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Thread #127472   Message #2850128
Posted By: Amos
25-Feb-10 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
Subject: RE: BS: The Tea Party a Terrorist Organization??
Bobert used Stacks deranged hatefulness culminating in violent destruction as a SYMBOL, Sawz.

A symbol represents something, and the trick is to correctly grasp what it is that it represents. If you get the symbolism wrong, the dialogue will go haywire at that point.

In this case you got the symbolism wrong. Bobert made a valid point about certain siumilarities between the blind hatred of Stack (in his penultimate days) and the kind of vociferous hatred that characterizes some Teabag Party adherents, although not all of them.

His POINT was not about Stack but about a cultural environment that inculcates and nurtures hatred and destruction in the guise of false colors such as patriotism and resistance to tyranny, using those as excuses when there are none.

Capiche?

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