It doesn’t resonate because it doesn’t get at the crucial issue to most whites which is racism against them not by them.
“Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white”
A slogan used by people who have no intention of revealing their true intentions,
Tupelo wrote: “Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white” just does not make sense to me.
The wording seems a little clunky, but I can see how someone might come up with the idea — given how the civil rights movement has turned into the “special rights for me and mine” movement, and given that the word “RACIST!” has become less of a genuine statement and more of a club with which to beat pale people over the head any time they get uppity.
I think that a lot of Americans are getting sick and tired of having honest, unbiased political discourse derailed by loud-mouthed liberals and money-grubbing race hustlers screaming “racism” at the top of their lungs. It’s really become farcical.
There are a hell of a lot of color-blind conservatives out there that are plain fed up with having their every reasonable political complaint dismissed as “Racism against President Obama”. What’s even more deranged, is such criticism of comes from racist liberals that disagree with the man’s policies and actions but most likely just voted for him only because he’s (half)African.
Then we have the media trying to invent the great white racist defendant in the Zimmerman case, trying desperately to paint a hispanic man that mentors at-risk black youths, and has black ancestors himself, as an evil white racist that stalked and murdered a poor child just because of his race.
When men and women in this country make life-long careers out of jetting around the country and drumming up fear of “racists”, when your political opponents figure that they don’t need to debate with you or refute your statements when calling you a racist will work better, and finally:
When even being a part-black hispanic man can’t stop people from calling you a whiteracistbabymurderer!
Then enough of that crap and I can see how someone might come up with a slogan like that.
Let me try to explain it to you. Back in the 70s, in Europe, the communist street agitators adopted the monikers “anti-racist” or “anti-fascist” in their battles with nationalists and anti-communists. Some of those nationalist groups did indeed have ties with racists, so it was understandable at that time.
However, after they basically triumphed over those guys, the leftists continued to use the labels, but, not having many real racists left to fight, they turned to other targets. “Antifascism” morphed into a covert fight against capitalism, and “antiracism” morphed into a covert fight against traditional, mainly white, cultural institutions. These names give them great cover for their subversive activities, because if you are against “antiracists”, everyone will assume you must be a racist!
Clever leftist marketing at its best.
I agree with the idea, but it is unwieldy. I wonder if a whole lot of people will think about it long enough to make the connection to the meaning (& I think many people’s first reaction would be “Huh?” Mine was.) “Anti-white racist” would be easier to understand, imo.