Moving ever leftward, the right plays the racism card

In a column provocatively entitled “The Racism of the Anti War Movement,” Jim Forsyth of News Radio 1200 WOAI in Texas charges that anti-war leftists such as Cindy Sheehan are “racists.” Why? Because they oppose President Bush’s liberation of 50 million “brown-skinned” Muslims:

President Bush is actually the greatest liberator of Muslims in history, considering that there weren’t 50 million people in the entire Middle East when Saladin beat back the Crusader hordes. But to the anti war activists, providing freedom from slavery, democratic and economic opportunity to brown skinned people isn’t worth the sacrifice of white Americans.

Unfortunately, Forsyth doesn’t provide a scintilla of evidence that the left’s motive for opposing Bush’s liberation of Iraq is racial bias. He just asserts it, apparently based on the leftist logic that if you oppose some measure that helps non-white people, that alone proves you’re racist. It was a similar attack that revealed to me the irrational and vicious nature of the “racism” charge many years ago, when New York City’s closing of a hospital in Harlem sparked vociferous cries from black and leftist activists that Mayor Koch’s administration was “racist” for doing this. A slinkier variation on the same attack was employed by President Clinton when he told a New York City Democratic audience during the 1993 mayoral contest that Mayor Dinkins was in trouble because “too many of us are still too unwilling to vote for people who are different than we are”; Clinton then unambiguously hinted that covert racism was the reason whites were not backing Dinkins, though, of course, the still-then white-majority city had elected Dinkins four years earlier. For the left, if you decline to support a black or if you go against anything that blacks want or that is believed by someone to be helpful to blacks, then you’re a racist. No further facts are required, no actual racial motive needs to be adduced.

And now a pro-Bush conservative has adopted the same self-enclosed logic as the left, hurling around the virulent racism charge without a drop of proof.

Indeed, Forsyth is so far into the obligatory moral wonderfulness of helping “brown-skinned” peoples that he even praises the 12th century Muslim leader Saladin for defeating the Christian Crusaders, excuse me, the “Crusader hordes,” and handing the Holy Land back to the Muslims, who had initially conquered the region and destroyed its Christian civilization four centuries prior to the First Crusade.

And how do the participants at Lucianne.com, who are overwhelmingly and vocally Christian, respond to Forsyth’s baseless anti-Muslim racism charge against the left and his celebration of Muslim victory over Christians? Except for a couple of dissenters (one honorable L-dotter pointed out that we should not be applauding Saladin), they’re exultant, with one of them even cheering President Bush as “the new Saladin”:

EXCELLENT!!!! This needs to be repeated over and over and over, ad nauseum!!!! The biggest, most shameless racists are those on the left!!!!!

As far as the Left(that’s also you Jesse)as long as its black on black,brown on brown etc. then its ok.

All I can say is AMEN!

Well, Forsyth really lays the wood to ‘em. Good show, Sir!

So true, so true. The sheer ARROGANCE of the world’s greatest elitist/fascists, aka. the LEFT, claiming that these “inferiors” can’t handle democracy or justice or are somehow not worth saving.

Shame on them, and God Bless The NEW SALADIN, George W. Bush!

The left continually accuse conservatives of racism. The psychiatric profession refer to this behavior as ‘’projection.’’

A wonderfully accurate perspective of the leftists!

The left lost it when they began tossing around mindless charges of racism and, in the name of white racial guilt, siding with the enemies of America and the West. Is the mainstream right now walking the same path?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 28, 2005 03:38 PM | Send