I’ve decided to embrace the label.  Why, you ask?  Because as someone on the radio is heard to say, “words mean things”.  He’s correct so far as he goes.  What he fails to acknowledge is that in the modern world of leftism the things words mean are dependent on the desires and agenda of the word user.  What was once a descriptive term used to denote an ugly form of humanity can suddenly become a tool to silence those who don’t think like you.

Such is the case with “racist”.   Might as well embrace it. The word once meant someone who bases their opinion of another on the color of their skin. Now, according to the Obamabots, it means anyone who opposes Obastard. So based on the NewSpeak definition I am a racist! Thank you and have a nice day…

Such is the style of the tolerant left.  It’s the final expression of what we used to call the race card but must now call the race deck.  There’s just too much use of it to refer to the device in a singular fashion any more.  And therein we arrive at the problem, the issue of meaning and acceptance, even embracement, by those tarred and feathered with it.

I disagree with Obama’s policies.  I do not buy his Euro-leftist medical scheme or his billions in bailouts.  I do not accept that government taking over major public corporations to “save” them is the logical, let alone Constitutional, thing to do.  I can’t be quiet about the massive debt he is creating with the full and willing participation of a Democrat CONgress.  I hope he fails and I am smart enough to realize and understand that just because HE fails doesn’t mean the United States fails.  I am not stupid enough to think the events at Townhall meetings are anything but what they are, grasroots anger at bloated government expansion.  Nor am I dumb enough to not recognize the Chicago style union thuggery for exactly what it is.

In short, I oppose Obama and as such, according to the tolerant left, I am a racist.  Because, you see, none of the above matters.  Policy and principle and the Rule of Law and faith in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are not legitimate reasons to speak up.  The only reason, according to an increasingly shrill left, to speak against The One is because of the color of his skin.  They chant this, not because they believe it but because people have for so long been conditioned to recoil from the racist label that they know they can silence their rational opposition without engaging in debate.  Debate they can no t win.

This is the verbal and written equivalent of those SEIU thugs at the Townhall meetings.  And it will work as it always has in the past…unless we choose to refuse to accept their redefinitions.  Embrace the term while laughing at the stupidity and arrogance of those who sling it about.  Take away its mystery and power by greeting it with a smile and a nod. 

“Yes,  I oppose Obama and his unconstitutional policies and if you call that racism then by all means, call me a racist!”

From here on I do so.   I encourage everyone at every Townhall and every public encounter and private discussion to accept the label with pride.  If this be their new meaning then so be it.  A racist opposes Obama, so they say.  I do, so I am and that is something to be proud of and if that bothers them they have only two choices, shut up about it and find a new label or admit to their own disingenius use of a sad shade of NewSpeak.

That and they need to find a new word  to describe people like Jesse Jackson and Robert Byrd, though somehow I think the irony may be lost on them.  Most everything else seems to be these days…

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