This is what they’re saying over on Hannity:
“So then do liberals always associate the word “monkey” with black people? … Is that really what liberals see as always meaning black people?”
We’re into some really Monty Python style sophistry here.
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It just came out funny.
As my favorite writer Peter DeVries used to say: ‘Quite a coinkie-dinkie!’
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Do you think Gillum can get Nelson across the finish line, too, as Nelson has been a bit tepid so far?
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Of course. We’re the real racists. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat in 1954! Ergo we hear the word “monkey” and think what we think, which Republicans never think because Lincoln was a Republican. Don’t you understand simple logic?
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That’s the point, a dog whistle works by having a racist meaning that only your target racist/dog audience picks up on while being missed by non-racists/dogs in the audience. If the whistle is so blatant that non-racists/dogs are picking up on it it isn’t really a dog whistle anymore it is just a racist whistle.
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Indeed, don’t ‘trash’ the place.
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“There’s nothing at all racist about my comment. All I did was call a spade ‘a spade!’”
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DeSantis is a Trump sycophant. And just as you don’t need a tape of Trump saying the “N” word to know he’s a racist, the same applies to DeSantis.
“Now, Florida, don’t go marrying your stepdaughter by voting in DeSantis.”
Yes. Gillum guarantees that Nelson is going to get a big vote out of Broward County without having to work too hard for it. Nelson has already quickly embraced Gillum and is sure to do a few campaign stops with him. But Nelson can now play with some house money and go after Scott in the I-4 and North Florida. I think that factor alone may tilt this race slightly in Nelson’s direction. There’s often a lot of talk about Scott’s appeal to various non-traditional GOP voter groups but he has never gone above 48% of the vote. His corruption is likely a reason why. In this Senate race, his corrupt financial relationships and how those financial relationships have influenced decisions as Governor which have hurt FL (e.g., the high speed rail project, blue algae) should keep him to that number. That should give Nelson a window to eek out a win.
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Thanks. You write like you’ve been there.
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“one of the good ones”…
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I don’t know what you’re talking about. Those people have organizations like the United Negro College Fund and the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, so if I can’t call them colored or negro, I’m going to have to call them a n[clang]r like they do in the rap videos.
Sounds racist to me. I have never said “don’t ‘monkey’ this up.” Has anyone? I’ve used other select and choice terms in that phrase, but not “monkey.” Do any of you remember years ago when the late Howard Cosell got in hot water for saying something to the effect of “Look at that monkey run!”
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A Republican walking back a racist remark by not really walking it back?!?!?!
I did NAZI that coming!
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It’s not so much the racist dog whistle as it is the racist dog whistle while deliberately trolling for liberal response, then immediately out outraging the latter as a ridiculous over reaction, that defines this as a standard Trumpian media play.
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I’m not sure which is intended to whip Trumpsters into a frenzy more readily, thinly veiled racism or being blatantly lied to.
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I worked on the family farm long long ago, I was around small scale chicken business, and actually have seen “a chicken running around with its head cut off.” Later years at the college dorm I said that some task “could be done by a chicken”. I stopped that after the second time, because somebody would be compelled to immediately throw in “or a monkey.” I could figure out the dog whistle.
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Well just in general, white racists don’t get to decide what is and isn’t racist.
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@NateSilver538
“Monkey this up” is not a remotely common idiom. Only 17K Google hits, most of which refer to DeSantis’s comments today. By contrast, “monkey around” gets more than 7 million hits.
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