Do you believe playing the race card constantly in politics is a sign of a shallow human being?

Some use it like a kid throwing a fit when they don't get their way. Politicians use it as a low-down dirty stinking trick. They're the worst because they're in positions of power and there's real consequences to their actions that others have to live with.

It's a way to bully. It's a way to blame others. It's a way to cheat. Basically it's a sign of a weak character.

There is not any such factor as a race card. That's an ignorant phrase that's used to brush aside official considerations about racist behavior. Racism in our society is a situation for all well-that means folks, regardless of the place they fall on the political spectrum.

Absolutely

Playing the race card anywhere is the sign of a weak shallow human being who is incapable of achieving things on their merit

Yease ago I was on the Job in a big city in the US and I did a lot of Undercover Operations with a Hispanic Male Partner is some bad neighborhoods. I respected this man more than anyone I knew and all the cases & collars that he made with me were always on his merit. He would never play the race card in a million years and the funny thing is he was tougher on his own people than I was perhaps because he knew how much some of them were wasting themselves

Mostly. Kind of like how Libs always ask "what's your source?".

It is a simple tactic putting the burden of proof on the adversary.

Accusing "cons" of racism reminds me of a famous quote in legal circles: :rape is a charge easily made and difficult to disprove".

One would think that by now, after decades of playing the race card, its effectiveness would have worn off and become diminished. They still do it and for some reason it still works. I am kind of baffled by why that is. My theory is that youngsters haven't been around the block enough times to see through the sham.

It is about as low as a politician can go. The Democrats using minorities to gain votes is as bad as it gets.

In the 1950's-1960's, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

Yet, diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty.

Playing the race card is usually the last desperate tactic used by some folks when they know that they've lost a socio-political argument.

No. I think it's a sign of a simpleton. It's more of a sign of stupidity than shallowness.

I think accusing poor people of being lazy and stupid is a sign of a shallow human being, though.

A broken record, a parrot, a simpleton, and a "one-trick-pony", a diversion (from not having a credible argument), a plea for any advantage (when losing), a last gasp.

It's a sign of a person that hasn't decided if they are a parrot or a human being.

It is the sign of people who have a weak position on their issues and resort to the race card to try and win a debate.