The Galt and the Lamers, Dog Whistles Dept. 0
In a typically long, tighly-reasonsed post, Chauncey Devega suggests a strategic rationale for Randian rhetoric. Here are a couple of nuggets, but, really, read the whole thing:
Attitudes about the State, “big government,” and taxes are closely tied to racial animus and hostility. These are dog whistles and code words for white conservatives which enable them to talk about “lazy” black and brown people. Without exception, these appeals are rarely, if ever, centered on how the white middle class is subsidized by the submerged state.
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Since the 1960s, the face of poverty in America has been African American. As such, “black” poverty and “black” degeneracy will be repeated themes in Romney’s Ayn Rand-like campaign language of “productive citizens,” “job creators,” and “lazy” “parasites.”
