{"id":5095,"date":"2010-03-22T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:10:38","slug":"racism-homophobia-dominates-tea-party-protest-over-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2010\/03\/22\/racism-homophobia-dominates-tea-party-protest-over-health-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism, Homophobia Dominates Tea Party Protest Over Health Care Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is not a spontaneous uprising of disaffected citizens who are angry about bailouts. This is the base of the modern Republican party, same as it ever was.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

– Digby on the Tea Party Racist Traitors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d love to say I’m surprised but I’ve lived in the South and in the rural Midwest. Racist Republicans are nothing new to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, you used to find that the most vile woman-hating, minority-loathing, gay-bashing language was kept at home. Now it is out in the open<\/a>. The secessionist bullshit is in the open. The violent revolution is on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because they lost a couple elections. That’s it. People, in the main, got tired of their lies and bullshit and voted a lot of Republicans out of office. Then, we the people, elected a black man president. And these cretins went insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have a better explanation? Pop me an email, because nothing else looks plausible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our nation is progressing. Moving forward. We just now got a health insurance system that is on par with other free nations of the world. They got their’s in the middle of the last century. We’ll get a portion of our’s in four years time. Progress. Kind of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is horrible for the conservatives. Let’s see what passes for compassion with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reverting to time honored racism<\/a>, calling black Congressmen “nigger<\/a>“. Spitting on Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking Points Memo has a nice roundup<\/a> on both the racial element, plus the blatant homophobia by calls of “faggot” directed at Rep. Barney Frank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again, so “compassionate” these conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are Reps James Clyburn and Elijah\u00a0condemning the Rethugs<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not a spontaneous uprising of disaffected citizens who are angry about bailouts. This is the base of the modern Republican party, same as it ever was. – Digby on the Tea Party Racist Traitors I’d love to say I’m surprised but I’ve lived in the South and in the rural Midwest. Racist Republicans are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5096,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/5096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}