[Peace-discuss] DN: NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups

[Morton K. Brussel]

I disagree with almost everything you state so definitively here. Defending Israel's policies by calling those who disagree anti-semites and applying the official U.S./Israeli definition of terrorists to those sympathetic to the resistance of Hamas is for me a far cry from establishing an obvious, yes obvious, racism element in the Tea party and those who support it. If you don't see that , I'm sorry for your mental clarity. 

Do you reject the arguments/evidence made in that DemocracyNow program? Which ones and why? Do you not see the differences with what the ADL claims? 

Not everything is obviously  due to class struggle, capitalism, empire, natural resources, etc.. Seeing how the Tea party fits in with the ever more  rightward swing of our political system is important (to progressives). 

--mkb

On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:56 PM, David Green wrote:

> It has all the same problems of an ADL report on anti-Semitism. Mainly, it distracts attention from fundamental issues, by design. And of course, its guilt by association, McCarthyism, whatever you want to call it. The ADL uses similar tactics when they accuse pro-Palestinian groups of supporting Hamas. Associations, words, thought crimes, speech crimes, while the government's crimes go unpunished. Again, it's utterly disingenous, stupid, appalling, embarrassing. DuBois has to be rolling in his grave, perhaps along with a few of his Jewish allies.
>  
> DG
> 
> From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>
> To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com; Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Wed, October 20, 2010 4:33:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] DN: NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups
> 
> What specifically do you find in the report from DemocracyNow!, appended? Did I miss something?
> -mkb
> 
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:58 PM, David Green wrote:
> 
>> I glanced it this, and it looks like the NAACP has joined forces with the ADL in their tactics. I think it's really pathetic.
>>  
>> DG
>> 
>> From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
>> To: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Sent: Wed, October 20, 2010 2:03:28 PM
>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] DN: NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups
>> 
>> The NAACP has published a new report that exposes what it calls links
>> between various Tea Party organizations and racist hate groups in the
>> United States. The report, 'Tea Party Nationalism,' analyzes each of
>> the six most active Tea Party organizations in the country and
>> describes links between Tea Party factions and various white
>> supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations and militias.
>> 
>> NAACP Report Ties Tea Party to Militia and Racist Groups
>> http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/20/naacp_report_ties_tea_party_to
>> 
>> 
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