Barack Obama
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(1,349 posts)Their hatred is so visceral, personal and tribal that it actually supersedes politics.
Major Expressions of the Obama Derangement Syndrome:
1) Minimization, or complete denial, of his accomplishments and successes.
2) Delegitimization: He's a "foreigner", one who is not like us (xenophobia), different,
a usurper of the throne (doesn't deserve it, didn't earn it) BLACK
3) Making him an object of fear: Muslim, Kenyan, Chicago politician, scary-black-man, Socialist,
Marxist, Fascist, ___________ist, who HATES America and wants to destroy it, and wants to
put everyone into concentration camps.
4) Emasculation: Make him look weak and indecisive, a poor protector, treat him with disdain,
show no respect ("you lie!" , be rude and insulting (to him and his family) Hobble him politically,
like slave owners used to hobble their "disobedient" slaves physically.
5) Projection of doubt and guilt onto his persona: Threaten impeachment without justification
(He's got to be guilty of something!). Call him a racist. Accuse him of class warfare.
6) Denigration: Use of demeaning terms in association with him: Stupid, dithering, weak, the
food-stamp president. "Shuckin'-n-jivin', magic negro", according to racist Rush.
7) Manipulation: Taking advantage of ALL situations to forward these principles, even if it goes
against the best interest of the country. Create double-binds and fallacious choices to entrap him.
8) Triangulation: The use of others (The Tea Party, Fox News, Donald Trump, et al.) to express
the socially unacceptable things that they can't say, but wish that they could.
Most black men in this country have been treated in these ways. Because Obama is the President,
and has attained the highest position in our culture and government, the hate for him has been
magnified X 1000. Obama is the Jackie Robinson of American politics.
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