Sentences with phrase «moral race card»

Rangel's decision to play the moral race card is the latest salvo by old - guard Harlem Democrats to try to prevent Cuomo from running against Paterson.

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So mired in white blindness, so lost in the liberal orthodoxy that counts mere dissociation from racism as virtue, and so addicted to the easy moral esteem that comes to her from dissociation, Dowd plays the oldest race cards of all - I'm white and you're black, so shut up and be grateful for my magnanimity.

Another strategy available to a self - complimentary moral innocence, confident in its purity, locates fault in some other object — a deck of cards, a bottle of whisky, the curves of a person's body, an unpopular race, a fraternity.