Friday, November 26, 2010

An example of guilt tripping

Over at Huffpo, there's this article by Jonathan Weller in the Business section.  It's supposedly about deficit spending.  Somehow, it veers off into racial politics.  Weller is putting forth the notion that the only reason that deficits are a problem is that the money is being spent on people of color.  Therefore, in not spending it, you are a racist.  This isn't stated quite so explicitly, but it is easily inferred from the article.   I suppose the attempt is guilt tripping the white folks so that they won't stop spending money on those who are not like the white folks.

In sum, deficits are code for government taking sides in a tribal war, with the one good tribe -- the real Americans 
Ah! The real Americans are the white folks, I suppose.  And to be worried about deficits is just codespeak for making tribal war against the colored folks.  If you disagree, you must defend yourself from the charges of racism.  Nice trick.  But I am not falling for it, thank you very much. 

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