Comments on: Quick hit: Racism and victory daps

By: julie

julie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:28:23 +0000

Sure are some ignorant folks out there! The only thing different about most liberals in blue areas is that they learn to hide it. I’d say, also, that homophobia is quite popular, not hidden, even in CA, judging by how fast a ballot initiative against gay marriage is happening.

By: viv

viv — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:57:12 +0000

Sure don’t want to be an Albino in Africa, thank goodness the people here don’t hunt fatties for good luck body parts. The witchhunt is thankfully only psychological/mental. :)

By: Cath the Canberra Cook

Cath the Canberra Cook — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:26:14 +0000

Southern fried chicken, black-eyed peas, corn bread, and watermelon sounds damn fine to me. I wonder if any of these losers actually realise that “world dignitaries” aren’t all white American men? I’m sure Bazza will get on just fine with people like Nelson Mandela, Ban Ki-Moon, Angela Merkel, Michaëlle Jean, Quentin Bryce & many many more

Hanging out with sane people sure can insulate you from some of the worst of the world.I only recently figured out about watermelon-eater being an insult, I mean, wtf?? And I was totally taken aback when someone used “kike” as a real honest-to-god intended insult on a message board. I mean, isn’t that like, quaint history?

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:04:56 +0000

Okay, I just want to say that I have done approximately one million daps in the last two days. The celebrity host at an event snubbed my coworker, giving her an open hand instead of knuckles (my theory was that he thought “oh shit, black person doing a black thing, I better tread carefully here”) so as she got drunker she insisted on more and more daps from everyone. It was extremely hilarious and it made me think of this post and y’all. Glad to see that conversation was meaty in my absence!

Alice, totally agreed on the “shouldn’t it be okay even if it is a choice” thing; if fat rights play out anything like gay rights did, the “people can’t help it anyway” point will be a stepping stone, moving people away from the rhetoric of sinful choices and giving them room to consider whether the thing is really inherently wrong.

By: Liza

Liza — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:37 +0000

and by “it” I mean things relating to my earlier anecdote – that really doesn’t happen to me anymore

By: Liza

Liza — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:41:27 +0000

Not just you. I don’t really have sympathy for anyone who claims it, since we’ve all been there.

I had the red state blues as a red state blue for 5 years – the same 5 years during which the government and pundits tried to make “liberal” a dirty word.

I moved, and there’s some combination of living in a liberal city (*sigh* I heart NY) and a shift in the general climate of the country where it rarely if ever happens to me. And I’m over it.

By: Fat Angie

Fat Angie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:52:26 +0000

I don’t know for sure if the comment about whining about being oppressed for one’s political views was directed at me or not, but my response to “red vs. blue areas” and “Michael Savage/Rush Limbaugh listeners” was a once bitten/twice shy reaction for me. I don’t think that I’m “opressed” in any way- I’m not being banned, I’m not doing anything that should be offensive, I’m just taking issue with the idea that conservative = racist, and I thought that I did so in a respectful manner that did not connote whininess. If it did, this was not my intention and I sincerely apologize to all of you if it seemed that way.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:18:10 +0000

Alice I just read that article you linked to, I find it ironic when someone who is Albino said, “They think we’re lucky, we’re not.” Yeah…I wouldn’t associate being on someone’s kill list with luck. What is with people?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:16:29 +0000

That last quote, about the food just made me cross-eyed. How could someone be so freaking ignorant to say that.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:47:46 +0000

Well, here's some perspective: no matter how oppressed you might think you are due to being non-white, female, handicapped, or poor, you've still got nothing on albinos, because at least you aren't hunted and butchered for your magic body parts.