The Tea Party: Breeding Ground for Racists?

[Saint_]

First it was the billboard comparing President Obama to Hitler (something I found ironic, seeing as how the Tea Party's main tactics, fear and hatred, are identical to the Nazi Party's), then it was pictures of tea-partiers showing President Obama as a witch doctor and advising him to "swim back to Kenya," now it's a letter to Abraham Lincoln asking him to repeal the emancipation Proclamation because African Americans can't "cotton to that whole kind of thing." (The use of the word "cotton was particularly inflammatory, I thought!)

Here's that letter if you want to read it:

Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP "Coloreds" In Online Screed | Political Correction

I guess I can partly understand the basic idea that the government isn't doing exactly what the pubic would want it to. Especially deep in the Great Recession and just recovering from the great Oil Spill of 2010 as we are. (Of course my best friend suggests that NO government is up to the task of guiding 700 million people simultaneously and it's stupid to think it could.)

But I'm beginning to think that the "Tea Party" isn't really about anti-establishment feelings and is more about being a fringe-lunatic, racist, my-way-or-the-highway, only-one-religion, xenophobe.

The Tea party seems to give disgruntled racists a way to congregate without seeming to be the despicable things they are. I've seen movements like this before. The most recent one was called the Klu Klux Klan.

[LarsMac]

Whoever this "Tea Party" is, there are some more level-headed than others.

Tea Party Federation kicks out Williams over blog post - CNN.com

[Lon]

Saint_;1322533 wrote: First it was the billboard comparing President Obama to Hitler (something I found ironic, seeing as how the Tea Party's main tactics, fear and hatred, are identical to the Nazi Party's), then it was pictures of tea-partiers showing President Obama as a witch doctor and advising him to "swim back to Kenya," now it's a letter to Abraham Lincoln asking him to repeal the emancipation Proclamation because African Americans can't "cotton to that whole kind of thing." (The use of the word "cotton was particularly inflammatory, I thought!)

Here's that letter if you want to read it:

Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP "Coloreds" In Online Screed | Political Correction

I guess I can partly understand the basic idea that the government isn't doing exactly what the pubic would want it to. Especially deep in the Great Recession and just recovering from the great Oil Spill of 2010 as we are. (Of course my best friend suggests that NO government is up to the task of guiding 700 million people simultaneously and it's stupid to think it could.)

But I'm beginning to think that the "Tea Party" isn't really about anti-establishment feelings and is more about being a fringe-lunatic, racist, my-way-or-the-highway, only-one-religion, xenophobe.

The Tea party seems to give disgruntled racists a way to congregate without seeming to be the despicable things they are. I've seen movements like this before. The most recent one was called the Klu Klux Klan.


To say that the Tea Party is a Breeding Ground For Racists is like saying the ACLU and the NAACP is a Breeding Ground For Communists. All organizations will attract a fringe element that the organization itself wishes were non existent, just as the major political parties attract a fringe element.

[Clodhopper]

The letter stank of racism barely disguised. Glad they gave him the hoof, but think the Tea Party needs to watch out it isn't being taken over. Did the Tea Party give him the hoof for being racist, or for being found out?

Do be careful: the Extreme Right is international, organised, and active. I was reminded of the BNP when I read the letter.

[Ahso!]

The tea party is not a breeding ground for racism, IMV, its a meeting ground where many racists converge, but so is the Arizona Immigration Law. I bet you'll find a lot of tea-baggers support that law.

[hoppy]

Ahso!;1322590 wrote: The tea party is not a breeding ground for racism, IMV, its a meeting ground where many racists converge, but so is the Arizona Immigration Law. I bet you'll find a lot of tea-baggers support that law.


Do you ever read your own posts?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl