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20 Mar 2011, 11:46 am

Why does everyone have to bring race into everything? The Tea Party stands for a set of ideals that, as far as I can tell, do not include white nationalism. They primarily want to reduce taxes.

So why bring it up?

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20 Mar 2011, 11:49 am

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Just stating the obvious (that most teabaggers are White Evangelicals) doesn't mean that teabaggers are racist, unless White Evangelicals also are racist.

I think that the majority of Ku Klux Klan members are also White Evangelicals.

Also, most members of the Republican Party are White Evangelicals.

So, what's your point?

the point could be that Evangelicals are the most under represented group in the senate.
17% when they make up around 30% of americans
for scale
15% are Presbyterian (church of scotland in america) when they make up 2.1%
Mormons make of about 1.4% but they have 5% of senate
Jewish folk make up about 1.2% (more mormons in america than jews wierd) 12 senators ,America is good for the Jews.
black folks make up around 12.4% of the us but at this time have no rep in the senate.

btw there are no atheists

There's also a Muslim in Congress (Ken Ellison).

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20 Mar 2011, 12:21 pm

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Yeah it's as absurd as pointing out that most emos are white.

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20 Mar 2011, 12:44 pm

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Because the teabaggers wish to feel victimized.

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20 Mar 2011, 1:40 pm

Radical feminists tend to be middle class and white, but I don't see anyone calling them racist.

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20 Mar 2011, 2:12 pm

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Radical feminists tend to be middle class and white, but I don't see anyone calling them racist.

The "Feminazi" label does the trick.

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20 Mar 2011, 2:27 pm

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Radical feminists tend to be middle class and white, but I don't see anyone calling them racist.

No. Overbearing, puritanical, humourless screeching socialist misandrists generally does the trick.

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20 Mar 2011, 2:33 pm

Well, okay. That label will work, too, but it is too much to remember.

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20 Mar 2011, 2:37 pm

I've met a few of those sorts of people. They hate men and tell others how to live their lives. They're vegetarians yet work in steakhouses and tell people that they shouldn't eat steak. They're teetotallers yet work in pubs and disapprove of alcohol. Really obnoxious characters.

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20 Mar 2011, 3:14 pm

The logic (if you can call it that :roll: ) is that since the tea party is made up predominately of white males then that makes them racist. I guess, to the opponents, that implies that the tea party does not allow pepople of other races.
Those that are against it will grasp at anything to degrade it.
This does not just apply to the tea party but anything they don't like.

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20 Mar 2011, 5:01 pm

Raptor wrote:

The logic (if you can call it that :roll:

) is that since the tea party is made up predominately of white males then that makes them racist. I guess, to the opponents, that implies that the tea party does not allow pepople of other races.
Those that are against it will grasp at anything to degrade it.
This does not just apply to the tea party but anything they don't like.

No. IF the teabagger message is one of fiscal responsibility and small government, then it should be attractive to anyone who likes those things. But since most everyone except white protestants stay well away, including black protestants who approve of those things, there is obviously some undercurrent that they do not feel comfortable with. These undercurrents do not have to be part of the official policy. Sometimes a community feels things outside their official bonds.

The inability to harmonize the teaparties admirable and rational points with a broad cultural adoption is a strong indicator that they are doing something wrong.

Here in Canada we have the NDP party. While they have some laudable ideals, they just dont appeal to a broad spectrum of Canadians, and they never make much headway. They are like the reverse image of the Tea Partiers in many ways.

Therein lies the problem. The Tea Party calls itself a populist movement... but its not. Its a fringe party.

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20 Mar 2011, 5:06 pm

@ Fuzzy

I would argue it is more fear of their neighbors and the SEIU and/or actually believing the lamestream media.

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20 Mar 2011, 5:31 pm

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@ Fuzzy

I would argue it is more fear of their neighbors and the SEIU and/or actually believing the lamestream media.

What? The Teabaggers are afraid of their neighbors and the Service Employees International Union? And, they actually believe the "lamestream media?"

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20 Mar 2011, 5:38 pm

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@ Fuzzy

I would argue it is more fear of their neighbors and the SEIU and/or actually believing the lamestream media.

What? The Teabaggers are afraid of their neighbors and the Service Employees International Union? And, they actually believe the "lamestream media?"

Talking about Conservative African Americans, especially after a certain incident.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ[/youtube]

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20 Mar 2011, 5:43 pm

I thought that you didn't pay any attention to "lamestream media?"

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20 Mar 2011, 6:13 pm

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I thought that you didn't pay any attention to "lamestream media?"

Apparently my definition of lamestream media and yours differ.

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