{"id":44913,"date":"2015-12-31T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44913"},"modified":"2015-12-31T02:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T02:12:28","slug":"obamas-skin-looks-a-little-different-in-these-gop-campaign-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44913","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/12\/29\/obamas-skin-looks-a-little-different-in-these-gop-campaign-ads\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxEhrenfreund\" target=\"_blank\">Max Ehrenfreund<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44908\" target=\"_blank\">A new study shows<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negative_campaigning\" target=\"_blank\">negative ads<\/a> targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers\u2019 racial biases.<\/p>\n<p>The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians seek to win votes by implying support for racist views and ethnic hierarchies, without voicing those prejudices explicitly. The purported tactic is often called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dog-whistle_politics\" target=\"_blank\">dog-whistle politics<\/a>\u201d \u2014 just as only canines can hear a dog whistle, only prejudiced voters are aware of the racist connotations of a politician\u2019s statement, according to the theory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/12\/29\/obamas-skin-looks-a-little-different-in-these-gop-campaign-ads\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads The Washington Post 2015-12-29 Max Ehrenfreund A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers\u2019 racial biases. The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8413,125,8,26,20],"tags":[22508,22505,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-44913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-communications","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-max-ehrenfreund","tag-solomon-messing","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44914,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913\/revisions\/44914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}