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Monday, September 14, 2009 11:26 AM

scapegoating the poor and minorities

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2009/09/proof-police-are-thugs.html

The couple has also released a second video showing two ACORN employees in the Washington office giving the fake pimp/prostitute advice on how to pay taxes on their income. Oh, the horror.

Funny how fake crimes that reveal more about the prejudices of the filmers than it does about the organziation they seek to smear generate more outrage and hysteria than actual crimes.

For instance, KPMG helped rob the government of billions of dollars, but I don't recall anyone dreaming up elaborate conspiracy theories with KPGM as a sinister group of "thugs" out to rule the world, using their magical powers to manufacture catastrophes and what not. Funny how the stereotyping of an organization as "thugs" is reserved for an organization that primarily helps register the poor and minorities to vote.

And while the Drudge/Hannity/Limbaugh/Malkin axis of misinformation believes that two low level employees of ACORN - who were immediately fired when their behavior was discovered - looking the other way at a fictional illegal immigrant underage prostitution ring that could only be dreamed up from the dark bogeyman world of conservative fears means that "ACORN" is in favor of child prostitution, it's interesting that the same conclusion was not drawn when two high level power brokers of Republican politics - Tom DeLay and Ralph Reed - lobbied on behalf of a government that actually was facilitating virtual sexual slavery. I don't recally anyone in the Malkin-sphere saying that DeLay and Reed "proved" the Republican Party was a bunch of "thugs" in favor of wage/sexual slavery.

Funny how that works.

Thursday, September 17, 2009 05:07 PM

demonization

Glenn Beck has told his audience that ACORN might assasinate him for exposing their sinister plot to rule the world. He frequently compares himself (by implication) to Martin Luther King Jr., asks for prayers of safety and has told his audience that even if "they" turn dogs on them or fire hoses (aka like police did to civil rights protesters) to keep speaking truth to power. Beck has also suggested that ACORN caused the levees to fail in New Orleans in order to hide its corruption.

In other words, Beck is fomenting a demented,upside down paranoid world view where his 9/12 followers view themselves as a persecuted minority; persecuted by actual minorities. "ACORN" plays the role in Beck's world view that Jews do in the New World Order conspiracy theory that so many of Beck's audience no doubt believe in. While I don't beleive that Beck even realizes it (he's too dumb), when he tells his audience, which has drawn in the Constitution, militia/white patriot types, that Saul Alinsky (Jewish) is behind a plot to destroy America via ACORN and Van Jones, he is very much playing into a powder keg of racial resentment.

James O'Keefe, one of the young conservative zealots responsible for the videos, describes ACORN in terms similar to how anti-Semites described the supposed nefarious machinations of "the Jews."

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/10/chaos-for-glory/

These tactics allow the viewer to see
  • the Jew's
  • ACORN’s soul; their playing field and their morality, out in the open. Their system is based on conflict and change for its own sake. This system is based on totalitarian principles and class war techniques. These people understand pressure, power and self-interest. When the Baltimore employees saw we were shady dealers, their instincts clicked in, as we were prime recruits.
  • The Jew
  • ACORN has ascended. They elect our politicians and receive billions in tax money. Their world is a revolutionary, socialistic, atheistic world, where all means are justifiable. And they create chaos, again, for it’s own sake. It is time for us to be studying and applying their tactics, many of which are ideologically neutral. It is time, as Hannah said as we walked out of the
  • Jew
  • ACORN facility, for conservative activists to “create chaos for glory.”

I added in the striked "jew" bits to make the point. This screed would fit in well at the Nazi propaganda archive.

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