Blatant lies.
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, that was not my intention at all. I had two points which I don't > think I explicated very well. > > 1. The Tea Party isn't really an established group or coherent > ideology. This has the benefit and detriment of making it difficult to > talk about the group as a whole. If you are a Democrat and the leaders > of the party are doing stupid things with which you disagree, you can > opt out of the party, change your voter registration affiliation to > independent or something else. The Tea Party, per se, isn't a party so > you can't really do that. There are a bunch of disparate groups that > kind of work with one another and who all use some variation of the > name Tea Party. > > 2. The hard part is that a lot of the people in the movement say "I'm > the Tea Party". I mentioned Mike Williams. He heads one of the most > influential Tea Party groups. He is pretty obviously a racist asshole. > When you have a group leader, that leader speaks for your group. When > that leader continues to make these sorts of statements and stays in a > leadership position, I think it is fair to label the group based on > the actions of its leader. If you strongly disagree with having a > racist leader, you can certainly leave. The point of having a group > with a leader and a membership is to have the leader speak for the > membership. > > So I'd say that I agree with you that you can't label "The Tea Party" > as racist based on the actions of a few members. On the other hand, > there is no such thing as The Tea Party. It isn't an organized group. > However, there are a number of somewhat organized groups that claim to > represent The Tea Party and at least one of the most prominent and who > actively promotes itself nationwide definitely has a leader who makes > very racist statements. > > Hopefully that's a bit more clear. > > Cheers, > Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325894 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
