Recycling old-fashioned segregationist white racism, GOP-style

Steve Gilliard outdoes himself today in using the "Box Turtle Ben" fiasco to describe the use of white racist propaganda. In a long post, he takes a few seemingly immortal pieces of racist claims and analyzes how they were used, in particular by the Red State Racists blog.

And he does a fine job in this example of showing how nasty racist and extremist ideas of various kinds are "mainstreamed" into today's Republican Party. Referring to the problems that Red State Racists now face with their friends at WalMart and the Republican National Committee, he writes:

They can't trust you to buy a fish sandwich given the antics of your crew. You'd probably come back with burnt wings or a hot dog. This week, Red State went from an annoyance to a liability. Because your guys are spoiled little conservatives with no sense that the country or the world is larger than you.

Yeah, about Monday. Your clients, especially Wal Mart and the RNC, are gonna have some sharp questions for you, or not, but if I were you , I wouldn't count on the not.

Why? Because both groups have their little black problems, Wal-Mart several class action lawsuits, the GOP, Bush's 2 percent favorable rating among black voters. What they don't need is association with a barrel of racists, spewing hate and working to restrict voter rights.

You, through your association with Red State, might be a liability. After all, people are going to wonder why they should pay you to give them problems. You didn't write the stuff, but you founded it. And as Garance Franke-Ruta wrote, you guys are fast becoming the best argument for regulating the blogs.

Didn't count on that, huh?

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