or threatening people. In fact if you do those things without any racist motivation it still needs to be punished.
Racists.
By the way, are stupid, corrupt, delusional, union owned, economically illiterate, would be authoritarian, socialists who think unicorn farts will solve our energy problems considered a race now?
OT: hilarious spin laying another sort of ‘groundwork‘ altogether: Supreme Court healthcare ruling could be trouble for Republicans.
– Ok sdferr, tell us again why we should give a fuck what the Eurotrash think of Obama?
– “Laying the groundwork to explain his defeat”
– Of course, thats always the final act when the Utopia’s latest edition has done the maximum damage and run its course for this campaign.
– Must, above all else, preserve the myth that it just was not applied properly due to the stupidity/racism/limited resource of the unwashed masses so it can be renewed again in some future generation.
I don’t know that we should care BBH, but think it’s fairly evident Obama and his pals will do. Or at least, said they did.
– That line should have come with a /sarc tag. My bad.
This graph is an interesting look at race and Obama. The story is about Obama losing the extremists on both sides and keeping the center(?). Look at that graph though. Barack Obama’s 2012 donors have a mode at 1.25 standard deviations to the left of neutral, and drop off to near zero by ideology = 0. Now look at the 2008 surrogate, “drop-off donors”. See how fat the tail is in that distribution, with significant donors a full standard deviation into conservative ideology.
That is the “racism” surrounding this election, some neutral to mildly ideological conservatives in 2008 voting against their own mild ideology for a black guy, in the hopes that he would heal a racial divide (or whatever). Now that he has fucked up everything, they are no longer going to vote for him.
Is that racism now? Or was it racism in 2008? Or shutup?
Shut up! they explained.
… don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family ..
Heh. I saw that last night, mv. Desiree can just make catty remarks to the foreign press about how tacky everything was.