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metaracism and sexism in us election

From:     poll
Category: Art
Date:     19 June 2008
Time:     02:36 PM

Review:

You constantly have squalls and controversies about racist language or sexist remarks. So someone 
on fox news titles Obama's wife baby mama, and then there is a big story about it. Similar stories 
seem to come up at least once or twice a week. And the coverage enlarges and endlessly repeats 
the original offensive language and raises the race issue. The obsessive coverage, expressing 
outrage or defending the incidents as harmless/misunderstood have become the racism. For what 
they say is look at the black guy, hes black! hes black!  (before it was look at the lady), hes black, 
watch out he's black. In fact the hyped-up reporting of racism is the racism, an easy way to focus 
obessively on the race of the candidate rather than discuss his policies or qualities, and it 
masquerades as shock/horror at racism.


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