A Nation of Cowards

[garbage can]

there is a difference between original thought and paraphrasing. Endless C&P is boring, it doesn't aid discussion and it just makes the oP look like a tit especially because they never reference and the assertion that the reference is missing because discussion turns to sources is bogus.

What??.... Hey, Kybele, I'm in favor of the poster giving an "executive summary" of the posted C&P, to attract interest, and perhaps encourage debate.

If you're not interested, don't read the C&P..... Move on.

But don't fuckin' bitch about it.... like Trou, whose never ending bitching is worse than the C&P itself.

 

[where]

What??.... Hey, Kybele, I'm in favor of the poster giving an "executive summary" of the posted C&P, to attract interest, and perhaps encourage debate.

If you're not interested, don't read the C&P..... Move on.

But don't fuckin' bitch about it.... like Trou, whose never ending bitching is worse than the C&P itself.

are you telling me where and what I can post?

 

[cjh]

where the fuck is my discussion?

 

[where]

where the fuck is my discussion?

do you want the writing in lipstick or in eye pencil?

 

[cjh]

do you want the writing in lipstick or in eye pencil?

ooooh!

what color of lipstick?

 

[garbage can]

dude, shut up. you defend this douche too much. it's kinda getting a little suspect.

*chuckling*.......are you accusing me of being closet homo?....

 

[garbage can]

are you telling me where and what I can post?

Naw, Ky, If I expressed it that way, I apologize.

If you wish to shit on Mee Mia..... fine.... But don't make it boring....like Trou...

 

[garbage can]

i think your comment reflects your ability to analyze and articulate, too.

*chuckling*.... Okay, Cracker.... Is that an insult or a complement?....

 

[The_Trouvere]

He can't discuss. On the few occasions he's tried it, he got his arse handed to him.

His ass is a lot bigger than his brain.

 

[The_Trouvere]

What a bunch of useless idiots you are.

It is quite apparent to everyone but you, that I have posted articles that I thought were interesting reads to start a discussion about.

Write your own commentary, if you are capable of it, and maybe I will bother to read it and comment on it. Until then I will continue to jeer at you. :caning:

 

[pointless]

*chuckling*.......are you accusing me of being closet homo?....

not quite, but i find it interesting that's the first place you'd go with that.

 

[landslider2000]

Holder spent the years 1969-73 in college.

 

[off2bed]

What do you think about the issues raised in this thread?

I think it's an utter disgrace to the nation that a former superior court judge and current attorney general finds it useful to thoroughly insult the electorate.

But it's what I expect from the party that can only get what it wants by undermining and insulting people, engaging in corruption, dodging taxes, exploiting people's base instincts for their personal gain, and seeking to silence the opposition.

I'm not going to let his crap distract me, though.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Original thoughts are rare.

Has it ocurred (sic) to anyone, that someone can express ones thoughts, better than they themselves can express..... Thus, copy and paste.

So shut the fuck up about "original thoughts"... It's childish bullshit.

No it's not. It is the right wing nut cases here who are the masters of copy and paste. In addition to being mindless repeaters of the opinions of others, they also seem to have the most problems with the written word. For example, it is spelled "occurred," not "ocurred." :caning:

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

No it's not. It is the right wing nut cases here who are the masters of copy and paste. In addition to being mindless repeaters of the opinions of others, they also seem to have the most problems with the written word. For example, it is spelled "occurred," not "ocurred." :caning:

I just ate your lunch with your own C&P in the other thread where you originally said that under Bush we lost jobs and then to prove some stupid-ass ancillary post to all your twittering liberal loons buds, you C&P'd an ancient "Right wingnut" newspaper article which said jobs grew every month under Bush and the Republican Congress.


So get your head out of your ass before you start throwing rocks at glass houses and similar empty minds.

 

[MeeMie]

Thank you for your post. I just saw it now and will respond.

it's not foolish. you post a wall of text and leave it there.

ish sometimes uses an article as a jumping off point. he adds his own observations and posits his own thesis or poses his own question.

It was foolish to be critical of me for doing the same yourself.

My style of posting doesn't have to follow a set rule established by any other poster, nor comply with some invisible rule of proper posting etiquette.

I merely offer an interesting article for consumption to invite further discussion. As I said earlier, sometimes I do interject my own observations embedded in the posts. Just by posting an article, or exerpts of several, can be construed as an observation that I find worthy of further discussion.

I open it up to the board to opine in agreement or disagreement.

More often than not, I purposely do not make my own opinions known in the first post because then THAT becomes the only discussion. I've pointed this out many times. I should not come as any surprise to anyone who bothers to read a thread I create. None of which should be part of the discussion.

So, thank you for your discussion of the thread topic, finally:

and no, i don't think it's insulting to state that race is an issue that still has to be addressed. things have changed remarkably in the past twenty or thirty years. racial inequality is not as glaring as it once was. but racism is not relegated to the history books. its role in the allocation of power and of resources is still with us.
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just because we have a black president and a black AG does not mean there is no need for dialogue. far from it. this sort of bullshit only illustrates the point.

The Atty Gen didn't state that race is an issue that still has to be addressed. What he stated is that the United States is a nation of cowards.

Big difference.

How long does this guilt for slavery continue with liberals? It isn't yet satisfactory that race is not an issue when blacks have held prominent postitions in government for several years?

When President Bush appointed people of color to cabinet positions, they were insulted with remarks about 'Uncle Tom' and 'oreo cookies'.

How long does this have to go on before it is recognized as a non-issue?

Both articles approached this subject in a realistic tone. I found myself agreeing with the points raised.

Sometimes I fear that as the race guilt trip continues it will drive people away from the cause of racial equality. People who never held any racist viewpoints might begin to resent the continued accusations, after so many concessions to facilitate healing are overlooked and disregarded.

i have a friend, a harvard-educated african american woman, who was a staff member for a mississippi governor. she later moved to austin and worked in state government there. i met her for a drink in austin, and commented on how happy she must be to have left the racial tension in missisippi for the enlightened attitude of austin.

she corrected me. she said that although they didn't always get it right in mississippi, they dealt with it. they tried to address the problems. they had to.

in austin, on the other hand, racial tensions were often ignored because people assumed they were sufficiently progressive to have adequately addressed the problem. they had not--the city was effectively segregated. they simply failed to recognize the need to address the issue.

Or, maybe she just has a huge chip on her shoulder?

Kind of like Michelle Obama complaining about 'whitey' when she has been the recipient of benefits unavailable to others. I've read her thesis, before you want to argue the point.

I, too, had a wonderful african american woman friend in college. She was closer to me than any other friend, I love her like a sister. We have stayed close for more than three decades. We don't relate to each other as color, but rather as people.

This is what I hope for our country. To be colorless.

Stop making issues of the richness of our american heritage. Become one.

 

[hogjack]

useful to thoroughly insult the electorate.

The Republican and Democratic Parties spend hundreds of millions of dollars insulting the electorate.

miles' collection of tight velour shirts insults the electorate.

 

[a1eyeblind1]

I think it's an utter disgrace to the nation that a former superior court judge and current attorney general finds it useful to thoroughly insult the electorate.

But it's what I expect from the party that can only get what it wants by undermining and insulting people, engaging in corruption, dodging taxes, exploiting people's base instincts for their personal gain, and seeking to silence the opposition.

I'm not going to let his crap distract me, though.

You just defined all politicians including the Conservatives, Republicans, and Libertarians....

OH! and religion.

exploiting people's base instincts for their personal gain,

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

I stopped dating black chicks because they won't shut up in bed...





"What do you mean YOU'RE done! I'm not, get back to work!"

 

[hogjack]

are you accusing me of being closet homo?

The closet is totally metaphorical, you know.

So stop fighting through clothes hangers and tripping over the shoe rack already!

 

[cjh]

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can you think of any college-level class that involves analytical thinking where simply bringing the authorities to the table -- whether it be in discussion or in writing a paper -- gets you anything more than a C? and it should not deserve that.

your comment about my friend having a chip on her shoulder is wrong. and your willingness to make such a suggestion about a person you do not know reflecting on a situation with which i presume you have little familiarity (have you lived in either mississippi or austin?) reveals quite a bit. it is not a very flattering revelation, but it is not a very surprising one, either.

i am not quite certain how you find america to be yet colorblind. but then, maybe i interpret the significance of "barack the magic negro" and the significance of the attitudes exemplifed by people like memphis man and pellsio and cade and shagly differently than do you.

 

[semen4her]

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[MeeMie]

your comment about my friend having a chip on her shoulder is wrong.

It was a question, not a comment about your friend.

and your willingness to make such a suggestion about a person you do not know reflecting on a situation with which i presume you have little familiarity (have you lived in either mississippi or austin?) reveals quite a bit. it is not a very flattering revelation, but it is not a very surprising one, either.

Once again, it was a question, not a suggestion.

Yes, I have lived in Austin for several years. And found a nicer, more open-minded bunch of people there, that were much more aware of racial sensitivities than your opposing inference. I'm not surprised about your thin skin.

i am not quite certain how you find america to be yet colorblind. but then, maybe i interpret the significance of "barack the magic negro" and the significance of the attitudes exemplifed by people like memphis man and pellsio and cade and shagly differently than do you.

Strange argument. I'm sure you know the source of "barack the magic negro", yet you try to somehow blame it on racial attitudes of other posters that don't often agree with you.

As a rule, I skim over the radical and offensive posts of trolls trying to incite anger, perhaps differently than you do.

 

[cjh]

It was a question, not a comment about your friend.




Once again, it was a question, not a suggestion.

Yes, I have lived in Austin for several years. And found a nicer, more open-minded bunch of people there, that were much more aware to racial sensitivities than your opposing inference. I'm not surprised about your thin skin.



Strange argument. I'm sure you know the source of "barack the magic negro", yet you try to somehow blame it on racial attitudes of other posters that don't often agree with you.

As a rule, I skim over the radical and offensive posts of trolls trying to incite anger, perhaps differently than you do.

oh, i lived in austin for many years, too. and i am not suggesting that it is not open-minded. much more so once than now. (tell me, though, the difference between east and west sixth streets? why does i-35 divide the city the way that it does?)

but only 10 percent of the population was african-american. her comment was that people assumed, because they were open-minded, that there were no racial issues. that there was nothing to be addressed. out of sight out of mind. sort of like: "As a rule, I skim over the radical and offensive posts of trolls trying to incite anger, perhaps differently than you do."

and that is the precise point. WE ARE COWARDS. because we skim over "radical and offensive" but ever-present racial tensions.

out of sight.

out of mind.

(you really are going to try to casually dismiss "barack the magic negro"?)

 

[lavender]

(you really are going to try to casually dismiss "barack the magic negro"?)

Not only this, but the NY Post chimpanzee cartoon? And the "he's ...he's a Muslim" comments?

Or what about Saxby Chambliss's comments "those people are out voting."