About 8 years ago, one part of my job at the time was to read through depositions of people they wanted to be named plaintiffs in a big class action case, including the one from a woman in Colorado who commented that one of her supervisors was always trying to Jew people down and then not only repeated it when the opposing counsel said "excuse me?" but explained what it meant.
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Apr 18, 2013 11:05:22 am PDT #19324 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2013 11:05:26 am PDT #19325 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
there have been so many racial/sexist epithets used by people in state and federal legislatures recently that I despair for societal progress.
No, "jew down" is not appropriate, neither is "wetback" or "vagina" to refer to women. Your average 14 year old knows this and they are too young to serve in state and local office.
Fred Pete - Apr 18, 2013 11:10:20 am PDT #19326 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
And, of course, he would scream louder than anyone if somebody used a phrase that stereotyped Oklahomans comparably....
Jesse - Apr 18, 2013 11:13:21 am PDT #19327 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I enjoyed this headline from Gawker: Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?
Toddson - Apr 18, 2013 11:15:37 am PDT #19328 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The guy who used "vagina's"? Charles Pierce comments, "There's something wonderful about a guy who insults the majority of his constituents and still has time to misuse an apostrophe."
Trudy Booth - Apr 18, 2013 11:15:57 am PDT #19329 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I knew there was a time difference between New York and Oklahoma, but I didn’t realize it was 60 years.
No, "jew down" is not appropriate, neither is "wetback" or "vagina" to refer to women. Your average 14 year old knows this and they are too young to serve in state and local office.
Some time in the late eighties someone referred to "that jigaboo guard over there" and my little sister just looked at him bewildered. I had to explain it to her later.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2013 11:20:51 am PDT #19330 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
I loved that piece in gawker. I just tweeted about it. It would be nice if more people wrote about the NY Post that way. I needs to have no subscribers and no links so that it really will fold for good.
It is Murdoch's vanity project and been a loss leader since he's owned it. I don't think he's giving it up.
SuziQ - Apr 18, 2013 11:21:12 am PDT #19331 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have Hair to thank for teaching me complicated sexual words and racial epithets when I was about 12.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2013 11:22:35 am PDT #19332 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strix - Apr 18, 2013 11:23:08 am PDT #19333 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Home now. All went well; I am tired and sore, and loopy.
Thank you for all the good thoughts!