Posted on 03/29/2013 5:18:10 PM PDT by mdittmar
For a Republican Party embarked on a mission of modernization, an ethnic slur uttered by a senior House Republican this week offered an unwelcome reminder of the past.
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) used a derogatory term for Latinos in a radio interview Thursday, less than two weeks after the Republican National Committee issued a post-election report that called for broadening the party’s tent.
The comment, coupled with an anti-gay remark that an RNC official posted on his Facebook page this week, highlighted the challenge Republicans face in their nascent effort to woo a more diverse cross section of America as they grapple with issues including immigration reform and gay marriage.
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Not by the GOP or the Democrats,don't care about them,I'm offended by people who are offended!
I find it offending that people are offended.
If that offends you,know that I don't care if you are offended.
Excuse while I get a tissue...
The tea party managed to sneak a conservative on the RNC and they’re desperate to get rid of him.
Mich. RNC member: I won’t resign for Facebook post (about statistics on homosexuals)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001883/posts
I heard this quote recently:
“Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right.”
'Wetback' is not a derogatory term for Latinos. It's a derogatory term for illegal aliens.
Well, I work in Hollywood every gay jackass I meet use the word faggot’ amongst themselves and with straight people so excuse me for calling out the hypocrisy..
It’s like black people calling each other nigg*rs, and yes, i hear it on the subway, yet it’s the GOP’s fault?
Agree 100 percent with you..I live in LA as well, every time I go on an MTA bus you hear the N word being used by black teens especially, its N this and N that..but if a white person uses the word its racist
No it really isn't. The term wetback refers to those Mexicans who cross our border illegally by swimming across the Rio Grande river. It has been used since the 1920's and has never referred to illegal immigrants other than Mexicans. Even the Hispanic American community uses the term to refer to illegal Mexicans.
I call Canadians Icebacks and Canukistanis. They aren’t offended
So now it’s a slur to call a pervert a pervert?
Or a Deviant a Deviant?
I don’t get it.
It’s factual, it’s correct, it aptly describes their behavior.
A good example of media slander. Too bad some legal whiz kids in the GOP can’t figure out a way to take these kinds of smears to court.
Ever try the Blue Line close to 10 PM from Long Beach? Or the Orange line from Woodland. Even the Sheriff dudes at Hollywood/Vine redline station which i witnessed weeks ago, I’ve said it time and time again, it’s not the illegals and mexicans making trouble on those trains, it’s Holder’s people.
The stories I can tell..
Hows come slurs by rats against white people and heteros never seem to stop the rats’ mission to destroy western civilization and Christianity?
WETBACK! An ethnic slur? People along the border have been using that term for years! Even Ace Reid, the cartoonist used it many times in his COWPOKES cartoons!
Sounds like a lib method of stifling FREE SPEECH by playing the race card.
Now, if he had said Greaser, Spic, Pepper gut, Pepper belly, Beaner, they might have a claim, but Wetback? Come on!
Havent been on those buses but I used to take the Pico Blvd blue bus all the time and boy the things I would hear, especially from the high school students..all I can say is WOW..the MTA Wilshire Blvd bus is just as bad but the Blue Bus was the worst
This is an outrage!
I find myself highly offensive!
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