The “Obama Effect”, or what I like to call the process (oatmealization) that happens in the minds of white liberals when Obama gives a policy his stamp of approval, is hilariously in full force when it comes to drone strikes.
In fact:
In a YouGov poll of 1,000 voters last August, Tesler found significantly more support for targeted killing of suspected terrorists among white “racial liberals” (i.e., those liberal on issues of race) and African-Americans when they were told that Obama supported such a policy than when they were not told it was the president’s policy. Only 27 percent of white racial liberals in a control group supported the targeted killing policy, but that jumped to 48 percent among such voters who were told Obama had conducted such targeted killings.
This is why I could never be a liberal. I don’t give a damn who delivers the message: that doesn’t color my opinion of the logic behind it.
Liberals on the other hand, like children who will listen to their favorite TV show host but not their parents when both say to “eat their vegetables”, support something just because a certain person of a certain color said it.
If that’s not racism, if that’s not judging someone by their color instead of the content of their character, then I really don’t know what is.
