Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
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.
And, of course, he would scream louder than anyone if somebody used a phrase that stereotyped Oklahomans comparably....
I enjoyed this headline from Gawker: Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?
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."
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.
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.
I have Hair to thank for teaching me complicated sexual words and racial epithets when I was about 12.
Home now. All went well; I am tired and sore, and loopy.
Thank you for all the good thoughts!
Loopy is good. Home is best. Feel better soon!!