Denial by the birthers (mostly with Republicans doing the talking) might do themselves a favor and discuss their behaviors with someone who knows them and can give them some feedback...like a good psychiatrist.
Racism Is the Prime Cause for Debunked Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted July 28, 2009. This is a well written article explaining the dynamics behind some of the present, unbelievable to most of us, hateful and derogatory words coming form the Republican side of politics.
While I don't have video to demonstrate, Rush Limbaugh has been stating, regularly, recently on his show that Obama is a very angry man. While he has every right to be one, I do not find him disproportionately so in any of his actions or speeches. However I would hardly call Limbaugh a man without hatred...and it doesn't take watching and looking too deeply to notice his targets of hatred. This man, dear readers, is a living demonstration of projection..so you can just watch one of his shows and skip the module explaining it in your psychology class on emotional defenses.
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The birth certificate conspiracy theory is ridiculous, but is it really the product of racism? Conspiracy theories about the presidents have been around as long as I can remember. The first one I heard was that Johnson was behind the Kennedy assassination. In later years, we have seen claims that Jimmy Carter was cutting shady deals with the Trilateral Commission, that Ronald Reagan negotiated with Ayatollah Khomeini to create the hostage crisis, that Bill Clinton used an Arkansas mob to rub out enemies, and the 9/11 truthers claim that George W. Bush actually planned the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. This list is undoubtedly incomplete. All of these theories had passionate advocates, and IMHO they are all hogwash.
All of these pre-Obama conspiracy theories involved white men, so it appears that the cause is not racism. The persistence of these nonsensical theories, however, point to something possibly even more disturbing: that a certain sizable portion of the public have a world view that is decidedly paranoid.
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