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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs This Really What’s Driving the Tea Party?
As the tea party celebrates its fifth birthday this month, Ian Haney López, author of Dog Whistle Politics, talks to Bill about how the movement has used strategic racism to get voters to the polls.
Watch: http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/07/is-this-really-whats-driving-the-tea-party/
The fears that animate the tea party at the grassroots, Haney López says, are racial narratives that blame minorities for whats going wrong in America.
When you look at what animates the tea party, there are several different hatreds that are core to the tea party. They hate welfare. Especially, or particularly welfare thats understood as going to minorities. Not social security, for instance, but rather food stamps. Next, theyre obsessed about Muslims and Islam. And they really see this sort of threatening, this external threat in the form of the Middle East, but also ostensibly an internal threat of Muslims coming into the United States Theyre deeply concerned about undocumented immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Finally, they hate President Obama. And Obama seems to combine both this sense of welfare, of being a Muslim, of being a brown foreign other, right?
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Is This Really What’s Driving the Tea Party? (Original Post)
G_j
Mar 2014
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calimary
(81,466 posts)1. Amazing - "...there are several different hatreds…"
That just kinda nails it. Hatred. These are hate-filled people. Period, end of sentence. Hate is what they love. Cute, dontcha think?
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)2. They left out women in the hatred category.nt
and a number of others too, though he seems to be focused on race mostly. The list of hatreds could be a long one. One might easily include hatred of teachers, scientists and girl scouts, just for beginners.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)4. and end with life itself. nt