Discussion for article #229953
Hey, SC Republican voters, some of those questions hitting a little too close to home?
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Yeah, how dare those uppity blacks think they deserve equal rights. Who do they think they are, right teabags?
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I guess Nixon never employed the “Southern Strategy.” I guess Reagan was sincere when he launched his Presidential campaign in Philadelphia, MS and railed for states’ rights. I guess southerners are earnestly concerned about rampant voter fraud and thus want voter ID laws. I guess closing down polling locations, limiting early voting opportunities are mere budget decisions. Don’t piss on me and tell me its raining.
Racists are more than willing to vote for a minority as long as that minority supports their agenda of disenfranchising and disempowering minorities.
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They don’t mind BEING racists; they mind being CALLED racist.
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“They turn around and voted for Tim Scott!”
Who was running against who ?Never even heard of the race in South Carolina and IMHO it should have been news since he was given the seat by Demint,and he was the first Black Senator from South Carolina.Heard about Hagan ,Grimes and Nunn and their races.
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I think by definition insisting on being treated as an equal can never be “too demanding.” It’s when you insist on being treated better then everyone else that it becomes “too demanding.” You know, like Donald Trump for example.
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“…We didn’t dream [the questions] up…”
But of course they did. What an epic pile of academic nonsense!
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Political scientist: contradiction in terms.
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What a load of disingenuous crapola. His opponents were a black woman Democrat and a white Indie. What were they suppose to do vote for a Black Democrat or climate champion Indie female over a black male Rethug. These racism apologists will mislead however they can to try to gloss overSouthern racism. Sure, blacks are the real racist for complaining about being unfairly kidnapped to be enslaved, assaulted in many ways, abused and demanding the double standard BS ends like racial profiling, etc. These apologists are worse than the knee jerk bigots because they know better. Stop misleading facts.
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The questions were from a test of racism which someone else wrote in the 1980s.
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A note to Dylan and the proof-readers (if TPM employs any, for which there is scant evidence)—
There is no such thing as “Haley’s Comet.”
There is, however, “Halley’s Comet.”
It’s quite well-known, having been around for hundreds of years.
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The researchers seem to think that if a white person votes for a black candidate, then race had nothing to do with choosing-a-candidate.
However, if a white person hates blacks, and votes for a black Republican whom he expects to hurt blacks by cutting social programs, then race was a factor in choosing-a-candidate.
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A far better question would ask how many of the SC Republican voters knew Tim Scott was black.
(The poll that showed that, prior to this election, less than 40% of people knew which party controlled which house of congress made me realize once again how often the politically minded far over-estimate the intelligence of the American voter.)
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I suspect a lot of Republicans voted the straight R ticket and didn’t have a clue that Scott was black.
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They know Tim Scott is black. He was a Congressman and a sitting Senator.
These guys are really stupid. A black conservative would virtually never be viewed as “uppity.”
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I’m floored that a political science experiment run by the faculty of a couple prestigious university departments can be so politically insensitive to citizens in their own regions. Those would be the people I would consult to avoid the very situation they created themselves.
So when a white person oppose a black politician it is because they are racist, but if they support a different black politician it is also because they are racist? Or does that rule only apply to Republicans?
dont worry tim scott will be a good republiconn he will do what he’s told not matter how dispicable it is he will be patted on the head and given a cookie for being a good negro by the s.carolina republicons
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