You have to remember that racists almost never see themselves as racist, no matter how racist they are.
Which is part of why racists seem so idiotic to me. ajax has two sock puppets with African American avatars, which he uses occasionally to post clearly racist things. He injects race into numerous threads that have nothing to do with race relations. He talks about asylum seekers like they're hardened criminals.
And the damned moron has enough obliviousness to think he's not a racist, because he hasn't lynched a black guy lately.
It would be genius if they had other options, but chose that one. They don't have options; they have a biological imperative.
Saying Trump is a genius for the way he talks to his base implies that he's choosing his words carefully for a desired affect (as though his intellect is providing options).
That's not what's happening. He blathers in the only way he knows how, and it happens to appeal to morons. That's all there is to it.
Yeah, like the bee, Trump seems incapable of changing his programming. Yet, unlike the bee, he consciously knows what the desired effect is and has managed to bumble on to an effective means of achieving it, whether by carefully chosen words or not.
...and has managed to bumble on to an effective means of achieving it...
Excellent word choice there.
I wasn't even consciously thinking of the connection between "bumble" and "bee" when I wrote it. You might say I "bumbled" into that word choice. But I have to agree, in retrospect, I could hardly have made a better choice, even if I were doing it consciously.
People deep into racist ideological movements, like Ajax is, also tend to use a projection argument where they argue their critics are the "real racists."
You are certainly right, EAllusion. Ajax is a prime example of that, as are subgenius and ldsfaqs. That's what makes bigotry of all kinds so intractable and dangerous.
LDSfaqs? Then the real racists should be opened up beyond just "critics" to include renegade tanks that can overrun your battlefield as easily as a bunch of Leftists!!!
I wasn't even consciously thinking of the connection between "bumble" and "bee" when I wrote it. You might say I "bumbled" into that word choice. But I have to agree, in retrospect, I could hardly have made a better choice, even if I were doing it consciously.