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four simple theses on the tea party movement
by
seabrook
Community
(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2009
Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2009
at
4:48:33pm PDT
The American Right is using the symbolism and slogans of the American Revolution -- in particular the slogan "No taxation without representation" -- because they are unable to accept that a black person represents them as President. When you boil it all down, this is what you are left with (not that I'm the first to
point this out
).
Sexual anxieties are at the heart of today's Right-wing activism, insofar as the racial (il)logic identified in the first thesis is intimately linked with anxieties about sexual deviance. The reproduction over time of a racially exclusive nation is understood by those invested in this project as requiring the sexual 'purity' of, in this case, white women. An anxiety about 'miscegenation,' as well as broader anxieties about sexual deviance, are symptoms of an individual's commitment to a racially exclusive nation. Hence, it is not entirely coincidental that many signs, like
this one
, at today's rallies have sexual and racial subtexts, or that the name of the movement evokes a kinky sexual act.
When members of the Right equate Obama with Hitler they are merely projecting their own anti-Semitism and racism onto the object of their hatred so that they can avoid feeling guilty.
It is time for us to start telling the truth about what is animating these tea parties.