"In Wisconsin, where Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black, is the Democratic nominee for Senate, a National Republican Senatorial Committee ad targeting him ends by juxtaposing his face with those of three Democratic House members, all of them women of color, and the words 'different' and 'dangerous.' In a mailer sent to several state House districts in New Mexico, the state Republican Party darkened the hands of a barber shown giving a white child a haircut, next to the question, 'Do you want a sex offender cutting your child’s hair?'... Appeals to white fears and resentments are an old strategy in American elections, etched into the country’s political consciousness, with ads like George Bush’s ad using the Black convict Willie Horton against Michael Dukakis in 1988, and Jesse Helms’s 1990 commercial showing a white man’s hands to denounce his Black opponent’s support for 'quotas.'"
The manipulation of the color of hands is a very specific problem, and I don't like seeing the name of my state mixed up in that accusation. I don't like "In states as disparate as Wisconsin and New Mexico, ads have... darkened a white man’s hands as they portrayed him as a criminal." That happened in New Mexico but not in Wisconsin.
Yes, there has been been relentless advertising against Mandela Barnes here in Wisconsin, but I haven't seen any photoshopping of the color of hands or other body parts. What I'm seeing — and it's practically the only advertising I'm seeing — is the connection of Mandela Barnes to crime and to policies advocated by the most left-wing Democrats. Yes, you can argue that is inherently racial, and the NYT article also does that, but it's a far cry from this awfulness from New Mexico:
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Don't believe audios, videos or pictures wherever there's motivation. It's a general thing with modern technology.
Having a monkey cutting the kid's hair would have been funny though.
"Yes, you can argue that is inherently racial"
No. No, you really can't.
I saw a similar type anti-crime and anti black candidate ads ran in North Carolina over the weekend. Don't know if they were darkening any skin but all of the criminals were of course people of color.
It's good to know that Lee Atwater didn't die of cancer in vain
" 'Do you want a sex offender cutting your child’s hair?'... Appeals to white fears and resentments are an old strategy in American elections ...."
Is the suggestion that non-white parents welcome having sex offenders cutting their child's hair? Crime is a problem for all of us and especially those who live in large cities. As it happens, its impacts are more strongly felt in minority communities. But that's not news that's fit to print in the NYT.
If Red People are 10% of the population but commit 90% of the crimes, is it legit for Blue People to point this out?
Asking for a friend.
You can't expect that the NYTimes can tell the difference between New Mexico and Wisconsin.(There has also been relentless advertising against Ron Johnson. Everyone is too radical for Wisconsin, apparently.)
"What I'm seeing — and it's practically the only advertising I'm seeing — is the connection of Mandela Barnes to crime and to policies advocated by the most left-wing Democrats. Yes, you can argue that is inherently racial, and the NYT article also does that, but it's a far cry from this awfulness from New Mexico:"
It's inherently racial, yet IT IS TRUE. Vote wiser.
It would be different--see Willie Horton--if the crimes hadn't actually happened or if an even more egregious example featured a white guy, but was left out. And I'm speaking of Gore's use of Horton in the primary.
It didn't become racist until the republicans were using it.
all of the criminals were of course people of color.
Well, the reality is unpleasant but Based on data compiled by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, it found that while Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, they were 33% of persons arrested for non-fatal violent crime (NVC), which includes rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and other assaults. Black people were 36% of those arrested for serious non-fatal violent crimes (SNVC), including rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
You're welcome.
This post is “chitter chatter”. The fact is “the majority in the Senate is more important than the fact that the ONE person who gives YOUR party the majority is nothing but a seat held by your party.” That’s true for all political offices. Only look at the R or the D after the name. Don’t pay attention to qualifications, issues, competence. Only look at the R or D. The rest is chitter chatter.
All the time here in New Jersey, Kathy Hochuls' campaign ads all Lee Zeldin "dangerous".
"In Wisconsin, where Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black, is the Democratic nominee for Senate, a National Republican Senatorial Committee ad targeting him ends by juxtaposing his face with those of three Democratic House members, all of them women of color, and the words 'different' and 'dangerous.'"
I haven't "seen" this ad (I don't watch these ads, even if I'm watching TV; it's background noise), but may I hazard a guess that the "three Democratic House members, all of them women of color," are The Squad? Cuz if so, that's entirely germane to the issue of the ramp-up in crime. They are all, along with Barnes, defund-the-police supporters.
Those are bad ads, but it was newspapers that were so desperate in California that they claimed a black man was wearing black face and was a white supremacist running against the white Governor incumbent.
Don't know if they were darkening any skin but all of the criminals were of course people of color.
How many times have you seen a POC as a criminal on a TV show?
The Wisconsin ads, mailers, and spam texts are relentless.
The ads against Johnson and Michels are all pure fabrication. They claim Michels said gay people shouldn’t leave their homes. Women were forced to have sex with bosses at his construction company. He would arrest doctors and women for abortion “crime”. It’s all fear mongering lies and bullshit. It's all targeted at Suburban White Women.
As far as the New Mexico flyers goes…whoever in the GOP did that is an idiot. It’s unnecessary. Latest polls show GOP challenger Mark Ronchetti slightly ahead of Dem Incumbent Gov. Michelle Grisham. She was a lock down COVID hypocrite queen just like Newsome, Whitmer etc…
If the GOP wants not be accused of racism, they need to stop doing stupid shit like the flyer.
But…Mandela Barnes is dangerous, and so is Tony Evers for WI. One black, one white. With the increased crime and violence, they are supporters of easy parole, low bail…etc. See Darrell Brooks. Wisconsin’s student scores are plummeting under our “education Governor”. And let’s not forget these assholes purposefully let Kenosha burn for perceived political gain.
I still think they both win however. I don’t see anything preventing a repeat of Wisconsin’s 2020 absentee ballot fraud pushed in Madison, GB, Milwaukee, and Racine. Michels and Johnson’s margins have to be greater than 5% to overcome the fraud.
As the fingernail beds are black rather than pink, I think the creator of the child haircut image was alluding to a demon rather than a regular human. This kind of thing plays well in some traditional religious sectors, and follows millennia of light versus dark Christian imagery.
Still, it's obviously gonna be interpreted as racial...
Sample artistic demon hands:
https://www.deviantart.com/satanaelart/art/Demonic-Hand-306251227
https://www.yourprops.com/Hero-Demon-Posessed-Silicon-Hand-original-movie-prop-Idle-Hands-1999-YP62960.html
Several real Black / African-origin human hands:
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2010/12/photo_essay_images_2010_-_the.html
The black crime rate is considerably greater than the white crime rate, so talking about crime IS inherently racial. But that's not the fault of Republicans. That's the fault of reality.
I don't see the hand as blackened, I see the hand as filthy-dirty. Different story.
@ Howard - "I saw a similar type anti-crime and anti black candidate ads ran in North Carolina over the weekend. Don't know if they were darkening any skin but all of the criminals were of course people of color."
Most victims of black crime are also black. Maybe this was an ad aiming to get votes from all races. It seems to be hard for progressives to realize that black people don't want to be victims of crime (and they probably aren't worrying about getting mugged by Brittany from the suburbs).
The hand looks a little weird. Is there any evidence it was darkened for the picture? Or is that just another wild accusation by desperate losers?
In any case, we all know it's racist to tell the truth.
The New Mexico mailer is just so incredibly stupid. Who would send out something so badly done? Incompetence, at the very least.
What I'm seeing — and it's practically the only advertising I'm seeing — is the connection of Mandela Barnes to crime and to policies advocated by the most left-wing Democrats. Yes, you can argue that is inherently racial, and the NYT article also does that.
You mean like THIS??
New York Magazine
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Georgia’s first all-Black senate race could have been a time for celebration. Instead, because one candidate has cast his lot with white reactionaries, the racial dynamics of the contest have been warped. @zakcheneyrice reports
I would have liked the opinion piece to also show the original stock photo for comparison. Shock me with how much it was edited, rather than just tell me that it was.
"The New Mexico mailer is just so incredibly stupid. Who would send out something so badly done?
Incompetence, at the very least."
False flag?
NYT lying? Wouldn't be the first time.
I assume "three Democratic House members" refers to the Squad. Is their skin color inherently important to their far Left positions? They are grouped due to their political leanings. Isn't their skin color incidental? The Left is inadvertently saying something racist about themselves.
"... but all of the criminals were of course people of color."
You are not the first to notice that a large proportion of criminals are people of color. But it might not be advisable to state it outright like that. It makes you racist.
You got you're answer, Althouse. Your fans responded enthusiastically positive and provided their logical justification for the racist dog whistle political advertising.
I vote for the New Mexico ad trying for demonic vs racial. Is that an ad for a statewide office? I would guess it was from some underfunded state house race or possibly even for a county or citywide race if they have local in addition to state level licensing. I note the picture as cut does not show who the ad is against or for. I think if it was from Ronchetti's team they would have said.
"Is the suggestion that non-white parents welcome having sex offenders cutting their child's hair?"
No. They're just taking advantage of parents' fears of pederasts getting at their kids to shoehorn in a not-so-subtle appeal to racist feelings among voters who have them.
BTW, the ad featuring a photo of Willie Horton was not from Bush's campaign.
https://www.rawstory.com/new-mexico-democrats-condemn-racist-mail-ad-urge-gop-to-distance-themselves-from-it
It's apparently an ad for 9 statehouse races where the current representative voted to let sex offenders get hair cutting licenses. I now posit that the blackening might be intentional to get national attention to the fact that Democrats seem to be intent on normalizing employment of felony sex offenders. Though it was probably just visual incompetence - focusing on demonic/filthy/dirty and not seeing a race implications. The kid looks Hispanic.
“Gonna put y’all back in chains!”
Howard, if you're hearing dog whistles, then maybe you're the dog.
"Jury finds Darrell Brooks guilty in killing of six people in Waukesha Christmas parade attack"
Six people who would be alive today (and 40 injured) if the legal system had dealt with Brooks' past crimes responsibly. Mandela Barnes' prescription for law enforcement IS dangerous.
The name of Willie Horton's victim, stabbed 19 times and left to bleed out, was Joseph Fournier.
Just once, I'd like to see his name in a news story.
Count me as someone who doesn't care if an ad is "racist" if it tells the truth.
a not-so-subtle appeal to racist feelings among voters who have them.
But only White voters, right? Because only White people can be racist...right?
The dirty secret is, Black people in the United States today are far more racist than White people in the United States today, but every pretends that they aren't.
the state Republican Party darkened the hands of a barber shown giving a white child a haircut
I don't have a NYY subscription, but how do they know the hands were darkened? Do they compare it to an original photo? Was the boy darkened too? I ask because the boy looks Hispanic in the ad. It's standard to darken an ad to make it more "negative." Maybe that's what happened.
The New Mexico mailer is just so incredibly stupid. Who would send out something so badly done? Incompetence, at the very least.
It does seem foolish. In my experience with political messaging, modern Republicans bend over backward to under-represent blacks in staged crime ads (as opposed to real crime video) and over-represent them in positive ads.
Live by Diversity [dogma], Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), DIE (Diversity, Inequity, and Exclusion) by it. They think that they can abort the baby, cannibalize her profitable parts, sequester her carbon pollutants, and have her, too.
You got you're answer, Althouse. Your fans responded enthusiastically positive and provided their logical justification for the racist dog whistle political advertising
How do you detect the whistle if you're not the racist dog? The whole point of dog whistles is that only dogs can hear them.
'Don't know if they were darkening any skin but all of the criminals were of course people of color.'
There are no black criminals, they're just misunderstood.
"In Wisconsin, where Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black, is the Democratic nominee for Senate, a National Republican Senatorial Committee ad targeting him ends by juxtaposing his face with those of three Democratic House members, all of them women of color, and the words 'different' and 'dangerous.'
Gee, would that be 3 members of the left wing "squad", all of who have similar pro-crime positions to Barnes'?
His positions are both 'different' and 'dangerous.' Other than being a Democrat hack who objects to Republicans winning, what's the grounds for objecting to this honest characterization?
In a mailer sent to several state House districts in New Mexico, the state Republican Party darkened the hands of a barber shown giving a white child a haircut, next to the question, 'Do you want a sex offender cutting your child’s hair?'
I followed the link.
1: They don't show the stock picture this supposedly came from.
Which is what you do why you have a really nasty "before and after"
2: The GOP response is that they wanted to make the whole thing "dark and gloomy". To my eyes, the kid looks "mixed race" / "light skinned black". If they were trying to "heighten white fears", they would have made the kid very white, no?
Here in Michigan, the black female candidate for AG is too dangerously radical, and the black candidate for Congress is too dangerously radical, but in this case they are Republicans and their opponent are safe, white Democrats.
Appeals to white fears and resentments are an old strategy in American elections, etched into the country’s political consciousness, with ads like George Bush’s ad using the Black convict Willie Horton against Michael Dukakis in 1988
1: Wille Horton was first brought up by Democrat Al Gore during the Democrat primary
2: You have to be a completely racist douchebag to say that "you can't talk about this criminal because he's black"
Which "white" prisoner was released by Gov Dukakis to go out and murder someone? How did his crimes compare to Horton's?
If toucan't answer that question, then the racist here is you, the one complaining about the Horton ad.
Jesse Helms’s 1990 commercial showing a white man’s hands to denounce his Black opponent’s support for 'quotas.'
Reality check: The Democrats are massive supporters of racist government policies that cause more qualified "white" applicants to lose out on jobs, promotions, raises, and school admittances over less qualified "black" applicants
That is reality
If you don't want people making ads about that reality, then change the reality so it's no longer the case.
So, what we have here is Democrats complaining about Republicans being honest. To which I respond to them: GFY
What I'm seeing — and it's practically the only advertising I'm seeing — is the connection of Mandela Barnes to crime and to policies advocated by the most left-wing Democrats. Yes, you can argue that is inherently racial,
You can argue anything.
But it's a lie.
They're making the exact same arguments about being soft on crime against Fetterman, and he's hard core "white".
The GOP is making those arguments because what the Democrats are doing is evil, and bringing it up resonates with the majority of voters
And SHOULD resonate with them, because the GOP position is correct, dn the Dem on is wrong
but it's a far cry from this awfulness from New Mexico
I'll consider whether what's happening in New Mexico is "awful" when the people claiming it's awful provide a copy of the stock photo that the ad supposedly came from, side by side with the ad.
Because there's one solid rule: any time someone has easy access to relevant information that they could share, and don't, it's because their argument is crap
You have to have a copy of the stock photo in order to be able to claim it was darkened
The photo they showed in the article was small, there was easily room to show the other
Therefore, the stock photo does not actually support their claim
A lot of these things get done by interlopers, rather than the candidates' actual campaigns.
"I am so old that I remember when most racists were white."
Thomas Sowell.
People of Rainbow (i.e. [violently] exclusionary) would be inequitable and exclusive. Perhaps People of Fuchsia would be equitable and inclusive without evoking archaic color blocs.
"I'll consider whether what's happening in New Mexico is "awful" when the people claiming it's awful provide a copy of the stock photo that the ad supposedly came from, side by side with the ad."
Here's the stock photo the ad came from next to NM ad.
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/23/new-mexico-gop-ad-denounced-as-racist-for-darkening-figure-in-stock-photo/69512856007/
It’s the NYTimes. It is bullshit.
Ha. When did you last see any commercial without POCs abounding?
I wonder what kind of racism is on display in that picture? Is that child changed from white to Hispanic by the same darkening and does that signify? As Michael K said: "I am so old that I remember when most racists were white." Thomas Sowell.
What Enigma said @ 11:08. I saw hands that just rebuilt the front suspension on a 69 Bonneville, ball joints, tie rods, the works. No Gojo around. Enigma has seen black people's hands, whereas many other people just jumped to the NYT's conclusion. One's brain completes the image's message before the reading takes place.
Forget it, Jake, it's the NYT. . . . .
Howard said...
You got you're answer, Althouse. Your fans responded enthusiastically positive and provided their logical justification for the racist dog whistle political advertising.
Howard cannot support what his party is doing. He knows the victims of the crime wave he has caused are mostly Black as well.
Howard wants poor black people to suffer more crime. He supports more crime with policies that have that obvious effect. But he is too dishonest and cowardly to admit it.
So he attacks the people who want less crime as racist.
It is part of being a dishonest piece of shit that supports the democrat party.
Hmmm....disparate Wisconsin....
NOBODY is more divided or disparate in Wisconsin than the white people. If you understand the cultural and political difference between Dane County (Madison) and Waukesha County you know what I'm talking about. If somebody dropped me in the middle of Madison, and I found a motorcycle, I'd do 140mph to get out of town too.
Funny thing is Milwaukee's inner city minorities are NOTHING like the white woke in Dane county, even though they align with Democrats. I'm sure it's the same dynamic with Berkley, CA and Oakland.
In other areas, a 35 minute drive between white people puts you in extremely different cultures as well. Drive from Hartford (Washington County) to Whitefish (Whitefolks) Bay / Shorewood / Glendale and you go from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.
I swear...shops in Whitefolks Bay have the same "all are welcome" signs as Martha's Vineyard. If you dropped a busload of Venezuelans in town, they'd shutter their windows, lock the doors, and wait for the National Guard to escort them out of town.
Can’t trust a writer who gets the Willie Horton story so wrong. Democrats and their operatives in media always lie. Especially about race and racism.
Sexual predators are a threat and the Democrat party is not only releasing them without bail it makes excuses for them at every turn. Whatever color they are. If the color disparity in the mailer was done intentionally it was stupid. Most predators tend to stay within their own race. Most child predators are known to the family of the victim. Then again maybe the hoopla will get more peoples attention and parents will more than likely think fo the predators of any color and not the darker skin on the supposed predator. Also people darken as they age. Young children are lighter than older adults. This is why all cultures consider light skinned women beautiful. Because their subconscious reads that as young, child bearing age.
Howard is still upset about the pushback against grooming.
Althous
"but I haven't seen any photoshopping of the color of hands or other body parts"
My good friends in Wisconsin have been telling me that Johnson has been running ads darkening Barnes' skin since the beginning of the race- I’ve been surprised that I haven’t heard more about this nationally.
Althouse can find the letters "NIG" on a kids pajamas but she can't see any of Johnson’s photo shopping.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-are-letters-nig-on-childs-pajamas.html
I looked through the images on Google for Mandela Barnes and didn't see many with darkened skin nor did they seem related to the campaign. I think Barnes just isn't running a good race; I think he's stuck with being part of the party with the responsibility for inflation and gas and grocery prices and crime. He hasn't an answer. how could he have one?
Mutaman: "My good friends in Wisconsin have been telling me that Johnson has been running ads darkening Barnes' skin since the beginning of the race-"
Well, you've spent 4 years claiming Trump colluded with russia and there is a "pee tape" which compromised Trump, that Trump told people to drink bleach, that Trump led an armed insurrection against American democracy, etc, etc.
Perhaps there hasnt been more said about this "darkening" stuff because like you, your "good friends" are lying.
Yancey Ward: "Howard is still upset about the pushback against grooming."
Indeed. In fact he remains crazy livid over the exposure and parents rising in opposition to it across the nation.
"But only White voters, right? Because only White people can be racist...right?"
Not at all. But an such an ad that darkens the skin is not likely directed at black voters.
"The dirty secret is, Black people in the United States today are far more racist than White people in the United States today, but every pretends that they aren't."
Perhaps because others don't have the evidence proving your allegation that you seem to possess.
wildswan said...
Me: "I'll consider whether what's happening in New Mexico is "awful" when the people claiming it's awful provide a copy of the stock photo that the ad supposedly came from, side by side with the ad."
Here's the stock photo the ad came from next to NM ad.
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/23/new-mexico-gop-ad-denounced-as-racist-for-darkening-figure-in-stock-photo/69512856007/
Thank you wildswan
From the article:
The ads follow a similar provocative style, using somber colors and stark fonts among tinted or filtered images from prison booking photos or featuring obscured and menacing figures. The ad copy alludes to pieces of legislation supported in past sessions by local representatives, often presenting them as favoring criminals over other citizens.
From Althouse's article:
A GOP amendment to the Dems’ version of a similar bill in 2021 — denying or revoking a barber’s license if they failed to register as a sex offender after conviction — was opposed by Democrats.
Opposing a law that pushishes sex offenders who haven't registered as sex offenders, which they're legally required to do, sure sounds to me like the Democrats "favoring criminals over other citizens".
So Once again we have Democrats attacking republicans for telling the truth.
State GOP spokesperson Mike Curtis wrote in a text message: "It was darkened to a gray to resemble a Grim Reaper so as NOT to be interpreted as any race. A true menace."
Looking at the larger image, it looks like everything to the upper left of the kid's face was darkened, including the kid's hair.
And the fingers don't look "black" to me. Certainly not compared to the picture of the black male Reverend the article includes.
AS others pointed out, the fingernails are darkened as much as everything else, which wouldn't happen if you were trying to make the hands look like those of a black male.
So I'm unconvinced
Perhaps because others don't have the evidence proving your allegation that you seem to possess.
Go look at the numbers then. Look at attacks by one race upon another race. The vast majority of them are Black people attacking Whites and Asians. I'll grant you your ignorance, because the media never talks about this, and rarely mentions the race of Black criminals.
I'll bet you'll be stunned to learn that young Black men (around 5% of the population) perform more than 50% of violent crime in the United States. Most people are when I mention it, and I'm forced to google the FBI crime statistics and the census.
Blogger wildswan said...
"I'll consider whether what's happening in New Mexico is "awful" when the people claiming it's awful provide a copy of the stock photo that the ad supposedly came from, side by side with the ad."
Here's the stock photo the ad came from next to NM ad.
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/23/new-mexico-gop-ad-denounced-as-racist-for-darkening-figure-in-stock-photo/69512856007/
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The dead giveaway is in showing the skin under the nails as black. Bing image "black people's hands" and see what they really look like.
Whoever did this should be shunned for life.
"Grim Reapers" are always shown without their scythe, black robe and cowl, and only with dark grey skin on fleshy hands, not as skeletal bones.
And as everyone knows, they are often depicted as barbers.
SNORT
Blogger Drago said...
" Well, you've spent 4 years claiming Trump colluded with russia and there is a "pee tape" which compromised Trump, that Trump told people to drink bleach, that Trump led an armed insurrection against American democracy, etc, etc.
Perhaps there hasnt been more said about this "darkening" stuff because like you, your "good friends" are lying."
Polly want a Cracker?
Personally, I saw nothing wrong with the Willie Horton ad. Did Dukakis furlough him or not? I think he did. It is the same nonsense today.
Willie Horton was a thug and Dukakids didn't care.
License’s for cutting hair. Crimies.
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