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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you can't call the man who spent 8 years insisting that the first black President wasn't born in the US a racist without people dismissing you as a far-left liberal loon...exactly how far do you think a discussion calling Republicans greedy is going to go?[/quote]
What does insisting that a person wasn't born in the U.S. have to do with racism?[/quote]

I liked Obama, and voted for him, and I don't care where he was born, but I've honestly wondered the same thing. I keep seeing people just reflexively call birtherism "racist." It just seems symptomatic of the increasingly broad overuse of the term to label basically any stupid comment that a white male says. Birtherism may have been wrong and pointless, but it wasn't racist.[/quote]

At the very least, it's "otherism" - a clear attempt to marginalize, denigrate and drive a wedge between yourself and someone or some group of people you don't like.  Just like how Palin talked about "Real America" as though the rest of us somehow weren't legitimate or real Americans as well.  They constantly attacked Obama for his foreign-sounding name, particularly the "Hussein" and constantly tried to paint him as though he wasn't a real American.  Same with Trump and Judge Curiel, Sessions on "some judge on an island out in the Pacific" and so many other things.  All part and parcel of the same thing.  But guess what, we are ALL REAL AMERICANS and Trump, Sessions, Palin and the rest have been WAY OUT OF LINE for saying things like that.[/quote]

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