[2ndDivisionVet]

This is where your hard-earned tuition money goes, at 98% of colleges.

[KC_Conspirator]

This professor peddles lies.

[uncitizen]

With their threats and calls for violence and constant focus on separating everything by race, it’s actually the RAT party that is like the KKK.

[Mark17]

This is where your hard-earned tuition money goes, at 98% of colleges

I wonder if he learned political science at Bejing State University, or North Korea maybe?

[fieldmarshaldj]

In the old days, they used to lock these cretins up in nervous hospitals. Today, they lock them up in universities and give them tenure.

[BCW]

Here is his page: http://www.polisci.washington.edu/Directory/Faculty/Faculty/faculty_parker.html

A book he wrote: Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South

His PhD was earned in Chicago...

Article he wrote: "If It Were Not for Big Central Gov't, I'd Be a Slave Right Now"

I would say this guy is a little bias....

[TigerLikesRooster]

primarily emanating from people who are privileged in the social order,

These people are usually called ignorant red necks by campus academics. A majority of them are neither rich nor powerful. Somehow this make them belong to the privileged class. Then where do Romney and establishment types, who campus liberals feel comfortable with, belong to? To the unprivileged class?

[Sherman Logan]

Despite the clip’s insistence that the movement was about small government, common sense policy and traditional morals, Parker claimed that in reality the Tea Party is a reactionary movement that was birthed from a pervasive fear of social change.

Note the implicit and false assumption that the two cannot both be true.

Is it conceivable that the social change we fear involves larger government, nonsensical policies and immorality?

The subtext here is that "social change" is always good, and opposition to it is always bad. But of course Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot all brought great social change to their nations.

This is all part of the base-stealing and circular argument liberals never get called on.

Everybody is in favor of progress, right?

Progressives are of course by definition favor of Progress? So what policies will bring Progress about?

Well, of course, those would be the policies preferred by Progressives. So if you're opposed to those policies, you're against Progress and "social change."

The odd part is that I'm in favor of "social change" far more profound than that favored by Chris Parker. I want America to return to the values outlined in the Declaration of Independence, but purged of the racism and sexism inherent in them when they were produced. Those aspects were linked to the time of writing, not to the eternal values in the actual words themselves.

So I'm the real radical, and Chris is a reactionary who wants to keep things going the direction they've been headed for the last 75 years.

But he's the fearless change agent, and I'm hiding under the bed in fear of the future and the loss of my "privileged position?"

Is there any group in the history of the world more privileged than Parker, his colleagues and audience?

Sorry, rant off.

[ExTxMarine]

Bump for later.

[ExTxMarine]

Bump for later.

[VTenigma]

Cloistered academic moron.

[jaydee770]

This guys gets paid *money* to research a topic and in spite of what the research finds, he just makes up a bunch of crap to fit his preconceived idea?

I guess that’s a pretty sweet gig, if you can get it. Sure beats working for a living...

[Dr. Sivana]

Can I play? Look what happens when you take the good professor's conclusions and apply them to different groups:

According to him, it is this fear, primarily emanating from people who are privileged in the social order, which is the driver behind of reactionary movements like the Occupy Movement. Much of Parker’s latest research dealt with the nature of the dialogue used in Occupy circles. He found that many of the articles on Occupy websites, and several personal statements by Occupy supporters, revolved around conspiracy theories and irrational fear over the actions of the Koch brothers. This, Parker argued, differs greatly from the type of speech that was observed on more mainstream liberal sources.

[Sirius Lee]

"The pseudo-conservative believes a vast and sinister conspiracy … is in motion to undermine and destroy his way of life.”

The true Conservative sees, with utmost clarity, the vast and sinister conspiracy that is in motion to undermine and destroy all that is decent and good.

[stinkerpot65]

Chris Parker

Note the undertone of violent oppression. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal is either criminal or insane. Such people must be shut up and locked up.

This is the way Hitler started with the Jews.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Nothing wrong with the Birch society..

[Fresh Wind]

I wonder what this learned professor thinks about the late Senator Robert “Kleagle” Byrd (D-KKK)?

[DJ MacWoW]

Donate And Keep The Lights On

[PallMal]

Pure sophistry. Enough said.

[Eddie01]

Groupthink mindguard piece.
Paint your enemy as to stupid and evil to warrant negotiation.

This stuff is so predictable and tired.

[WayneS]

A nothing article about a nothing “professor”.