What do you think of this anti-religious statement.

[Zucas]

TheRealMafoo said:

Zucas said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Zucas said:
Whole tea party movement is based off this in fact of trying to figure out what America is and what doesn't belong (and on the more racial fronts of it, who doesn't belong). 

Sorry, but the Tea Party has nothing to do with race. That's the media trying to turn it onto something it's not.

 

Well inherently when you try to figure out what defines a certain thing, there are going to be some who mistake it as more a "who" doesn't define this certain characteristic.  See this in the Middle East all the time, but it is more of a religious barrier.  I'm not saying all of the Tea Party movement is like this, but when you discuss what they are discussing, there are always going to be the radicals that use it for racial discrimination, religious discrimination, and discrimination against immigrans/foreigners.  Geez I swear you were suggesting I said all of them like that.  Silly.

But this issue has been inflated.

For example, the racial slur that was said to be yelled at the healthcare vote.. not a single camera captured it, not a single congress men heard it, and not a single person who was there, said they heard it.

So there is a 99% chance it didn't happen, but every headline at every media outlet was talking about it like it was fact. This is the problem.

I head an interview from a black man who spoke at one of the largest events, and he said when he got done, and people came up to talk to him, not one mentioned race. No one said they though he was a "great black american" or anything like that. Just a great American.

They all wanted to talk about the issues, and no one them were about race. None of them ever have been.

Well remember all I'm saying is that when you start discussing what differentiates people, there are always some who in turn think that means who belongs and who doesn't belong and sometimes they do that by race, religion, and ethnicity.  Unfortunately, that's been quite strong for the past 150 years int he world.  I'm not trying to suggest at all that the entire Tea Party movement is this, or all of religious people are like this, just that it happens and history has shown us that.  And yes the media overexaggerates things haha.  I think we all know that.