On the racial accusations leveled against Tea Parties
Ann Althouse does get some pretty impressive commenters. Her reader Lem offers a great insight into the racial accusations of the Tea Party bashers:
Accusing the tea partiers of a hidden racist agenda, essentially means that the election of Obama has set the country back.
Their hatred (from the likes of Krugman, King, Blow, and Rich for the right is so blinding they don’t realise the import of their accusations.
If its about race (and any idiot could see that its not) then it means Obama has a miserable fail winning people over.
(H/t: Instapundit.)
So eager to brand critics of Obama as racist (their default reaction to any energetic movement on the right), the left-wing critics show that they are unable to transcend race. They just can’t imagine that someone might oppose the policies of someone who happens to be black for something unrelated to his race.
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One gets the feeling from these people that if Joseph Stalin or Mussolini had been a black lesbian, they’d have had no problem with him (her).
Comment by Matteo — April 2, 2010 @ 8:49 pm - April 2, 2010
That’s true. They are now the ones preserving and indeed fanning the flames of racial animosity. As I have said on this blog: the Democrats are, and in American history always have been, the main party for people who think in racial terms and keep racial divisions going.
But… I think the larger point here, or at least the corollary, is that Obama’s supporters have now abandoned their own propaganda / “narrative” about Him. (That He is a racial healer taking the country to a new place, blah blah blah.) They have moved to a new stage, trying to prep history, and themselves, for His obvious and growing failure.
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Yeah but if that black lesbian was a conservative, the truth would come out. Liberals are the most racist and hateful bigots I’ve ever met. And it is hatred – it is seldom rational disagreement but it becomes a personal attack dang near immediately. I think we need a return to the code duello…
Comment by Kevin — April 3, 2010 @ 1:01 am - April 3, 2010
The Alinsky Playbook is probably not a good manual for national politics if you do not have a ready force of brownshirts to intimidate and “convince.” SEIU and ACORN are not getting the job done.
The race card has always worked and when Al Sharpton was running the Tawana Brawley Sideshow, he still got a pass. When race is in play the national media will always tip toe past the truth, even when the race lie is abundantly clear. To this day, the Duke lacrosse team is remembered for the charge, not the outcome.
However, the left is now telling people to support and cheer Obama for no other reason than he is black. If you are a leftist, Obama is doubly delicious because he is black. If you are a conservative, it is “clear” you do not support Obama and his socialist agenda because your racism forces you to hate him.
That is a very clear line in the sand and decent people will not stand by and be branded racists. When the left resorts to that war for purely political gain, they had best have the force of power to make it stick.
The left craves a nutcase to step forward and do something entirely stupid to be a poster child of hate and craziness that epitomizes the TEA party and the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton dysfunctional low life that opposes Obama.
They need the hate. They are the plant in The Little Shop of Horrors.
Comment by heliotrope — April 3, 2010 @ 8:58 am - April 3, 2010
How do you explain the large numbers of conservatives that believe that Obama wasn’t born in the country and that he’s a secret Muslim without racism? Those accusations are based purely on his appearance and there is tons of evidence disproving both assertions. Do you guys understand that racism is when you make assumptions about people because of their skin color?
And if you’d like to sidestep that little issue and say ‘Not all teabaggers believe that,’ then you’ve still got the Rev. Wright issue to deal with. I don’t remember any conservatives rejecting those blatantly racist accusations, and I expect that many of you think that Rev. Wright somehow reflects poorly on Obama. If you believe that – sorry, you’re a racist. Just because two black people show up in a room together doesn’t mean they share the same thoughts and opinions.
Comment by Levi — April 3, 2010 @ 10:33 am - April 3, 2010
[Citation Needed]
Exactly how many is “large numbers”???
You mean like the ASSumption that blacks can’t get into colleges or get jobs without Affirmative Action? And who, exactly, has made that assumption “based purely on his appearance”?
Careful, your hatred and bigotry is showing.
Explain the logic behind that turd of a theory, please. Normal people would walk out on a man preaching hate, racism and anti-American rhetoric. Normal people wouldn’t stick around for 20 years. And if it was no big deal, why did Chairman Obama throw him under the bus?
Time to go off kicking and screaming again, Levi. Pathetic.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — April 3, 2010 @ 11:00 am - April 3, 2010
1.) Goldwater’s citizenship was questioned. He provided the documents and his birth in the Arizona Territory was found in accordance with the Constitution. Some leftists said that McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone Constitutionally disqualified him. That was shot down. Obama, who happens to be black, has not released his Hawaii birth certificate. That is what fuels those who question his place of birth. How you jump from questioning his Constitutional requirements to race is beyond me.
2.) Some speculate that his Hawaii birth certificate may list his religion as Muslim and that is why he has kept it under wraps. The radical Islamic fundamentalists do not permit a Muslim to leave the religion. That would create a clear problem. Some people think you can apply the term “race” to people from Ireland or people of a certain religion. That is a very liberal use of the term. If you are implying that “racism” is involved because of the Muslim question, then I can not play along.
Do you understand that when you imply racism toward Obama when people question him that you are giving him total immunity from criticism because of the color of his skin?
Do you not trust Obama to be able to carry out his job without running around calling everyone a racist if they challenge him? Talk about crippling a man with double doses of Affirmative Action! The fact is, Obama is black. The other fact is, Obama is a dud. The two come together in one body. The black skin did not make the dud. He is a millionaire. He is Harvard educated. He is the clearly elected President of the United States. Everyone has known all along that he is black. Now they are learning he is a dud. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Levi, I do not use this type of language and it only demeans those who do. You mean TEA party people, child.
Obama sat in Wright’s church for 20 years. If he did not get the drift of “liberation theology” or understand the anti-Semitism or catch the general racism preached by Wright that caused Oprah to get out of the congregation, then Obama is a moron.
You may now call me a racist for calling Obama a moron. Except, in my circumstances, you had best sputter Oreo or Uncle Tom.
Your argument inclines me toward thinking I am dealing with intellectual shallowness, moral callousness, and stupidity.
Obama has caused me to be pessimistic about his Presidency. You have a child’s optimism about the hopeychangey stuff. A pessimist is someone who has high standards whereas an optimist is someone who has low standards or none at all.
Your racist, homophobe good buddy,
Heliotrope
Comment by heliotrope — April 3, 2010 @ 11:18 am - April 3, 2010
Ooops! Sorry TGC, I didn’t know you were mucking out the stables too.
Comment by heliotrope — April 3, 2010 @ 11:19 am - April 3, 2010
Explain the logic behind that turd of a theory, please. Normal people would walk out on a man preaching hate, racism and anti-American rhetoric. Normal people wouldn’t stick around for 20 years.
Normal people did sit through Reverend Wright for years – unless those weren’t normal people filling his church from wall to wall. Who were those people? Not normal? I never hear Republicans criticize anyone else for going to that church, why not? If we’re supposed to worry about Obama because he went to that church, what about the thousands of other black people that also went to the church, are all of them racists, as well? If Rev. Wright means that Obama is too racist to be the President of white people, does that also mean that some other black person that went to the same church shouldn’t be a teacher to white people, or a doctor to white people?
According to conservatives, we’re all supposed to be terribly offended because somebody said “God Damn America.” Sorry, but that’s retarded.
And if it was no big deal, why did Chairman Obama throw him under the bus?
The way that Obama abandoned Rev. Wright has always been one of my biggest complaints about Obama, and was one of the earliest indicators that he wasn’t going to the President that liberals hoped he would be. His candidacy triggered a very ugly streak of racist fear-mongering and because he was intimidated by it, it has persisted. He should have stood up for himself and for Wright in the face of what were totally frivolous and racist attacks.
Comment by Levi — April 3, 2010 @ 11:31 am - April 3, 2010
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2010/03/24/party-of-nuts-poll-shows-gop-thinks-obama-is-muslim-socialist.html
There’s a link to some poll numbers talking about how many people in the GOP believe Obama is a Muslim/foreigner/anti-christ.
Comment by Levi — April 3, 2010 @ 11:39 am - April 3, 2010
Levi–and what does that poll have to do with anything? Shall we unearth a poll showing you how many Democrats believe 9/11 was an inside job?
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — April 3, 2010 @ 12:10 pm - April 3, 2010
Let’s try it this way:
Those are the type of people who normally sit through a Reverend Wright type of damning rhetoric and think they are the ones on the inside track of truth and understanding. Wright is the shepherd and they are his sheeple
Levi, do you think that what Reverend Wright espouses is the embodiment of “normal” preaching across the nation? Or, would you say it is out of the norm? How about Phelps? How about Farrakahn?
You will recall that Obama voted for Wright before he voted against him. Why did he do that? Did the racists make him do it?
You are really getting desperate, Levi. Is your Messiah beginning to worry you?
Comment by heliotrope — April 3, 2010 @ 1:25 pm - April 3, 2010
Levi–and what does that poll have to do with anything? Shall we unearth a poll showing you how many Democrats believe 9/11 was an inside job?
The other dude asked why I felt justified in talking about the ‘large numbers’ of teabaggers that believe in things that aren’t true, so it has to do with something.
Believing 9-11 was an inside job is unbelievably retarded, but they’ve never had nearly as much traction as the teabaggers. You’ve never seen Democratic representatives turning out at truther meetings the way that prominent GOP figures show up and boost for the tea parties.
Comment by Levi — April 3, 2010 @ 1:47 pm - April 3, 2010
That you call such folk “teabaggers” helps define your purpose; you’re not interested in discourse, but in name-calling.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — April 3, 2010 @ 2:04 pm - April 3, 2010
Levi in #6:
ThatGayConservative in #7 responding to ‘Not all teabaggers believe that’:
Heliotrope in #8 responding to ‘Not all teabaggers believe that’:
Levi in #14 presses on:
Levi is either determined to persist in being a vile bigot, or he does not learn, or he is incapable of civility.
Levi, at this point, I believe you may have been born stupid and that you are losing ground.
Comment by heliotrope — April 3, 2010 @ 2:44 pm - April 3, 2010
Believing 9-11 was an inside job is unbelievably retarded, but they’ve never had nearly as much traction as the teabaggers. You’ve never seen Democratic representatives turning out at truther meetings the way that prominent GOP figures show up and boost for the tea parties.
Did you miss Van Jones and the Obama Party’s endorsement of him and his beliefs?
Now, Levi, spin for us. After stating that proof of one equals proof for everyone, start spinning and demonstrate that proof of one does NOT equal proof for everyone when it would make your Obama Party look bad. Your hypocrisy becomes more and more blatantly obvious every time you open your mouth.
Your black Messiah is a failure, Levi. Your racist beliefs about black skin conferring magical powers are wrong. Your reaction, rather than to be a man and admit you made an error, is to try to shut everyone else up by screaming “racist”.
When Obama and the Obama Party are voted out of office, are you going to scream that everyone who voted against him is a racist? Start now. We WANT you to state that every single person who criticizes or opposes Obama is a racist.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — April 3, 2010 @ 3:25 pm - April 3, 2010
And it gets better; the black Messiah Obama is now stating flatly that all Tea Party participants just lack “robes and hoods”.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — April 3, 2010 @ 3:35 pm - April 3, 2010
The use of “racism” to attack any person or group who resists Obama and his agenda is completely corrupt. The word now means nothing.
Comment by EssEm — April 3, 2010 @ 6:54 pm - April 3, 2010
Hey ghillie, isn’t it racist to ASSume that black folks are so stupid that they would believe the fake hate crimes the people you voted for have manufactured? Isn’t it racist to ASSume that black folks would gleefully latch onto the tits of the people you voted for by comparing the destruction of our health care to the Civil Rights Act and repeating it hundreds of times?
What does that say about you when you vote for and circle the wagons around such disgusting, bigoted, oxygen thieves?
Answer: You’re the one who’s the racist, chump.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — April 4, 2010 @ 7:15 am - April 4, 2010
one of your leaders, glenn beck, called Obama a racist, and you’re trying to argue that it’s the democrats that are racist? wow, what a pathetic argument you’re trying to wage. Sorry, it’s the repugnant right that is bigoted.
Comment by buckeyenutlover — April 4, 2010 @ 9:01 am - April 4, 2010
I was not aware that Glenn Beck was the leader of anything bnl, though President Obama’s hatred of free people is well documented.
you’ve already been shown how Democrats are racists, how they slander (Bretibart’s reward remains unclaimed), and how their top advisors are communists, truthers, and Maoists.
But by all means don’t let facts get in your way.
Comment by The_Livewire — April 4, 2010 @ 9:15 am - April 4, 2010
The party of slavery and segregation decided that since they couldn’t silence the opposition, they’d attack it. Dutifully, the CBC acted like the Duke Lacrosse stripper.
What’s more, since Bush allegedly didn’t care about the blacks in New Orleans, it seems that Man-child Candidate doesn’t care about whites in Rhode Island.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — April 4, 2010 @ 10:19 am - April 4, 2010
Knuckleheadbuttinversion:
Glenn Beck is not “one of our leaders.” Glenn Beck is an articulate, resourceful, diligent, talented, bright, effective, observer and commentator on the Obamanauts, Obama and the great Obama Messiah three ring circus.
And he is burning you guys to cinders and you hate, hate, hate him and you can not find a way to fight back.
Glenn Beck is not “one of our leaders.” If he turned out stacked lies and trash like Michael Moore repeatedly does, the liberal press would tear him apart and neutralize him like he was Al Franken.
Naturally, you get your information from the Huffpo, but I dirty dog dare you to go to the Beck/Couric interview or to Beck’s on 30 minute TV explanation. Even Couric admitted that she believes Obama views America through a race prism.
Sorry, pal, but when Obama had a white mother and he checks “black” on his census form and skips over “mixed” he is sending “his” message.
The Democrat Party keeps this race stew on the burner and they stir it up whenever they see fit. Affirmative Action is a clear message that Democrats do not think a person with black skin can make it without Democrat whites boosting and shoving and covering up. Now that’s racism.
Oh, yeah, Glenn Beck is not “one of our leaders.” We don’t need pied pipers to herd us through the streets. Glenn Beck is enormously successful. People respond favorably to what he brings to the discussion.
Where is your Glenn Beck? You don’t have one, because foaming at the mouth and sneering at people is tiresome. Look at Overbite’s ratings.
You know why you hate Palin and insist she is stupid? Because she is authentic. No Messiah’s robes, no Mussolini chin jut, no styrofoam columns, no silly slogan, no hidden past, no Big Rock Candy Mountain pipe dreams ……. just hard work, accomplishment and straight talk. What a concept.
Comment by heliotrope — April 4, 2010 @ 10:50 am - April 4, 2010
one of your leaders, glenn beck, called Obama a racist, and you’re trying to argue that it’s the democrats that are racist?
Yes, it is the Obama Party that is racist.
Barack Obama makes decisions based solely on skin color without any consideration for anything else. That makes him a racist.
Your argument that black people cannot be racist is in and of itself racist, since it is based solely on skin color.
You lose, racist. And that’s what you and your worthless Messiah Obama are — racist scum and dirtbags.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — April 5, 2010 @ 12:23 am - April 5, 2010
i’d just love for once if someone would STAND UP & tell the left “SHOW ME THE PROOF behind your claims of racism”!
in other words-show the ENTIRE VIDEO of a “tea party” rally-not just the parts that suit you [ie-the left shows just the video of the mostly white "tea party" rallies, not the entire crowd]
just because we’re protesting the way our government is run DOES NOT make us racists
tell me this lefties-was it racist when the blacks protested the way the government of “w” was run?
the reality is this: the left is on the losing end, & they know it-so therefore they claw at anything to get their “troops” angry & riled up…..regardless if what they say is the truth or a blatant outright lie
guess what lefties…..there are BLACK PEOPLE in the “tea party”! [i'm waiting for the *GASP*ing to begin!]
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