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Democrat Congressman Calls Tea Party “White Crackers”… Where’s the Outrage?

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It's only outrageous or news worthy, if it's a Republican or Conservative spewing the hate. Democrats spewing is absolutely fine and acceptable.
 
UNREAL: A powerful black Democrat congressman just called the Tea Party a bunch of "white crackers"... and liberals haven't made a peep.
Disgusting. No Republican would get away with using a racist term like that... this racist man should be thrown out of office immediately. Period.

Democrat Congressman Calls Tea Party "White Crackers"... Where's the Outrage?

Good old Charlie Rangel. In between his tax cheating and his failure to pay rent while lying and blaming it on the Republicans...isn't he a classy guy?

Nobody will criticize him. That's racist. Besides, they're probably scouring the internet looking for something to post about Sarah Palin.
 
Charlie wins his district with 95+% of the vote every cycle. He isn't going anywhere unless he dies and even that might not stop him.

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I should probably correct myself before someone else points it out. He fell to 80% of the vote in 2012 and 89% in 2010. Other than that he's been above 90% since 1972
 
It's Charlie Rangel. He's an asshole.

There, a peep.
 
You are 100% correct. It's quite pathetic, isn't it?

Frankly, it's become common place.... even acceptable which compounds how pathetic it is.
 
He is indeed an asshole. And a law breaker. Why do we tolerate elected officials like this?

The people in his district love the guy, I guess.
 
Charlie wins his district with 95+% of the vote every cycle. He isn't going anywhere unless he dies and even that might not stop him.

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I should probably correct myself before someone else points it out. He fell to 80% of the vote in 2012 and 89% in 2010. Other than that he's been above 90% since 1972

Being called a "white cracker" hasn't bothered me yet, and I like Charlie, as I have stated before. I am going to miss him when he finally hangs it up, cause I think he's reached the point where he just doesn't care anymore, and he feels secure enough not to care anymore! :mrgreen:

Greetings, Lutherf. :2wave:
 
How dare you have white crackers with tea. Every one knows you're supposed to have crumpets.
 
UNREAL: A powerful black Democrat congressman just called the Tea Party a bunch of "white crackers"... and liberals haven't made a peep.
Disgusting. No Republican would get away with using a racist term like that... this racist man should be thrown out of office immediately. Period.

Democrat Congressman Calls Tea Party "White Crackers"... Where's the Outrage?

Although that democrat is a moron.

Lookin at michelle bachmann I couldn't help but laugh at what the guy said.
 
He probably should have used the term white niggers instead.
 
Has he ever had a legitimate contender?

In the primary, yes. The last two times he's run (2014 and 2012), he's been challenged by State Sen. Adriano Espaillat. Rangel beat him 47-43 in the primary this year, or by about 1,800 votes. The GOP isn't running a candidate for the seat.
 
In the primary, yes. The last two times he's run (2014 and 2012), he's been challenged by State Sen. Adriano Espaillat. Rangel beat him 47-43 in the primary this year, or by about 1,800 votes. The GOP isn't running a candidate for the seat.

One of those seats the GOP feels is a waste of resources to contest I guess.
 
It's only outrageous or news worthy, if it's a Republican or Conservative spewing the hate. Democrats spewing is absolutely fine and acceptable.

…and perfectly normal and expected.

For all the fuss that those on the wrong like to make whenever someone on the right says anything that can be construed as “racist” or otherwise “bigoted”, the fact that this is a rare enough occurrence to make it newsworthy, while the same is not at all true of those on the wrong making similar remarks, is certainly very telling indeed.
 
For those that may not know...

Cracker: Originally the white slave driver because he would "crack" the whip, hence the noun cracker.​
 
Has he ever had a legitimate contender?

Probably not.

For Republicans people like him are too valuable, he's a corrupt asshole that makes the democrats look bad... better to keep him around to remind people of that.

It's the same reason Michelle Bachmann leaving congress is a huge loss for the democrats.
 
One White Cracker comment is equivalent to thousands of racial insults at Obama in 6 years from GOP TEA-turds .
 
Probably not.

For Republicans people like him are too valuable, he's a corrupt asshole that makes the democrats look bad... better to keep him around to remind people of that.

It's the same reason Michelle Bachmann leaving congress is a huge loss for the democrats.

And Leno.
 
I'm fairly certain that cracker specifically refers to racist white people, or at least a reference to the systematic oppression of blacks. There's really no equivalence between the use of a pejorative like this by a member of an oppressed minority group and the use of one by a member of the majority in power. It's never the word that matters, it's the systematic discrimination that it represents. And despite the whining of a few people who confuse loss of privilege with discrimination, there is no systematic discrimination of whites. Or males. Or Christians. Or heterosexuals. But there is systematic discrimination of basically everyone else.

In the case of the Tea Party, the shoe fits. They endorse a lot of racist positions. That is, they, a group almost exclusively composed of white, heterosexual Christians, endorse a lot of positions that hurt anyone who isn't white, heterosexual, or Christian. Also they endorse a lot of positions that hurt women, but I have no idea about the gender demographics of the Tea Party.

There is, again, simply no equivalence. Calling someone a cracker is not the same as pretty much any other slur, because cracker has never been indicative of systematic oppression. That's why the left isn't outraged. It's never the word that stirs outrage. It's the systematic oppression. Meanwhile the right gets up in arms over the words, and supports the systematic oppression.
 
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