Word: socialist
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...Diuguid’s allegation that calling Obama “socialist” was racist due to J. Edgar Hoover’s labeling of civil-rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr., and W.E.B. Du Bois as such. Just because the long list of individuals smeared as socialist happens to include prominent blacks alongside prominent whites like Franklin Roosevelt and every Democrat since does not make the word racial. Furthermore, the socialism charge was not leveled until Obama told a certain plumber that he wished to “spread the wealth around.” If encrypted racialism...
...John Kerry elitist and arrogant, for reasons other than blackness. Granted, some words, like “welfare queens” and “busing,” have used blacks as wedges between whites, but the terms “inexperienced,” “socialist,” and “elitist” have no such racial dimension. The truth is that nearly any word can be construed as racial. By labeling every argument against non-white candidates as racist, defenders of Jindal and Obama indicate that all criticism of their candidate...
...longest-lasting repercussions were political: just three days after the attacks, while the governing Popular Party still insisted - despite growing evidence to the contrary - that the Basque terrorist group ETA, and not Islamist terrorists, were to blame, the country held national elections. In a surprise upset, the Socialist party, headed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, beat the conservative PP, which had been in power since 1996. (See pictures of the Madrid bombing...
...trade destroyed the fragile geopolitical stability that had been created after the end of the First World War. Weimar Germany’s economy, already suffering from hyperinflation and political polarization, all but collapsed as a result of the tariff war, leading to the meteoric rise of the National Socialist Workers’ Party in the parliamentary elections of 1932. Today, Hungary and Ukraine are in danger of defaulting on their already-generous IMF loan packages, while South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan fear for the long-term health of their economies. If America slides into protectionism, the relative geopolitical stability...
...rallies—held at 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.—were comprised by members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the Services Employees International Union, the Student Labor Action Movement, and the Cambridge political group Socialist Alternative...