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| The Left's War on Tea Partiers |
| 2010-04-28 |
| by Dennis Prager Opponents of the popular expression of conservative opposition to big government, the tea party, regularly note that tea partiers are overwhelmingly white. This is intended to disqualify the tea parties from serious moral consideration. But there are two other facts that are far more troubling: The first is the observation itself. The fact that the Left believes that the preponderance of whites among tea partiers invalidates the tea party movement tells us much more about the Left than it does about the tea partiers. It confirms that the Left really does see the world through the prism of race, gender and class rather than through the moral prism of right and wrong. One of the more dangerous features of the Left has been its replacement of moral categories of right and wrong, and good and evil with three other categories: black and white (race), male and female (gender) and rich and poor (class). Therefore the Left pays attention to the skin color -- and gender (not just "whites" but "white males") -- of the tea partiers rather than to their ideas. One would hope that all people would assess ideas by their moral rightness or wrongness, not by the race, gender or class of those who hold them. But in the world of the Left, people are taught not to assess ideas but to identify the race, class and gender of those who espouse those ideas. This helps explain the widespread use of ad hominem attacks by the Left: Rather than argue against their opponents' ideas, the Left usually dismisses those making the argument disagreed with as "racist," "intolerant," "bigoted," "sexist," "homophobic" and/or "xenophobic." You're against race-based affirmative action? No need to argue the issue because you're a racist. You're a tea partier against ever-expanding government? No need to argue the issue because you're a racist. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 I put "Human" for me and my family for the race part on the census. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-28 14:56 |
| #5 I'm not white. I'm American. Says so on my Census form. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-04-28 14:06 |
| #4 I'm not white, I'm an Irish American. I should sue them for racially profiling me! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-04-28 14:03 |
| #3 Maybe Frozen Al, But also remember the liberal whites are filled with cultural guilt. This just feeds into their own delusions. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-28 12:00 |
| #2 More important, they think demonizing whites will help them win in November. Since America is a strongly Caucasian nation, I think they are just digging themselves a deeper hole. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-04-28 11:40 |
| #1 Those extorted from by the US Government are overwhelmingly white. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-04-28 09:28 |