Posted on 05/11/2010 4:54:02 PM PDT by 70times7
The impression is spreading that I have drawn an equation between the American flag and the hammer and the sickle. I'm currently serving for target practice on some right-wing websites, and a group of Tweeters are having jolly fun portraying me as an America hater and worse.
This is the result of one single Twitter of mine, and those who were eager to misunderstand it. Tweets are limited to 140 characters, and here is what I tweeted:
@ebertchicago Kids who wear American Flag t-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July.
Now what do you suppose I meant by that? It was tweeted at the height of the discussion over five white California kids who wore matching t-shirts to school on Cinco de Mayo, and were sent home by their school. This inspired predictable outrage in the usual circles.
(Excerpt) Read more at rogerebert.suntimes.com ...
We need to stop using personal disclaimers whenever responding to Leftists. It means absolutely nothing to them. They don't and won't believe it anyway because they they hate you personally. So you're wasting time with it.
They wish financial, professional and personal destruction on all those that disagree with them. Period.
I refuse to give them one inch back.
A communist, good hygiene or bad, is still a communist...
Ebert: You and four friends are in Boston and attend the St. Patrick's Day parade wearing matching Union Jack t-shirts, which of course you have every right to do.
Me: You and your friends are in Ireland on St. Pat's day, flying a Union Jack. That'd deserve a butt-kicking.
Ebert: You and your pals are in Chicago on Pulaski Day, and wear a t-shirt with a photograph of Joseph Stalin, which is your right.
Me: You and your pals are in Warsaw on the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre with Stalin posters. That'd deserve a buttkicking!
Ebert: In San Francisco's Chinatown for the parade, your crowd wears t-shirts saying "My granddad was at the Rape of Nanking and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
Me: In Bejing for the Chinese New Year parade, you wear t-shirts saying "My granddad was at the Rape of Nanking and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." You would end up on a Chinese gulag or hospital on life support (being harvest for your internal organs).
The truth of the matter is, this is AMERICA. There is no such thing as a inconsiderate day to wave or wear an American flag in AMERICA. If these kids had shown up at the Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Puebla, Mexico waving American or French flags, they'd deserve the butt-whooping coming to them but they are in their own country, wearing their own flag, which they have the right to do anytime they want.
Yes indeed, he only seems to like liberal drivel and twinks.
Not always. But back when he was on TV I gave a lot more weight to Gene Siskel's opinion.
He gave a thumbs up to Iron Man 2. I just saw it and really enjoyed it.
I think a lot of writers are lazy. When they began they had editors they were required to please. They stake out the necessary position and spew out piece after piece. In time it becomes second nature. They actually believe they are thoughtful and reasonable because they routinely espouse a position. Some are very good at slinging sly rhetoric to support their leftist fort that was built an article at a time.
The reason these people hate the likes of Ann Coulter is because she easily sends giant logic and fact rocks at them with a trebuchet of print. (her sarcasm is the burning oil the rocks are covered with - ya gotta love it). They don't seem to like it much when their choices are 1) admit their lazy errant position or 2) try to defend the indefensible. They usually select 3) eliminate / attack the source.
You do it as you see fit. I will also. I meant what I said.
When you are in the United States, and get insulted by someone displaying the American flag, it is time for you to go elsewhere. It doesn’t matter what day it is, even if it is a semi-joke of a Mexican holiday that is intended to encourage drinking beer. Would anyone be offended by American flags on Saint Patrick’s Day? That would be an appropriate comparison. The very fact that these Mexican-American students were offended shows that the left, commies or whatever you prefer, have gone to far in driving wedges between ethnic and racial groups, and the left will be responsible for the bloodshed that will inevitably come. May they not win that battle when it happens.
fixed it.
Turned out they were on BOTH SIDES of the issue.
Ebert is such a prejudiced bigot.
No surprise there. God bless those Americans who understand the difference.
Nothing good to say about this poser presstitute !
I'm guessing that it is our host, Mr. Jim Robinson.
He, unlike some here, understands that an "R" after somebody's name doesn't mean a Conervative Web site should automatically support them.
Arlen Spector didn't suddenly become Liberal when he switched parties; nor was he supported here before he did the deed: he was already liberal, and NO BETTER than a 'Rat, which he was in all but name.
Hayworth (the ad currently on this thread) is in a PRIMARY race against Juan McCain, and is every bit as much a Republican; should we NOT support the Conservative against a notorious "moderate Republican" Liberal, so that the best choice is on the ticket?
Obviously Ebert has no idea what kind of surnames they had ~ every single one of them was arguably Hispanic!
We've been over that issue the other night and I think my oldest reference on one of the names went all the way back to Magolis, the Celtic ally of Hannibal in the Punic Wars, although "Gallicia/Galicia" certainly has an origin around 700 BC.
Anyway, Ebert's put his words to paper/pixels without bothering to examine the story. His reaction is the sort that rises straight out of someone's most basic bigotries. He has no idea there are Americans who could be "white", or "black", or "brown", or whatever.
I think most of the comments are missing a pretty important aspect of Ebert’s comments.
Each of his examples of offensive T-shirt wearing is a classic example of weating a symbol of an actual enemy of the particular ethnic group to the wrong event.
IOW, he is just assuming the American flag, and by extension Americans, are enemies of the Mexican people and heritage.
I’d like to see some evidence to prove that particular point. Sure, the US and Mexico fought a war 150 years ago, but that doesn’t mean we’re forever enemies. We fought a war against UK not too much earlier than that, and we’ve been very good friends for a long time now. 60 years ago we fought a war with Germany and Japan, and we’re sort of allies today.
The Catch-22 here is that the official government definition states “Hispanics can be of any race.”
While this admittedly makes no sense at all, it allows Ebert to say the kids are white even if they are Hispanic. Or rather it allows him to classify them as either white or Hispanic as convenient.
The classic example of this is in conflicts between Latinos and “indigenous peoples” in Latin America. Liberal heads would explode if they tried to fit their minds around two of their designated victim groups being in conflict with each other, so when reporting on such a conflict the Latinos are “white” oppressors. The same exact people when in a disagreement with Anglos become “Hispanic” victims.
Some are patriots just like the rest of us. It’s not a racial issue, but an ideological issue. One one hand you have white folks like Ebert, and on the other hand, you have black folks like Dr. King.
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