AnimusRex
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See this is a perfect example of what I mean when I say the Tea Party is motivated by ethnic tribal resentment, what I mean by white people losing their shit. The argument here is that white people are somehow victims of nonwhite oppression; this meme is being drummed up with slender wisps of anecdotes and rumor, all as a way of validating the resentment the some white people feel towards other ethnic groups. This drum is pounded by Rush Limbaugh ("In Obama's America, black kids beat up white kids"), its repeated by white wing militias ("Mexican gangs are beheading people") and Fox News ("Moozlims are instituting Sharia law") This is dangerous stuff; this is very similar to the campaign carried out by the Serbs in the Balkans, where they whipped up fear and hatred of the Croats based on the notion that the Serbs were being discriminated against, oppressed by Corats. Which led to the "ethnic cleansing" we saw in the Balkans war. White people are not being victimised by nonwhites. Sorry, a few anecdotes ("I know a black guy who punched a white guy one time") isn't the same as Jim Crow. And it doesn't make you a victim. My fellow white people- stop sniveling and man up. It wasn't the black people who crashed the economy and stole your retirement account, it wasn't the Mexican maids who cut off your insurance benefits when you got sick, it wasn't the American Muslims who caused you to get laid off. But the culprits on Wall Street and their accomplilces in Washington would love for you to vent your rage on the black people, the Mexicans, the Muslims, while they continue to rob you blind.
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