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Il meme della paura

For the two readers who still do not know, I'm in Rome until the end of November. A study. Bread.

The moment I realized that Obama could win coincided with this article by Michael Chabon. Since then I have been very clear that the real obstacle to the election of Obama were not conservatives, but defeatist. Those who "vote for Hillary not to waste a vote" (in the primaries?), Those who "figured if they elect a black man in the uniti" (tu chiamale se vuoi: proiezioni...), quelli che "tanto pure se vince lo ammazzano". E ne ho sentiti tanti , anche tra amici e persone che stimo e con cui ho una larga base di opinioni condivise. Sarebbe interessante studiare il meccanismo che porta al fatalismo politico.
Oggi leggo su Gawker un articolo che parte da una frase di Obama, e porta la mia riflessione molto più in là. Copincollo ampi stralci perché merita, ma l'originale, da leggere per intero, lo trovate qui .

There was a tendency in New York, among liberals used to assuming that the elections are all stolen anyway, to assume the Obama campaign was doomed before it began because of his blackness, plain and simple. There was, similarly, a dark speculation, sometimes in the form of macabre joking, sometimes serious paranoia, that Obama would not survive the campaign if he got too close to the prize. What that didn't take into consideration was that as he looked more and more electable, more people liked him. Honestly, some thought Iowans were more likely to shoot him than vote for him. Then he proved them wrong, and the paranoia lifted, slightly. [...]

It's actually kinda shocking how few death threats we've heard about, especially considering the attention this patently ridiculous one received in the media. (Though we'd figure the ATF would be more likely to crow about breaking up an assassination attempt than the Secret Service, who tend to prefer to keep things quiet and not encourage the crazies.) But don't get too complacent! A Missouri Nazi tells The Guardian that a couple more Nazis will still promise to kill Obama, and Andrew Krucoff finds proof that Mississippi is still, you know, Mississippi.
But Obama's right—they're marginalized. The debate's shifted immeasurably, even from a couple years ago. As a fine measure of how far we've come, the GOP has to use code words for "Muslim terrorist" this year instead of just reminding us of his conventional, acceptable Blackness. God bless us all!

Abbiamo tanto stigmatizzato la paura altrui, quella dei medio-borghesi leghisti che votano il partito which promises to free them from the evil alien, and then we were victims of our own. That would be nice to understand exactly what it is. It is to think about it.