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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]I think you guys are missing the OP's point. The issue is not that McConnell shouldn't have complained about the tweet, it's that this shows that there are legitimate times to "play the race card" because frequently individuals and groups act out of race. However, when liberal groups react to equally legitimate cases of racism or prejudice, they get derided for "playing the race card."

For example, just a few days ago in one of the Michelle Obama threads, I mentioned that MO was once criticized for being an angry black woman. Now, she is criticized for being a celebrity and having too much fun. The criticism has gone from one end of the spectrum to the other. One of DCUM's conservatives replied to me saying, "Yeah, it's about her blackness." That same conservative is likely in agreement with McConnell. Maybe that is hypocrisy rather than irony, but otherwise the OP is exactly right.
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I think there's a difference between saying every criticism about Obama is about race (which some liberals do, in fact, do -- sometimes with justification, but often without) and addressing hate speech directed at one's spouse. McConnell didn't "play the race card" here -- he wasn't trying to worm out of legitimate criticism. One often "plays the race card" when one doesn't have anything else to play.[/quote]

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