The left's lies about Reagan and the welfare queen
HardlyClothed said:Reagan ran for President fear mongering about the black welfare queen popping out babies to get more and more government assistance. Which was both a lie and racist, but it convinced a lot of resentful whites to vote for him and a pillar of the modern conservative movement is the belief that non-whites shouldn’t get any welfare. It’s why they want to nuke food stamps and medicaid but not medicare.
From noted right-wing and racist news source NPR:
If you haven't read Josh Levin's amazing story at Slate — the woman upon whom the term "welfare queen" was originally bestowed — you're missing out on a fascinating and disturbing profile of an unlikely political figure. Linda Taylor was never mentioned by name, but she was the subject of many of Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign speech anecdotes about a Chicago woman who'd defrauded the government of hundreds of thousands of dollars. And while Reagan's critics on the left argued that the woman was a fabrication, Levin reminds us at length that she wasn't.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/20/255819681/the-truth-behind-the-lies-of-the-original-welfare-queen
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It's not an accident that every Republican President and Presidential candidate from 1964 until now has been called a racist by the left.
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In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the "welfare queen" is thoroughly raced — she's an indolent black woman, living off the largesse of taxpayers. The term is seen by many as a dogwhistle, a way to play on racial anxieties without summoning them directly.
Taylor's own racial reality is much harder to pin down, however. Born Martha Miller, she was listed as white in the 1930 Census, just like everyone else in her family. But she had darker skin and darker hair. People who knew her family told Levin that she had Native American ancestry. One of her husbands, who was black, said she could look like an Asian woman at times. Another earlier husband and ostensible father to some of her children was white, and during that marriage she gave birth to kids who alternately appeared black, unmistakably white, or racially ambiguous. At times she posed as a Jewish woman. In one photo, she has long, blonde hair.
"She was white according to official records and in the view of certain family members who couldn't imagine it any other way," Levin writes. " She was black (or colored, or a Negro) when it suited her needs, or when someone saw a woman they didn't think, or didn't want to think, could possibly be Caucasian."
I don't know about imagination but just about every liberal I engage with assumes "welfare recipient" means Black person -
And that's why HC thought Welfare reform was racist and why O'keefed tried to smear conservatives for thinking that thus their support for welfare reform.RaceBannon said:In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the "welfare queen" is thoroughly raced — she's an indolent black woman, living off the largesse of taxpayers. The term is seen by many as a dogwhistle, a way to play on racial anxieties without summoning them directly.
Taylor's own racial reality is much harder to pin down, however. Born Martha Miller, she was listed as white in the 1930 Census, just like everyone else in her family. But she had darker skin and darker hair. People who knew her family told Levin that she had Native American ancestry. One of her husbands, who was black, said she could look like an Asian woman at times. Another earlier husband and ostensible father to some of her children was white, and during that marriage she gave birth to kids who alternately appeared black, unmistakably white, or racially ambiguous. At times she posed as a Jewish woman. In one photo, she has long, blonde hair.
"She was white according to official records and in the view of certain family members who couldn't imagine it any other way," Levin writes. " She was black (or colored, or a Negro) when it suited her needs, or when someone saw a woman they didn't think, or didn't want to think, could possibly be Caucasian."
I don't know about imagination but just about every liberal I engage with assumes "welfare recipient" means Black person
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Elizabeth Warrens mother confirmed.RaceBannon said:In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the "welfare queen" is thoroughly raced — she's an indolent black woman, living off the largesse of taxpayers. The term is seen by many as a dogwhistle, a way to play on racial anxieties without summoning them directly.
Taylor's own racial reality is much harder to pin down, however. Born Martha Miller, she was listed as white in the 1930 Census, just like everyone else in her family. But she had darker skin and darker hair. People who knew her family told Levin that she had Native American ancestry. One of her husbands, who was black, said she could look like an Asian woman at times. Another earlier husband and ostensible father to some of her children was white, and during that marriage she gave birth to kids who alternately appeared black, unmistakably white, or racially ambiguous. At times she posed as a Jewish woman. In one photo, she has long, blonde hair.
"She was white according to official records and in the view of certain family members who couldn't imagine it any other way," Levin writes. " She was black (or colored, or a Negro) when it suited her needs, or when someone saw a woman they didn't think, or didn't want to think, could possibly be Caucasian."
I don't know about imagination but just about every liberal I engage with assumes "welfare recipient" means Black person -
A huge swath of conservative and non-conservative voters see a fat black woman, reclining on her couch (eating pastries?) when they hear the term "welfare queen". If you can't acknowledge that reality, you're pretending that you lived the last 40 years in this country without paying the slightest bit of attention. But I know you were paying attention, blob.SFGbob said:
And that's why HC thought Welfare reform was racist and why O'keefed tried to smear conservatives for thinking that thus their support for welfare reform.RaceBannon said:In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the "welfare queen" is thoroughly raced — she's an indolent black woman, living off the largesse of taxpayers. The term is seen by many as a dogwhistle, a way to play on racial anxieties without summoning them directly.
Taylor's own racial reality is much harder to pin down, however. Born Martha Miller, she was listed as white in the 1930 Census, just like everyone else in her family. But she had darker skin and darker hair. People who knew her family told Levin that she had Native American ancestry. One of her husbands, who was black, said she could look like an Asian woman at times. Another earlier husband and ostensible father to some of her children was white, and during that marriage she gave birth to kids who alternately appeared black, unmistakably white, or racially ambiguous. At times she posed as a Jewish woman. In one photo, she has long, blonde hair.
"She was white according to official records and in the view of certain family members who couldn't imagine it any other way," Levin writes. " She was black (or colored, or a Negro) when it suited her needs, or when someone saw a woman they didn't think, or didn't want to think, could possibly be Caucasian."
I don't know about imagination but just about every liberal I engage with assumes "welfare recipient" means Black person -
Speak for yourself Kunt. You were the person who voted for the "racist" Reagan, not me.
You really need to stop projecting your own racism onto others. You have no idea what a huge "swath" of people think O'Keefed.
And if it were just Conservatives who thought it, why the fuck did HC think it when he heard "welfare reform."
Were you a racist when you voted for Reagan? -
What part of "conservative and non-conservative voters" confused you?SFGbob said:Speak for yourself Kunt. You were the person who voted for the "racist" Reagan, not me.
You really need to stop projecting your own racism onto others. You have no idea what a huge "swath" of people think O'Keefed.
And if it were just Conservatives who thought it, why the fuck did HC think it when he heard "welfare reform."
Were you a racist when you voted for Reagan? -
Liberals wouldn't engage in stereotypes if they weren't effectiveHHusky said:
A huge swath of conservative and non-conservative voters see a fat black woman, reclining on her couch (eating pastries?) when they hear the term "welfare queen". If you can't acknowledge that reality, you're pretending that you lived the last 40 years in this country without paying the slightest bit of attention. But I know you were paying attention, blob.SFGbob said:
And that's why HC thought Welfare reform was racist and why O'keefed tried to smear conservatives for thinking that thus their support for welfare reform.RaceBannon said:In the popular imagination, the stereotype of the "welfare queen" is thoroughly raced — she's an indolent black woman, living off the largesse of taxpayers. The term is seen by many as a dogwhistle, a way to play on racial anxieties without summoning them directly.
Taylor's own racial reality is much harder to pin down, however. Born Martha Miller, she was listed as white in the 1930 Census, just like everyone else in her family. But she had darker skin and darker hair. People who knew her family told Levin that she had Native American ancestry. One of her husbands, who was black, said she could look like an Asian woman at times. Another earlier husband and ostensible father to some of her children was white, and during that marriage she gave birth to kids who alternately appeared black, unmistakably white, or racially ambiguous. At times she posed as a Jewish woman. In one photo, she has long, blonde hair.
"She was white according to official records and in the view of certain family members who couldn't imagine it any other way," Levin writes. " She was black (or colored, or a Negro) when it suited her needs, or when someone saw a woman they didn't think, or didn't want to think, could possibly be Caucasian."
I don't know about imagination but just about every liberal I engage with assumes "welfare recipient" means Black person
Huge swaths of liberals hear Black person when they hear welfare
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So you were a racist who responded to Reagan's racist dog whistle and that's why you voted for him. Got it. I knew it couldn't have been on account of your being a conservative because you're not a conservative.HHusky said:
What part of "conservative and non-conservative voters" confused you?SFGbob said:Speak for yourself Kunt. You were the person who voted for the "racist" Reagan, not me.
You really need to stop projecting your own racism onto others. You have no idea what a huge "swath" of people think O'Keefed.
And if it were just Conservatives who thought it, why the fuck did HC think it when he heard "welfare reform."
Were you a racist when you voted for Reagan? -
I've had dinner with Black people and they wouldn't DREAM of being a welfare queen
