I think I know the answer…but am curious.
Please do your best to avoid the “idiot teabaggers” comments and the obvious party line slander - that’s just too easy.
Where did you see them?
I didn’t. News has it that a couple of Negro (D) house members recieved a few comments…
do your best to avoid the “idiot teabaggers” comments
Oh well. I think I would just have used the idiot remark without the teabagger. Frustration and a lack of vocabulary leads to slurs. In the old days these types would have just worn robes and strung them up.
do your best to avoid the “idiot teabaggers” comments
Oh well. I think I would just have used the idiot remark without the teabagger. Frustration and a lack of vocabulary leads to slurs. In the old days these types would have just worn robes and strung them up.
This is true, but I think there’s a real answer. It does indeed revolve around frustration.
If you’re sure you know the answer, why don’t you share it with us?
…because they are all all idiot teabaggers? I mean, really, have you been/seen their protest today? Quite pathetic…
What’s pathetic is the zoo on the hill - indoors, not out.
I, for one, look forward to having my hard earned cash confiscated so some do-nothing, no good urban fifth generation taker can now have another handout.
Ill take off my PC helemt for a minute.
Deep down I could see someone doing it because in the minority they see the party of “gimme” and all that is wrong with the current entitlement trend and the Democratic party. it could also be that they see them as keeping their own race down by handing them everything in the name of being “equal” to the “haves”. That usually doesnt sit wel with those who work their butts off to achieve.
Some people are not big fans of Affirmative action. Some people see these politicians as the prime example of what we have become. This of course does not make them racist as one can easily argue, and be correct, that AA is racist.
Or it could just be they think they are scum and a racial slur was the first thing that popped into their head 
I didn’t. News has it that a couple of Negro (D) house members recieved a few comments…
Hey, Boudreaux, the 50’s called, they want you back.
I didn’t. News has it that a couple of Negro (D) house members recieved a few comments…
Hey, Boudreaux, the 50’s called, they want you back.
Tell Harry Reid. He made Negro cool and hip again.
Deep down I could see someone doing it because in the minority they see the party of “gimme” and all that is wrong with the current entitlement trend and the Democratic party.
Which only points to the ignorance that we pretty much assumed of these people from the start, given that more whites would benefit from the legislation than would blacks, by a very large margin.
It’s a phenomenon as old as civilization itself.
Why the Racial Epithets at the D.C. Protests?
Because it’s funny?
Deep down I could see someone doing it because in the minority they see the party of “gimme” and all that is wrong with the current entitlement trend and the Democratic party.
Which only points to the ignorance that we pretty much assumed of these people from the start, given that more whites would** benefit** from the legislation than would blacks, by a very large margin.
It’s a phenomenon as old as civilization itself.
Do you mean more because of volume or more as a percentage?
Oh and you are assuming that there is a benefit when you look at the bigger picture. If you do that there’s is no way you can win that argument using a basic understanding of economics and business and government inefficiency and corruption
By more, I mean more.
**Oh and you are assuming that there is a benefit when you look at the bigger picture. If you do that there’s is no way you can win that argument using a basic understanding of economics and business and government inefficiency and corruption **
I’m not making any assumptions regarding benefit whatsoever. I’m talking about perception, and commenting on why some whites may be directing their anger at black members of congress in particular, and resorting to foul, racist insults. That was the OP’s question, if I recall correctly.
Rodred nails it.
Take away all the PC bullshit and you unveil the deep sentiment that the payers are truly beginning to resent the payees. This doesn’t excuse boorish behavior, of course, but it reveals the frustration and weariness of those who are tired of having their money confiscated in the name of equality.
This trend will continue and I envision a deepening rift between those who do and those who suck on their teats.
I didn’t. News has it that a couple of Negro (D) house members recieved a few comments…
Because the liberal media realizes that the protesters are raising legitimate concerns that the Dems can’t answer and because that same media realizes the quickest way to distract the public from these issues is to portray all the protesters as racist idiots.
It doesn’t excuse boorish behaviour but it may explain it. It doesn’t excuse or explain using racial or homophobic epithets. To explain that you need to acknowledge that not only do those protestors share “the deep sentiment that the payers are truly beginning to resent the payees” BUT ALSO that they are racist and/or homophobic. The only reason to identify african-americans or gays with the “payees” is if that’s part of your ideology outside of this political debate or any other. If you really want to go all the way to Washington to hurl abuse at our lawmakers rather than expressing your views in a rational, constructive debate then so be it. Call them shortsighted, spendthrift, anti-American socialists - call them whatever the hell you want. But if you choose to call them n*****s that says more about you than them.
Take away all the PC bullshit and you unveil the deep sentiment that the payers are truly beginning to resent the payees.
And what does that have to do with yelling slurs at a few black Congressmen? Last I checked the House was about 90% white. They should be yelling at the white members for betraying their race. That’s how it works. You have to purify your own ranks before you can take power. They should push for a National White Caucus…oh yeah there already is one - the Republican Party. Unless you count the non-voting Delegate from the Virgin Islands.
This trend will continue and I envision a deepening rift between those who do and those who suck on their teats.
Again, perception plays a large, and largely inaccurate, role here. Medicaid already covers the people who engender such rage in taxpayers. This bill purposefully expands coverage to the working poor–those who make too much for Medicaid, but not enough to sufficiently insure their families. Most of these people are making the effort, but coming up short.
A woman whom I pulled from the wreckage of her SUV (hit a deer & rolled) last year explained that she recently canceled her health insurance, because she could no longer afford to insure herself and her children since her deadbeat husband left town. She was a self-employed graphic artist who produced signage, business cards, etc., and her expenses in the down economy prohibited coverage, which amounted to nearly $1,500 per month–double her mortgage expense. These people are the hard-working, self-employed, bootstrap-pullers you all love to brag on so much, who we all agree has made America great. Whether or not you support this particular legislation, if you can’t recognize who these people are, and what they represent, it’s either out of ignorance or willful self-deception. It’s always easier to blame the bogeman than to accept the implications of difficult choices.
The storied welfare queen has little to do with this legislation. It has everything to do with working class people.