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[[File:PeoplesCube_toaster.jpg|275px|right|thumbnail| A satire photo by Oleg Atbashian of [[The People's Cube]]. It showcases the absurd lengths the [[Mainstream media]] will go to promote racial discord.]] Playing the '''race card''' means to use one's own race for political or legal advantage. The term is drawn from the domain of card games, and effectively compares this action to playing a valuable card in a game of bridge or poker. The race card is an example of a [[thought-terminating cliché]].
[[File:PeoplesCube_toaster.jpg|275px|right|thumbnail| A satire photo by Oleg Atbashian of [[The People's Cube]]. It showcases the absurd lengths the [[Mainstream media]] will go to promote racial discord.]] Playing the '''race card''' means to use one's own race for political or legal advantage. The term is drawn from the domain of card games, and effectively compares this action to playing a valuable card in a game of bridge or poker. The race card is an example of a [[thought-terminating cliché]].
==Journo-List==
==Obama era==
In the Obama era, to oppose the government takeover of the healthcare industry with [[Obamacare]] made one a racist, have a dampening and devasting effect on free speech and open political discourse of vital economic, social, and political issues.
===Journo-List===
The [[JournoList]] was a listserv comprised of several hundred [[liberal]] journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists who privately discussed ways to assist [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign]] in the [[mainstream media]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/print</ref> Employees of news organizations including ''[[Time magazine]]'', ''[[Politico]]'', the ''[[Huffington Post]]'', the ''Baltimore Sun'', the ''[[Guardian]]'', the ''[[Nation]]'', ''Salon'' and the ''[[New Republic]]'' participated.
The [[JournoList]] was a listserv comprised of several hundred [[liberal]] journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists who privately discussed ways to assist [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign]] in the [[mainstream media]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/print</ref> Employees of news organizations including ''[[Time magazine]]'', ''[[Politico]]'', the ''[[Huffington Post]]'', the ''Baltimore Sun'', the ''[[Guardian]]'', the ''[[Nation]]'', ''Salon'' and the ''[[New Republic]]'' participated.
:{{See also|Democrat Race Card: July 2011}}
:{{See also|Democrat Race Card: July 2011}}
==Immigration reform==
===DACA===
The ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported,
The ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported,
{{cquote|[T]he president's call for legislation that acknowledges the role of immigrants and goes beyond punishing undocumented workers will help cement a permanent political relationship between Democrats and Hispanics -- much as civil rights and voting rights legislation did for the party and African Americans in the 1960s. As a result, although the president is unlikely to press for comprehensive immigration reform this year, he has urged his allies to keep up the pressure on Republican lawmakers.}}
{{cquote|[T]he president's call for legislation that acknowledges the role of immigrants and goes beyond punishing undocumented workers will help cement a permanent political relationship between Democrats and Hispanics -- much as civil rights and voting rights legislation did for the party and African Americans in the 1960s. As a result, although the president is unlikely to press for comprehensive immigration reform this year, he has urged his allies to keep up the pressure on Republican lawmakers.}}
James Taranto writing in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' noted, "In the ''Post's'' telling, Obama is merely giving lip service to comprehensive immigration reform in order to win votes."
James Taranto writing in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' noted, "In the ''Post's'' telling, Obama is merely giving lip service to comprehensive immigration reform in order to win votes."
===Andrew Brietbart===
At the 2010 [[CPAC]] conference, [[Andrew Breitbart]] called out ''[[New York Times]]'' reporter Kate Zernike for her attempt at playing the race card on fellow conservative activist [[Jason Mattera]] for what she claimed was a "Chris Rock voice".<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2010/02/22/kate-zernikes-smear-victim-jason-mattera-calls-her-firing-retraction-ny Kate Zernike's Smear Victim, Jason Mattera, Calls for Her Firing, Retraction From NY Times]</ref><ref>[http://minx.cc:1080/?post=299829 Conservative Author Uses Racist "Chris Rock Voice" to Threaten and Slur Steny Hoyer]</ref> Breitbart called out Zernike as "a despicable human being"<ref>[https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/02/19/cpac-breitbart-calls-ny-times-reporter-who-alleged-racism-cpac-despicable Breitbart to NY Times Reporter for Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: 'You’re a Despicable Human Being']</ref>
Out in the lobby of the conference, Breitbart was caught on film calling out Max Blumenthal for using his reporting to smear James O'Keefe as a racist.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIeByOeERpY Max Blumenthal confronted by Andrew Breitbart and Larry O'Connor/Stage right at CPAC 10]</ref> Breitbart said that he was "using Alinsky tactics to destroy people". Larry O'Connor caught up with Blumenthal and got him to admit to playing the race card, and Blumenthal eventually made a quick exit out the front.
A major speech at the 2012 CPAC conference Breitbart predicted the coming [[Obama riots]] that did in fact appear following the death of Trayvon Martin, because of the continued use of the [[race card]] after every single incident.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120416024628/https://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/12/At-CPAC-Breitbart-Predicted-What-Left-Media-Are-Doing-in-Trayvon-Case Flashback: Breitbart Predicts Trayvon Race Row at 2012 CPAC]</ref> He said:
<blockquote>This is gonna be the dog whistle election cycle. They tested it in 2011, so that [Sharpton] and his pal Touré, and that punk, Tim Jacob Wise, and Ed [Schultz], and [Rachel] Maddow can sit there and call everyone who's caucasian racist--"I heard it! I used 'is' instead of 'are'! He's a racist! That's a dog whistle"--[and] ignore it when Congressman [Jim] Moran does it against Allen West--no more! We're gonna go after you.<br /><br />
I bought a dog whistle. I bought a dog whistle factory, and I'm giving you dog whistles. [Applause] And we're gonna listen to every word that comes out of your mouth, and we're gonna hold you to the same standard that you hold us--which is an impossible one--and you're gonna have a hell of a time in 2012 because America's finally awoken to your Saul Alinsky, bullsh** tactics, and we're coming to get you. Thank you very much.</blockquote>
==See also==
==See also==