US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2511

On November 12 2015 00:53 heliusx wrote:
No one identifies as a hick, its a word used to paint someone as uneducated simply because they were born in the south.

On November 12 2015 00:26 heliusx wrote:


This is acceptable?

On November 12 2015 00:53 heliusx wrote:
No one identifies as a hick, its a word used to paint someone as uneducated simply because they were born in the south.

On November 12 2015 01:32 heliusx wrote:
OK some ignorant people embrace derogatory terms. Everyone happy?

On November 12 2015 01:35 heliusx wrote:
Yeah there's nothing ignorant about identifying with a term used to describe an uneducated Southerner, good grief.

On November 12 2015 01:14 Trumpet wrote:


that's a lovely, utopian, post-racial view. In america, police killed a black kid for playing with a toy in public, so we still need to be reminded of how race affects our judgments on a subconscious level before we can skip to ignoring race altogether. Even in areas like my own "chocolate" city where the black population isn't a minority in number, we have huge inequality and discrimination problems.

As the dust settled over an intense Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, the instant verdict of the mainstream media was that the unexpected rise of the political outsider – in particular Donald Trump – had finally began to come unstuck.

Commentators noted that it was by far the most substantive debate in the series so far, with the two former governors Jeb Bush and John Kasich, who represent the establishment wing of the party, using the greater focus on detail to present a dramatically contrasting view on immigration to Trump’s vision of building a wall and ejecting 11 million undocumented immigrants. On foreign policy, both Trump and his immediate rival, the neurosurgeon Ben Carson, looked blustery.

But that’s not how conservative pundits saw it. In the rarified world of the conservative media, a very different account of the event was being written – one in which Trump sealed his leading status by being unbending on immigration, while Bush and Kasich, far from making a tentative comeback, dug their own presidential graves.

Michelle Malkin, a star of the conservative blogosphere, summed up the strident mood on Twitter when she portrayed Kasich and Bush “bending over backwards on behalf of Obama’s illegal ‘Dreamers’”– immigrants who were brought to the US as children.

Charles Hurt in the Washington Times went as far as to predict that Bush and Kasich, by opposing Trump’s extreme stance on immigration, had sealed their fate.

“Not only does Mr Bush not belong in the White House or the Republican Party, he should just be deported. Perhaps to Mexico, where he might be happier and find greater success in politics,” Hurt wrote, before going on to capture the anger within the Republican base that Trump is harvesting. “These people really have no clue how desperately frustrated and estranged American voters in both parties are over this issue of rampant illegal immigration and Washington’s absolute refusal to take simple, common sense measures to fix the problem.”

Glenn Beck, a former Fox News star who went on to found the rightwing radio network and website the Blaze, sounded a similar note. Kasich was the “epic loser” of the night, and as for Bush, he “looked 2001 and desperate. The cheap typical ‘vet sitting next to my wife’ close made me think he was GHWB [his father George Herbert Walker Bush]!”

On November 12 2015 02:20 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


I think you seem confused, because it's not your point; it's my point. I wrote out a long comment regarding that redneck costume, and all you did is write a one-liner response without context (which was obviously dismissed by everyone else already). So it seems you misunderstood the point of my initial comment. It was not all about the semantical terminology of whether a Southerner uses the term hick vs. redneck vs. whatever else to self-identify. That wasn't the point of why I wrote that comment.

Here it is again: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/general/383301-us-politics-megathread?page=2510#50191

On November 12 2015 01:54 Mohdoo wrote:


This is all true, but how does that relate to the issue of dressing up as a black person?