Sure, but that shouldn't be assumed. I didn't assume people who criticized Obama were racist. Plenty of people DID accuse Obama's detractors of being racist, and yes, I'm sure actual racists hated Obama for racist reasons. But unless an Obama detractor expressed ACTUAL racism I didn't assume it. Likewise, I am not going to assume anti-Semitism just because someone is critical of Israel or AIPAC's financial influence.
There is no consistency across the board; humanity, for the term racism. Only certain groups are covered by the terminology. Other groups are not protected in the same way for the same things. For example, if the words Israel Jews was replaced by the word white, and word Palestinian was replace day by the word black, the exact same situation in Israel would be called racist. The whites are not on the protected list, so there are no social protections for the same behavior. But if you exchange the word Jew for white and Palestinian for black, then it is called antisemitism if this is pointed out.
The dual standards of racism and sexism and all the other (xxxx)isms or (xxxx)phobias creates a smoke screen that gives the selected groups a pass, for engaging in all types of ism and phobia behavior. As another example, the Muslim laws and standards, with respect to women, would be called sexism, if white males did it. But it is not sexist if a protected group does it. These dual standards are obvious to those not on the list. The dual standard is ignored by those who benefit. This creates a conflict between the conscious and unconscious groups, which then and creates a backlash, that perpetuates the problems of racism. The Democrats have done this by design; divide people. If the goal was to unify people one standard would work better. Division works better with dual standards.
The problem the Democrat party faced,recently, was they had to figure out what to do when two protected groups; Muslim and Jews, were pitted against each other, since a protected group cannot be called racist by definition in the Democrat playbook. However, there was a backlash due to the hypocrisy and the dual standards that was pointed out by the non-protected groups. Omar was not censored, personally, since a protected group(s); Muslim female, cannot be racist or sexist, by definition, even if what they say would be considered racists or sexists, by a non protected group. Normally both are protected, but how do you protect both at the same time, from each other, without losing votes? All they did was reaffirm their protected list and hope it goes away.
The solution to this problem is all races should be covered, or no races should be covered. We can either all act like neurotic children or we can all act as adults and learn to handle freedom of speech. One should be able to transpose the protected list with the non protected list, and vice versa, and get the same end results.
The Democrat playbook should not have the final say, since that same playbook made the Democrat party the kings of racism back in the slavery and segregation days. The Democrats have found a way to exempt themselves from their shady past, of which they have never paid full reparations. The analogy is the old boat is sinking, so the Democrats decide to help the protected groups into the life boats. While doing so, they sneak onto the life boats and let the more honorable people, who fought against them, sink with the ship, that the Democrats once navigated. They still get to be racist, on the life boats, but now the protected groups become their army against a new set of not protected victims. The free ride and injustice of the dual standard, makes this a dedicated mercenary army.
If we are going to justify the dual standard, by looking at the past, we need to make sure the correct historical past is being used. You can't have the worse historical violators making the rules for the future. How would the party of Lincoln; Republicans, deal with this if they had the power to do so? Maybe we need to free the new slaves of Democrat bigotry. Once again we need one standard, instead of the dual standards schema the Democrats. since this was what the Democrats used during their previous reigns of segregation.
