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Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Wow.. and someone tried to tell me that the TeaParty was just a cross section of ordinary Americans wanting to take their government back...
I was told there was no racism... that there was no homophobia... these two things which are NOT AMERICAN values....
I was told, they fear socialism... I didn't realize they also feared homosexual marriage... not only that, but that the LEADERS OF THE TEA PARTY would actually ENCOURAGE and CELEBRATE the murder of homosexuals....
This is disgusting to no end....
www.huffingtonpost.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
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Personally I would not hang fruits for decorations, they spoil too fast. Better just to throw em in the dumpster after you have used what you want from them.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by TinfoilTP
Better a commie coup, I guess, than the fascist one the republicans have been shooting at for years (literally, look it up. Bush legacy.)edit on 13-10-2011 by GogoVicMorrow because: (no reason given)
Originally Posted by neo96
Is this dude reflective of the majority of OWS? i say yeah might want ot see a pychiastrist in my opinion.
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by spw184
Straight men can't be friends with homosexuals is what that lesson taught me.
Originally posted by projectvxn
Now if the Tea party movement began to actually endorse people like this, then you would find me at odds with them.
But what about
www.teapartyexpress.org...
teapartypatriots.org...
www.teapartynation.com...
N Y Daily News July 18,2010
Exhibit A is a man named Mark Williams. He is listed as the spokesman of Tea Party Express on its website and formerly served as chairman of the group, whose rallies have included guest speakers like Sarah Palin, Andrew Breitbart and Ann Coulter.
Williams, as I noted in a recent column, posted (and later erased) the following on his blog on May 21, 2009: “\[R\]epeat after me: Islam is a 7th Century Death Cult coughed up by a psychotic pedophile and embraced by defective, tail sprouting, tree swinging, semi-human, bipedal primates with no claim to be treated like human beings.”
Just last week, he posted a fake letter from a fictional civil rights leader to Abraham Lincoln intended as a mocking rebuke to complaints from the NAACP. A sample: “How will we Colored People ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn?”
Williams, once again, yanked the blog post after complaints.
As of this writing, Palin and other conservative leaders have yet to denounce Williams. The refusal of mainstream conservatives to condemn such poisonous raving is exactly what the NAACP is complaining about.
In response to the NAACP, incidentally, Williams called it a “vile racist” organization that has made “more money off of race than any slave trader ever.”
Another controversial figure is Dale Robertson, who owns the Web site TeaParty.org and describes himself as a founder and leader of the movement. Robertson was photographed at a Houston rally in Feb. 27, 2009 holding a sign that reads “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.”
In an interview with the Kansas City Star, Robertson said the photograph was altered — that the last word originally was “slave,” not the “N-word.” But then he defended the use of the N-word: “I looked the word up in Webster, and it says it means politically unrepresented.”
Other Tea Party leaders have tried to distance themselves from Robertson. They deserve credit for at least recognizing the importance of publicly objecting to racist language and imagery.
In New York, Carl Paladino, the Republican Buffalo businessman who is running for governor and calls himself a Tea Party candidate, has acknowledged forwarding pornographic and racist emails, including a photo doctored to depict Obama as a pimp and another titling an African tribal dance as an inauguration rehearsal.
Originally posted by projectvxn
Originally posted by CynicalDrivel
I do think it's funny that some gay-basher was kicked out of the TP, as we're still calling the TP "gay-haters".
Very lame conclusion, folks, very lame.
Nah, let 'em have their fun with it.
I'm supposed to be racist against Hispanics and blacks...And yet I'm a Hispanic immigrant and I've never hated anyone darker than me simply for that reason.
I live in a house with a lesbian roommate who is my wife's best friend...My best friend is a gay man.. But we all hate gay people.
Kick a gay basher out of the Tea Party? The message should have been "We don't tolerate the intolerant" instead the posters here got "Tea Party wants to hang gays".
It's classic and shows a lack of understanding.
I have yet to get an answer from her. Which is fine, maybe she missed the post. but I want one from you now. Does guilt by association cut both ways? if a group is judged by who leads them are they then vindicated by those who would depose the leader in order to right the mistake?
Or are all those people who disagreed with the leadership still bad people who want you dead? Is this only a one way street? Does correcting the mistake not count for anything?edit on 15-10-2011 by projectvxn because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by HadrianGoss
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
Thats ridiculous, I have many many straight friends and I have never once tried to seduce them. Why would I? Their straight. I think your friends was misguided and wrong for doing what he did but don't brand the lot of us for something one person did.
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Wow.. and someone tried to tell me that the TeaParty was just a cross section of ordinary Americans wanting to take their government back...
I was told there was no racism... that there was no homophobia... these two things which are NOT AMERICAN values....
I was told, they fear socialism... I didn't realize they also feared homosexual marriage... not only that, but that the LEADERS OF THE TEA PARTY would actually ENCOURAGE and CELEBRATE the murder of homosexuals....
This is disgusting to no end....
www.huffingtonpost.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Are you kidding me You actually believe that in a movement of millions of people there will be no, none, nada, zip any 100% no people who are racists if the official line is not racist?
Let me fill you in on something. there are conservative democrats and liberal republicans who would give their party members cause to ponder if they were on the wrong side.
So the Tea Party's official stand on racism is that it doesn't agree with it so what, that doesn't mean some members are not racists and if you believe that I seriously question your rational thought processes. You may want to have a brain scan and soon.
Personally I would not hang fruits for decorations, they spoil too fast. Better just to throw em in the dumpster after you have used what you want from them.