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Skriven 2009-03-24 23:38:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av John Fitzgerald
Ärende: SHLEMIELS ON THE SAME BUS
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BA>>   Although I'm often accused of being a liberal Democrook, (
BA>>   a) I am in fact a card-carrying and money contributing
BA>>   Libertarian and (b) I have never voted for
BA>>   a Democrook in my life.

RW>>  I resemble most of that, as I too am of the libertarian
RW>>  persuasion.

 Pretty much everybody is libertarian to a certain extent.

JF>>   I would vote libertarian my self if it were not for the fact I
JF>> would  be wasting my vote.  So, like the ol saying goes, you have to
JF>> vote for  one Shlemiel to keep the bigger Shlemiel out of office.

 That is the basis on which I usually vote. As I have long said,
 I have never voted for any presidential candidate, but I've
 voted against a lot of them.

RW>>   WHich is why a few times I *have voted major party.  THIs
RW>>   last time of course.  I didn't trust McCain, or his
RW>>   longevity, and sure didn't want that white trash redneck
RW>>  broad anywhere near the top job.

JF>>I tend to agree about her not being qualified for such a job, but I don't
JF>>quite understand why you refer to her as 'white trash'.  Is that anything
JF>>like Black trash or Hispanic trash?   Is there a difference and if not,
JF>>why bring race into it?

 TR> When Geraldine Feraro ran as Mondale's vice-president
 TR> choice, there wasn't any of this spit-spewing hatred of her
 TR> present, either before or after the campaign which she and
 TR> Mondale lost.

 Uh... yes there was. Time has just covered it over.

 TR> I seem to recall she was treated with respect and courtesy.

 So was Palin. The contempt never reached her. Same with Feraro.

 TR> The hatred began against Palin almost immediately.

 Finding a republican unqualified is defined as hate by
 republicans.

 TR> Oh, there were the usual political taunts and put-downs of
 TR> course. But nothing even approaching what was hurled at
 TR> Sarah Palin, either before the campaign got well underway,
 TR> or since the campaign has ended.

 Palin hurled enough hate to endure the rebounds.

 TR> And continues well after the campaign is over, and she and
 TR> McCain lost.

 Palin is the gift that just keeps on giving.

 TR> And I want to point something out, here:

 TR> Had one of us dared to bring up the term *black trash*
 TR> aimed at Hussein or Michele Obama, the screaming at us for
 TR> `racist attitudes' and `hate speech' would go on in Fido
 TR> for years afterward.

 Are you black? I believe Richard is white. The fact that you
 refer to him as Hussein is the hate that keeps on giving.

 TR> But the left toss's those terms around with not a flicker
 TR> of an eyelid!

 Just as the right tosses around B Hussein and such.

 TR> And `white trash' is definitely a racial taunt. Just as
 TR> `racial as `black' or any other skin color used in relation
 TR> to the word `trash'.

 No, it really isn't, when applied by someone who is white.

 OTOH, I know a black woman who was named by her white sororoty
 sisters as "honoray white trash". A title she claims proudly.

 ...

 TR> Yes.....I believe it was Sauer who protested so loudly over
 TR> the term `broad' being used you'd have thought his target
 TR> of the moment had used the *n* word!

 Which didn't seem to bother you when the "n-word" was used.

 TR> I wonder that Klahn isn't all over it.

 Maybe because this isn't my echo, and I don't read everything in
 it. Esp since it's been very busy lately. I just read what comes
 up in my search terms.

 This time it did.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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