Outshining the Tea Party? Privileged, White Kids Dominate Occupy Wall Street

[ShiZuWarrior]

To answer the question posed< African Americans these days are tired of far leftist hypocrisy as well as ⓏⓄmbies who claim enlightenment by being equally extreme as a dirt farming leftists, but in the opposite yet equally flawed direction. Plus it takes access to a certain amount of privilege to be able to stand around and "occupy" that is not as common in the greater African American community as in other groups that were better represented at those protests.

[CruxisFire]

God I hate the occupy kids. Just a bunch of lazy idiots who feel entitled and better than everyone. They only stand for selfishness and scapegoating whoever is successful, or happens to have a job in whatever useless field they decided to study.

[prestonofcourse]

once again propagating the ows as a bunch of dope-smoking sex crazed cretins. stay classy zo.

[teapartyxpress]

Look at Ron Paul's campaign manager who died because he had $400,000 dollars in medical debt and no health insurance. He should have done a better job going around to churches and other charities for help and maybe he'd be alive today. What self-respecting charity would turn not help this guy pay his bills.

[duanescot]

fna, you are 100% correct man

[EquipaPatriot]

I don't agree.

[chuska8383]

"Libertarians are just liberals who are comfortable with capitalism"

- Zo

You're never going to live that one down. Schmuck.

[AntagonisticEnemy]

@chuska8383 But it is true sorry to burst your bubble there 

[chuska8383]

@AntagonisticEnemy No, it is not. And such a statement shows a complete lack of understanding in political theory, economics, history, and political semantics.

[AntagonisticEnemy]

@chuska8383 Actually no none of what you said is true. Just because you bring words like economics does not actually mean you know anything about it.

[chuska8383]

@AntagonisticEnemy Read Human Action, Wealth of Nations, America's Great Depression, Economics in one Lesson, Road to Serfdom, Crash Proof, and Rand's Capitalism. Then YOU will know what you are talking about with free market (aka Austrian aka real) economics. Read Tocqueville, Hobbes, Locke, Bacon, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau among others and YOU will know enough to talk of Enlightenment Thinking. Read the Federalist, Declaration, and Constitution to speak of our government. You've not done one!

[Khurzan72]

@chuska8383 That was really said? Someone doesnt understand Libertarians at all.



[Yankeeprepper]

BRAVO.

[laflores037]

May God forgive you for spreading hate and propaganda.

[laflores037]

May God forgive you for spreading hate and propaganda.

[ACourtRep]

In the Occupiers' interviews, mostly performed by local medias, the language is so strong, presented with such conviction, yet lacking any understanding of reality or the political and economic systems they discuss. Don't they need to be somehwere soon?

[CarpeMetus]

I did a dry spit take at "sage smoked bacon"

[angelsvn]

Zo for prez!

[mindsaglowin]

Occupy Wanton Stupidity.

[HomelessOnline]

Useful idiots, the whole lot of them.

[mwangolatrue]

Occupy our meaningless lives !

[hooplablahblahblah]

Lol. All the related video's have to do with Occupy Wall Street protesters and zombies.

[ZombieX13]

Poopyheads! The lot of them! Right, Zo!

[GutpileCharlie]

I think they should just get out the hoses, horses, dogs and baseball bats.

These left wing, socialist/Marxist/communist, morally and ethically demented rat bastards need just a good beat down. They need the crap slapped out of them.

To hell with all you repugnant socialist sons a bitches.

Good on you Alfonzo. Excellent video.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

There are black and other minorities at OWS than ever has been at all these tea parties. Secondly these are people taking a stand against what is going on in this nation.

[lockdown260]

@TheCaliCapitalist What they are doing is being ridiculous, & annoying. If they aren't protesting Washington they have their head in the sand. Our econ problems are just symptoms of the real problem- an irresponsible government.

[TheCaliCapitalist]

@lockdown260

What they are doing is not ridiculous or annoying. The republicans and some democrats are bought off by the big corps to conitue pushing money towards the rich. They will lobby for more money to the rich which will leave us in a depression. The corps are making record profits with little to no taxes payed back into the system.

[primpal08]

@TheCaliCapitalist Some recent economic history. Fanny Mae & Freddy Mac (headed by Democrats) pressured banks into giving sub-prime mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. Then with their friends in the financial sector, made a fortune off of the derivatives from these mortgages. They then contributed millions to the campaigns of Timithy Geitner (head of the treasury) & Barack Obama knowing they would bail them out when the inevitable collapse came, which they did.

[primpal08]

@TheCaliCapitalist Did the OWS protest descend on Washington to protest this? Obviously not. Instead, you joined forces with the unions who pour millions into the Democratic party (where do unions get their money from again?) and every fanatical fringe group that comes along. And when Obama shows up to back you, you applaud like the mindless sheepeople you are when he announces he’s going after the evil rich people (other than the ones who contribute to the Democrats, of course).

[zvi303]

@TheCaliCapitalist Um, the President is doing this, and he's not a Republican, last I heard. It's Republicans trying to stop it.

[lockdown260]

@TheCaliCapitalist They are being ridiculous. They (& apparently you) haven't yet realized that business can only ASK for money. The rich can only ASK for money. If they get it then it's the consumer /the government's fault. Also unions far out pace businesses when it comes to campaign donations so your point is weak. Even when they do send lbyists to get money it's just a response to you ordering politicians to take their profits.

[yeebuddeh1]

@lockdown260

People bring that point that unions are the top campaign spenders, but that statistic is deceptive because lobbying expenditures is by far the more effective way to influence politicians. Here's the top lobbying spenders since 1998

Finance/Insurance (4.7 bil), Health (4.7 bil), Communications/Electronics (3.9 bil), Energy (3.5 bil), Transportaiton (2.4 bil), Agribusiness (1.4 bil), Defense (1.3 bil), Labor Unions (a whopping 479 thousand, about 3% of total lobbyist expenditures)

[lockdown260]

@yeebuddeh1 The only thing that proves, if anything, is that business is better at playing the game. Better to remove the legislative-industrial complex altogether than complain that your bought-&-paid-for special interests are winning against their bought-&-paid-for special interests.

[j1mmyZeta]

Is affirmative action for protests the answer?

[stephenabm]

These protestors are socialists and the Communists are behind it!

[antimarxism]

(Using Leftist logic..) Occupy Wall Street is racist!

The only blacks that showed up were the Black Panthers, and they were only there to intimidate and guilt trip the hippies.

[TheFederalistVoice]

I love the Guy Fawkes masks that these people are wearing because they watched V for Vendetta and think they are on the verge of starting a revolution.

[MetaKnight964]

@TheFederalistVoice And they're too stupid to realize that V was more like an anarchist than a liberal.

[TheFederalistVoice]

@MetaKnight964 Better yet, they have no idea what liberalism is. Capitalism and liberalism goes hand-in-hand. It's called market liberalism for a reason. I wanna see a street full of nothing but Guy Fawkes masks just to get a good laugh.

[MetaKnight964]

@TheFederalistVoice So why are all liberals anti-capitalist, including the rich ones?

[TheFederalistVoice]

@MetaKnight964 Liberalism has changed overtime. Roosevelt changed the meaning: low taxes, economic freedom, and social freedom, into higher taxes, economic reform, and retained social freedom. Truthfully, libertarians should reclaim the word liberal, because they are the purest liberals. Modern liberals are a crossbreed of social liberalism, and economic socialism, but socialism still doesn't fly in the electorate, so they chose a more positive word.

[TheFederalistVoice]

@MetaKnight964 I'm sure you're familiar with the term classical liberal? That's an awful term, since classical liberals/libertarians are, by definition liberal. Liberal doesn't mean reform or progression like many have made it out to be. I don't claim to be a classical liberal, but a federalist conservative, as you probably could tell by my name. But I'm very sympathetic to classical liberal economics (free markets, free trade, and low taxes), etc.

[MetaKnight964]

@TheFederalistVoice What exactly is a federalist conservative?

[TheFederalistVoice]

@MetaKnight964 Economic conservative (capitalist), pro-national defense, internationalist on foreign policy, moderate on domestic issues, liberal/progressive on social issues, central government trumps states on all issues not pertaining to states' rights and national security, assimilation of all immigrants into American culture, and the union must be preserved (think Federalist Party, Republican Party 1860s, and Republican Party 1940s-1960s).

[kangarookirby]

Making fun of white people is quickly becoming a privilege of the Right. 'Bout time.

Making fun of white people includes making fun of Obama, right?

[ughduhful]

lol idiots...

[nottinmatterz2day]

fluorinated...or fluoridated?

[nottinmatterz2day]

wow...white ppl

[mrtomsr]

Awesome commentary.