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New Phony Racism Charge From The Left

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From: thehotjoints.com

Not a week goes by without the far-left leveling a fresh racism charge against anyone who opposes their odious policies.

The newest cry of phony racism comes from the left-wing gangsters at the AFL-CIO — and their target is the US Chamber of Commerce.

The AFL-CIO has declared a new anti-ObamaCare ad from The Chamber is…wait for it…RACIST!!!! If they don’t like it, that means it’s racist.

The Huffington Post is of course all over it:

A new Chamber of Commerce ad attacking Democratic-led efforts to pass health care legislation includes a storyline that union critics of the group say is rife with racial undertones.

In the new spot, titled “Millions,” the business lobby goes after health reform by arguing that it could “wipe out even more jobs” than those lost so far. But the group does so in a peculiar and perhaps controversial way.

The scenario of a distraught boss forced to fire an employee is illustrated by a white worker being summoned to the office as a black co-worker looks on.

An official with the AFL-CIO, who saw the ad air on Wednesday morning, argued that it was a perpetuation of the stereotype that minorities have a leg up on their colleagues because of affirmative-action policies. It gets at the heart of concerns raised by labor leaders like the AFL-CIO’s president, Richard Trumka, who fretted during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama’s candidacy would spur racial unrest within work forces.

“This is the same old right wing dog whistle politics,” said Eddie Vale, spokesman for the AFL-CIO. “They’re trying to use race and class to scare working people about a health care bill.”

The Chamber scoffed at the charge. “Really?” emailed spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel, in a succinct and dismissed response.

Here’s the incredibly offensive ad:

As Michelle Malkin rightly points out, had a white employer fired a black worker in the ad, big labor would have cried racism. If the ad had no blacks in it at all — that too would have been called racist.

Truly amazing.