Comments on: Is the "Tea Party" Really An Appropriate Name? http://www.greanvillepost.com/2009/11/19/is-the-tea-party-really-an-appropriate-name/ Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:31:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sportyspicehalloweencostume » Is the “Tea Party” Really an Appropriate Name? | the Greanville Post http://www.greanvillepost.com/2009/11/19/is-the-tea-party-really-an-appropriate-name/#comment-100 sportyspicehalloweencostume » Is the “Tea Party” Really an Appropriate Name? | the Greanville Post Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:10:59 +0000 http://www.greanvillepost.com/?p=1669#comment-100 [...] become very destructive and ugly as well. Notes The Know Nothing and American Party sections …Read Morenew [...] [...] become very destructive and ugly as well. Notes The Know Nothing and American Party sections …Read Morenew [...]

]]> By: Axel http://www.greanvillepost.com/2009/11/19/is-the-tea-party-really-an-appropriate-name/#comment-99 Axel Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:34:17 +0000 http://www.greanvillepost.com/?p=1669#comment-99 "Am I painting with too broad a brush?" No, just one that's not broad enough. All political and governmental action is based around violence and struggle at its root. What authority do the police have over a person? None in reality, except for the threat of violence against said person if they do not comply. Everything boils down to the threat of physical violence. If you think the folks in the "back country" are mean spirited, you should see the cholos in the barrio. White nativists are no better or worse than any other kind of group. If we were to be truly honest, we would recognize that ALL groups and indeed societies are based around exclusion. They have as much a right to want to be secure and left alone as anyone else, past misdeeds or not. Where is your scorn for the Chinese nativists that are against the Muslims in their land? Or, better yet, the Tibetan nativists who don't want Chinese in theirs? Those evil Tibetan RACISTS! “Am I painting with too broad a brush?”

No, just one that’s not broad enough.

All political and governmental action is based around violence and struggle at its root. What authority do the police have over a person? None in reality, except for the threat of violence against said person if they do not comply. Everything boils down to the threat of physical violence.

If you think the folks in the “back country” are mean spirited, you should see the cholos in the barrio.

White nativists are no better or worse than any other kind of group. If we were to be truly honest, we would recognize that ALL groups and indeed societies are based around exclusion. They have as much a right to want to be secure and left alone as anyone else, past misdeeds or not. Where is your scorn for the Chinese nativists that are against the Muslims in their land? Or, better yet, the Tibetan nativists who don’t want Chinese in theirs?

Those evil Tibetan RACISTS!

]]> By: Jean Lucas http://www.greanvillepost.com/2009/11/19/is-the-tea-party-really-an-appropriate-name/#comment-98 Jean Lucas Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:20:44 +0000 http://www.greanvillepost.com/?p=1669#comment-98 Statistically I think most nativists are ethnically from the British isles, with a sprinkling of German and French. There's a predominant component of Scots-Irish, not to be confused with the Irish that came much later, in the 1840s. Their principal locus today seems to be the South and the Southwest, with pockets in the Northeast and Midwest. The "back country" has always been belligerent, backward and mean-spirited. Am I painting with too broad a brush? Disclosure: I'm of English (Kent) descent. Statistically I think most nativists are ethnically from the British isles, with a sprinkling of German and French. There’s a predominant component of Scots-Irish, not to be confused with the Irish that came much later, in the 1840s. Their principal locus today seems to be the South and the Southwest, with pockets in the Northeast and Midwest. The “back country” has always been belligerent, backward and mean-spirited. Am I painting with too broad a brush?

Disclosure: I’m of English (Kent) descent.

]]> By: Rowan http://www.greanvillepost.com/2009/11/19/is-the-tea-party-really-an-appropriate-name/#comment-97 Rowan Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:38 +0000 http://www.greanvillepost.com/?p=1669#comment-97 The story of Poole is illustrative of the thuggery of nativist movements. It seems to me that the spirit of this is certainly present in the current movement rendition. Struggles over power, for sure, but struggles of the power wielded by the mechanics of government is perhaps more apt. Thanks for the link to Byrk's article. It adds depth to the understanding of the original Know Nothings and their present day progeny. The story of Poole is illustrative of the thuggery of nativist movements. It seems to me that the spirit of this is certainly present in the current movement rendition.

Struggles over power, for sure, but struggles of the power wielded by the mechanics of government is perhaps more apt.

Thanks for the link to Byrk’s article. It adds depth to the understanding of the original Know Nothings and their present day progeny.

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