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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Since some of you might have wondered what the Tea Party take on this story might be, here's an article from one Tea Party person (and it's a real Tea Party, not that TEA Party Express crap).

Wait for the Whole Story

This story brings to light so many issues that we face today, especially in light of the recent stories surfacing about race and the heightened awareness of racial tensions on both sides. It would seem as though both sides are playing a childish game of tit for tat. I think it's time that we as Americans stop allowing those in power, both black, white, brown,whatever, to dictate what we think.

Let's see what fault you can find with this.

Comments

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

Both sides playing each other? No shit, Sherlock. I guess sometimes it's more blatantly obvious.

Same applies to racial tension as it does to other fields as well.
black vs white
conservatives vs liberals
workers vs management
men vs women
etc

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I think the blogosphere is too amped up with its own circus and commits an attribution error whereby "society" is somehow the source of their heated, over-wrought and overly-active conditions.

[jonathankorman.livejournal.com]

No true Scotsman! (http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/no-true-scotsman/)

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Yes, if it was started by the GOP establishment or after 2009, it's not a Tea Party.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/activist-sue-to-keep-tea-party-from-becoming-a-party/1067514

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

How about if it was started by FreedomWorks?

[futurebird.livejournal.com]

B.I.S.S. ?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Basic Interoperable Scrambling System?

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

No one said it was the viewpoint of a faction. Yes, it's an opinion piece from some lady, but the "newspaper" selected it for print, and the newspaper is a Tea Party paper, so they obviously considered it good enough to "print".

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

especially in light of the recent stories surfacing about race and the heightened awareness of racial tensions on both sides. It would seem as though both sides are playing a childish game of tit for tat.

Yes, racial tension in America is something new! And both sides are playing a childish game -- the black people who have been oppressed for generations are being as childish as the white power structure that has been doing the oppression.

Sometimes fault-finding occurs because there is actually, you know, a fault.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Yes, racial tension in America is something new!

Read what you quoted a little more carefully and you'll see that it didn't say that. You're putting words in other people's mouths again.

the black people who have been oppressed for generations are being as childish as the white power structure that has been doing the oppression.

Lumping people into a group based on skin color is a sign of racism.

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

Lumping people into a group based on skin color is a sign of racism.

No, it isn't. The immigrant experience of the Irish is substantively different from the slavery experience of black people.

I mean, are you seriously asserting that Afro-American Studies is by definition a racist enterprise?

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

Thought #1... it's good of the author to present the claimed back-story and context, and to recognize its significance, and it appropriately reminds everyone on both sides to pay attention to context.

Thought #2 .... But after that, its full of fail and false equivalencies.

[rogerdr.livejournal.com]

This. A textbook case of "Any evidence naturally supports my view."

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Thought #2 .... But after that, its full of fail and false equivalencies.

But you can't say how. It just feels wrong?

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I can say.

The whole POINT of the Sharrod fiasco, the reason the story was finessed, massaged and pushed, is the maintenance in the public mind of a false equivalency between racism and 'reverse racism'. Construction of this trope has been politically useful to people who directly oppose certain policies that address race inequality, as well as in the wider political arena where one group is more or less associated with issues of race inequality.

So, now that in this case, the back story is revealed, now that the details are laid bare... what does the author you quote take away from this? Essentially an attitude of "A plague on both your houses! Both sides are playing a childish game of tit for tat!"

In other words... the tactic which spawned the lie has succeed in exactly what it was supposed to do.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

Since some of you might have wondered what the Tea Party take on this story might be, here's an article from one Tea Party person (and it's a real Tea Party, not that TEA Party Express crap).

Wait, wait, just a second here. I thought we weren't supposed to draw any inferences about the entire Tea Party from the words or actions of a single person. So why would I even bother to read this?

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

I thought we weren't supposed to draw any inferences about the entire Tea Party from the words or actions of a single person.

Who's asking you to do that?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

so... she told that story because she was racially pressured to?

Yeah, ok.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Um, what?

Judging people...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I find that I judge people not by the content of their character, but by the lack thereof.

Re: Judging people...

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Why do you think there's a difference between the two?