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To ask any of these questions is to answer them. Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and “American-ness” of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.
Your post would have more credibility if you posted all of Rush's remarks. He makes some good points as to the level of violence that actually occurred when the left protests, and the virtually violence free Tea Party events.
ReplyDeleteHis logic was clear, his points valid, and his facts accurate.
Avoidance of good argument, is the sign of a weak mind.
I've listened to Rush Limbaugh on many occasions and I don't recall one instance when he was all three of those things at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAlso, anonymous blog comments are only going to be taken seriously if they are used as a shield instead of a sword.
If you want to go on offense, I recommend you at least invest in a proper pseudonym.
Violence occurs during heated protests over actual policies like War, The G-8 and Civil Rights legislation.
ReplyDeleteThis violence is almost exclusively a right-wing backlash from the established powers - the National Guard at Kent State,
the State Patrol in Selma,
the Chicago police in 1968 and every firetruck with a firehose in the south during Civil Rights marches.
Comparing the whining crybabies of the Tea Party to those that actually suffered to change inhumane policy is an unfair exercise since the Partiers know not what their goals are and thus have no direction that requires a violent response.
Mr. Limbaugh has clear logic?
Well, I guess Michael Fox was just acting-out his Parkinsons.
Americans were being told to bend-over for Obama,
and Hawaii does have the best Socialized Medicine in the land since they were the first team of doctors to locate the shriveled raisin that passes for Rush's heart.
WTO
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