it almost seems like making an excuse for the behavior on some level -- like "oh, they're racist" is an end-point conclusion
I know what you mean. The trouble is that, every time I do try to dig in deeper to find other motives (for research purposes I'm currently subscribed to lots of wingnut journals like WorldNutsDaily and Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media and Bob Livingston's Liberty Alert and NutsMax and the Hitlerian-seeming One Nut Now, so I'm kind of aswill with this stuff and have been mentally wrestling with it a lot), it really does seem to bubble back in to that racist motivation. We need merely consider the fact that during the last election there was exactly zero buzz (well, to about the tenth decimal place, anyway) over the fact that the (white) John McCain actually was born abroad.
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it almost seems like making an excuse for the behavior on some level -- like "oh, they're racist" is an end-point conclusion
I know what you mean. The trouble is that, every time I do try to dig in deeper to find other motives (for research purposes I'm currently subscribed to lots of wingnut journals like WorldNutsDaily and Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media and Bob Livingston's Liberty Alert and NutsMax and the Hitlerian-seeming One Nut Now, so I'm kind of aswill with this stuff and have been mentally wrestling with it a lot), it really does seem to bubble back in to that racist motivation. We need merely consider the fact that during the last election there was exactly zero buzz (well, to about the tenth decimal place, anyway) over the fact that the (white) John McCain actually was born abroad.