Leftists (i.e. Statists and Progressives) consistently engage in two types of open bigotry towards minorities. The first of these might be termed the soft bigotry of lessened expectations. An example of this might be Attorney General Eric Holder addressing the NAACP in Houston this week saying the voter identification laws are racist poll taxes because minorities have a harder time than whites in obtaining identification. This while the NAACP requires two forms of ID for people to see AG Holder speak. Apparently Mr. Holder has stumbled across the secret policy that all white folks have greater access to transportation as a birthright. The true racism is that leftists believe that minorities are incapable of achieving on their own and that they need their leftist elite protectors in the ruling class to ensure they can manage to even get by.
The second prevalent form of open bigotry is projection. In truth, it is probably a subset of the first, because it is this inherent soft bigotry that causes them to project. Projection is the phenomenon where a person projects his own faults upon another. Or as Ann Coulter often says, if you want to know what liberals are doing, look to what they are accusing conservatives of doing. A great example of this revolves around Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking to that same NAACP crowd in Houston. Mr. Romney was roundly booed when he reiterated his position on repealing Obamacare. Leftists have taken this to be a subtle plan by Mr. Romney to win over racist conservatives. Yes, you read that correctly. MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell, an avowed socialist, put forth the idea that Mr. Romney (who was invited to speak at the convention by the NAACP) cleverly planned to be booed at the convention in order to attract white racists voters. One could simply dismiss Mr. O'Donnell and his band of merry morons as outliers and not representative of the Democrats. Of course, that doesn't explain House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D. CA) saying essentially the same thing. Now she didn't go as far as O'Dumbass did, but her implication was clear.
It is too difficult for leftists to believe that Mr. Romney actually stayed on message, spoke as if he were in front of any other crowd, and refused to pander to the NAACP crowd just to get their adoration. After all, they respect the NAACP. That's why people like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suddenly adopted a different accent in front of a black crowd.
Call me crazy, but I think it's more racist to think that a black person is somehow inherently less able to achieve than a white person, that one has to tailor a message specifically for each group, that groups matter more than individuals.
