In conjunction with Koch Bros financing for the creation of a more formal think-tank (we know as the Cato Institute) to provide intellectual cover for TV pundits by which they could excuse or even identify with the hoped-for TP protesters holding placards ranting against “big government”,intruding on the “little mans” ability to work and feed his family, an idea that fit well with the execs lobbying for a reduction in their own tax rates, providing loopholes or removing worker safety regs mandated by “big government!”
They;ve now manipulated the working class into giving them, the wealthiest people alive, our own money by conflating unions with communism, opposing a minimum wage law for our own kids, removing EPA’s pollution laws, mandated workplace safety, allowing industry to go offshore despite record profits at home, taking a patriotic stand against universal health care coverage for our own kids…..all while allowing Wall St. to deregulate.

People so removed from the real world, and so scared or hateful regarding the few touchstones they may still be able to follow along until they can reorient themselves to the real world, that I fear a non-violent resolution to the problem may not exist anymore.

“Although the Tea Party is widely considered to have started in 2009,9 this paper presents a historical study of of the tobacco companies’ early activities and key players in the evolution of the Tea Party.
Moreover, while the Tea Party started in the USA,In 2012 Koch;s FreedomWorks expanded the movement internationally, training activists in 30 countries, including Israel, Georgia, Japan, Nigeria and Serbia” http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/.....15.full#F1

As a lot of you know, we’ve developed a problem with the antagonistic nature of the comment threads on Hatewatch. As a result, and after talking to some of you, we’ve decided to try and restore some civility and sense of community.

From now on, we’re just not going to publish comments that include name-calling of any kind, no matter whose side of a particular issue you’re on. We’re not going to publish guttural expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, gay-bashing, misogyny and so on. We will publish white nationalist arguments, but only if they’re presented civilly and calmly, like the fellow from Stormfront who recently made an effort to politely argue with other commenters here. We will not publish bogus claims about certain groups’ alleged inferiority, and we won’t publish links to racist sites or sites that contain misleading or false statistics. Finally, we plan to stop publishing comments from a few posters who have become a real problem on our threads.

This is not an attempt to censor people’s thinking, but it is an effort to make Hatewatch more of a community of people discussing important issues. We don’t want it to degenerate yet another Internet shouting match.

Thanks for your understanding. We appreciate your contributions to the blog very much.

Mark Potok

Brock I have personal preferences as all people do but they do not extend into disregard of one’s rights, nor do I inflict injury or damage or wish to cause detriment to one’s legal rights or claims.

Those that propagate hate and divide by use of violence are not exercising their legal rights they have no legal right to harm or propagate hate that would lead to harm or the infringement of the civil rights of others.

When people speak racist comments or engage in harmful activities towards others that in fact does disregard the persons rights then we have prejudice and maybe even a hate crime.

Personal preferences or judgements are just that, personal. But when you have people willing to act out adversely on their personal preferences or judgments then we as a society have a problem.

2 a (1): preconceived judgment or opinion (2): an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge b : an instance of such judgment or opinion c : an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics predilection

Brock some people are stoic by design does not mean they are not human. Others are worse than immature emotional children who can’t control their emotions at all.

Not Hate, hate would suggest emotional involvement. Do I have indifference towards anyone, absolutely. Complete indifference. Hate is a waste of time and only eats up the bearer of it.

I live in a small town in the Nebraska Panhandle (128 people), I am known here for a few things: as being liberally-minded, as a disabled veteran, and caring about all in my community.

When in November one of our town’s councilmembers died, the village board appointed me to his seat to fill out his term. Of the five who stood forth for the position, the board deemed me “the least divisive.” I even had the support of the very conservative gun shop owner on the board for the position.

I would readily agree there are extremists in small towns, just as there are in big cities. I don’t recall any news articles about liberal extremists blowing anything up recently though, or trying to subvert science education in schools, or claim the President is not an American citizen because his father wasn’t born in the USA (though his mother was born in Kansas), though Senator John McCain was born in Panama and no one makes such claims about him,

There are plenty of folk in large cities that believe these things too. It is not an issue of “small minds in small towns,” it is an issue of “small minds” full stop.

One need only peruse the comments by leftists on their blogs, such as this one, to see the falsehood of the second part of that statement. Yes, however, those terms do have definitions. That begs a question, then: What about you? Do you harbor feelings of hatred or bigotry towards anybody? You do realize that you either a) have no emotions at all, meaning you’re not a human being, or you’re b) lying, if you say no, don’t you?

hate crime n (1984) : any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation)

big·ot \’bi-g?t\ n [F, hypocrite, bigot] (1660) : a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices ; esp: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
— big·ot·ed \-g?-t?d\ adj
— big·ot·ed·ly adv

These are fully defined words void of emotion.

One thing I can tell you is that the bigots in one little town I experienced were mostly liars, troublemakers and atrocious eye shores.

It has been my experience that bigotry does not stop at a mere conversation over the breakfast table between family and friends but it is brought into the streets and manifested as crimes against innocent Americans.

i was wondering if you could be a dear and talk with the Learned Elders of Zion about changing the Jewish Calendar to make sure that the date of Passover only comes in the middle to end of April so that there will be no more freezing cold March Easters ;)

I’d be lying I I wasn’t. Watching girls spin around and around in hoop skirts is wonderful fun!

or maybe he is too busy fantasizing about me wearing a hoop skirt ;)

That was pathetic, even for you.

Wait, what’s this? “Keeping an eye on the Radical Right.”

Reynardine, the total nonexistence of an American nation is staring us all in the face from our computer screens at the top of this page. You believe people who hold such views as mine need to be surveilled like we are possible
spies from Hezbollah.

how about you put down the League of the South/Lost Cause literature and step away from your compuer and go around this great country of ours because obviously lif e in your bubble has left you unable to understand it. Or at least go outside and have some sweet tea.

Let’s see, a war won by one nation-state against another foreign nation-state, land won in the process, followed by the most graceful gesture of paying the defeated country $15 million for that land . . . yep, that’s stealing!

Hilarious. Keep ‘em coming, Erika.

See, Brock, i know that you probably think that because i’m Southern that i sit on the veranda of my plantation house wearing a hoop skirt and drinking tea which is even more sugary and sweeter than my accent. That is obviously not true because unfortunately i cannot afford a plantation house with a veranda (and despite the best efforts of the Antebellum Department of Princess Erika’s Guilded Age Fashions hoop skirts have yet to have a major comeback), Of course, if you would actually come to the South you’d learn some things – such as the fact that the South is now filled with Yankees and Midwesterners (like my parents!) – and of course, the same national brands, national television programs, and nationally distrubed music is also here. In fact the biggest difference you will see between say South Carolina and Indiana is that South Carolina has Krystal and Indiana has White Castle. and they are like so totally different because Krystal has chili cheese fries and puts mustard on their burgers unless you order them without while White Castle has fried onion pedals and if you want mustard you have to add it yourself.

So Brock, leave your little white supremacist bubble in your home which was stolen from Mexico and go on a trip across this great land of ours. Just don’t take the interstate highways because then you might decide that the regions are in fact vastly incapable because of the entire Waffle House issue.

Now you might decide that there is a difference between the urban majority of America and the rural places – after all, rural Georgia has way more in common with rural Iowa than it does with Atlanta. Of course, Atlanta has way more in common with Chicago than it does with rural Georgia. That makes sense, both Atlanta and Chicago are filled with people from rural Iowa :P

But see, honey, what happens is that there are some people – mainly right wing media figures – who wax about the rural lands in the South and the Midwest. Most of them live in New York or Washington, DC which are both big cities – many of them have never even really ever been in the rural South or Midwest. As a result, their views tend to be very laughable to anyone who has even ever visited the Midwest or South. That is to say that even in those more rural areas the vast majority of the population lives in large cities, suburbs, small cities, and rural areas.

Basically like every other thing on which you have expressed an opinion, (especially women) you think you know it all, but in reality, its not just Europe that you know nothing about.

They use all the methods you have listed above and yes I believe that when a large group of people who conspire and get away with federal crimes the way they do in communities, then they are being protected by not only family and friends, but others in power that are well aware of them.

An event took place when the hosts were mostly white and it was very peaceful during that event.

Another event took place when the participants were mostly Indian and the peace lasted just as long for them to finish the event.

They have a way here of going out of their way to make the experiences of others unpleasant. What I have learned is that it is a practice that does nothing more than further push their communities into becoming ghettos. No, very few minorities these are in fact what I would call “white” ghettos.

When a community is cohesive in perpetrating hate they spend too much time and energy on their poison. They do not grow and prosper in the ways that I have noticed in more well rounded and diverse communities. A healthy community seems to prosper in the arts and academia.

It really does pay to bring children up valuing education and other prosperous endeavors. This will give them the tools to excel in life.

However, when people are teaching their children to hate and complain about all that life owes them and encouraging them to harass their neighbors it would seem to me that their activities leave little room for true intellectual and artistic achievement. And the community as a whole suffers.

I don’t believe anyone wants to live in a chicken outfit.

MRJ: the racists I have encountered like to employ methods of emotional and mental coercion, and intimidation in order to control their victims. Terrible mind games. They are indeed the parasites of our communities.

I found your post particularly interesting. Thank you for sharing.