Outrage By Proxy: Letter to a future Republican strategist regarding white people

[Jragon]

This is not my work, this is not my outrage, however I was recently linked to a blog post that would, well, make an excellent Pit OP. So in lieu of this wonderful writer having an SDMB account, I would like to act as his proxy to give this post the thread it deserves – so it can stand as the great Pit OP it was meant to be.

Letter to a future Republican strategist regarding white people

Some highlights:

HOLY WHITE PEOPLE, BATMAN!!! Wow, you’re thinking – this is not some Mexirican in the Sun Belt we need to attract via harsh anti-Castro policies or appeals to “valores de familia” - this is the BREAD AND BUTTER OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY, a Mayflower-descended small business owner, burdened by taxation, looking out for his beautiful White family in the suburbs of a city (St Louis) surrounded by racial tension and urban blight!

As a Card-Carrying White Male I love expressing my opinion irrespective of whether people care to hear it, so let’s get started.

War - Nations do have to go to war sometimes, but that Iraq thing was pretty bad, to put it mildly. Somebody should have been, I dunno – FIRED for bad performance. Aren’t you the party of good corporate managers or something? This topic could get 10,000 words on its own. Let’s just leave it at: You guys suck at running wars.

Meanness- Your party is really mean, mocking and demonizing everyone who does not follow you into the pits of hell. You constantly imply – as Mitt Romney did in his “47% speech” – that anybody who disagrees with you does so not by logic or moral conviction, but because they are shiftless, lazy parasites who want “free stuff” from “traditional Americans.” Wow, you guys managed to follow up a stunning electoral defeat with insulting the very people you wish to attract for a majority in the political system! Brilliant! You are losing elections because being angry and defensive and just-plain-mean is more important than being smart and winning elections – and thus you deserve everything happening to you.

You may now commence joining in on his well written pitting of the Republican party, or outrage against the stupidity of his points, or I suppose even pile on me for having the audacity/stupidity to link somebody else’s blog post just to agree with it in the pit – whichever suits you.

[al27052]

As immigration, both legal and illegal, persists, and as the US becomes better educated, and as women gain more power in society, it’s no shock that the views of uneducated older white men are becoming less represented in elected government.

[VinylTurnip]

Eh. He clearly had fun writing it, but it’s basically another sermon to the choir.

[Belowjob2.0]

You know who’s also a Mayflower descendant?

[Damuri_Ajashi]

@Belowjob2.0

You know who’s also a Mayflower descendant?

Obama?

[Belowjob2.0]

@Damuri_Ajashi

Obama?

Yup.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@Eric Garland

my wife and I have a collective fifteen years of university education between us.

Congratulations. Call us back when you’ve made your first ten million. Until then, you’re overeducated, underproductive libby-lib-libs. And I’ll bet you don’t despise laziness enough to fire a mother of four for punching in ten minutes late, Mister Libby Pants Analyst Guy.

You’re right about the meanness, though. Meanness gave the White man land in the west. It built industrial empires. It won wars both hot and cold. Mean men built this nation and mean men keep it safe and strong. And as long as we are good to our families and people like us most of the time and go to church Sundays, we will be forgiven.

Because this is our country, we mean White men. You who indulge the luxury of not being mean depend on those of us who are. I would rather you just said thank you.

[TriPolar]

Due to that blog I am slightly less offended by people who consider me a ‘white’ man.

[Derleth]

@Beware_of_Doug

You who indulge the luxury of not being mean depend on those of us who are. I would rather you just said thank you.

Says the person who drank more Code Reds than anyone else here.

It isn’t about any of this meanness or who can run a war or anything else. It’s about the simple fact that the modern GOP has very little idea of how to appeal to the people who are going to be a simple numerical majority sooner rather than later. Mourning the Passing Race is not going to help; getting mean about people who outnumber you is going to go even worse.

[otternell]

@Beware_of_Doug

Congratulations. Call us back when you’ve made your first ten million. Until then, you’re overeducated, underproductive libby-lib-libs. And I’ll bet you don’t despise laziness enough to fire a mother of four for punching in ten minutes late, Mister Libby Pants Analyst Guy.

You’re right about the meanness, though. Meanness gave the White man land in the west. It built industrial empires. It won wars both hot and cold. Mean men built this nation and mean men keep it safe and strong. And as long as we are good to our families and people like us most of the time and go to church Sundays, we will be forgiven.

Because this is our country, we mean White men. You who indulge the luxury of not being mean depend on those of us who are. I would rather you just said thank you.

fingers crossed that this is a woosh.

[Beware_of_Doug]

Of course. What true conservative would ever flat-out admit to being mean?

[foolsguinea]

That was brilliant.

It’s one thing to be conservative. It’s another to seem determined to be wrong in every possible way.

[SteveG1]

@Belowjob2.0

You know who’s also a Mayflower descendant?

Hitler!
sorry, that’s always the answer to the “you know who also…”

[SteveG1]

@Derleth

Says the person who drank more Code Reds than anyone else here.

It isn’t about any of this meanness or who can run a war or anything else. It’s about the simple fact that the modern GOP has very little idea of how to appeal to the people who are going to be a simple numerical majority sooner rather than later. Mourning the Passing Race is not going to help; getting mean about people who outnumber you is going to go even worse.

… and they DON’T know how to run a war.

[F.U.Shakespeare]

@Eric Garland

…As a Card-Carrying White Male…

I did not know about these cards - where can I get one? What do they cost?

[Der_Trihs]

@F.U.Shakespeare

I did not know about these cards - where can I get one? What do they cost?

Judging from Romney supporters, I’d guess it costs about 50 points of IQ.

[digs]

@SteveG1

Hitler!
sorry, that’s always the answer to the “you know who also…”

You know who also answered questions with “Hitler*!”*?

[Darth_Panda]

@F.U.Shakespeare

I did not know about these cards - where can I get one? What do they cost?

I don’t know, but I heard you’ll need one to vote soon.

[Kamino_Neko]

@digs

You know who also answered questions with “Hitler*!”*?

Franz Liebkind?

[gamerunknown]

@Darth_Panda

I don’t know, but I heard you’ll need one to vote soon.

Only in elections. The blacks still have America’s Got Talent.