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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (560944)4/15/2010 3:32:15 PM
From: Alighieri  Respond to of 1576654
 
Don't like the anti-tax message of the Tea Party? Call them racists and bigots. It's that simple.

Yeah...you know 'cause they are just children playing with placards.

Al



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (560944)4/15/2010 3:48:56 PM
From: combjelly1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1576654
 
"But teabaggers are somewhat more likely to hold those beliefs."

In some cases they are 50% more likely, and not from a low basis. That is a strange definition of 'somewhat' you are using there.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (560944)4/15/2010 3:58:49 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1576654
 
>Besides, what you are perpetrating here is an ad hominem attack. Don't like the anti-tax message of the Tea Party? Call them racists and bigots. It's that simple.

No, that's not it. Not at all. The point is that it's a hell of a lot easier to get racists and bigots involved in artificial populist anti-government campaigns than people who aren't racists and bigots, through use of "dog whistles" and other symbolism. And that's what's going on here.

-Z


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