Is The Tea Party Really, Really Racist?

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

You are either being dishonest or you are ignorant...which one is it?

A literacy test was a method that was used during the Jim Crow era to deny people their voting RIGHTS...I guess words like 'rights' only apply when YOUR rights are threatened. When it applies to 'others', you have no problem making it a right for you and a 'privilege' for them?

BTW, you 'less government' folks NEVER seem to have any problem with MORE government in other people's lives, DO YOU?

Q. WHO is going to author these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to administer these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to grade these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to decide who passes these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to PAY for these literacy tests?
A. YOU, me and taxpayers...

You just FAILED the less government test...

Its not a literacy test.....it was a civics test just like for immigrants when they first come here to make sure they have a basic understanding of the system.

Now all this being said I'm not for that idea but just because I don't support his idea/statments on said idea doesn't mean i'll sit here and let you be dishonest about what he said.

The only one being dishonest is YOU. That was not the only thing he said that smells of racism and xenophobia. Tom Tancredo has a reputation that preceded him. The tea party had to know what they would get when they invited him to speak, and be the first ever speaker at their first ever national convention.

Stop being so obtuse.

I'm not being obtuse, you are the one trying to stretch tancredo's drivel to fit your position that he is calling for Jim Crow.

 

[mudwhistle]

You are either being dishonest or you are ignorant...which one is it?

A literacy test was a method that was used during the Jim Crow era to deny people their voting RIGHTS...I guess words like 'rights' only apply when YOUR rights are threatened. When it applies to 'others', you have no problem making it a right for you and a 'privilege' for them?

BTW, you 'less government' folks NEVER seem to have any problem with MORE government in other people's lives, DO YOU?

Q. WHO is going to author these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to administer these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to grade these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to decide who passes these literacy tests?
A. GOVERNMENT

Q. WHO is going to PAY for these literacy tests?
A. YOU, me and taxpayers...

You just FAILED the less government test...

Its not a literacy test.....it was a civics test just like for immigrants when they first come here to make sure they have a basic understanding of the system.

Now all this being said I'm not for that idea but just because I don't support his idea/statments on said idea doesn't mean i'll sit here and let you be dishonest about what he said.

The only one being dishonest is YOU. That was not the only thing he said that smells of racism and xenophobia. Tom Tancredo has a reputation that preceded him. The tea party had to know what they would get when they invited him to speak, and be the first ever speaker at their first ever national convention.

Stop being so obtuse.

Obviously pointing out the obvious truth is racist to you.

 

[mudwhistle]

To many blacks would change the Tea party ,to the weed party

Well at least I would know where to get some.

 

[Bfgrn]

Its not a literacy test.....it was a civics test just like for immigrants when they first come here to make sure they have a basic understanding of the system.

Now all this being said I'm not for that idea but just because I don't support his idea/statments on said idea doesn't mean i'll sit here and let you be dishonest about what he said.

The only one being dishonest is YOU. That was not the only thing he said that smells of racism and xenophobia. Tom Tancredo has a reputation that preceded him. The tea party had to know what they would get when they invited him to speak, and be the first ever speaker at their first ever national convention.

Stop being so obtuse.

I'm not being obtuse, you are the one trying to stretch tancredo's drivel to fit your position that he is calling for Jim Crow.

Literacy tests were Jim Crow methods used to suppress voters' rights. IF Tancredo's literacy tests became law, would any voter's rights be suppressed?

The answer is YES. You are being a partisan hack. You can't admit the TRUTH.

Ironic, Tancredo's grandparents were born in Italy and immigrated here. Now that HIS family is here, he wants to deny that right to others. Isn't Italian heritage multicultural?

WHY do you defend this piece of shit?

 

[JimBowie1958]

The Tea Party is about as racist as the OWS is communist.

Bingo!

Both are just slanderous terms used to make ad hominem attacks without dealing with the facts at hand.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

The Tea Party is about as racist as the OWS is communist.

Bingo!

Both are just slanderous terms used to make ad hominem attacks without dealing with the facts at hand.

The Tea Party is about as racist as the OWS is communist.

I don't know about that

The tea partiers would rally against slavery, don't want the govt to make decisions based on race, and judge people on their character not their skin color (hence their support of Herman Cain)

On the other hand the OWS people would be ok with the government redistributing wealth from the rich/corporatoins/wall-street to those with less money.

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[Ernie S.]

It must be racist. After all, a few weeks ago some black stooge U.S. Representative said Tea Party folks wanna see blacks swinging from trees. If that's not racist I don't know what is.

What liberals mistakenly claim as racism is Conservative reaction to this Rep's. comments. Criticism of stupidity is not racist.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Jacobin is not an organ of a political organization nor captive to a single ideology. Our contributors are, however, loosely bound by common values and sentiments:

+ As proponents of modernity and the unfulfilled project of the Enlightenment.
+ As asserters of the libertarian quality of the socialist ideal.
+ As internationalists and epicureans.

We will have no editorial position beyond this. Every writer speaks for him or herself.

I only hope we can live up to these modest goals and avoid the outright barbarous.

— Bhaskar Sunkara

Does your article live up to the modest goals, or is it a blog whose conclusions are formed before the 'study' is begun. Finding data to 'prove' a conclusion and then filling in the blanks with thesaurus in hand seems to be the basis for this and most of the polemics you post as authoritative. I call bull shit. Categorizing all people on the left or all people on the right as a homogeneous set is absurd.

To deny some on the right (and some on the left) are racist maybe true, but without a proper definition of "racist" or to the degree racism is asserted by anyone isn't predictive or relevant to any debate.

 

[faith34]

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[PoliticalChic]

Jacobin is not an organ of a political organization nor captive to a single ideology. Our contributors are, however, loosely bound by common values and sentiments:

+ As proponents of modernity and the unfulfilled project of the Enlightenment.
+ As asserters of the libertarian quality of the socialist ideal.
+ As internationalists and epicureans.

We will have no editorial position beyond this. Every writer speaks for him or herself.

I only hope we can live up to these modest goals and avoid the outright barbarous.

— Bhaskar Sunkara

Does your article live up to the modest goals, or is it a blog whose conclusions are formed before the 'study' is begun. Finding data to 'prove' a conclusion and then filling in the blanks with thesaurus in hand seems to be the basis for this and most of the polemics you post as authoritative. I call bull shit. Categorizing all people on the left or all people on the right as a homogeneous set is absurd.

To deny some on the right (and some on the left) are racist maybe true, but without a proper definition of "racist" or to the degree racism is asserted by anyone isn't predictive or relevant to any debate.

To this day, the terms Jacobin and Jacobinism are used as pejoratives for radical, left-wing revolutionary politics
Jacobin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jac·o·bin (jk-bn)
n.
1. A radical or extreme leftist.
2. A radical republican during the French Revolution.
3. A Dominican friar.
Jacobins - definition of Jacobins by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Jacobin is not an organ of a political organization nor captive to a single ideology. Our contributors are, however, loosely bound by common values and sentiments:

+ As proponents of modernity and the unfulfilled project of the Enlightenment.
+ As asserters of the libertarian quality of the socialist ideal.
+ As internationalists and epicureans.

We will have no editorial position beyond this. Every writer speaks for him or herself.

I only hope we can live up to these modest goals and avoid the outright barbarous.

— Bhaskar Sunkara

Does your article live up to the modest goals, or is it a blog whose conclusions are formed before the 'study' is begun. Finding data to 'prove' a conclusion and then filling in the blanks with thesaurus in hand seems to be the basis for this and most of the polemics you post as authoritative. I call bull shit. Categorizing all people on the left or all people on the right as a homogeneous set is absurd.

To deny some on the right (and some on the left) are racist maybe true, but without a proper definition of "racist" or to the degree racism is asserted by anyone isn't predictive or relevant to any debate.

To this day, the terms Jacobin and Jacobinism are used as pejoratives for radical, left-wing revolutionary politics
Jacobin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jac·o·bin (jk-bn)
n.
1. A radical or extreme leftist.
2. A radical republican during the French Revolution.
3. A Dominican friar.
Jacobins - definition of Jacobins by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Thanks for the clarification