If its racism when you dislike or disrespect others simply because of their race, what’s the term to use when you dislike and disrespect others simply because of their political views? Politicism?
Robert’s post has me wondering if the frantic efforts at discovering or imputing racism to the people who comprise the tea-party movement — invariably done by people who are opposed to the tea partiers’ views on Obamacare, federal spending, bailouts, and so on — doesn’t reveal something disreputable about those people. There is no evidence that the tea-party movement is any more infused with racism than any other group of Americans. This is simply an effort to smear people the academic Left hates by calling them something nasty. Shouldn’t that be just as much reviled as racism is? In fact, I submit that politicism is vastly more prevalent in the U.S. than racism and ought to be more reviled.