RE: Tea Party membership driven by white people who hate brown people, sez science
November 3, 2014 at 3:04 pm
(October 31, 2014 at 6:35 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: From the article:
Quote:“At least to some degree, the Tea Party movement is an outlet for mobilizing and expressing racialized grievances which have been symbolically magnified by the election of the nation’s first black president,” writes a research team led by Florida State University sociologist Daniel Tope.
Why do whites have any "racialized grievances"? What are these grievances? If the Tea Baggers were black with grievances, I'd at least understand that. You'd have no problem coming up with a list of grievances there. How has white American been wronged or mistreated?
Clearly, our right to have a white president is being violated as we speak.
The racial bias of TPers was obvious the moment they took to the streets after the election, demanding "bring back my America!"
Moving on to the birther and Muslim "controversies" -- which were thinly veiled appeals to xenophobia -- it was obvious that they wouldn't treat any president who looked like them this way. I mean, Dubya oversaw the greatest expansion in government debt in American history, the greatest expansion of intrusive government powers in American history, and the greatest foreign policy blunder in American history, and he gets a pass ... but four Americans get killed in Libya and these assholes want a fucking impeachment?
I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that Obama is a symbol of a multiracial America. "Their America" is clearly the America of the 50s, when those uppity blacks knew their place, when lockstep conformity was enforced by stigma if not actually by law, when gays had to hide their sexuality for fear of violence ...
I certainly agree with Jefferson's dictum that "that government is best which governs least" -- and I've voted Libertarian often in my life -- but these TPers aren't coming to their views from a coherent philosophy of government; these assholes are getting their views from the visceral hatred they feel for people who aren't like them.
