Post #345,415
7/30/11 6:05:29 PM
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That dead horse won't hunt,
especially amidst the urbane IGM of these parts.
The idea that actual racism has [ever] vanished from the Puritan-programmed vox populi of Murica! is as ludicrous in 2011
--as it was ... a few days after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Dunno where you've been, over your puppy-years--But I can recall epithets hurled [at ANYone 'different'] in my infancy:
currently in vogue, to be seen-on-signs/heard-as-'bleeps', Beep -- especially at farRight-ful gatherings/mobs, On the Attack.
(Ditto re the WarHawks' signs <VS> Americans gathered to protest the horror of continuing the Vietnam genocides.)
The vocabulary/vernacular of the Right-fringes Today is as scurrilous, dehumanizing and Evull as..
anything that came from the Ministry of Propaganda/Göbbels, from 1927 on.
I have heard these odious phrases since childhood and I remember them well:
unclear what history-of-US version was inculcated into Your yout, but it must have been pretty sanitized.
I was fucking-There, kid. You don't misremember shit like that, unless you only 'read about it somewhere', well before your time.
{{sheesh}} with this both-sides-do-it pap, your staple of non-engagement dissembling.
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Post #345,426
7/31/11 1:32:25 PM
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if i bothered to translate that..
I'd probably think it was bullshit too.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #345,460
7/31/11 6:53:03 PM
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You won't eat your own dog food.. as usual.
Can only wonder at your eyes glazing-over / not reading the content of blogs, blurbs and videos
--the racial/xenophobic/misogynistic "Sign language" to be observed at many Conservative Reactionary gatherings:
Just among those which make it into the corp. meeja; who knows about the regional un-reported variants?
One need not impute ingrained racism's omnipresence in '11 political jargon: it's EXPLICIT. That is
--if one chooses to See what one looks at, at all.
True, though: there are fewer caricatures of Obama + watermelons. Not 0, but ... fewer. But it's not '12 yet, either.
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Post #345,475
7/31/11 8:00:30 PM
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that ain't it.
its more along the lines of posting in english as a second language...
but if dog food's your thing...ok.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #345,536
8/1/11 5:35:38 PM
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I empathize with that pain you suffer in 'crafting' English.
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Post #345,540
8/1/11 6:00:43 PM
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Clearly
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #345,593
8/2/11 2:41:15 PM
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Rep. Lamborn likens Obama to a "tar baby"
http://www.salon.com...emium%29_7_30_110
"Tar Baby" -- from time to time, this ugly racially charged phrase has come up in our political discourse. Most often, the term is applied to a situation or a thing. John McCain, for example, used it to describe divorces. Likewise, Mitt Romney used it to describe the Big Dig. In both instances, the Republican leaders apologized for using such a loaded word -- even though they hadn't used it to describe an actual person.
The same cannot be said for Representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who used the term to describe President Obama in a statewide radio interview on Friday. You can listen to that interview here, which we examined on my KKZN-AM760 radio show this morning. Here's the key excerpt:
LAMBORN: Even if some people say "well, the Republicans should have done this, or should have done that," they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don't even want to be associated with him, it's like touching a, a tar baby and you get it...you know you're stuck and you're part of the problem and you can't get away.
It has been questioned whether the term "tar baby" is always a racist term. In 2006, Ta-Nehisi Coates explored this issue in Time magazine. "Is tar baby a racist term?" he asked. "Like most elements of language, that depends on context. Calling the Big Dig a tar baby is a lot different than calling a person one." In this case, that context is quite clear.
[. . .]
Of course too ... there's another category we've had noses-rubbed-in, till raw:
The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism
http://www.salon.com...emium%29_7_30_110
..Complete with those cute spreadsheet/pie-chart graphics, supporting the regional diss.
Just more Librul distortion, no doubt. Can't be anything to it. Both sides [must] do it. It's an even playing-field. There's no difference between Demos/Repos--it's all in our Minds. cha. cha.
Extremist in defense of liberty is no vice--cha.cha.cha,
Carrion.
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Post #345,598
8/2/11 4:19:24 PM
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Colorado, eh?
It's good to hear from one of the morally superior Northern States.
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