[lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Wed Apr 21 14:25:24 PDT 2010


nice try.

why do you care if he turns out to be accurate in his analysis? so what if these people turn out to be more educated than average, older than average, whiter than average(!), and better off than average.

oh noes! the people who get off their asses and *do* things are, rut ro, members of the 'bad' identity categories. oh noes!

At 04:23 PM 4/21/2010, brad wrote:
>I think you are giving too much credit to sociology to be a
>non-ideologically driven 'science', shag, and too little credit to me to be
>just inquisitive. Sure my theoretical understanding of the world -
>materialist - informs my curiosity, but I also generally think nobody here
>really has the TP quite correct yet ('correct' is a toughy to pin point, I
>know). I don't think I am rooting for the home team (as if these are my
>peeps). I just think SA is wrong on his analysis of the data that we have
>so far. Others once claimed that they were all petty b's, but now just call
>them well off. I have no idea what you think. Maybe the whole thing is a
>big waste of time, as Shane said. I of course, disagree (I know how
>strange of me to do that).
>
>Brad
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