Unfortunately, this is a symptom of the larger problem which is that FR USED to be a great place to chat and exchange ideas with "like-minded conservatives". Unfortunately, it has really downgraded in quality over the last few years to the point that it is NOT that anymore. Every juvenile or racist or offensive post I see here underscores that sad fact and sometimes I can't resist the urge to try to nudge the site back to what it used to be.
If it's just going to become one big playpen though, with people flinging poop around for giggles, then you're right. I should probably move on. It's not for me anymore.
This thread began as a discussion of Americans being identified by their native countries that has gradually eroded the concept of E Pluribus Unum as our founders envisaged and became a motto in the Great Seal. Mr. Obama as well, said so much in his Inaugural Address when he proclaimed “On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”
It is therefore quite absurd, to refer to “Iranian-Americans” anymore than to refer to “Kenyan-Americans” There is a wealth of study on the corrosive effect of such hyphenated references.
The reference to B. Hussein O was and will remain an elliptical emphasis on a part of the president’s identity that was an “untouchable” during the campaign but to which he now makes convenient use to touch base with Islamofascists. This is neither a slur nor juvenile to use it in this manner. Rather, it brings up an issue of presidential double-speak.
That said, it is these kinds of discussions that make this site quite unique and illuminating and your contribution is not without insight into issues that inform distractive cluttter.