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This is really interesting, it mentions rhetoric in the first answer

This is posted here in Wisconsin and was a lead story on last night's local news. Is this hate speech? See picture of the sign above. The man says he supports the President and it is a showing of support. Is he simply unaware of the connotations of putting a noose on a sign for a black man? For any person? Or is he lying? See if you can follow the story. Will he have to take it down or is it protected by the First Amendment. Should it be classified as Hate Speech?

This is a short article that's interesting because it shows how people's opinions differ on the idea of racism. There are many people that believe racism doesn't exist while others believe that it is still a big deal.

What world is Ann Coulter living in to say "real" racism doesn't exist any more?

BEIJING -- The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" - not realizing it is satire. I thought this was really funny and wanted to share!

This also shows a real lack of rhetorical and cultural awareness. The fact that the readers of this can't detect satire is a sure sign that they are not reading this article within a cultural context and don't understand its irony. Similarly Iran's media ran a story about how the average, white, rural American would rather vote for their leader than Barak Obama because Iran's leader took "diplomacy and foreign affairs seriously." This too was taken from a satire done by The Onion.

We often think of voting demographics in terms of "minorities," which makes groups of "white voters" an invisible norm. This article asks the question of why white people are proportionally voting for Romney.

This might be useful or interesting to those exploring race and presidential elections. Fowl language

I wonder how many of them actually voted and have reasonable opinion, except racial slurs.

http://oneutah.org/barack-obama/imagine-if-the-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise/ I don't know if this link will work in this format, but it is a correlary article titled "What if the Tea Party was Black" by Tim Wise and is fascinating. I think it is a great read. At least you can cut and paste it into your browser. These sort of hypothoses are really interesting.