Posted on 07/14/2009 6:44:33 AM PDT by bocopar
Yikes.
Great Post Bo!
“What does that say about those that are howling?” That they themselves are racists.
Great post Bob. After taking FR to task yesterday, you point out the liberal hypocrisy, simply awesome!
Didn't the term use to refer to certain types of Jewish neighborhoods?
The government will now pay to translate that word into Spanish so that they can find another word for the color black (which, incidentally, is where the word came from).
Part of the reason I suspect this whole thing is going to fade fairly rapidly is that the entire idea of the Kos kiddies excoriating FR for intemperate language fades so very quickly upon the most superficial examination of the respective sites. That doesn't address the overall topic of racial slurs, but it does bring up the uncomfortable topic of using them to sabotage your political opponents when your own hands are so very unclean.
I think a large part of the problem is that anonymity acts in opposition to accountability. That may sound odd coming from someone who posts under a pseudonym, but inasmuch as this particular one is over a decade old now even that encourages a certain restraint. For someone who posts under his own name (more or less) as you do, all I can say is more power to you.
For the posters of the stuff you just cited, all I can do is offer sympathy to you and a warning to them - that ugliness does leave scars on its perpetrators, and that that old warning Mom gave you about your face freezing up like that when you make faces at other people - it turns out to be true. Best to you.
Actually, you try again. Jim Robinson disagrees with you.
I said I still don’t understand how “ghetto” is a racist word. Guess I’m not sensitive enough. Here is his response to me.
Only blacks, browns, reds and yellows live in ghettos. No Oakies, rednecks, Italians, Irish, Spanish, Swiss, Finns, Russians, Brits, Danes, Germans, French, blues, greys or anyone claiming caucasian persuasion allowed. We live in your everyday run of the mill outer city or suburban slums and trailer parks. Well, the wealthier ones live on dairy farms with two or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.
Yes.
The Jews didn't create those neighborhoods. They were forcibly displaced from their own neighborhoods into central slums by the Nazis. The slums were already there, and the Jews did not make them worse, even though many of them were also deprived of making a living, by the Nazis.
# formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
# any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
# a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
The liberals are full of the very hate they accuse.
I think they need to be screen captured before they pull them.
Friggin hypocrites
Jim may own the place, but that doesn't make him infallible. It just makes him "in-charge", and we have to play by his rules.
Actually, he is wrong twice. There are white women with black children who live in ghettos, so he is wrong that no white people live in ghettos. He is also wrong by addressing who LIVES in ghettos. My question was "who CREATES ghettos?". That is the crux of the issue.
Thanks for this Bob.
Wondering if any of the underdeveloped minds of the Leftistsphere can put it together where the emphasis lies in the marketing of prejudicial language, and actions. I won’t go there with their private thoughts as that is a plane officially claimed by themselves, and projected admirably upon everyone else, especially Conservatives.
His post was sarcasm. The word “ghetto” is not racist.
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