Posted on 07/21/2010 1:16:56 AM PDT by lbryce
That's what I do all day every day. I don't see fighting against political incorrectness as a way to do that.
LOL OK, now I’m totally confused but coming out of it. I just replied to someone else on the basis of your post. That ought to make a fine mess.
The way to fight it is to absolutely enforce it, especially when it comes to "victim groups" who are violating the "rules" because they think they are entitled to an "exception".
If people do that enough, then the PC "rules" go away.
In short, make them live up to their own rhetoric. They can't.
That would be fine if Mrs. Sherrod was a “they” but I don’t think she is. That’s why I stomped on your BS.
Watch the video again. Listen for the term "his own kind". That says all you need to hear right there.
She needs to be shown that the same rules apply to everyone. If it is considered insensitive for that phrase to be applied to a minority group (and it is) then the reverse is also true.
In short, she might not practice overt racism, but she is far from being what she claims to be. If she actually "understood" then you would never hear those terms. In her mind, even after she claims to have learned her lessons, she still sees things through the prism of race.
If she didn't, then you would never have heard that phrase.
Ms. Sherrod is one of "them" who still, even after all these years, don't quite get it. A nice run of diversity and sensitivity training with a couple of followups is in order.
When she no longer drops that phrase into her speech, then she will have become one of "us" - meaning that she views people as individuals and their color/ethnicity/religion/whatever is irrelevant.
Sorry, you can't defend her given how her phrasing shows she looks at things. I call BS on you for trying. Nice show, but it won't hold up in any HR department. Her phrasing is of the kind that gets you sued these days for creating a "hostile work environment" when you are in management.
In the context of rural Georgia, 24 years ago, that doesn't mean a thing. As she explained; whites did not help blacks and blacks did not help whites then. She was recounting things "as they were." Those were the "rules" then and there.
You couldn't have brought up an example that I could care less about. HR departments are PC BS Progressive brain-washing centers.
Couldn't agree more, but, you have to deal with them if you are out in Corporate America.
As a side note, do check Ms. Sherrod's latest comments about how "they" are hard at work conspiring to send a certain segment of our population to the back of the bus and make them "less than a whole person again".
She just blew all the goodwill she had. Oh, and she blames Fox News for the whole thing. Never mind that when she talked to them, and to Glenn Beck in particular, they were in her corner.
She really just doesn't get it even after all this time.
I have heard her more recent statements and she does betray a racist attitude born of Progressive brain washing. She did in her speech too when she spoke of 0bamaCare being racist, the last eight years of Bush were racist and 0bama is responsible for housing being so cheap now. More Progressive BS.
But her speech remains a statement against racism and the audience was reacting positively to that not the idea of sticking it to the farmer. I never said she wasn't an idiot or a liberal.
Glad we agree that she has a racist attitude.
Now, can we agree that someone with such a racist attitude has no place in our Government and particularly not in a management capacity?
I never said she should be in the government. As a Progressive I don’t want her to be and have said so several times. I don’t think she is a racist.
If she were white, we would be calling her a White Nationalist.
"...my people, and when I say 'my people' I mean black people."
Sorry, but that's a garden-variety racist statement that we don't tolerate in this country.
You are the "other" according to her.
Letting it slide shows that WE are the racists because we have a double-standard that somehow, certain kinds of people are not beholden to.
Then there is this:
"Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface? Now we endured eight years of the Bushes, and we didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president."
The implication here is that only a black President considers Black People in his/her decisions.
Sorry, she has buried herself with the racial commentary.
She needs help.
What do you mean "we," white man? I wouldn't. lol
As I said; you picked your handle well.
Seriously? I very much doubt that. Do a little word replacement and see how it comes out to you when she says this:
"...and by my people I mean 'black people'."
With word replacement:
"...and by my people I mean 'white people'."
Try it. See what you think.
Are we talking about a poor white farmer in Georgia telling a story of how he got past race a quarter of a century ago? I thought not. Have you watched the whole speech?
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