The Tea Parties Are About Race
I know you’re really shocked to hear this. This week sort of feels like a “I told you so” type of week. Two different incidents of unstable people threatening lawmakers because of radicalization over health care reform. Now we get some results of a new survey about people who support the Tea Party.
A recent survey directed by University of Washington political scientist, Christopher Parker, finds that America is definitely not beyond race. For instance, the Tea Party, the incipient movement that claims to be committed to reigning in what they perceive as big government, appears to be motivated by more than partisanship and ideology. Approximately 45 % whites either strongly or somewhat approve of the movement. Of those, only 35% believe blacks to be hardworking, only 45 % believe blacks are intelligent, and only 41% think that blacks are trustworthy. Perceptions of Latinos aren’t much different. While 50% of white tea party supporters believe Latinos to be hardworking, only 39% think them intelligent, and at 37%, fewer tea party supporters believe Latinos to be trustworthy.
These are the same people who carry racist signs, yet deny that one of their own could possibly have spit on a Congressman or call him a n****r (it’s obviously the Congressmen, his staff and the reporters who are lying). This is not a group with a coherent message other than “we’re mad.” Well, here’s what they’re mad about – black president who’s smarter than they are.
Tags: racism, Tea Parties, Teabaggers
What I find more amazing is the free pass most in the media have given to the racism within the tea party movement, or worse yet failing to correct obvious errors in their claims. Part 1 of the auto bail out occurred during Bush’s presidency, and the auto czar was required under part 1, and if I recall correctly Bush never bothered to fill the position. Part 1 specifically left the re-evaluation (part 2) to the next president. The Wall St. bail out happened in early 08. Bush’s Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen actually tried to get a 3-page bill passed giving him unchecked power to do as he pleased. A bi-partisan bill was passed a few weeks later that the leaders of both parties supported. However when these protestors are interviewed and claim these, and other Bush era legislation is why they take to the street CNN and network broadcast (and even many on MSNBC) fail to correct the misstatements. I bet if you polled Americans today more than half would believe that the bank bail out happened under Obama, and a much higher percent would believe the entire auto industry bail out occurred under Obama!
Hardly surprising, just look at the Tea Partyers. Old, white and most poorly educated.
Wow, this sounds really scientific, i’m sure that there was no bias at all in the survey.
“Hardly surprising, just look at the Tea Partyers. Old, white and most poorly educated.”
Congratulations, you are all Wingnuts now !
LOL FBH, your statement borders on idiotic.
Wow, this sounds really scientific,
Obviously you didn’t click through and read everything. I will not cut and paste for you. Do your own damn homework.
i’m sure that there was no bias at all in the survey.
Based on not reading anything, your statement here it BS.
This is a transparent race baiting technique with leading questions designed to sway non thinkers into a knee jerk reaction.
You are using the term incorrectly. What you mean is “racist baiting.”
“…leading questions designed to sway non thinkers into a knee jerk reaction.”
Which can’t be produced unless those racist knees jerk. This is the equivalent of saying, “No fair! You tricked me into saying what I really think instead of what’s politically correct!”
Non-racist people aren’t tricked into answering “no” to these questions: “Do you think black people are hardworking?” or “Do you think black people are intelligent?”
To get a valid survey of those same people you would have to ask if Whites are hardworking, trustworthy, and intelligent. You may get the same answers. Some of us think race has no bearing on whether or not people are hardworking, trustworthy, and intelligent. It is unsurprising that liberal prof. wouldn’t understand that reality.
My point exactly, David. The survey has no merit.
Shesh…. It is getting so you can go around hating blacks without being called a racist in this country.
If your assertion is correct, then the Democrat Party is all the things engaged in by the Phelps Phamily Phreaks from Westboro Baptist Church because they are registered Democrats. After all, they clearly outnumber the two morons that you mention in this post.
Moose has decided to stop even trying to make sense I see. Good choice.
I can’t make hide nor hair of it either, Jason. FBH and David’s comments are I don’t like the results so I’ll bash to poll (without reading anything about it).
Silly kids. Don’t you know that polls with results David and FBH like are credible. Polls that say things they don’t like don’t count. 🙂
The Phelps are Democrats. He ran for office 5 times as a Democrat. The point is that all Democrats are responsible for the Phelps if all Republicans are responsible for the two lunatics who need mental health treatment not being made political pawns. After all the Phelps are perfectly sane. They just hate certain people.
I don’t know that the survey methodology is valid or not. I do know that the survey is invalid because the results do not tell you what the Professor concludes. The questions had bias. He asked one set of questions and based upon assumptions assumed they met something else. If he asked do Blacks and Latinos lack intelligence, a work ethic, etc., then he could reach certain conclusions such as these people surveyed think lowly of people because of ethnicity. If you ask do you think people who are Black or Hispanic are intelligent, hardworking, etc. then you are asking if people by virtue of their race are those characteristics. In order to assertain bias in the people, you would then have to ask the same question regarding whites of the same sample.
I and a lot of other people do not think that people are hardworking, intelligent, and trustworthy because they belong to an ethnic group. I know people in most groups that are those things and people who are not. I would try to guess what the survey met, and likely answer yes or say I don’t judge people by their ethnicity, which would mean I would not count in the 45%. I would be marked as other. That is why FBH and I regard this as an agenda oriented poll.
2 lunatics? i guess you forget about the tons of other Rs who share the same feelings as those terrorists and who cheer them on from their cable news shows, and congressional offices. How is it that Republicans, with a straight face, can disavow hundreds of “lone wolves” who again and again echo the same bigoted talking points, then try and paint the entire progressive movement because one or 2 southern democrats start talking more like the TeaBag party? you people really just must wake up every morning and spend the first hour re building your own wing nut reality.
For out of the overflow of his heart, Phelps’ mouth speaks. His heart is Republican
Name, date, time, and transcript of a single talk radio host or cable news show who has “cheered on” anyone making such a death threat, a.price, or admit you are a liar.
Also, please provide similar evidence documenting any elected Republican who has cheered on such a death threat from their office.
Rush Limbaugh tries to explain away Giusti
Here’s Limbaugh claiming that Pelosi is provoking the crowd by walking through it.
Limbaugh’s more mainstream than many others. That’s what I get from 5 minutes of searching. I certainly remember several Republicans (Rep. King from Iowa in particular) cheering on the domestic terrorist who flew a plane into the IRS building.
Eric Boehlert has been documenting a lot of the rightwing hate speech.
More from Eric Boehlert.
I don’t know that the survey methodology is valid or not.
Which is exactly where you should have stopped. Because part of the survey methodology is its questions, how they are formulated, and how they are asked. If you had even bothered to look at what you are trying to denigrate, you would see where (pdf)this survey is going.
And this bit if idiocy:
To get a valid survey of those same people you would have to ask if Whites are hardworking, trustworthy, and intelligent.
This is a survey of racial attitudes, meaning you are asking questions about targeted minority groups. White people simply to not have to live with the stereotypical baggage of whether they are hardworking or trustworthy or intelligent. You find some *real* racial animus against white people and that can be measured in a simliar survey. But guess what? That is pretty damn rare here. You and yours have made an industry of being victimized by people who are not white, but the bottom line is that you still live in a society where white racial anxieties still rule the day.
“That is why FBH and I regard this as an agenda oriented poll.”
I realize that logic is not the strong suit of anyone who believes in God, but all polls have an agenda. The agenda is obtaining information.
thanks for the speedy back-up UI. My internet research skills arent good enough to pull up exact quote from M-bach saying she wants people armed and dangerous. or the oregon congressman saying “ay god bless you” to a man claiming to be a proud right wing terrorist last summer. Moose man is one of those who must wake up each morning and look at the orange sky and pretty neon pink leaves on the trees.
Here’s the Bachman link
Isn’t she precious. Also notice how Moose hasn’t come back to apologize.
The funniest part is that Beck is openly laughing at Moose and FBH all the way to the bank.
None of those guys will even read the links either because they don’t want to tear down their carefully constructed world. I found it quite telling that the teabagger response to the shouting of racial slurs at Congressman during their rally is to deny that it happened at all. They didn’t even say “we condemn that, it’s not typical.” They just pretended it didn’t happen and that Rep. Lewis, Rep. Cleaver, their staffs and the reporters who witnessed it are all liars. I just wonder how much longer they can sustain their make-believe world.
UI — neither documents “cheering on” of those making death threats. Try again.
And a.price, your examples fail as well.