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Post by RavynousHunter on Aug 2, 2011 15:39:46 GMT -5
Nickerson, please remind me again, what planet did you borrow your lexicon from if "tar baby" (Only moderately less spiteful than that little N-word) isn't racist? I think he missed Racial Slurs 112 when he was a kid. Fuck my dad taught the course, back then. I'm fairly sure I know...most any racial slur one could rationally think of, and "tar baby" is not only one of them, its painfully obvious to anyone who has a working mind. For reference, Nicky, tar is generally very dark:  Now, compare that to the skin coloration of the person in question (Mr. Obama), and you'll realize he's calling him tantamount to a "darkie." |
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Post by nickiknack on Aug 2, 2011 15:48:29 GMT -5
In other news...The sky is blue
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Post by m52nickerson on Aug 2, 2011 16:32:21 GMT -5
He said, "negotiating with the President was like touching a tar baby, you get stuck to it"
That was the whole point of the tar baby in the Uncle Remus stories was to entrap Br'er Rabbit. That is the context he used it in.
Was it a bad choice, yes. Was he meaning to be racists, it doesn't look that way to me.
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Post by wurdulac on Aug 2, 2011 16:50:45 GMT -5
Was that really the first thing he thinks of when trying to come up with a simile for "something that sticks to you when you touch it"? Even if he wasn't *intending* for it to be racist, it's a kind of "left-field" reference; it seems possible that he's being subconsciously racist (assuming, of course, he's not lying about his intent).
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Post by Old Viking on Aug 2, 2011 17:02:41 GMT -5
The GOP is giving idiocy a bad name.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Aug 2, 2011 17:05:21 GMT -5
The GOP is giving bad names a bad name.
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Post by m52nickerson on Aug 2, 2011 17:12:45 GMT -5
Was that really the first thing he thinks of when trying to come up with a simile for "something that sticks to you when you touch it"? Even if he wasn't *intending* for it to be racist, it's a kind of "left-field" reference; it seems possible that he's being subconsciously racist (assuming, of course, he's not lying about his intent). For someone that probably grew up with Uncle Remus Stories it may have been. He could be racist. I just don't think this comment from him was or was meant to be. |
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Post by malicious_bloke on Aug 2, 2011 17:56:32 GMT -5
Ah well. You can't expect america to get with times that quickly.
They still think padded rugby with artificial pauses for ad breaks is "football", when grownup countries codified the laws of football in the same year americans had almost finished their pathetic handbag-fight over whether brown people should be considered people.
Give it another 100 years and they might grow up a bit.
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Post by Amaranth on Aug 2, 2011 18:10:18 GMT -5
He said, "negotiating with the President was like touching a tar baby, you get stuck to it" That was the whole point of the tar baby in the Uncle Remus stories was to entrap Br'er Rabbit. That is the context he used it in. Was it a bad choice, yes. Was he meaning to be racists, it doesn't look that way to me. That doesn't particularly help. "I used a racially loaded term, but with context!" doesn't make it much better in this instance. |
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Aug 2, 2011 21:31:34 GMT -5
I had no idea that the term was racist; I never heard any of the Br'er Rabbit stories, and even with my racist fundie extended family, they'd never used that term.
Then again, I'm not a 57-year-old who was born and raised in the Deep South (Kansas counts, right?) so I'm not sure I can defend any of it.
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Post by Amaranth on Aug 2, 2011 22:33:58 GMT -5
I had no idea that the term was racist; I never heard any of the Br'er Rabbit stories, and even with my racist fundie extended family, they'd never used that term. Then again, I'm not a 57-year-old who was born and raised in the Deep South (Kansas counts, right?) so I'm not sure I can defend any of it. Ostensibly you're also not a member of a body who caught shit for the exact same thing a couple times in the past, either. |
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Aug 2, 2011 23:01:05 GMT -5
I had no idea that the term was racist; I never heard any of the Br'er Rabbit stories, and even with my racist fundie extended family, they'd never used that term. Then again, I'm not a 57-year-old who was born and raised in the Deep South (Kansas counts, right?) so I'm not sure I can defend any of it. Ostensibly you're also not a member of a body who caught shit for the exact same thing a couple times in the past, either. There's that, too, but I was afraid that'd be too antagonistic. >.>; |
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Post by Amaranth on Aug 3, 2011 7:18:08 GMT -5
There's that, too, but I was afraid that'd be too antagonistic. >.>; I'm "caustic."  |
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Post by m52nickerson on Aug 3, 2011 9:12:07 GMT -5
Ostensibly you're also not a member of a body who caught shit for the exact same thing a couple times in the past, either. I don't remember "Tar Baby" coming up in the passed. If it did it just makes him look even stupider. |
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Post by Amaranth on Aug 3, 2011 9:21:15 GMT -5
Ostensibly you're also not a member of a body who caught shit for the exact same thing a couple times in the past, either. I don't remember "Tar Baby" coming up in the passed. If it did it just makes him look even stupider. Jon Stewart even mocked it. The only bear is, I don't remember who did it, and google is now full of results for the current "gaff." |
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