Hi Billy, On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I think you are basically right, usually the Tea Party was described as > "racist." > However, my sister in SF is up on local Bay Area "discourse" and one of > the themes last year was that the gun-totin' Tea Partyers were a bunch > of Nazis seeking to foment the rise of a new Reich.
Well, the Nazis were racist too, so I give her a "bye" on this one. :-/ > Maybe she heard this from a Berkeley new organization, but in any case > there was this kind of outlook at least in some circles. Maybe its just me, but I usually see the term "fascist" thrown around more as a generic pejorative meaning "authoritarian" than a pure ad hominem attack like "racist". -- Ernie P. > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
