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White America Has Lost Its Mind

Oct 07, 2010 01:07

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A great example of Saul Alinsky's "Rules" in action... russj October 7 2010, 13:14:32 UTC

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

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Re: A great example of Saul Alinsky's "Rules" in action... mahnmut October 8 2010, 13:34:16 UTC

Um... Aw hell yea?

Re: A great example of Saul Alinsky's "Rules" in action... nevermind6794 October 7 2010, 14:01:36 UTC

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions." - Thomas Jefferson, Alinsky disciple

Re: A great example of Saul Alinsky's "Rules" in action... a_new_machine October 7 2010, 15:09:40 UTC

The full title, "Rules for Time-Traveling Robot Radicals from the Future" was deemed just a bit too long to fit on the cover.

lafinjack October 7 2010, 16:39:57 UTC

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."

mrbogey October 7 2010, 22:20:44 UTC

You know that the source of that quote is apocryphal and most likely fraudulent, right?

Re: A great example of Saul Alinsky's "Rules" in action... underlankers October 7 2010, 17:47:03 UTC

Yes, because it's just a co-incidence that the Tea Party happens to be rife with the Theocon Birther crowd (and that Theocons and Birthers are also universally one an the same). We all know if John McCain became President there'd never be a Birther movement aimed at *him* because he's a WASP member of the elite.

Re: A great example of Saul Alinsky's "Rules" in action... telemann October 7 2010, 18:32:06 UTC

You're sounding a lot like Melvin.

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