The Art of Political War and the Projectionist-Extraorindaire Shirley “Slavedriver” Sherrod | NewsReal Blog

The Art of Political War and the Projectionist-Extraorindaire Shirley “Slavedriver” Sherrod | NewsReal Blog:

Shirley Sherrod, supposed victim of conservative racist lying, feels especially worried that media figures like Andrew Breitbart are trying to get blacks “stuck back in the times of slavery.”

Funny that she would have such a paranoia…

From Zombie at Pajamas:

Shocking new allegations against Shirley Sherrod (the USDA employee recently embroiled in a controversy over a speech she gave to the NAACP) and the communal farm she ran with her husband Charles Sherrod have been confirmed by an article published 36 years ago in a farm workers’ newspaper.

Combined, the new 2010 allegations and the original 1974 allegations accuse Shirley and Charles Sherrod of:

• Paying farm workers as little as 67¢ per hour, far below minimum wage for the era.
• Employing underage children to perform hard labor.
• Compelling their employees to work in unsafe conditions, including getting sprayed with pesticides.
• Firing any workers who acted as whistleblowers.
• Forcing employees to work overtime in the fields at night with practically no advance notice.
• Having a capricious payscale under which employees doing the exact same jobs were paid different amounts according to the whims of the managers.
• Being unwilling to address the abuse even after it was raised by union representatives.
• Seriously mismanaging the farm to such an extent that it went bankrupt.

Let’s first look at the new allegations, and then at the original allegations.

Read the rest at Pajamas. (And when you do remember that the source of these allegations is a black activist on the far Left.)

One of the keys to understand the Left is the psychological concept of projection:

Psychological projection or projection bias (including Freudian Projection) is the unconscious act of denial of a person’s own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.

Projection is considered one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely difficult to work with, because by its nature it is hidden. It is the fundamental mechanism by which we keep ourselves uninformed about ourselves. Humor has great value in any attempt to work with projection, because humor presents a forgiving posture and thereby removes the threatening nature of any inquiry into the truth.

This is something you find all the time amongst so-called progressives — no matter the issue.