On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM, David B. Shemano <[email protected]> wrote: > The theory presented is that the TP is racist. You appear to be saying that > the very fact that the TP (or conservatives) go out of their way to favor > minorities evidence the theory. What is the test that would disprove the > thesis? >
That's easy: you want to see if black people are very highly under-represented in the Tea Party or not. > There is clearly a conservative fascination with black intellectual > conservatives, precisely because they are black and rare. Exactly! > I would argue that it is conceptually no different, at worst, than the > Leftist fascination with a guy like Norman Finklestein when it comes to > Israel. Liberal anti-Zionist views are not all that uncommon among the US Jewish community. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
