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« on: October 24, 2013, 05:47:42 pm » |
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If you asked these guys, they'd say YES! Many of the racists participating in the Stormfront discussion say they themselves are either tea party members or have attended multiple tea party meetings. But, to be sure, the tea party has quite literally millions of supporters and many, many of those people are not remotely racist, as the racists on Stormfront readily lament. And even the examples of racist language and signage at tea party rallies pales in comparison to the domestic terrorism carried out by the KKK -- cross-burning, beatings, lynchings, bombings, murder.
Yet, the Stormfront conversations show that the perception of the tea party as having a racist element is not merely held by Grayson or Rev. Al Sharpton, but is a view shared by the kind of people who would know. The comments below are copied from Stormfront and were made by people the site lists as having been longstanding members who have posted hundreds, and in most cases thousands, of times on the site, making it unlikely that they are liberal plants trying to make the tea party look bad. Quite the opposite: Many of the Neo Nazis below rushed to the tea party's defense when other white nationalists accused its members of being insufficiently racist.
Stormfront poster SSVicious argued that tea partiers should not be written off because many are knee-jerk racist toward darker-skinned people, but are not sophisticated enough in their racial analysis to be sufficiently anti-Semitic. It's a start, SSVicious said. |
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2013, 05:55:20 pm » |
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lol...I guess I could have just given the link to JPP.  |
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2013, 09:41:11 pm » |
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They take offense at the mere suggestion...yet when confronted (again and again and again and again) with elements within their ranks that seem to pretty much collaborate everything they angrily deny, the best they can do is fire or remove someone from a position and STILL continue to deny while they try to disenfranchise through voting (affecting primarily minorities), disenfranchise through equal rights for gays, tell the poor, disabled and minorities that they must bear the burden of the results of corporate greed, false wars, and a tax system that favors the wealthy very disproportionately. And for the LIFE of them...they don't understand where everyone gets the idea they project bigotry and intolerance.
At the end of the day...it just comes off like they fired or removed someone for "being obvious" about it. Even funnier, they can't seem to grasp that what they do, the positions they pursue, are just as obvious as any "cat out of the bag" remarks.
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2013, 10:33:28 pm » |
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it's the whole "real scotsman" fallacy... faced with evidence that there are racist TPers, they claim "oh, they aren't REAL tp'ers".
yeah, right
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