riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (04/05/85)
I was tempted to quote more, but I'll restrain myself: > RESPECT RACIAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. Every race has both the right > and the duty to persue its destiny free from interference by another > race. ... The Populist Party will not permit any racial > minority, through control of the media, culture distortion, or > revolutionary political activity, to divide or factionalize the > majority of the society-nation in which the minority lives. > REPULSE IMMIGRATION. Repeal the Third-World-oriented immigration law > of 1965 and replace it with one which works to preserve America's > cultural heritage in the face of a population explosion among backward > peoples and a no-population-growth among the founding stock of the > nation.... Without commenting on what I feel are its equally dangerous and reprehensible stands on economic and military issues, I'll just say this: yes, the barely veiled racism you can see in the above paragraphs ("backward peoples" versus the "founding stock of the nation") is real. Find out more about the so-called "Populist" Party and you'll find that this racism is one of its cornerstones. The APP is another group in the same bag as the KKK, the neo-Nazis, The Order, etc. In fact, my own opinion is that their membership overlaps quite a bit -- in Austin, at least, there are periodic flurries in which pamphlets and posters of these and similar groups appear all at once around town. It's a shame that they've expropriated the term "Populist" for themselves -- the term "populist" (with or without a capital P) has been associated with political movements of great merit in this country for a long time, and I hate to see it dragged through the mud. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally
mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) (04/08/85)
>/* riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) / 11:37 am Apr 5, 1985 */ > >It's a shame that they've expropriated the term "Populist" for themselves -- >the term "populist" (with or without a capital P) has been associated with >political movements of great merit in this country for a long time, and I >hate to see it dragged through the mud. Which "political movements of great merit?"