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geezer_also in talk_politics

Prejudice

Apr 23, 2011 08:38

Thinking about the discussion the other day on how the tea party is: bad, evil, bigoted, ignorant, etc (choose your favorite adjective). Accepting, for the moment, the general consensus, that there is no ism without power (the idea that there can be no reverse discrimination, since there is no power on the other side). Accepting also that it is ( Read more... )

obama, racism, bias, tea party

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meus_ovatio April 23 2011, 17:52:36 UTC

What is wrong with hating what you consider evil? I learned from the best myself. The deepest home-fried fundamentalism there is, actually. Only the thing is, while their attitudes were right, their objectives were utterly wrong. So now I hate them, instead of hating whom they hate. Shit tends to backfire. Especially when you're a source of great evil, and people figure it out. I don't know why you're being so wishy-washy relativist about it. In fact, the Tea Party is sustained by the worst sort of cloaked, truculent, willfully ignorant sort of evil that can exist in the world. They remind me of the Devil, really. Everything they say and do is either an act, a lie or an obfuscation. So I hate them. The only obligation I have is to refrain from killing, harming, injuring or robbing them. Otherwise, it's fair game, and the heat of democracy is the engine we use.

sealwhiskers April 23 2011, 18:07:00 UTC

lol. I feel like you write when I have pms a toothache and a bad hair day! (plus taxes to file)

geezer_also April 23 2011, 18:13:38 UTC

While I consider myself a pragmatist rather than a relativist, you may be correct. I do know that practically I am more centrist and way more concillatory than my inner reactionary can tolerate at times.

johnny9fingers April 23 2011, 18:23:06 UTC

Pragmatism is good.
It is a very Confucian attribute.

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musicpsych April 24 2011, 05:27:50 UTC

I think it depends on what exactly the "hope and change" population is. In my view, the Tea Party is almost a fringe group, while the "hope and change" people include both fringe and "average" folks. I think there are big idealists on both sides, and people who get caught up in a movement without fully thinking it through - who might feel instead of think ( ... )

kylinrouge April 24 2011, 06:30:16 UTC

The comments to this post are very good, even though the op's premise is bad.

I would be more interested, as many in here have pointed out, the motivations behind these groups. What they want, and how they go about getting it. I'm no psychologist, but it seems to me that a much more honest discussion would involve getting to the source of the matter.