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Salon: Supporting the Keystone Pipeline is Racist
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 14, 2014 @ 10:15 am In The Point | 21 Comments
You had to know this was coming because EVERYTHING IS RACIST. No really. If you can think of something, it’s probably racist. Especially at Salon. Unless it’s also sexist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic or phobiphobic.
The Keystone pipeline? So racist. So very, very racist.
Salon’s Joan Walsh blasted Senator Mary Landrieu for her fake Keystone vote stunt of holding a vote on a bill that the White House already said it’s going to veto, not because it’s fake, but because it’s pandering to all those racist pipeline lovers.
Why would Senator Landrieu support a fake Keystone pipeline vote, Joan Walsh wonders, and comes up with the predictable answer.
What Keystone does is let Landrieu poke a sharp stick in the eye of Obama, much hated by her white constituents. Any points Landrieu got for politely pointing to the role of race in Obama-hate are swept away by this craven move.
Those racists sure love their pipelines.
It can’t be that they want jobs or that a Democrat wants to pretend she’s doing something to create jobs in this miserable Obama economy. No it’s racist. Because opposing Obama in any way, shape or form is racist… unless a progressive does it. And in that case it’s principled.
In her Senate floor speech, Landrieu had the gall to hijack the old United Farmworkers saying, “Si se puede!” which had already been repurposed by Obama. It was to save Landrieu and other Southern Dems, of course, that the president postponed executive action to defer deportation until after the election – and look where that got him.
Now Landrieu, who’s partly responsible for dividing countless Latino families who might have been kept together had the president kept his promise, is speaking Spanish and borrowing the slogan of low-wage Latino laborers to back the pipeline. Shameless.
So Landrieu is racist because Obama postponed illegal amnesty… to protect his own power base. Doesn’t that make Obama racist? And if Obama is racist, doesn’t that mean that opposition to the Keystone pipeline is anti-racist.
And if so, doesn’t that mean that Joan Walsh is racist for opposing the anti-racist Keystone pipeline?
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