Frame-Flipping and Racism

I don't know what planet Ta-Nehisi Coates, whoever he is, inhabits. I can tell you that down here in Realityville, which is where I live, actual space-time data stand his "insight" on its head. To wit:  

Racism tends to attract attention when it's flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping -- positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So straight confectioners do not simply want to practice their business in peace; they force their views of marriage on gay people by refusing to bake wedding cakes for them. U.S. Christians struggling to make ends meet don't merely want to end the $38 billion a year foreign-aid subsidy to Israel; they are actually plotting another Holocaust. And the whites are not disproportionately victims of black-on-white crime, but beneficiaries of the war against law-abiding blacks. This is the only respectable, politically correct bigotry, one that legitimizes name-calling even as it changes the subject and attacks straw men. 

Anu Garg ran the quote that follows with his 9/30/2016 Word for the Day ("skylark"). My response appears above. 

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Racism tends to attract attention when it's flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping -- positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So the gay do not simply want to marry; they want to convert our children into sin. The Jews do not merely want to be left in peace; they actually are plotting world take-over. And the blacks are not actually victims of American power, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is a respectable, more sensible bigotry, one that does not seek to name-call, preferring instead change the subject and straw man. 

~Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer and journalist (b. 30 Sep 1975)