Fred Dooley, racism expert

I’ve been trying really hard not to take swipes at the wingbats on the right side of the Cheddarsphere, but I just couldn’t help myself.

Over at Real”Debate” Wisconsin, Fred Dooley posted an entry titled, “Obviously racists…” that contained a photo taken at one of the rallies in Madison in support of public employees. Underneath the photo, Fred commented on the whiteness of the crowd, and while Fred does raise a point about the makeup of the crowd, I can’t help but wonder if Dooley is really the most appropriate person to be talking about racism, given his own penchant for cracking racist jokes on Twitter and then offering a really lame apology/excuse for said joke.

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7 thoughts on “Fred Dooley, racism expert

  1. The issue of why the Tea Party is racist is important to see where exactly the money is coming from. since some of their funding actually comes from racist/white power groups. If the Tea Party took a bold stance in declining that type of funding from those groups, it would send a strong message that they are trying to detach themselves from that stereotype. However, money talks and they’re not going to decline it sadly to say if it keeps them running.

    This is actually the main principle issue many people have with the Tea Party, more than the “Obama is a ******” signs or anything of the sort, although those are fairly offensive as well. It’s like whenever we call them out on this, they dodge around the topic saying that the NAACAP are the ones racist instead.

  2. I recall liberals pointing out how “white” the crowds were at the Tea Party rallies and commenting on the lack of diverstiy. I believe that this fact in and of itself was held up as evidence of their racism, or at least this was implied. Obviously the point being made is that this same standard and observations will not be made about the protest rallies.

    Each side loves to point out how the other side will change their standards and criticisms depending on whether or not they agree with the group in question, i.e. they will not objectively apply the same standard. This is obviously true.

    1. It also kind of helped that sometimes they had some pretty racist signs, you realize? Because those are the things that appeared on national TV for a while, it created a gut reaction of “HOLY SHIT THOSE WHITE RACISTS FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA ARE STILL ALIVE AND BACK!” and you cannot deny the signs that are there at times to make that stereotype. The problem with supporters from the Tea Party or people in the Tea Party is that they choose to put a blind eye to a serious issue.

      I won’t even get into the whole birther argument and demanding to see Obama’s birth certificate, only to say it then say it isn’t real. Honestly, I’d love to see the whole birther law being put into action because so many people who support it would lose their own citizenship. However – that’s just my sense of humor in the sort of way when Texas banned gay marriage and civil unions only to ban everything because of their language.

      I’m not saying the whole Tea Party is racist, but there was and may still be a chunk there. If the Tea Party took a bold stance against that, reprimanding that instead of hiding behind the argument of ‘freedom of speech’ when they call for treason against anyone for a different opinion? They wouldn’t get so much flack.

      This is the underlying issue of why people call the Tea Party protests are called racists and hypocrites. Before Obama was elected, the Tea Party was angry but I would compare it to the protests throughout the state of Wisconsin. Frustrated but also willing to give answers, wanting to be listened to and they were transformed because Palin decided to jump in who was nothing but a self serving person who saw her chance while the original people who inspired it (Like Ron Paul) were pushed aside to the background. So basically emotion took over rationality.

      I am very well sure you know about how Fox News, right winged radio jockeys, talking heads and so on treat the reasonable conservatives, the conservatives who are not talking heads and are intelligent, common sense, and working to make this a better place. As you can see here. The fact is, the Tea Party has become nothing but a tool for the media and it only shows the tragedy of how a populist movement can be turned into nothing but a tool for reactionists.

      I frankly wish the members of the Tea Party who are intelligent, principled, and reasonable would just break away from the people who just plain hate Obama, anything not Beck, Palin, or whatever the talking heads say but I think they already have for the most part to other movements that won’t be noticed in the corporate media. I know a fair amount of people who refuse to listen to any other facts other than what talking heads bring them seeing that is the actual truth and a simple thing like facts be damned. I seriously wish I was joking, but some people are that weak minded claiming themselves to be libertarians. Most ‘libertarians’ in the Tea Party now days however do not understand the principles of it – it’s a reason why many of us refer them as glibertarians. Because there is nothing libertarian about taking away civil rights, although fiscally they may fit libertarian. But of course, many gilbertarians are also warhawks – and there nothing libertarian or conservative about being a warhawk.

  3. Unlike a “tes party” there was plenty of diversity. I will have to check my pics and post them later. I haven’t swiped at them because I have not had the time or inclination to read them.

  4. And now Peter “Melon Bounty” DiGaudio is opining on death threats over at his blog. Classic.

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