… Scott Eric Kaufman and ilk will call it RACIST!!!!! anyways [link removed by Jeff. I don't subsidize the traffic of dishonest, opportunistic assholes unless it's on MY terms].
It really is almost amusing how SqEK’s malignant bigotry compels him to keep dealing from the bottom of the stack of race cards he carries at ready in his roomy pockets. Certainly he knows this …
Well, it undermines the reverse-racism jujitsu Jeff taught Darleen to do, for one thing, because the existence of actual racists countermands the post-racial narrative Jeff and Darleen require to perform it. (By which I mean, they need to be able to say that there aren’t any racists anymore in order to claim that liberals are the real racists for noticing the race of people who oppose affirmative action, etc.)
… is such unfettered bovine excrement, untethered to any thing I, or Jeff, have ever written that either Scott has abandoned any pretense at moral behavior or he is suffering from some hysteric breakdown of Andrew Sullivanesque proportions.
No where can Scott cite one statement where I posit “there are no racists” or where I have engaged in a “post-racial” narrative.
Racism is collectivism at its basest. Racism is the belief that melanin-level is an indicator of character. Racism can be virulent — as in the hostility of the KKK towards Blacks, or the New Black Panthers towards Whites. Or racism can be corrosive — as in the patronizing racism of leftists toward certain minorities (i.e. Blacks, Hispanics) holding them to lesser standards of behavior ensuring they’ll never be taken seriously, but will be expected to be grateful supplicants.
Racism is also the belief that melanin level dictates politics and that an “improper” political stance (always so designated by some unelected, self-selected leader) negates the “authenticity” of the individual. This is the modern, metastasized version of the Left “feminist” trope the personal is the political.
In all cases, racism is collectivism and as such is anathema to any one that holds the individuals are ultimately responsible for themselves and should be judged, good or ill, on the same basis. Racism and charges of racism, like collectivism, is the realm of the intellectually lazy. No need to deal with individuals, just categorize them by looks and dismiss them.
“Reverse-racism” is a misnomer. It is all racism, regardless whether it is directed towards the melanin-enriched or the melanin-challenged.
And with all due respect to Jeff and his efforts to expose identity politics for the illiberal, misanthropic, totalitarian shell game they are, I learned my anti-racist/anti-collectivist, American principles from my parents.
Of course, for Scott, it makes no difference if a person is not racist themselves. Merely being a non-leftist and actually writing from that perspective is, in and of itself, race-baiting
By virtue of the fact that anything Ed Morrissey and his ilk write will bait racists into revealing themselves in the comments, every post of his is race-baiting.
This nonsense, of course, is just a variation on a theme we’ve seen often from the anti-American Left when it comes to 9/11 or Nidal Hasan — America creates terrorists. If only America didn’t [support Israel, have troops in the Middle East, et al] or convert to Islam they would love us. Hence, non-leftists create racists. If only non-leftists would SHUTUP (or convert), there would be no racism.
For all of the attempts by certain “conservative” bloggers and columnists to “watch their language” and “not give offense”, it doesn’t matter, it never mattered. It is not that we are misunderstood, it is that we are told to shut up or else because we are understood and our principles stand in the way of the Left’s Utopian agenda.
So, as I said at the top, Scott will shriek “RACIST!! ELEVENTY!!” and his band of noxious, know-nothing nabobs will drool their way through another set of straw non-leftists. Any honesty about “race” is the last thing these Utopians want to discuss. Oh my, their plantation pets might get ideas.
Comment by Republican on Acid on 11/30 @ 1:07 am #
Excellent post Darleen. I work in a cubicle with an ex Russian and a guy in his 40’s that wears Doctor Sues shirts on some days. They are both Obama lovers. Whenever the conversation turns to political issues, all I ever hear about Obama is why it was great of America to elect a black man. PERIOD. As if that is all that matters. All past sins are now washed clean? I really don’t get the insanity of it to be honest and I am not sure if there is anything that can be said to make them understand.
This thinking process alone makes me think that there is horrible doom ahead of some sort. I am not really sure why, but I feel it in the pit of my stomach. I hope against it, but the indicators are just so huge for ugliness.
Comment by SBP on 11/30 @ 1:47 am #
By virtue of the fact that anything Ed Morrissey and his ilk write will bait racists into revealing themselves in the comments, every post of his is race-baiting.
Hmm… hasn’t SEK characterized numerous people who have commented on his own site as “racists”? Yes, yes, he has.
Wouldn’t that then mean that SEK’s own posts were “race-baiting”, by his own standards? Yes, yes it would.
This guy is the king of self-beclowning.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 11/30 @ 4:55 am #
Captain Racism looks and sounds like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErElwORrSx8
Impressive fellow, he. No, I will not pay to have any liquid you snort onto your keyboard removed.
Comment by SDN on 11/30 @ 5:42 am #
If absolutely anything a conservative does or says gets him labeled a racist, then why not actually be one and reap the supposed benefits? It’s the same question, on a personal level, raised by the continual accusations that Amerikkka is an imperialist power waging “wars for oil.” Of course, if we are, then there we could be way more efficient about it.
Another unspoken corollary to SqEk’s argument is “Hey, why should we engage in any sort of debate with you, whitey? Since we’ll eventually be the majority in this warm-body democracy, you won’t have any choice but to do things our way. Or we’ll kill you.” The difference between SqEk and the New Black Panther Party’s “You’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!” is that the Panther’s are more honest. And if that’s the terms of the debate, then we need to acknowledge it and defend ourselves accordingly.
Again, leftist logic leads inevitably to violence and slavery.
Comment by DavidL on 11/30 @ 6:08 am #
I find it wrying amusing that among certain segments of the population, Martin Luther King is both worshiped and ignored. The modern liberal has inverted King, and made judging character racist.
I like the idea that racism is the linking of melanin-level to character. The definition is nicely non-racist. It cuts in both directions.
However yet I disagree. Racism goes beyond attributing character, or lack thereof same, to melanin-level. Racism is making assumptions about people based on their race.
In the end, all functioning adults have to be racist. We live in a racist world.
Comment by EJ D on 11/30 @ 6:17 am #
Who the hell is this Kaufman clown and why the hell should anyone pay any attention to what he says?
Comment by serr8d on 11/30 @ 6:17 am #
OT, but Huckholio’s finished running for prezzidint. Hate that, really.
Comment by B Moe on 11/30 @ 6:20 am #
That would properly be called bigotry or prejudice, unless you are assuming they are inferior as a people because of their race.
Only if you accept that racist is synonymous with bigot, which it is not.
Comment by Joe on 11/30 @ 7:00 am #
Captain Racism and Dr. Utopia. Scary.
Comment by Joe on 11/30 @ 7:04 am #
Michael Moore gives some advice to the President.
Comment by Carin on 11/30 @ 7:07 am #
E-gads. Don’t make me read SEK. The points … they swim and bop and weave.
I haven’t had enough coffee.
Comment by Carin on 11/30 @ 7:09 am #
Honestly, does he ever bring up anything … important?
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 7:14 am #
That depends, Carin, on what you call important. He’s totally right, if you ask Chris Matthews. And Squat knows all about the racism of white people who only hang out with other white people. After all, he’s one of them.
Comment by B Moe on 11/30 @ 7:15 am #
From Moore’s letter Joe linked:
RACIST!
Comment by newrouter on 11/30 @ 7:20 am #
i like this picture of president knucklehead
here
i denounce the photographer
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 7:28 am #
Careful. SEK has a gang of angry haters what hate on his behalf.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 7:37 am #
There was a time where SEK engaged in good-faithed discussion. Now, he just plays to his band of sycophants and tries to burnish his Leftist chops by screaming RACIST at people. It is really rather pathetic. Rich Puchalsky and Karl “call me doctor” Steel should be along to tell you how racist you are at any moment. Because SEK’s gang of angry haters what hate on his behalf do that kind of thing.
Comment by SBP on 11/30 @ 7:53 am #
Impressive fellow, he.
The street cred just oozes from that. I have no trouble believing he came straight to the conference from tipping a few 40s with his homies.
It’s the cardigan, I think.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/30 @ 7:53 am #
That was a long time ago, JD. I think I called SEK a jerk (or was it asshole?) back then. Glad to see that I got that one right.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 7:58 am #
Spot on, Mikey. A nozzle of douche extraordinaire, he is.
Comment by JHo on 11/30 @ 7:59 am #
SQEK has the affected mannerisms of the self-impressed and the Valley girl delivery of one lacking the standing to be so and naturally I immediately denounce myself for all that.
I’d pre-denounce but it’s too late for that now.
Quick. Somebody edit this comment.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/30 @ 8:35 am #
By virtue of the fact that anything Ed Morrissey and his ilk write will bait racists into revealing themselves in the comments, every post of his is race-baiting.
Oh my, poor Scott, he’s gone from being mendacious to merely moronic.
The corollary to his statement being that, since SEK is not a race-baiter, anything that he writes on race certainly must compel racists to conceal their bigotry when commenting on his site. Because to do otherwise would render SEK a race-baiter.
Free exchange be damned. And apparently more damned than racism.
Of course Hell already has a circle for liars, so SEK certainly has the proper vantage point.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 8:36 am #
That is an excellent post, Darleen, worthy of Jeff’s demands that we adhere to intentionalism and plain meaning rather than contrived, ideologically driven labeling.
I see two things happening here. One is the obvious and intellectually lazy approach of burying the merits of an opposing policy position under a storm of racial tagging. It’s purpose is to stifle debate rather than engage, a by product of a quasi religious surety of rightness. Challenge such with facts and figures and we are committing a form of political blasphemy which requires a scarlet letter “R” tattooed to our persona. Thus you are dismissed in caricature.
Oppose Affirmative Action or Obama? – Racists!
Oppose Gay Marriage? – Homophobe!
Oppose abortion? – Misogynist!
Support aggressively pursuing Jihadist Terrorists? – Islamophobe
Wash, rinse, repeat … ad nauseum.
I also see the increasing desperation of SEK’s ilk in terms of the structure of their public debate. As we have seen with certain of our own trolls, Teh Outrage is back in style. But why is this the case? The left pretty much owns the government lock, stock and two non-smoking barrels. Why are so many of them pissed off and, again, resorting to debate smothering identity politics and drive by link snarking?
I’d suggest that the bloom is off of the rose. Try to imagine how high expectations were on January 20 when progressives whooped and hollered about their overwhelming victory. They’ve had to watch their apex slowly crumble over the least several months as initiative after initiative has failed and Obama has not done all that he said he would. They can’t blame Teh Won because they have no where else to go. Thus they wind up the outrage player at those pesky conservatives and classical liberals and libertarians who JUST WON’T SHUT UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY!!! It simply can’t be about means and practices and practicalities. It must be about [insert identity politic label here!]
I’m sure that Jeff weeps at both the practices of SEK and his ilk as well as those simpering Republicans who walk around concerned about being misunderstood … but … take a minute and embrace the Schadenfreude of those who cast aside their “childish things” when they received a big present on January 20th, only to unwrap the bow and find the box almost empty.
We, collectively, must be to blame because of our racist selves. I laugh, deeply!
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/30 @ 8:38 am #
No thinking person would ever assert that racism does not exist in our nation, or anywhere else on earth for that matter. But, it is in no way institutionalized, unless one includes hiring set-asides and affirmative action mandates that have outlived their usefulness in our society; and in many ways are veiled measures that attempt to address issues of economic entitlement rather than equality of opportunity. And, in some ways, are ways to reward political constituencies.
It is also ridiculous to assert that somehow conservatives have the market cornered on racist affiliation. The last I checked, fellows like Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and Al Sharpton were not card carrying Rethugs!, nor is La Raza a bastion of wongnuttery. That the liberal Democrats and the political far left have used the charge of racism, perhaps the most toxic label that can be affixed to someone in modern America, to smear their opponents, besmirch their character, and impugn them as “bad people” of poor character is no secret. And this gratuitous slander has not only blurred the meaning of what actual racism is, but has in fact weakened the charge itself. In the same way that people stopped taking the calls of alarm by “the boy who cried wolf” seriously, so too do they take the professional race-hustlers race card playing with a generous amount of salt.
Charges of racism need to be reserved for, well, actual racists, and not used as a code word to impute poor character. The longer that the race-hustlers toss it blythly about is all the more longer it will take for our society to become truly color blind as Dr. King spoke of and as our Constitution provides for.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/30 @ 8:40 am #
Remember, Nazism was the Grand-daddy of identity politics.
(paraphrasing Jonah Goldberg)
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 8:44 am #
Well said, Bob. Some of the most bigoted people I have known were Massachusetts Democrat liberals.
Comment by Lazarus Long on 11/30 @ 8:46 am #
“…they received a big present on January 20th, only to unwrap the bow and find the box almost empty”
Or coming downstairs on Christmas morning, finding a big pile of horseshit under the tree, and no matter how they dig, they can’t find the pony.
Comment by Joe on 11/30 @ 8:50 am #
The White House is threatening legal action over this?
Are First Amendment Rights tied to the strength of the dollar?
Comment by mcgruder on 11/30 @ 9:01 am #
SEK and his followers, or more accurately, the people they follow, see RACE as a big rig, kind of like how stock-pumpers pimp and pump an internet stock with no prospects and then dump it when it gets to a certain price and then move .
Their minds are set and the intentions are clear. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with politics. Ask yourself this: when was the last time you saw the solemn and grave pundity types who talk about this sort of thing on TV or on blogs and the like ever move the talk past racial attitudes and perceptions? Has any of the think-tank set, or SEK and his blogger cohorts ever, ever just once thought of what it would take to improve the lot of people who happen to have darker skin than them? They save the solemnity and pronouncements of import for the occasional idiocy on the fringe right–they are never going to address honestly the issue of fatherlessness, mainstreaming of educational failure, rejection of productive social norms and the like that are far greater social barriers to success (however it is defined)than whatever palaver the RNC is peddling at a given time.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/30 @ 9:03 am #
wongnuttery. Leave Margaret Cho out of this.
Oooh, I so denounce myself.
As opposed to wangnuttery, which IIRC does not involve Margaret Cho.
NTTAWWT
Comment by ted360 on 11/30 @ 9:12 am #
Jesus, you’re a whiner. Does your ass STILL hurt from that spanking. We never see you around anymore. Why hide over here? Is the towel boy afraid to talk to his betters? Guess it’s better to hang here with Pablo the facebook stalker! You know he’ll never tell to call him doctor.
Comment by ted360 on 11/30 @ 9:18 am #
Because a vocal minority of morons and reactionaries has declared itself the Party of No and refuses to engage in honest debate and compromise? It wallows in manipulating old people, lying to the middle class, and ignoring numbers and process for the expediency of sitting in a corner, fingers in ears, screaming Commie. And, as the plutocrats’ foot soldiers, you people are the easiest targets. I can’t yell at all the Teabaggers, but I can make fun of some of them!
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 9:18 am #
ted360: Anything substantive to say on a post which takes your hero out to the rhetorical woodshed and beat him to an inch of his life?
Never mind … rhetorical question, is all. I’d what you guys bleat about over at SEK’s place constitutes a “spanking” then I would suggest that leather vests and a strap on were involved.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 11/30 @ 9:19 am #
For all of the attempts by certain “conservative” bloggers and columnists to “watch their language” and “not give offense”, it doesn’t matter, it never mattered. It is not that we are misunderstood, it is that we are told to shut up or else because we are understood and our principles stand in the way of the Left’s Utopian agenda.
Bingo. They are only going to lie about us and hate us anyway; there is no point trying to appease them. They are thugs and they must be smashed.
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 9:19 am #
Oooh! A racist and a Facebook stalker! Because looking at stuff publicly available on these here intertubes is stalking, just like being white is racist.
What. A. Fucking. Tool. If shit were brains, ted, you couldn’t make a stink.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/30 @ 9:19 am #
A SEKophyant wants to talk about honest debate?
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 9:20 am #
So “making fun” and smearing all who disagree as racists, dimwits, uneducated hickwads and dishonest losers are one in the same, Ted? The transcendent irony is lost on you, isn’t it?
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 9:21 am #
And tell me ted, why is Squat Facebook stalking Sarah Palin? It’s because he’s a racist, isn’t it?
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 9:23 am #
Is there a club for that and does membership come with a free web cam?
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 9:24 am #
52% is what a vocal minority looks like. Or, -14, if you prefer.
Teabagging racists, the lot of them. Which leads me to wonder, ted, how do my balls taste?
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 9:27 am #
2010 is going to be a very racist year.
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Comment by cranky-d on 11/30 @ 9:33 am #
Notice how the once-turned-around troll doesn’t address anything with substance? Hey, moron, the Dems have a majority. They can pass anything they want to pass. Do you know why they won’t? Because enough of them know it would be a disaster, and they want “cover” from teh Republicans. I hope not one gives it to them.
Own your fail.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/30 @ 9:34 am #
Not to take anything away from Darleen’s post, but I deleted the link to SEK’s site. If he wants to Google archive charges of racism against me or others, he doesn’t need the help of this site’s traffic to do so.
Besides, happyfeet can find his way over there without our help.
Comment by SBP on 11/30 @ 9:34 am #
Jesus, you’re a whiner. Does your ass STILL hurt from that spanking. We never see you around anymore. Why hide over here? Is the towel boy afraid to talk to his betters? Guess it’s better to hang here with Pablo the facebook stalker! You know he’ll never tell to call him doctor.
See, this is what is known as “scholarly discourse”, you ignorant hicktards. LISTEN TO YOUR BETTERS!
Comment by cranky-d on 11/30 @ 9:36 am #
The fact that Dems cannot pass their insane policies even with a majority, but Repubs have managed at times to get some stuff passed, should give one pause if one is a “liberal.” The majority of the people in this country DO NOT LIKE Dem policies when they are explained to them.
Comment by SBP on 11/30 @ 9:36 am #
that’s why there are so many of us here.
I’ve got a lot more melanin than pasty-white SEK, you can bet.
Say, did he ever find any black people on his campus? I’m sure there must be at least one or two.
Comment by Carin on 11/30 @ 9:38 am #
Because a vocal minority of morons and reactionaries has declared itself the Party of No and refuses to engage in honest debate and compromise? It wallows in manipulating old people, lying to the middle class, and ignoring numbers and process for the expediency of sitting in a corner, fingers in ears, screaming Commie. And, as the plutocrats’ foot soldiers, you people are the easiest targets. I can’t yell at all the Teabaggers, but I can make fun of some of them!
If Ted would like to discuss any of those issues, here, we should welcome him. So, Ted, which one of these ideas would you like to be disabused of first?
Come, come. I’m letting you choose.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/30 @ 9:40 am #
Yeah, I pointed that out to him, too. But he has black friends on Twitter, apparently.
Scott told me that he didn’t think I was a racist, and at first I felt grateful. But then I remembered that everyone is really racist, with the people who don’t think they’re racist being the worst of the lot, and the people who think they definitely are being not really racist at all.
But then if I contradicted him, I’d wind up being racist anyway, and would have to hang my head in shame.
Squared, because I used the word “hang” in a comment that speaks to my inner racist.
I really think Scott’s been hanging out with Dave Niewert a bit too much.
Comment by Carin on 11/30 @ 9:42 am #
This place is a rare race-neutral oasis: that’s why there are so many of us here.
I’m interested to know how one discovers the race of a commenter on this blog.
Or what grade-school level intelligence allows you to make the assumption that one can count the variety of skin tone to discern the racism level of a certain group.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/30 @ 9:43 am #
I’m not sure what “race-neutral” means, but I think we can’t possibly be less melanin-deficient than Scott’s Facebook friends.
To me, “race-neutral” means something like “I don’t really care what color you are”, rather than “you get an extra bonus for having black friends!”
Comment by sdferr on 11/30 @ 9:46 am #
“400 years of white oppression?”
Damn, I’m a lot older than I thought, evidently.
Comment by Carin on 11/30 @ 9:48 am #
I see. Black PW CA is stuck in Kindergarten.
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 9:49 am #
And now you know why Christians rightly hate Romans, Black PW Commenters Association. BECAUSE OF TEH OPPRESSION!!!
Comment by SBP on 11/30 @ 9:50 am #
Black PW Commenters Association
You’re about as black as Andy Warhol, son.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/30 @ 9:51 am #
s/less/more
Comment by Curmudgeon on 11/30 @ 9:53 am #
refuses to engage in honest debate and compromise?
Coming from people who want to ram through, as fast as they can, a several thousand page bill no one has even *read*, this is truly rich.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/30 @ 9:54 am #
I’ve been oppressing the Black Man since the early 1600s, apparently.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/30 @ 10:08 am #
Good grief. That’s elementary school level. Not only is SEK a sanctimonious asshole, he’s an ignorant sanctimonious asshole.
Comment by SBP on 11/30 @ 10:18 am #
Not only is SEK a sanctimonious asshole, he’s an ignorant sanctimonious asshole.
He has a PhD! From a school that has Asian students! And he has a neighbor from Pakistan!
Worship at the altar of his intellect, dim-witted NASCAR fans!
Comment by sdferr on 11/30 @ 10:41 am #
People talk about race all the time. They act as if race is something. Something, that is, as opposed to nothing. And yet, I’m not at all sure that when people talk about race assuming as they go, they have any distinct idea what it is they are talking about. I have yet to have seen any unequivocal definition which gains any general agreement, the issue being so damned complicated by biology and such, at the same time as fraught with emotions of guilt and injury admixed with politics and power. It looks an awful lot like crap in a bowl, so far as I can see.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/30 @ 10:52 am #
Brown or black, you mean.
RACIST!
Comment by sdferr on 11/30 @ 11:04 am #
Heh.
What, phlogiston in a fist? Geocentrism on a gherkin?
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 11:10 am #
This whole kerfuffle seems tragically non-post-racial to me. Also, I cast aside my veil on inauguration day.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 11:31 am #
Ted360 is a talented little sycophant. Anyone that can type with his finger up his ass has got mad skillz. Spanking? Screaming RACIST is a spanking to these clowns, apparently. Shocka that I chose not to continue to hang out with those tools.
RACISTS !!!!!
Comment by Rusty on 11/30 @ 11:42 am #
Is ‘asshole’ a race? ’cause I think that’s what our friend Scott means when he says racist. It’s the only way his posts make sense. He should just call people assholes if he means assholes. It’s OK I’m not offended. Seeems like guy with a phd in something would know better. What is his phd in? Wimmins studies?
Comment by ted360 on 11/30 @ 12:23 pm #
Re #66
Hell Jdizzle, you know Karl and ahistoricality pissed you off by pwning you.
Re-live the magic ([link removed by editor - ed]) and, for the love of god, learn a new schtick. The “RACIST”/denounce thing is something you think has cachet after all these years.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/30 @ 12:30 pm #
There’s a reason SEK’s commenters stay put on sites that cater to their world view and are afraid to comment at sites like this that don’t, and that would willingly challenge them on their own academic terms. And it ain’t because they love the wit over at Kaufman’s place, either. Because let’s be honest: such doesn’t really exist.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 12:33 pm #
Screaming RACIST is p3wning? If that is the case, then you are right. Sadly, you are just a little sycophant, an angry hating hater hating on behalf of your douchenozzle. How do my balls taste?
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/30 @ 12:39 pm #
SEK asks if an academic blog is an oxymoron. The answer is no, of course. Unless it’s an academic blog that takes the unspoken position that there are no true academics that would ever self-describe as conservative.
Conservatives attract racists, because only conservatives can be racist.
That’s what passes for “academic” rigor in his world — with the only caveat being that one need gussy that kind of argument up in the impenetrable argot of a particular discipline in the humanities in order to make it difficult to reduce to its kernel premise.
A shell game.
Comment by ted360 on 11/30 @ 2:42 pm #
Much like your wife, I don’t feel anything…
I do note your apparent desire to be serviced by a male, which is interesting for someone like you
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 3:00 pm #
This one is pretty remarkable, even for a troll. I would ask that you leave my Better Half out of this. I would hate to have her embarass you. It is good of you to display your utter lack of honesty and class in such a public manner. Has this one ever been anything less than vile?
Comment by BJTexs on 11/30 @ 3:01 pm #
ted – 360 degrees of obtuse.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 3:02 pm #
Someone like you … ? Do explain. Nevermind. I will save you the effort. HOMOPHOBE! RACIST!
Comment by ted360 on 11/30 @ 4:53 pm #
Yeah, dickweed, I started the penis talk…
Yet another time little jdizzle can act aggrieved. At least I’ve learned you’re a consistent whiner.
oh, and bj, you ARE clever next to jaydinator. Unfortunately, that’s not saying very much.
Did you ever find the answer the question of why normal people should respect the party of no? On a blog where the proprietor’s campaign slogan was gonna “Everything’s just fine;” where several commentators this weekend posited their votes would go to candidates who promised NOT to pass laws or repeal all laws? Normal people loathe teabagging know nothings because you think America’s fine, because “you” got yours and “you” don’t care if society’s functioning at all.
Fundamentally, you people believe things that are untrue: cutting taxes raises revenues for the govt, global warming doesn’t exist, racism doesn’t exist (except with people who try to extend political and economic power to minorities; those people are racists because this isn’t 1955 and no one needs any help), government rations healthcare (as opposed to when private-jet-flying private sector types actually ration healthcare, see mammograms; ’cause they’re the good guys), or we should spend more money on defense when we spend more than the rest of the world combined.
That people would still loathe you for tossing your wrenches in the workings of policy is pretty natural. But, maybe you’re too busy gettin’ jaydee’s back to notice the country has problems and you people don’t have solutions…..except cut everyone’s taxes, by a Hummer, and get a unicorn.
Comment by B Moe on 11/30 @ 5:11 pm #
You could save a lot of bandwidth by just typing “I’m rubber and you’re glue” ted.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/30 @ 5:12 pm #
Which blog was that? Certainly not mine.
Fundamentally, it’s clear that you haven’t the foggiest idea what people like me think. I’m operating way above your intellectual pay grade.
People may loathe me forever. Wouldn’t make me any less correct — or their support for a naked emperor any less comical to anyone watching it unfold objectively.
In fact, I’m laughing at you right now. Even as I weep for this country, which finds itself in the hands of cowards who need the government to take care of them from cradle to grave, and think such a thing comes without the loss of liberty or the destruction of the individual as a possible societal conceit.
Comment by B Moe on 11/30 @ 5:13 pm #
I think Obama is just the opposite, the clothes have no emperor.
Comment by Rusty on 11/30 @ 5:14 pm #
1.Comment by Republican on Acid on 11/30 @ 1:07 am #
Excellent post Darleen. I work in a cubicle with an ex Russian and a guy in his 40’s that wears Doctor Sues shirts on some days. They are both Obama lovers. Whenever the conversation turns to political issues, all I ever hear about Obama is why it was great of America to elect a black man. PERIOD. As if that is all that matters. All past sins are now washed clean? I really don’t get the insanity of it to be honest and I am not sure if there is anything that can be said to make them understand.
This thinking process alone makes me think that there is horrible doom ahead of some sort. I am not really sure why, but I feel it in the pit of my stomach. I hope against it, but the indicators are just so huge for ugliness.
I just hope you don’t work with nuclear reactors or explosives or something like that.
Comment by Pablo on 11/30 @ 5:20 pm #
Geez, ted. I didn’t find the answer the question of why normal people should respect the party of no. I not find the why for people respect Al Gore too. And yet…
When you find answer question, you tell. kthxbai.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 5:29 pm #
That was a projectile vomit of Leftist canards and talking points. 360 degrees of asshattery is no way to go through life, Theodore. You have to give Teddie credit though, he erected and then took a blowtorch to an entire army of strawpersons. Impressive. Sadly, it appears to believe the voices in its head.
Comment by JD on 11/30 @ 5:29 pm #
That was a projectile vomit of Leftist canards and talking points. 360 degrees of asshattery is no way to go through life, Theodore. You have to give Teddie credit though, he erected and then took a blowtorch to an entire army of strawpersons. Impressive. Sadly, it appears to believe the voices in its head.
Comment by Darleen on 11/30 @ 7:50 pm #
Fundamentally, you people believe things that are untrue
Then teddykins spews things that ARE true or things that were never asserted here.
funny teddykins
Comment by Rusty on 12/1 @ 8:43 am #
#76
You those times when you get an idea and you work it around in your head and it you think it’s a good idea and you just have to tell everybody? That wan’t one of those.