Posted on 04/28/2014 7:27:56 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Concerning Cliven Bundy, in a way it reminds me of this lyric from an old song “Mr., You’re a Better Man Than I” by Eric Clapton when he was still with The Yardbirds,
“Could you tell a wise man
By the way he speaks or spells?
Is this more important
Than the stories that he tells?”
Mr. Bundy may sound like a “crazy old man” does that mean we don’t listen to what he’s saying, and instead be intimidated by the LSM and “progressive types” who in all likelihood have racist tendencies themselves that they refuse to face up to?
“When’s the last time you called a black person a black to their face?”
Well, I’ve used the term “black person” or “black people” around them a lot more recently, and frequently, than the word “negro”, that is for sure.
I was taught that this world has only Caucasian, Negroid and Mongoloid. If I was taught wrong then I will stand corrected.
Oh. Well that wasn’t the question you posed.
I agree, the question you asked was not the one I posed.
But it was structured identically to yours. Nice attempt at dissembling though.
Sure, it was structured similarly, but I was never defending the use of the term “a black” as perfectly valid. Therefore, I ignored that silliness and answered the question as it should have been phrased.
You see, when someone says a phrase is appropriate, but won’t use that phrase in front of the people they are applying it to, that is a sign of a guilty conscience. They are betraying by their actions that they know the phrase is not appropriate.
Not similarly. Identically. Dissembling won’t work with me.
Who is dissembling? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
dis·sem·ble
[dih-sem-buhl] Show IPA verb (used with object), dis·sem·bled, dis·sem·bling.1. to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
2. to put on the appearance of; feign: to dissemble innocence.
3. Obsolete . to let pass unnoticed; ignore. verb (used without object), dis·sem·bled, dis·sem·bling.
4. to conceal one's true motives, thoughts, etc., by some pretense; speak or act hypocritically.
Origin:
1490–1500; alteration (by association with obsolete semble to resemble) of Middle English dissimulen < Latin dissimulāre. See dis-1 , simulate
Nope, that's exactly the word I was looking for.
Alrighty then.
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