"Further proof: that All the racism is on the left"

[stevedeshazer]

This was the subject line of the e-mail I received today from my 'conservative' co-worker, a guy who does the same job as me and someone I consider a friend.

His proof?

A grainy video from scumbag Andrew Breitbart's site. That's right. Breitbart.

http://www.breitbart.tv/msnbc-analyst-compares-az-governor-to-segregation-era-racist-screaming-at-black-kids/

The video was of a clip on Lawrence O'Donnell's show. Melissa Harris-Perry compared the photograph of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer sticking her bony finger of indignation into President Obama's face with the photograph of Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter a school in Little Rock on September 4, 1957 with a bunch of racists screaming at her.

This is his proof.

I have countered his ridiculous assertion many times to no avail.

So I am asking fellow DUers, can you give me some examples that may counter his ridiculous assertion that "all racism comes from the left" ?

I'll be happy to pass them on.

[Richardo]

1. That doesn't make any fucking sense.

While I disagree with Harris-Perry's opinion (I find it a bit of a stretch) I don't see how that proves that racism is from the left.

[stevedeshazer]

15. Me too.

I didn't agree with her myself.

But somehow in my friend's world it all makes sense.

[barbtries]

2. easy.

just find some pictures from teabagger rallies.

[Fuzz]

4. Or that video on the steps of the Capital where they are yelling and spitting on black

representatives.

[stevedeshazer]

16. My friend claimed this never happened at the time it happened.

I don't think one can successfully argue with someone in denial.

[kwassa]

18. I think you need some new and different friends

[stevedeshazer]

34. I have many interesting and dynamic progressive friends.

I can't blow off one of the two conservative friends in my life so easily.

[ThomThom]

32. "I don't think one can successfully argue with someone in denial."

Then why are you trying. Dems have been standing up for the poor and minorities, while republicans have been shouting us down, lynching us up and throwing us out. History answers your question.

[stevedeshazer]

35. And a good day to you, Mr. Crankypants.

[mzteris]

36. he probably thinks the moonlanding

was faked, too.

You can't have an intelligent conversation with an idiot.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Oh yeah, this crowd is full of "Leftists"

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. And then there's Dr. Paul (R-Tex)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ron-paul-signed-off-on-racist-newsletters-sources-say/2012/01/20/gIQAvblFVQ_story.html

Have fun when he tries to claim the Texas Republican is "Left".

[FarLeftFist]

6. They believe that pointing out racial injustice equals racism. They live in a bubble.

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. The Void

You cannot argue with someone who is fact free. The void between their ears is insurmountable.

[Major Nikon]

8. Quite a bit of it does come from the left

Except those people are now called Republicans. The Democrats started flushing those turds as far back as 1948.

For further reading, see Southern Strategy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. The Dixiecrats were not "Leftist"

They were hard-core conservatives. Nixon developed the "Southern Strategy", and they are now the GOP base.

[Major Nikon]

31. They were social conservatives

Which is not quite the same thing. The GOP had fiscal conservatives long before they had social conservatives. Goldwater couldn't stand the social conservatives, and warned the party about crawling into bed with them. They didn't listen.

After the Great Depression, the South was a stronghold of New Deal Democrats. The Dixiecrats only came along after the Democratic party began adopting a civil rights platform.

[saras]

10. I like this response, myself.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

as far as I know, there isn't anything on the left that you can compare to this list.

[stevedeshazer]

17. Thank you.

That's exactly what I'm looking for.

[JoePhilly]

11. Ask him to find you a picture of any other elected official sticking their finger in a President's

face.

Ask him to provide you with an instance in which a black person screamed YOU LIE at a white President.

Ask him to defend Glan Beck claiming Obama hates the white culture.

Ask him to defend any video of the racist Pat Buchannan.

Ask him to defend Limbaugh's almost daily racist tirades.

Ask him if the confederate flag should be flown along side the US flag, even though it was raised AGAINST the US flag. Then ask why its OK to raise an alternative flag, but not burn the actual US flag.

For some of these folks think that so long as they don't scream the word N****R in a public place, what they said was not, is not, racist.

[stevedeshazer]

19. 10-4

[Mopar151]

12. So Richard Butler (Aryan Nations) was really a "lefty"?

I can tell just by looking at these folks, that they spend weekends with the Kennedys at Hyannisport.

[stevedeshazer]

21. I have no idea what you mean.

[Mopar151]

22. These losers are about as racist as they make 'em. And extremely right wing.

Sorry, I haven't found the sarcasam thingy.

[stevedeshazer]

28. Got it.

Thanks.

[demosincebirth]

13. Give up, you'll drive yourself nuts. Cut him out as a friend, keep him as a co-worker only. You'll

save yourself a lot of grief, believe me.

[fishwax]

14. I don't get it

how is that supposed to show that all the racism is on the left?

[stevedeshazer]

20. That is the question.

I'm searching for the answer.

[fishwax]

24. if someone sees the sunrise as proof that the moon is made of green cheese, there is not

much one can do to counter that

[Number23]

25. Because the person equating Brewer's behavior with racism is a liberal (MHP)

You see, CALLING someone a racist in many, many circles is actually worse than BEING a racist. And the "real" racist in these incidences is the one drawing attention to the racism being exhibited by others.

[fishwax]

26. yep -- racism isn't a real problem, but claims of racism are

And I've been told several times that "racist" is about the worst thing you can call/say to someone--much worse, I'm sure, than the things that racists say to/about others.

Sigh.

[WilliamPitt]

23. "Further proof: that The sun rises in the west"

At this point, a headline that would not shock me.

[stevedeshazer]

29. That about sums it up.

[ananda]

27. Backlash projectionism.

Ugly....

[JHB]

30. Take heart. When one side paints the opposition as caricatures...

...and then treats the caricature as reality, theyre setting themselves up to lose big time.

Or to become Nazis. That part you gotta watch out for.

[stevedeshazer]

33. It's that second part that worries me.

I think we're seeing the results of the first part, though.

And that is a good thing.