Melissa Harris Perry Says Stating 47% of American's Don't Pay Income Tax is Racist

cawacko

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I have no figures to back this up but I would guess the largest racial group within that 47% are whites. Now percentage wise may be a different story I don't know. In partisan politics half the words in the English language seem to be code for something. In this case it seems we ought to mention the 47% and it ought to be a goal to have more people paying federal income taxes because it means they are making more money.

It just seems like a really big stretch to call racism on this.



MSNBC race relations commentator extraordinare Melissa Harris Perry explains it is racist when Michele Bachmann points out only 53% of Americans pay federal income tax and says we all need to pay.

"What that is meant to imply is that there is a whole group that is dependent," Harris Perry analyzed.

Harris Perry says that 53% talk is just codeword for the "2011 version of the welfare queen."

Harris Perry also has this interesting theory that some words appear less overtly racialized because those words have been effectively racialized. For example, according to Harris Perry, when someone says "crime" they really mean black people.

Perry, as well as being an expert on race, is a columnist for The Nation.


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi..._out_only_53_pay_federal_taxes_is_racism.html
 
Tax the poor! Now that's a rallying cry. We won't get hardly anything out of them, but it would be justice to see their taxes raised when they already pay higher effective rates than most millionaires.
 
I know no one wants to hear this, but frankly none of you have a chance in hell of understanding what harris is saying. You guys trying to discern the meaning of what a person like this says is like a chimpanzee trying to figure out string theory... Though frankly I give the chimp better odds.
 
cawacko said:
I have no figures to back this up but I would guess the largest racial group within that 47% are whites. Now percentage wise may be a different story I don't know. In partisan politics half the words in the English language seem to be code for something. In this case it seems we ought to mention the 47% and it ought to be a goal to have more people paying federal income taxes because it means they are making more money.

It just seems like a really big stretch to call racism on this.



MSNBC race relations commentator extraordinare Melissa Harris Perry explains it is racist when Michele Bachmann points out only 53% of Americans pay federal income tax and says we all need to pay.

"What that is meant to imply is that there is a whole group that is dependent," Harris Perry analyzed.

Harris Perry says that 53% talk is just codeword for the "2011 version of the welfare queen."

Harris Perry also has this interesting theory that some words appear less overtly racialized because those words have been effectively racialized. For example, according to Harris Perry, when someone says "crime" they really mean black people.

Perry, as well as being an expert on race, is a columnist for The Nation.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi..._out_only_53_pay_federal_taxes_is_racism.html
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The bolded is all you need to know. Rarely is anything of substance going to come from someone at the Nation.
 
Darla said:
I know no one wants to hear this, but frankly none of you have a chance in hell of understanding what harris is saying. You guys trying to discern the meaning of what a person like this says is like a chimpanzee trying to figure out string theory... Though frankly I give the chimp better odds.
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That is nonsense. Her calling it racism is nothing short of absurd. I guarantee the majority of the population in the bottom 49% are white.
 
Watermark Tzu said:
Tax the poor! Now that's a rallying cry. We won't get hardly anything out of them, but it would be justice to see their taxes raised when they already pay higher effective rates than most millionaires.
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They'd have to actually pay first in order to pay a higher effective rate than "most millionaires"...

It's like you can't comprehend what is stated here. She isn't arguing that 47% of the nation pay taxes and they are incorrect factually, she's saying that pointing it out means you are racist. Basically assuming that it is "code" for something... "Those" people don't pay taxes. Apparently 47% is an ethnicity of which I was unaware.

That's just stupid. I have no idea what ethnicity she may be part of, but I do know that saying stupid sh*t is one of her subsets and that you are trying real hard to fit in there too. ;)
 
Darla said:
Of course they are. And the majority of people on welfare are white.

As I said, you can't hope to understand what she's saying.
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That's because we don't speak stupid with a thick victim accent. It's a simple fact. 47% of the nation doesn't pay federal income tax. That isn't code, it simply is.
 
Damocles said:
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That's because we don't speak stupid with a thick victim accent. It's a simple fact. 47% of the nation doesn't pay federal income tax. That isn't code, it simply is.
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You obviously have no idea who this woman is. And I already knew you have no idea of the tribal language historically used to demonize social welfare programs.

You cannot get your mind around this. You don't want to first of all, and you don't have the background either in academia or autodidacticism anyway.

I usually laugh at most of these kinds of threads here, because it's pointless. Also irrelevant. She's not talking to you. And she never will be.
 
Superfreak said:
Then please, explain how it is racist....
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SF, the majority of people on welfare have always been white. How has that ever been relevant to the attacks made upon welfare programs? Let's go back to the mythical Cadillac-driving welfare queen...who never existed. What color do you think she was? Hint: Cadillac.

This is tribal language meant to evoke feelings of racial resentment. It has always worked. The facts have never mattered. And they don't matter today.
 
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