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Also, as a proud paper hat jobber, I take offense at Ann's comments . I cannot wear any other material than paper because I am allergic to felt or cloth when I wear my hat for work.
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***= Unless you count September 11, 2001, which we in the Republican party no longer acknowledge as a date on the calendar. In fact, when we in the Republican party need emergency help via telephone, we don't even use the numbers 9-1-1.
We have the hired help dial it up.
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On the other hand, Coulter's comment would just be par of the course on any given Tuesday in that gal's life if she hadn't fallen back on the, "of course, I wouldn't have made my racially charged comment were I an actual racist" defense, which is the surest sign I know of that the person in question is, actually, a big fat racist.
By the way, it's Ann Coulter, 48.
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Ann is just racists. But since she knows that she is racist, she is not being racist by expelling her racist remarks.
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God help me for agreeing with Ann Coulter.
11/25/09
Also: if affirmative action promotes stupid people and white privilege promotes stupid people, aren't we really living in a post-racial society?
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call me a crazy liberal.
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#tips
11/25/09
It is no different than making an excuse for a parent that abuses a child... 'but they were driving me nuts, so I had a reason to whack them.'
I don't think that we can 'argue' that the riots were a bad way to deal with the 'pent up rage'-- I think we can just make that a declarative statement.
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11/25/09
Mom, you are right that we can all agree that violence is never the answer. But when confronted with violence, is it not easy to see that ones first reaction would be violence?
Furthermore, I don't see how you can believe that after invading countries without cause, and killing countless human beings, and not think someone's gonna want to bomb the shit out of us. Sometimes the "powers-that-be" are being fucking assholes.
Do you consider the Boston Tea Party to be a rebellion or riot? I'm pretty sure the British called it the latter and they had every right to. But to us, the colonists were fighting for their freedoms and all that jazz, and in the mean time other people's shit got ruined.
It's all about perspective.
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11/25/09
I also agree with you that one's initial reaction to violence is violence. Doesn't make it right or excusable. I think whether or not it is "Newtonian" in nature (an equal response to an action) or whether you go postal makes a difference here.
All that said, I recognize that I am a white, educated and upper middle class gal. What do I really know about racism or really even sexism? Not much.
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To give an example from my fine Irish history, my mother was an alcoholic as was her father and the disease probably went several (many?) generations back. Does that excuse her alcoholism? No, but it does explain it. Still, we can easily claim that it was a bad response to a shitty situation.
11/26/09
Again, what I was saying was that whatever anyone's position on the rightness or wrongness of what took place in L.A. in April of '92 is, they can't possibly argue that it happened for no reason. Please don't make me paraphrase myself again, and please stop thinking I was in any way justifying the riots. I was simply taking issue with the idea that it was entirely random and without cause.
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As for Iraq, while I did not back this war, I haven't lost a wink of sleep that Saddam is no longer in power. He was a genocidal maniac, just ask the Kurds. He was also stupid enough to claim that he had weapons of mass destruction in a big dick swinging move. He thought this would give him an edge and he made an error in judgment. The US intelligence community failed miserably here, but I do think Saddam was harboring terrorists or at the very least giving them safe haven.
I have no problem with Obama standing up for what he believes in -- he was correct in this case. I've never called him a coward, just foolish with regard to some current policies he has proposed.
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Getting back to the point of this thread.... I reiterate perspective is key. Additionally, just because you don't understand someone's perspective doesn't make it any less valid -- thus the Ca riots happening for a reason.
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I'd say what Dana Perino said is pretty effing awful, but I doubt she said it thinking "9/11 didn't happen on Bush's watch." I'm pretty sure she knows it did. Forgetting is just sloppy, but Ann Coulter is just blatantly racist and awful and should have her human card revoked.
11/25/09
I've heard wingnuts (many of whom I will be seeing in the next 24 hours; hi Mom & Dad!) say many a time about how Bush "kept us safe" for 8 years or some similar platitude. No Bushy, you didn't.
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So both white and black women can be stupid. Guess it really isn't racist but sexism.
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And frankly, I think Coulter would be offended if people DIDN'T find her statement outrageous. She could have easily just said that she found Water dumb; she brought the racial angle in for the controversy it would cause. Now I just got off of work and have to deal with wingnuts all day tomorrow, so where is the damn booze....
11/25/09
But yea, Coulter added the whole piece about affirmative action so we'd be talking about her now. Doesn't make Waters any less of a tool though.
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In his interview with Lou Dobbs, Jon Stewart managed to say to his face that he finds his beliefs "wrong and abhorrent", yet he couldn't once ask Dana Perino a substantive question, let alone any question without giggling or fluttering his eyelashes?
11/30/09
[www.democracynow.org]
Stewart can come off real douchey when he gets on his high horse about shit he doesn't know enough about, or when he rags on some Democrat or other liberal just for the sake of not always only ragging on Republicans. But he was at his best vis-a-vis Lou Dobbs.
11/30/09
You're so right that Stewart's liberal digs often fall flat. My favorite was when he said something like, "On his visit to Jerusalem, Barack Obama also took some time to visit the manger where he was born."