Surprise, surprise. Newsweek has conclusive proof that the TEA Party is all about racism. The last time this came up, it was Congresscritter Andre Carson's apparently groundless accusations that the N-word was shouted at him by TEA Party types.
Now Newsweek has scientific proof that TEA Partiers are just a bunch of racists. Or, at least, what passes for "scientific proof" among the mainstream media.
The completely neutral, rigorously scientific, no-agenda-here University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race & Sexuality surveyed TEA Partiers and found all kinds of evidence for a new construct they just made up, concluding that TEA Partiers are 25% more "racially resentful" than people who are opposed to the TEA Party.
Newsweek, needless to say, relished these results - hammering the "racially resentful" angle. But I wonder about some of the questions in the survey, and also some of the findings that weren't reported on.
For example, "blacks should work their way up without special favors." If you agree with this statement, you're racially resentful, at least according to these researchers. But is this really a racist belief? What would be the opposite, non-racist belief? "Blacks need special favors to work their way up, because they can't do it on their own merits?"
This article is presented as evidence that the Tea Party has an unacknowledged agenda. That may be, but I don't think they're the only ones with an unacknowledged agenda.
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