Journal List of FAILURES's Journal: More Deception from BMetzler 14
I tried. I REALLY tried. But BMetzler's little hissy fit about censuring Kennedy vs. censuring Bush really has no teeth. He claims that Sen. Kennedy used racial slurs during a filibuster in November. But, I can find no record of these supposed slurs. Not one. What I CAN find is a lot of right-wing whining about how the filibuster was wrong. (Hard to get a dose of your own medicine isn't it you fucking FAILURES? You can dish it out but you can't take it? Heh heh heh)
I'm an open minded sort, so I will be more than willing to take on any evidence of the supposed racial slurs. Post here quickly.
Since you're open-minded (Score:1, Troll)
I'll give you a link to the story on conservativetruth.org [conservativetruth.org]. Also, see the article on freerepublic.com [freerepublic.com] which reports Daschle claims that Kennedy didn't "mean" to use racially offensive language.
-BrentRe:Since you're open-minded (Score:1)
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:2)
Why is it that when nigger is used in reference to a black it is a racial slur, but if someone refers to a white "group" using a racial slur like nigger it doesn't count. For your reference, Kennedy called the minorities that Bush nominated "neanderthals." Can you imagine a Republican claiming that a black wasn't as human as whites are? But since it's a Democrat calling a republican appointee, it
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:1)
Simple. White people are not minorities. Non-whites are. Minorities (due to their lack of power through sheer numbers) should be accorded an extra level of respect and attention.
For your reference, Kennedy called the minorities that Bush nominated "neanderthals."
Even one of the articles you cited above doubts that his use of the word
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:2)
Amazingly, in some parts of the country, Hispanics and Blacks outnumber caucasians. Does that mean it is ok to racially slur them there?
Even one of the articles you cited above doubts that his use of the word "neanderthal" had anything to do with implying that the candidates were subhuman. The joke is that Neanderthals hadn't
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:2, Insightful)
No further comment needed.
And this is racial in what way? Sure, it's an insult, but if I called a hispanic person "stupid", no one is going to accuse me of flying the confederate flag and wearing a KKK robe. Time for a reality check BMetzler.
I still think that if I would publically call a black person a "neanderthal," I would offend a certain racial group. Again, you can prove me wrong, I'm listening.
Attempting to insult a
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:1, Troll)
So if I called a Black person any of those terms, would that be acceptable? I'm just trying to say that there is a double-standard. There should not be in my mind.
I'm not racist, that's why I'm offended by a double-standard. But When we come down to nuts and bolts, I can't judge anyone any harsher for calling a black an offensive term because they don't like blacks, than I would a person who calls Bush an offensive term because they don'
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:1)
Acceptable? Not in polite company. Racist? Definitely not. And THAT is the point you are dancing around. You are claiming racism on Kennedy's part. You have yet to PROVE that there was racist intent. Until you do that, you have no basis to think that Kennedy should be censured.
But When we come down to nuts and bolts, I can't judge anyone any harsher for calling a black an offensive term because they don't like blacks, than
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:2)
You have your opinion about Bush, and a racist has his opinion about blacks. Whether you call them racial slurs or just insults, the point is that you both think that you are justified in your language. The difference is that you have a different view then a racist, and I have a different
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:1)
Politics are far less important of a feature than race, in determining a person's self-identity. That's one of the biggest problems I see on the right. Right-wingers seem to talk politics day and night instead of actually doing anything useful. They preach and shout everyone else down (even if everyone else believe the opposite) almost to the point where they seem to be obsessed.
Politics, on the right, seem to be
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:2)
What's important to you may not be important to someone else. What's important to someone else may be the last of your concerns.
You believe that derogatory comments about someone's politics is ok, but derogatory comments about the color of their skin is wrong. Someone else believes that it is ok to say derogatory things to people of different color or sexual orientation.
I believe that it is wrong to use
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:2, Insightful)
Fact: Kennedy did not make a racist statement no matter how much you want to interpret it that way
Fact: Your desire for a censure of Kennedy is purely based on your partisan sentiments rather than a concern over any real instance of racism
Fact: Your original post that all of this refers to is pure bullshit disguised as a supposed interest in "fairness"
Fact: You have not proven your point about Kennedy making racist comments to be true in any form
Fact: Your rhetoric about all slurs being o
Re:Since you're open-minded (Score:1)