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No Great Awakening: The Tea Parties and Whiteness
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News/Comment; Posted on: 2010-04-26 16:21:20 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Question: Why hasn't Pat Buchanan been asked to speak at any Tea Party
rallies? -- Ed.
This is the first in a series of articles on the question, raised
most publicly by Patrick
Buchanan, whether the Tea Party movement nurtures white
consciousness and unity and will become the political basis for whites
as a people.
Unlike Pat Buchanan, I do not think the Tea
Party movement marks the emergence of a new, white ethnonationalism. At
the end of his recent article
on the subject, Buchanan himself backs away from this prediction,
conceding that the conflict that gave rise to the movement “is not so
much racial as it is cultural, political and tribal.” The politicians
Tea Partiers admire most are Sarah Palin, who has the racial
consciousness of a fried egg, and Ron Paul, who flirted with heterodoxy
years ago, but now claims to have put all that behind him.
The
racial significance of attending a Tea Party is not much different from
going to the opera or a Renaissance festival: Virtually everyone there
is white, and most like it that way but would never admit it -- not even
to themselves. Tea parties, just like opera companies, fret over their
whiteness and claim to want to cure it.
Other more promising movements have come and gone without giving rise
to ethno-nationalism. The militias and the Minuteman border patrols
were far more likely than Tea Parties to attract racial free thinkers,
but they never talked about race. Their leaders threw out anyone who
did.
The Left detects “racism” whenever whites gather and for whatever
reason: Tea Partiers, Daughters of the American Revolution, Republicans,
suburbanites, country clubbers, NASCAR fans, etc. Some people even
complain that Star Trek conventions are too white. What the Left is
detecting is only its own propaganda; there is no racial consciousness
in these groups. They are not a sign of ethnonationalism, nor will they
be until their organizers and participants are prepared to say, “Yes,
we’re white, and we like it that way.” More...
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