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This is no different from the persons who might have been shouting and yelling really foul words at the students who were being escorted to Little Rock Central High. Just plain hateful people.
The shirt is at best tacky and yeah, probably meets a reasonable definition of racism.
However, the OP is using "several people" to try to define a huge group of people much like some racist would start a thread about 4 black kids robbing someone as proof that all blacks are blah blah blah.
From the OP: If you see 3-4 people doing something bad, you can make inferences about the rest of their political, ethnic etc. group based upon that sample size.
I've seen much more than 3 people defending the content of the t shirts, on this thread alone there are probably more than that.
Defending the content of the t shirts is an endorsement.
According to this, there are members of the Tea Party who have ties to white supremacist groups. When I thought about how the Tea Party started getting louder, I started thinking about the Nazis. It reminded me remotely of that. In a way it might make sense.
There is no historical stereotype portraying Whites as monkeys. There is, however, a long history of stereotyping Blacks as "monkeys", "witch-doctors", and other horrible things. When a Black person like me sees things like that, such as portraying President Obama as a monkey or a witch doctor, for me it's "here we go again, reverting back to the days of Jim Crow when Blacks were portrayed as primative animals".
Perhaps it is, but I'm not in these people's heads. The point was it's nothing new for political leaders to get this kind of childish criticism. Hate is hate... whether it's racist or regional (remember all the anti-Texas redneck hick BS with Bush?) is it really so different? Why is that acceptable while this isn't? Both should generate equivalent anger, but they don't. Do you know how offensive it was to me for main stream rock bands and others to portray Bush as Hitler, a white supremacist tyrant? I think that's racist and offensive as someone who had family in concentration camps.
Yet somehow, this is now only bad with Obama. In fact, just about any disagreement with him or portrayal of him is "racist."
The other problem is that you can go into ANY group and find a few racists (or reverse racists). The fact that the OP and others cherry-pick is disingenuous, and hypocritical to the extreme (OP hopes to elicit outrage and hate toward a certain group of people by doing this, does he not?) Now it is just another group portrayed as "primitive animals." I'm sure I could cherry-pick instances of reverse-racism by certain groups and organizations, get all offended and start threads to rant about them here hoping to elicit outrage toward that group... but what would be my motive? Think about it.
According to this, there are members of the Tea Party who have ties to white supremacist groups. .
There have many generations acting much like TP today, from those cheering Bull Connors, acting vile at Litle Rock, cheering Wallace's racist message, David Dukes, and now volla the Tea Party.
To paraphrase the great quote from Mississippi Burning: "We'd recognize them with or without the trick or treat costumes".
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