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I’m Part Of An “Outgroup” — Send Money

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Posted by    Monday, February 7, 2011 at 8:35pm

Shocking news from the frontlines of the anti-discrimination battles. 

Liberals — particularly in academia and the social sciences — have a tribal mentality which results in discrimination against conservatives.

What is shocking is not that such tribal mentality exists, but that anyone is expressing surprise.

As reported by The New York Times, for which this...

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Saturday Night Card Game (Lady Gaga Is A “Madonna-rip-offing, lyric-stealing, insincere-piano-playing racist”)

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Posted by    Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 6:30pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

One of great things about researching entries for the Saturday Night Card Game series is that it doesn’t require much work.  Since My Dream has not yet come true, there is plenty of low hanging...

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Multiculturalism Failed In Europe, But Democrats Bitterly Cling To It Here

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Posted by    Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 12:27pm

David Cameron has generated a stir in Europe by giving a speech in which he said that state-sponsored multiculturalism has failed:

Note that Cameron was not criticizing multi-racial or multi-ethnic societies; he was proclaiming the failure of policies which sought to segregate and separate groups in the name of multiculturalism rather than assimilating...

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Saturday Night Card Game (What Do The Race Card, Israel Lobby Derangement Syndrome, and SPLC Hyperbolic Disorder All Have In Common?)

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Posted by    Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 5:50pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

The answer to the headline question is … Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran.

You may have heard that in an interview with Al Jazeera after Obama’s State of the Union address, Moran blamed the Democrats’ 2010...

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Saturday Night Card Game (“I’m Not Racist, I Know People Who Voted For Obama”)

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Posted by    Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 6:00pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

You know the line.  When accused of being racist, some white people start to list all their friends who are black.  That has been the focus of many a comedy routine.

And it’s why white Tea...

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Jennifer Rubin Discovers Think Progress Played The Race Card

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Posted by    Monday, January 17, 2011 at 2:15pm

Jennifer Rubin, formerly of Commentary and now blogging at The Washington Post, has discovered that Think Progress played the race card against the Koch brothers, who back libertarian and conservative causes, by claiming that the Koch brothers “are simply fulfilling their father’s legacy” in opposing integration.

Rubin took a look at Think Progress’...

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Saturday Night Card Game (The Atlantic Plays The Race Card Against Herman Cain, Mildly)

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Posted by    Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:51pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

I confess to not knowing who Herman Cain was until the other day, when he announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee.  I had heard his name, but I didn’t know anything about him. ...

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“it wouldn’t be a Republican majority if they weren’t taking an African-American’s voting rights away”

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Posted by    Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 4:42pm

From David Dayen of Firedoglake, whose election coverage I enjoyed, comes what may be the first race card played during the Boehner era (emphasis mine):

The new House of Representatives will be sworn in at noon today. We have a pretty good sense of their schedule of events for the first few weeks...
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You Can’t Pick Your Relatives, Or Who Links To You

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Posted by    Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 6:39pm

There are many cheap tricks used against bloggers.

Perhaps the most common is to attribute the views expressed in comments to the blogger.  The problem there is that the nature of a comment section is to give people other than the blogger the chance to express an opinion, so one has nothing to do...

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Saturday Night Card Game (“Ideologies of White Supremacy” Responsible For Animal Cruelty)

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Posted by    Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 6:00pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

The Michael Vick dog fighting story is well known:

A federal grand jury in Richmond indicted Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men yesterday on charges related to their alleged operation of a dogfighting...
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Saturday Night Card Game (The Biggest Problem With Christmas Is … Racist Relatives?)

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Posted by    Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 7:00pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

Wasn’t sure if I should post tonight, so I’ll keep this brief.  If not today for the topic of this post, when?

At Feministe there was a post by Jill (you remember her), titled

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Christmas Open

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Posted by    Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 9:21am

Merry Christmas to my readers.  Enjoy the day while, once again, I defend the internet for you!

Here are some thoughts for the day, in no particular order:

  • Self-fulfilling prophecy.  Charles, we get it, the lame duck was not good, but your repeated columns about...
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Anyone Who Praises The Pre-1947 Yankees Is Racist

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Posted by    Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 9:05am

12-24-2010:  Welcome Matthew Yglesias readers.  I address Yglesias’ defense of why he called Haley Barbour racist, and his attack on me, in an update below.  And I see that Ta-Nehisi Coates is defending Yglesias, so I’ll address that too.

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1947 was the year in which the color barrier was broken in Major...

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Saturday Night Card Game (Holocaust Remembrance = Racist White Privilege)

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Posted by    Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 6:01pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

Tonight’s post brings us back to a variety of topics I have touched upon before: 

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Saturday Night Card Game (It’s Just Chocolate Frosting, You Idiots)

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Posted by    Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 5:30pm

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:

I admit it, the title of this post is somewhat intemperate.  But I can’t take it anymore.

Nothing is safe from the insanity that is the race card in modern America.  Not even the chocolate frosting...

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