Unveiling a racist, anti-immigrant ad just days ahead of the midterms, Donald Trump is making unprecedented use of a decades-old “dog whistle” political strategy that demonizes people of color in the service of policies that benefit “rule by the rich,” says UC Berkeley law professor and author Ian Haney López
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iNfind this entire subject extremely interesting. Why? Good question. Because the Pres8ident MOST culpable of putting people of color in prison f0r extensive periods of time, including the three strikes and you are out rules, which required MANDATORY LIFE sentences, was not TRUMP, Nixon, 0r any other Republican president for that matter. The ACLU says, on CNN, that the term law and order is a republican dog whistle. HOWEVER? In 1994, President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which offered states billions in funding for new prisons – but only if they adopted “truth in sentencing laws†that would reduce prisoners’ eligibility for parole. The law also established mandatory life-sentences for people convicted of a third violent felony, among other punitive measures. By the end of the Clinton presidency, the number of people in America’s prisons rose by nearly 60%, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. WOOPSIE!
Ostfu
Mexicans clean trump hotels and the wall can’t be built without Mexican labor.
One Mexican, do you know how many white and serial killers are in America at least 10 times as many. Jeffrey Dahmer and the list goes on.
Oh I get it now. dog whistle = conspiracy theory
There is something wrong in this analysis. Trump uses white anxiety to rail them up against who ever they may perceive as a threat. There is racism in that but it is not primarily racism. The targets are mainly immigrants and the poor, which implies a higher percentage of Black or Latino people, but the majority of the poor are still White. Trumps message is primarily aimed to win over people who vaguely fear being displaced by immigrants or in some other way to sink further in social and economic status. He works with anxiety in general, not just white anxiety. This piece doesn’t much to explain why Trump’s message works.,it seems implicitly based on a belief that most whites must be racists, and therefore Trump must be mainly playing a racist card. The professor then has to use secondary inference to demonstrate that it’s all about racism. Well it’s not. Trump also tries very much and quite successful to get Black votes. It was said that the word welfare queen “conjures a view of a black woman on welfareâ€. That is actually wrong. In my recollection at least, the welfare queen stereotype also connected with the idea of “white trashâ€. If you search for some YouTube videos under “welfare queen†you get plenty propaganda stories about women with several children who presumably mooch off the welfare system. Looking at the pictures you find, some are white, some are black, and some are white with mixed colour babies. This stupid stereotype is actually more “race-neutral†than the professor believes. (At this point it crossed my mind: I could be wrong – is it possible that I was fooled by YouTube’s algorithms that might try to de-bias anything? )
At any rate, I think the prof’s analysis was influenced by the now very prominent obsession to mark everything about Trump, and by implication his white supporters, as all racist, all supremacist, etc. It’s not only just an exaggeration and therefore wrong, it also amounts to indirectly helping the Trump campaign – by misleading about how to take their propaganda apart.
This is pure evil racism. Berkely Proffesor???
Whats racist about this guy being disgusting. This labling and dangerous.
Awesome guest!
Its different when someone that shouldn't be in this country murders people. Its worse because it could of been avoided by following laws. I dont get how the horton ad or this new one is racist, especially when it tells the truth. No one can explain how these things are racist, hence the "dog whistle" bs.
Exactly! Bill Clinton was instrumental in destroying our country.
Negative-ism? What is wrong with you?
It's an economic / class warfare going on
In other words. …you get a coup and Oligarchy
Government is OWNED by the people
Capitalists are NOT PEOPLE
Taxes do not fund government spending. #LearnMMT
Look up Dr Stephanie Kelton
We don't need the rich money.
Article one section 8 of OUR Constitution states that only Congress can Mandate spending and taxation
So the Democrats need to confront this racist strategy head on. Clean up the audio on that Atwood tape, have a voiceover to explain it and put it out as a campaign ad. At the same time, call out the most rabid Republican racists for what they are, the evidence is there, in the speeches and campaign ads ffs, it's there so USE IT ! shame them out.
Rayciss, rayciss, rayciss, rayciss… Is it possible to cut one w/o rayciss? Dumbfuck.
all of it is a political theater.
Trump, a life long democrat, posing as a republican…
and "patriots" are eating up this chit !!!
Divide and Conquer is the name of the game.
What a LOAD of bullshit. So, the "welfare" thing…. isn't it a big Liberal thing to point out how many Whites are on welfare when these welfare issues are brought up? How can "welfare" issues be a dog-whistle, then? NONE of these things are "dog whistles". The term "Dog whistle" brought by someone means what they are saying is INVALID. YOU are invalid.
That was really good Aaron! You painted of very stark picture of racial politics.
EXCELLENT! Thank you Dr. Lopez.
Then Lee Atwater got brain cancer and died at age 40 and probably went on to Hell.
Great video
This is not new. Remember the "Willie Horton" ads? America is racist.
Yet Trump/Kushner/Netanyahu want to keep doing business with MBS. Far as the Willie Horton advetisement now days Trump would brag about the ad.
Trump forgets that legal citizens also murdered many!!!
Oh my..it happened again….the Republicans supposedly had just learned this method of deception. "Not from the colonialist pigs whom you call forefathers." Shame is upon both of you liars. Treasonous cowards.