bowfolk: spaceships: Of course they are screaming ‘socialism’. They’ve been doing that since the 50s at least. They’re not talking about economic redistribution of wealth - they never have been. They’ve been talking about redistribution of privilege this whole time. They called MLK a communist because he wanted blacks to have the same rights as whites, and to them that was a redistribution of the privilege that whites had ‘earned’. In their view, white, Christian, heterosexuals have earned something that gays, non-Christians, and non-heteros have failed to work hard enough at. It’s been a class war from the outset, just not one based around income or net worth - mostly because the whites in the south were economically pretty bad off and blacks in the north were catching up to them.This picture shows they were pushing the same buttons half a century ago that they are today. Anti-christ, communism - it’s all the same as it is today and is well known code. It’s why the protesters will decry socialism today but wouldn’t have under Bush - it’s all tied to race and other social objectives and has nothing really to do with taxation, deficits, and big government. - a reader at The Daily Dish (via unburyingthelead)
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spaceships:

Of course they are screaming ‘socialism’. They’ve been doing that since the 50s at least. They’re not talking about economic redistribution of wealth - they never have been. They’ve been talking about redistribution of privilege this whole time. They called MLK a communist because he wanted blacks to have the same rights as whites, and to them that was a redistribution of the privilege that whites had ‘earned’.

In their view, white, Christian, heterosexuals have earned something that gays, non-Christians, and non-heteros have failed to work hard enough at. It’s been a class war from the outset, just not one based around income or net worth - mostly because the whites in the south were economically pretty bad off and blacks in the north were catching up to them.

This picture shows they were pushing the same buttons half a century ago that they are today. Anti-christ, communism - it’s all the same as it is today and is well known code. It’s why the protesters will decry socialism today but wouldn’t have under Bush - it’s all tied to race and other social objectives and has nothing really to do with taxation, deficits, and big government.

- a reader at The Daily Dish

(via unburyingthelead)

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