New University of Washington Study: Tea Party Simmers With Racial Resentment - FDL

[WillyT]

New University of Washington Study: Tea Party Simmers with Racial Resentment
By: Blue Texan Friday April 9, 2010 10:30 am

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Are all Teabaggers racists? Of course not. Are some? Undoubtedly.

Now that the obvious is out of the way, there seems to be an awful lot of Teabaggers who have serious issues with race.

“The tea party is not just about politics and size of government. The data suggests it may also be about race,”said Christopher Parker, a UW assistant professor of political science who directed the survey.

It found that those who are racially resentful, who believe the U.S. government has done too much to support blacks, are 36 percent more likely to support the tea party than those who are not.

Indeed, strong support for the tea party movement results in a 45 percent decline in support for health care reform compared with those who oppose the tea party. “While it’s clear that the tea party in one sense is about limited government, it’s also clear from the data that people who want limited government don’t want certain services for certain kinds of people. Those services include health care,”Parker said.

Not surprising.

As noted previously, the Teabaggers want government services, as long as they benefit them. It’s not about the size of government — it’s about being pissed that “those people” are taking their money away from them.

Lee Atwater knew what he was talking about.

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Link: http://firedoglake.com/2010/04/09/new-university-of-washington-study-tea-party-simmers-with-racial-resentment/

Oops (forgot the study): http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56877

Oh I see... For a teabagger, it's a government service, for a minority, it's welfare.

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[tblue]

1. "Death panels" and "socialism" are just smokescreen for their hatred of black people.

What they hate hate HATE most of all is thinking their pitiful bit of money might be going to help poor, "lazy," black people. Period, end of story. That is what is eating them alive. Always was, always will be. The ACORN case -- same thing. I knew it all along. It's no revelation to me.

[unpossibles]

3. I agree - it's the most common thing I've seen from them

outrage that "the lazy will benefit from the productive" - with the unstated part being obvious despite their protestations. They naturally assume that the lazy are typically minorities, and that the productive are people like themselves, failing to even consider that people who are impoverished often work extremely hard, and that money is no sign of productivity or usefulness to society.

They have a very false viewpoint that there is a 1:1 correlation between hard work and success because they have built up a mythology about their own success, naturally. They fail to even consider that sometimes it just doesn't work that way, that financially successful people often come from at least a middle class background if not higher, and that chance plays a HUGE role in everything in life. I'm not saying that determination is a bad thing, because obviously having the determination can often result in more opportunities for said chance to occur, but it's never as simple as their rather deterministic attitudes display. It amazes me when you consider the sheer number of people who are unemployed right now through no fault of their own, that they can't seem to grasp that sometimes bad things happen to good people.

They also fail to appreciate that having a safety net actually encourages people to be able to take entrepreneurial risks instead of discouraging it, because if the idea/business fails then at least you won't starve to death.

It's so short sighted and I really think that racism is a HUGE part of it and has been for generations. The same people who gnash and wail (ignorantly) about Socialism and about Welfare reform and Tort reform did not utter word one about the news story that 2/3 of American corporations paid NO taxes from 1998-2005! Not one word have I heard about how that's wrong, how it's redistribution of wealth, etc. Zip! These people are willing to cut off their own legs if it means it will prevent one "lazy" person (ie: non-white) from receiving a dime of their taxes, and never stop to think about what their taxes are actually spent on, or how our infrastructure - you know, the thing which enables us to live in a civilized society where one's hard work at least has a chance to make them successful - is crumbling after years of neglect and mismanagement all in the name of making government "smaller."

I'm finding it more and more difficult to maintain my nominal respect for them. I've always at least applauded the right to speak up even if I totally disagree with someone, and like the fact that we have a diverse range of beliefs and philosophies in America, but... please, will someone on the right at least try to make a cogent, fact-based argument instead of scare-tactic spewing of propaganda, hate, and out-dated concepts? Please?

Is it so much to ask?

[RKP5637]

2. Not really surprised, glad to see it documented. Just looking at some of them

reminded me of the 60's during civil rights legislation...

[WillyT]

4. Kick !!!

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