10/10/11

These are hardly distractions

Sex, race, and religion: Speed bumps along the campaign trail - CSMonitor.com: "Mitt Romney's religion, Herman Cain's comments about Muslims, Rick Perry's hunting camp with the racially-offensive name – just a few of the distractions along the 2012 campaign trail."

All who write a lot are guilty of loose language. To call these things distractions merely means the media are not willing to dig deeper into the actual story that each of these signs point to - what may be a foundation of American exceptionalism, the political utility of playing on popular fears of terror and the casual racism that underlies the virulent racism that is fuelling our politics so ... casually.

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