# Those of you who think that branding the teabaggers as racist is premature... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167 "2010-04-15T04:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/1 "2010-04-15T04:12:09Z")
Should take a gander at [this](http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/crime/springboro-tea-party-leader-now-accused-of-threatening-woman-653693.html) from my local paper. _Noooo_, the tea partiers’ motives are as pure as the driven snow, I tells ya! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/2 "2010-04-15T04:15:22Z")
The article isn’t about racism, really. It’s about child beating and threatening people. Get your facts straight, liberal. Always trying to spread lies. GAWD. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/3 "2010-04-15T04:28:32Z")
And besides, when he made those racist comments, he was just being “facetious.” Where’s your sense of humor? It’s all in good fun! ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/4 "2010-04-15T04:28:49Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > The article isn’t about racism, really. It’s about child beating and threatening people. > > Get your facts straight, liberal. > > Always trying to spread lies. GAWD. Yes, but it does mention that he “created a firestorm” by recently posting racist tweets. Besides, I thought it was already a given that male teabaggers have a profound affinity for beatin’ on their _wimmin_. I didn’t really find that part of the article all that newsworthy, y’know? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/5 "2010-04-15T04:31:02Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > The article isn’t about racism, really. It’s about child beating and threatening people. Yeah, but the specific **reference** in the article to this teabagger’s racist remarks is what the OP’s talking about. > [@](#): > > The founder of the Springboro Tea Party who recently created a firestorm after making racist remarks on his group’s Twitter account is now being sought by Franklin police on a second charge stemming from incident on Tuesday, April 13. > Brian “Sonny” Thomas, 31, 149 N. Main St., Springboro, also is facing a charge of menacing, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, in addition to violating a temporary protection order, a first-degree misdemeanor. […] > > Thomas was organizing the Springboro Tea Party’s second rally when a racist comment on the group’s Twitter page prompted local and statewide candidates to distance themselves from his group, while maintaining support for the national Tea Party movement. [So what was that racist comment, you ask?](http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/politics/racial-slur-by-tea-party-leader-hits-home-647303.html) > [@](#): > > Racist comments, including a slur about Hispanics, posted on the Twitter page of the Springboro Tea Party were particularly hurtful to Alana Turner. > > “Illegals everywhere today! So many spics makes me feel like a speck. Grrr. Wheres my gun!?” said the March 21 posting on the site managed by the group’s founder, Sonny Thomas. > > Turner said the comments upset her because she and Thomas have a 6-year-old son who is part Hispanic. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/6 "2010-04-15T04:32:00Z")
Liberals everywhere! Go back to CNN, communists! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/7 "2010-04-15T04:35:57Z")
So only a liberal would think it objectionable or racist to call Hispanics in general “illegals” or “spics”? Conservatives are perfectly fine with such epithets, and think that liberals should just quit complaining about them? (Better now, **Bees**?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/8 "2010-04-15T04:36:36Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > So only a liberal would think it objectionable or racist to call Hispanics in general “illegals” or “spics”? Conservatives are perfectly fine with such epithets, and think that liberals should just quit complaining about them? > > Thanks for coming right out and admitting it, at least. Is your sense of humor broken tonight? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/9 "2010-04-15T04:36:36Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Liberals everywhere! Go back to CNN, communists! What’s gone wrong with the world? I can’t even take a bath without 6 or 7 liberals jumping in with me. Now they’re in my shirt cupboard and Obama and Biden are in the kitchen now eating my wife’s jam. Oh, they are cutting off my legs! I can see them peeping out of my wife’s blouse! Why doesn’t Glen Beck do something about it before it is to late? Ohhhh….God… ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/10 "2010-04-15T04:38:10Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > Is your sense of humor broken tonight? Aw, why’d you go and say that? It’s funnier if they think I’m being serious. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/11 "2010-04-15T04:40:32Z")
I’m not sure what the OP is getting at. Are we supposed to draw conclusions about thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people based on what this one guy did? If I find a racist comment by a prominent Democrat, can we conclude that Democrats are racists? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/12 "2010-04-15T04:40:46Z")
No no I get, _my_ sense of humor is broken, it’s too sensitive and makes me think people are joking when they’re dead serious. Sorry, I’ll send it in for repair first thing tomorrow. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/13 "2010-04-15T04:42:11Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > No no I get, _my_ sense of humor is broken, it’s too sensitive and makes me think people are joking when they’re dead serious. Sorry, I’ll send it in for repair first thing tomorrow. Carry on. Great! Now anyway, about these liberals… ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/14 "2010-04-15T04:42:44Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > What’s gone wrong with the world? I can’t even take a bath without 6 or 7 liberals jumping in with me. Now they’re in my shirt cupboard and Obama and Biden are in the kitchen now eating my wife’s jam. Oh, they are cutting off my legs! I can see them peeping out of my wife’s blouse! Why doesn’t **Glen Beck** do something about it before it is to late? Ohhhh….God… You misspelled Our Savio… erm, I mean _Glenn_’s name. Fucking hippie! ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/15 "2010-04-15T04:44:05Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m not sure what the OP is getting at. Are we supposed to draw conclusions about thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people based on what this one guy did? > > If I find a racist comment by a prominent Democrat, can we conclude that Democrats are racists? I happen to agree that it’s wrong to color all conservatives as racist because of the actions of one man. That being said, I have no problem questioning the morality of people who continue to openly support an exposed racist, as I’m sure many conservatives do. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/16 "2010-04-15T04:46:00Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m not sure what the OP is getting at. Are we supposed to draw conclusions about thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people based on what this one guy did? > > If I find a racist comment by a prominent Democrat, can we conclude that Democrats are racists? No, but I think most people, even the (less disingenuous) GOP-ers and conservatives among us, would be willing to admit that it’s not all that much of a shock reading such a headline about a tea partier. Whereas, arguably, it’d be somewhat more shocking to read about a liberal Dem firing off tweets of that nature. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/17 "2010-04-15T04:49:13Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > No, but I think most people, even the less disingenuous GOP-ers and conservatives among us, would be willing to admit that it’s not all that much of a shock reading such a headline about a tea partier. Whereas, arguably, it’d be somewhat more shocking to read about a liberal Dem firing off tweets of that nature. Only because liberals make better liars! This is all propaganda. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that these tweets were tweeted on his twit by some sorta twitter twat spy! And what’s more, it was probably some illegal, taking our work yet again! Some hardworking American hacker is out of a job because them spics are willin’ to hack into social networking sites for half the price! Liberals! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/18 "2010-04-15T04:52:44Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > No, but I think most people, even the (less disingenuous) GOP-ers and conservatives among us, would be willing to admit that it’s not all that much of a shock reading such a headline about a tea partier. Whereas, arguably, it’d be somewhat more shocking to read about a liberal Dem firing off tweets of that nature. Why are you comparing this guy to a “liberal Dem” instead of just a “Dem”? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/19 "2010-04-15T04:54:13Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > You misspelled Our Savio… erm, I mean _Glenn_’s name. Fucking hippie! Shit! Busted again! Glenn Beck… Glenn… ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167/20 "2010-04-15T04:54:24Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Why are you comparing this guy to a “liberal Dem” instead of just a “Dem”? Why are you pointing out an unimportant redundancy and not addressing the heart of his statement? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-of-you-who-think-that-branding-the-teabaggers-as-racist-is-premature/536167.md?page=2)