Arab, Black, and Mexican

Glenn Beck talks constantly about race on his show. Seriously. But since he speaks only in Tea Party Dog Whistle Racism, it appears to outsiders that he's examining real issues. Well, he's not. Here's a handy translation guide:

Black -- Kenyan / New Black Panther Party

Arab -- Muslim

Mexican -- Illegal immigrant

I'm Just Asking Questions -- I'm White as Hell and I Won't Take it Anymore

Why won't they just say Black, Arab, or Mexican? First: nationalists blur together race, religion, nation, and language. Second: the tea party insists this "isn't about race" but about good versus bad. There are good black people, and then there are the uppity fuckers that keep trying to magically oppress white people. There are the good Arabs, and then there are the sneaky secret Muslims that are trying destroy America. There are good Mexicans (or "legal immigrants") and then there are the lazy Illegals who are only looking for a "Free Ride" -- or worse, are attacking American boarders with their evil drug wars. Why is this bad? Because they're making sorting people first by race, then judging them on their overall evilness.

Nationalism needs enemies to define itself. Lots of them. They need lots and lots of groups to show off as “not like us” which morphs into groups that are “against us.” Eventually, all the enemies blur into one big fat evil group of evil. In academic study of Nationalism, and similar ism-s, the "big fat evil group of evil" is known as The Other.



The fears about The Other are variations on the same tune.

• They're coming for our jobs
• They're coming for our women (The biggest fear about interracial marriage was that white people wouldn't be able to defend the white women against the black man's insatiable sexual appetite for white women. Curiously, no one was really worried about defending white men from black women. There's a lot of sexism in Nationalism.)
• They're coming for our land
• They're coming to oppress us (reverse racism) 
• They're coming to kill us first 
• They're trying to convert (or otherwise influence) our children
• They're twisting our culture/language
• THEY WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD
  

This all boils down to fear, resentment, and a general feeling that we must protect ourselves from these outsiders. Why is protection bad? Because when humans are afraid, we tend to strike first and strike hard. Remember the Hutu's and the Tutsi's in Rwanda? "As an ideology, Hutu Power asserted that the Tutsi intended to enslave Hutus and must be resisted at all costs." So, naturally, the Hutus killed the Tutsi minority.

Godwin Moment: “It is almost a miracle that absolutely nothing has happened to Jews in Germany, but rather that only gradually the rights they stole from the Germans in politics and culture have been restored.” (Alfred Rosenberg).

Now, you know, I'm all about freedom of religion. I value the First Amendment as much as I value the Second Amendment as much as I value the Tenth Amendment and on and on and on," he said. "But you cross the line when they try to start bringing Sharia Law here to the state of Tennessee — to the United States. (Note the Tennessee joblessness rate)

The Other has taken something away from us. They're trying to undermine and change us. They won't stop until we take it back.


(Independence/Indipendents. I see what you did there.)

This is why we need to not ignore race baiting.

So who do we think is coming for us? Generally, The Other fall into two camps: one internal, one external. For our purposes, the internal is the Muslims and the external is the Mexicans. There's plenty of cross over, but here, lets keep them separate. (Note: Kenyan is a special over-arching term just for the President that combines both Muslim and Illegal. The New Black Panther Party mostly falls into "Internal Enemies.")

Examples of "internal" enemies.

• The Muslims are building Mosques to create terror cells within the united states.
• The Muslims are dropping terror babies to train to be future terrorists with citizenship.
• Any Muslim is a potential sleeper cell.
• They're already here, among us, waiting to strike, we must seek them out.
  

Examples of "external" enemies.

• Mexicans are bringing drugs into the untied states.
• We must secure the boarder so the Mexicans won't bring their drug war over here.
• The Mexicans are invading by the thousands to steal jobs and social services from real Americans.
• They're coming at us from all sides, we must defend ourselves and our tax dollars
  

Remember the Red Scare from the McCarthy era? Spies among us and Nukes from the outside. The internal enemy keeps us vigilant about each other, the external enemy keeps us vigilant about the outside world. This isn't limited to the Tea Party & Beck. Liberals who were LIVID about Bush's characterization of the Iraq War as a "crusade" (because we weren't attacked by an entire religion) are now turning around and claiming that the "ground zero mosque" is insensitive. It's bat shit and yet, it's happening.

And yes, I'm prepared to explain exactly why Christopher Hitchens and others are buying into really childish conspiracy theories and why you should be pissed off about that too.

Now who is constantly being accused of all three? Obama, of course. The ultimate "Other". The magic word here is "Kenyan" (Black.) Kenya is in Africa and as we know Africa has some of the most populated Muslim countries (apparently someone in the Tea Party noticed that Kenya is mostly Catholic so they've switched from "Kenyan" to "Indonesian") so Obama is probably a Muslim (Arab). Since Obama's birth certificate is apparently mia (it isn't) Obama could be an Illegal as well (stealing a job that belongs to an American.)

Are you getting the picture yet? Beck and crew is engaging in dangerous race-based nationalist vitriol just to get Obama out of office. But guess what? Fox knows this kind of Ethnic Nationalist bullshit leads to violence. Beck has a disclaimer that "violence isn't the answer" in his books and all of his speeches. Listen for it. That's the sound of lawyers covering their asses.

Rupert Murdock does not like to lose and he has stooped to inciting ethnic hatred to preserve his power over both parties. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's not going away.



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Now that the basics are out of the way, I'm gunna start working on Glenn Beck U. I'll do one or two posts for each of the Faith, Hope, and Charity series and I'm gunna try and keep it as entertaining as possible. You know, as entertaining as possible when you're faced with a steaming pile of bullshit.