The NAACP just passed a rather modest resolution asking the teabaggers to repudiate racist elements in their movement.

This has resulted in a flurry of tantrums among the teabaggers. A typical example appeared on the far right, white supremacist blog, "Big Government." I won't dignify the fanatical bigotry displayed by repeating it, but I will say that I found seven examples of fanatical white supremacist hate in that one blog posting. I'm not even talking about subtle racism either.

The comments section was a mess of racist hatred, paranoia, and calls for press censorship, none of which I counted in my previous tally.

The teabaggers are determined to prove the NAACP's point instead of repudiating the white supremacist hate that permeates that corporate Astroturf movement. If anything, the corporate lobbyists and PR people behind the teabagger scam are responding to the NAACP resolution by sending out talking points trying to incite racist hatred of the kind expressed in that blog posting.

Bigots like the sheeple who are exploited by the teabagger scam want to be viciously racist, but they want to stifle any discussion of that racism. The NAACP refused to be stifled, and we should follow their example.

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