Weaponized Victimhood: The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

Any Weapon They Can Find (even the truth)

This tool can cut trees or be used in a slaughter film, you decide [Photo by Michael Fenton on Unsplash]

The right and the white centrist left are both bigoted, but in their own way. What’s new is more consistent weaponizing of white left phrases by the right who are using hem to attack Biden. And quite frankly, they’re doing an excellent job of it. The type of phrases the conservative propagandists cherry pick out of context to “mem-ize” into Twitter cluster bombs they spread across all their media are sometimes truthful. And the truth is the most effective propaganda.

Take the latest salvo slamming the airwaves: “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” I hadn’t heard this one in while and found it now on Fox. Before you think I’ve gone rouge and converted to the bigot side, know that I still passionately hate Fox more than most patriotic liberal black Americans engaged in Civil Rights. But I’ve recently un-locked part of their code and am doing bits of research into the right narrative pattern. So, I assure you, it’s just semi-dispassionate research (it’s hard to become objective for me when dealing with such objectionable totally subjective supremacists.)

At his point in twentieth century, I don’t think I have to delve much into the right’s obvious racism, which is not a just streak, or a bunch of single occurrences, but a full-blown way of life. But…