Irvine511
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So the answer is no then. Gotcha.
Whatever works best for you.
You already had your answer before you asked the question.
So the answer is no then. Gotcha.
So the answer is no then. Gotcha.
Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
Whatever works best for you.
You already had your answer before you asked the question.
Yes, there are no race-baiters on the right, just Al fucking Sharpton.I do agree with you about the disgusting people who are almost professional race-baiters out there, who exploit race for their own ends and use it as a wedge issue.
Al Sharpton in particular is a real problem.
And I thought we were talking about big government vs limited government. Instead, the dialogue is redirected since
You're smarter than arguing that the Tea Party's raison d'être is racist.
Where did Irvine state that?
Irvine511 said:the leaders of the Tea Party absolutely feel as if race motivates their constituents.
Irvine511 said:The anti-tax impulse has historically had racism as one of its motivators.
Irvine511 said:We have a black president now.
Irvine511 said:It's not that shocking. We have a black president.
Where did Irvine state that?
All Nathan and NBC can do is pretend -- as I predicted earlier -- that I'm saying that race is the ONLY motivator, or that this is some "tin foil hat" conspiracy.
Creating a caricature or denying everything is easier than having to actually present arguments.
Since we’re citing the “special code words” divined by the tin foil hat crowd at MSNBC, the answer must be “no”.
SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYlNG IS THAT YOU AGREE WITH IRVINE AND THIS WHOLE ARGUMENT IS IDIOTIC.I don't deny that race is a factor.
Wait, why is it the Democrats' fault that I can't find work?
SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYlNG IS THAT YOU AGREE WITH IRVINE AND THIS WHOLE ARGUMENT IS IDIOTIC.
Which is completely fair, but is simply not how you have been framing this. You've been acting as if Irvine is saying it's the only factor.No, it's not. I don't disagree that race is a factor. The question is to what extent, and to what extent we can then disregard them because racism.
I tend to avoid talking about the racism that influences segments of the Tea Party because it ends in multi-page arguments like this about the extent of the racism that miss the larger point. The larger point is that it's not a grassroots movement. It was a movement that was carefully constructed by big right-wing donors like the Koch's with the specific intent of taking the fury of a zestful but uninformed segment of the population with only a basic understand of national economics and direct that fury entirely at the left. It had a relatively simple strategy: warp the debate on health care into a battle of free markets vs. socialism and then tag every move the left tries to make subsequently as a continuance on that "march to socialism." And these people, who don't understand these economic issues all that much, bought it hook, line and sinker, exactly as the Tea Party organizers assumed they would.As Digitize and others have posted repeatedly in this thread, there are cogent reasons for the Tea Party movement, and for a resurgent push on the Right for substantial economic reform. I believe that both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement had a great deal in common, including an anger motivated by profound economic inequalities brought about by twenty years of unregulated capitalism (though they obviously drew different conclusions). But I don't believe that Occupy was a bunch of unruly lazy hippies (although there were clearly a few), and I don't believe that the Tea Party is a bunch of people mad about having a black president (although there are clearly a few). I cry foul on the attempts by some on this thread to disregard the Right because it's easier to chortle about how much our black President pisses off one side than to actually engage the economic issues at hand.
I believe that both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement had a great deal in common, including an anger motivated by profound economic inequalities brought about by twenty years of unregulated capitalism (though they obviously drew different conclusions).
I tend to avoid talking about the racism that influences segments of the Tea Party because it ends in multi-page arguments like this about the extent of the racism that miss the larger point. The larger point is that it's not a grassroots movement. It was a movement that was carefully constructed by big right-wing donors like the Koch's with the specific intent of taking the fury of a zestful but uninformed segment of the population with only a basic understand of national economics and direct that fury entirely at the left. It had a relatively simple strategy: warp the debate on health care into a battle of free markets vs. socialism and then tag every move the left tries to make subsequently as a continuance on that "march to socialism." And these people, who don't understand these economic issues all that much, bought it hook, line and sinker, exactly as the Tea Party organizers assumed they would.
I think where Irvine is beating you in this argument has nothing to do with race. It has to do with who is getting credit for the sustained life of the Tea Party. You think it has to do with citizens who had righteous, earned anger over the economic state of the US. What it really has to do with is intelligent political consultants who know how to twist things just right to get their way. They preyed upon the anger of those people and have led them into supporting and voting for policies that go against their own interests.
And driven apart and kept separated by the corporate sell outs in both major parties and the corporate media that loves to sell the perpetual conflict.
Us vs Them, always.
That's your false analogy which is why blacks, especially religious blacks, remain opposed to SSM.Like, if you think gay marriage should be illegal, that's not your opinion, you're just wrong. You're the guy who thought inter-racial marriage should have been illegal 50 years ago.
That guy was wrong, and so are you.
That's your false analogy which is why blacks, especially religious blacks, remain opposed to SSM.
The larger point is that it's not a grassroots movement.
Does your concern for big money in politics include big left-wing donors like George Soros?It was a movement that was carefully constructed by big right-wing donors like the Koch's
with the specific intent of taking the fury of a zestful but uninformed segment of the population with only a basic understand of national economics