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[quote]UtahLama wrote:
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[quote]UtahLama wrote:
Why is it ok to be racist towards white people[/quote]
It isn’t. That’s a shitty story about your grandma, those people were fucktards.[/quote]
Again, I am not trying to sound repetitive here…but a micro portion of the Tea party is racist…so the whole group gets the label.
A part of the Democratic party voting block (some minorities) are just as racist…yet the whole party gets a free pass…why? [/quote]
The word micro is where we disagree.[/quote]
The Tea Party IS a micro party…so if you have 1,000,000 members and 1000 are racist…that is a micro not a macro situation nationwide.
You have 100,000,000 minorities… if the same percentages hold (and I imagine they are close) that is a LOT of Democratic supporting racists.[/quote]
No. Proportions tell us more about political and social groups than do absolute values. If you were to lay out the proportions of overtly racist constituents I believe that the Tea Party would beat most major political movements in America today.
If the Republican party is made up of 100 million people and two are murderers, I wouldn’t say it’s a party of murderers. If I start a club with one other guy and we are both murderers, it’s a different story isn’t it? Even though the absolute numbers are identical.[/quote]
OK again, fair enough…you think that a large group of (mostly not all white) people that believe in extreme fiscal responsibility and a return to traditional values has a large racist component. Because of a few videos and reports from (I’m sure highly conservative lol) media.
I have just as many videos and articles of minorities acting in a racist manner, but Dems never get the label…thats my point. [/quote]
I have repeatedly said that the fiscal conservatives in the movement don’t deserve criticism. The racist elements do, and by many accounts they are substantial.
yes, these accounts come from the media–but I’m talking about respectable media. The article I quoted earlier was from the Wash. Post. I get my news from the major sources: the BBC, the New York Times, the WSJ, the CSM, etc. In their editorial pages all of these have a decidedly ideological slant, but in the reporting of news they are nowhere near as biased as people like to depict them. Facts are facts. When the New York Times gets something wrong, which they inevitably will, they make the correction. However, take a look at the corrections page…“we misstated the number of brazieres Ms. Hilton buys in a given week”, etc. These are not major ideological problems. News is news and in reputable sources of it in America are about as trustworthy as we can expect.[/quote]
Would you categorize the racist elements of the Democratic Party (La Raza, Mecha, LULAC, MALDEF, Black Panther Party, etc) equally as those you deem to be racist in the Tea Party?