Comments on: The Weekly Standard’s Bigot Eruption http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:56:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Nimrod Gently http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41655 Nimrod Gently Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:43:05 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41655 "House Cons" is obviously a riff on "House Niggers", but it obviously doesn't mean the same thing, and pointing at Factcheck and going "UH-HUH, SEE, SEE" is like calling Germaine Greer sexist because she calls someone a c**t. “House Cons” is obviously a riff on “House Niggers”, but it obviously doesn’t mean the same thing, and pointing at Factcheck and going “UH-HUH, SEE, SEE” is like calling Germaine Greer sexist because she calls someone a c**t.

]]> By: Seeing the Forest http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41658 Seeing the Forest Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:58:28 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41658 <strong>Bigots</strong> In The Weekly Standard's Bigot Eruption Oliver Willis says, "Conservatives cannot help themselves."... Bigots

In The Weekly Standard’s Bigot Eruption Oliver Willis says, “Conservatives cannot help themselves.”…

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41654 factcheck Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:09:20 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41654 If it makes you feel better crazy jay. Wouldn't want to upset you. If it makes you feel better crazy jay. Wouldn’t want to upset you.

]]> By: Commander Ogg http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41653 Commander Ogg Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:51:41 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41653 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#Evolution_of_the_Southern_Strategy" rel="nofollow"> Lee Atwater discusses politics in the South:</a> You start out in 1954 by saying, "N-gger, n-gger, n-gger." By 1968 you can't say 'n-gger' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. …You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N-gger, n-gger." The facts do not go away because you choose to ignore them. No modern Republican would ever use the “N” word directly, because society as a whole will not tolerate. However if you use neutral sounding code words (e.g. secure the boarders = keep out the Mexicans, war on drugs = Imprison Blacks, voter ID law = poll tax), it works out rather well. You have accomplished your objective to keep non-whites from amassing political power that may threaten your position, and you can swear on a stack of bibles you are not a racist motherf-cker. Lee Atwater discusses politics in the South:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N-gger, n-gger, n-gger.” By 1968 you can’t say ‘n-gger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
…You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N-gger, n-gger.”

The facts do not go away because you choose to ignore them. No modern Republican would ever use the “N” word directly, because society as a whole will not tolerate. However if you use neutral sounding code words (e.g. secure the boarders = keep out the Mexicans, war on drugs = Imprison Blacks, voter ID law = poll tax), it works out rather well. You have accomplished your objective to keep non-whites from amassing political power that may threaten your position, and you can swear on a stack of bibles you are not a racist motherf-cker.

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41652 Jay Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:25:34 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41652 <i>whatever crazy jay</i> Translation: You're right Jay. whatever crazy jay

Translation: You’re right Jay.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41651 factcheck Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:28:29 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41651 whatever crazy jay whatever crazy jay

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41650 Jay Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:16:03 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41650 <i>How do you know I replaced the "n-word" with "cons" unless you're racist yourself? Oh I see. In order for me not to be a racist, I have to be unaware of the term "house nigger" because only somebody who is racist would know about it? Is it even remotely possible for you type something more stupid? Own up to it. Your little "house cons" remark didn't fly under the radar. You got busted using racist language in attempting to make a point about racism by referring to Rice and Steele as nothing more than blacks who are acquiescing to white dominance. You got busted. Deal with it and move on.</i> How do you know I replaced the “n-word” with “cons” unless you’re racist yourself?

Oh I see. In order for me not to be a racist, I have to be unaware of the term “house nigger” because only somebody who is racist would know about it?

Is it even remotely possible for you type something more stupid?

Own up to it. Your little “house cons” remark didn’t fly under the radar. You got busted using racist language in attempting to make a point about racism by referring to Rice and Steele as nothing more than blacks who are acquiescing to white dominance.

You got busted. Deal with it and move on.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41649 factcheck Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:11:34 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41649 How do you know I replaced the "n-word" with "cons" unless you're racist yourself? (turning the tables) How do you know I replaced the “n-word” with “cons” unless you’re racist yourself?

(turning the tables)

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41648 Jay Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:27:15 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41648 Factcheck, you made a racist comment. In your "house cons" comment, you replaced "niggers" with "cons." That's it. Don't go blubbering about racism when you're engaging in it yourself. Factcheck, you made a racist comment. In your “house cons” comment, you replaced “niggers” with “cons.” That’s it. Don’t go blubbering about racism when you’re engaging in it yourself.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41647 factcheck Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:12:22 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41647 You just don't get it. Stop taking the side of racists and maybe your party won't be considered racist. Save your diatribe about your jackass friends who are racist and Democrats for someone who cares. You just don’t get it. Stop taking the side of racists and maybe your party won’t be considered racist.

Save your diatribe about your jackass friends who are racist and Democrats for someone who cares.

]]> By: Jay http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41646 Jay Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:54:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41646 <i>Every so often, con outlets remind their readers who they are, that no matter what they "say" about house cons like Condi Rice and Michael Steele, that blacks will always be 2nd class in the con party.</i> It kills me when somebody says something as racist as "house cons like Condi Rice and Michael Steele" which translates to nothing more than "house niggers like Condi Rice and Michael Steele" and then proceeds to croak about racism. Every so often, con outlets remind their readers who they are, that no matter what they “say” about house cons like Condi Rice and Michael Steele, that blacks will always be 2nd class in the con party.

It kills me when somebody says something as racist as “house cons like Condi Rice and Michael Steele” which translates to nothing more than “house niggers like Condi Rice and Michael Steele” and then proceeds to croak about racism.

]]> By: David Stewart Zink http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41645 David Stewart Zink Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:22:03 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41645 I can't believe people try to argue that Red and Blue are equally racist because "it is a human thing". Sorry, kids, the modern GOP arose because the Dems purged racists from their lists in the mid-sixties. All the racsists went to the GOP and they based their most successful campaigns precisely on racism (see "Southern Strategy"). It's the racism party. It's the KKK party. It's the old-south confederate recidivist party. That's just what it is. Who's David Duke? I can’t believe people try to argue that Red and Blue are equally racist because “it is a human thing”.

Sorry, kids, the modern GOP arose because the Dems purged racists from their lists in the mid-sixties. All the racsists went to the GOP and they based their most successful campaigns precisely on racism (see “Southern Strategy”). It’s the racism party. It’s the KKK party. It’s the old-south confederate recidivist party. That’s just what it is. Who’s David Duke?

]]> By: owlbear1 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41644 owlbear1 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:33:40 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41644 So Sharpton isn't being drawn to look like a chaueffer because Al Sharpton is always looking out for Al Sharpton and therefore Al Sharpton driving the Lamont campaign is what was meant by drawing Al Sharpton as a Stepnfetch. Wow Jay, that was mighty George Allen of you. So Sharpton isn’t being drawn to look like a chaueffer because Al Sharpton is always looking out for Al Sharpton and therefore Al Sharpton driving the Lamont campaign is what was meant by drawing Al Sharpton as a Stepnfetch.

Wow Jay, that was mighty George Allen of you.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41643 factcheck Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:58:11 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41643 And when we question the cover, cons will accuse us of being "objectively anti-watermelon". And when we question the cover, cons will accuse us of being “objectively anti-watermelon”.

]]> By: Zython http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41642 Zython Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:12:29 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41642 <i>Next week: Drawing of Jesse Jackson eating watermelon on the cover of the National Review. Crazy Jay will say "What? Depicting Jesse Jackson eating watermelon is racist now?"</i> To be fair, watermelon is delicious. Next week: Drawing of Jesse Jackson eating watermelon on the cover of the National Review. Crazy Jay will say “What? Depicting Jesse Jackson eating watermelon is racist now?”

To be fair, watermelon is delicious.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41641 factcheck Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:01:39 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41641 It's a disingenous argument that Mike made. To believe it, you would have to believe that the Weekly Neocon didn't know that portraying a black man in a chauffeur cap was a loaded statement. This "gee, we didn't know" stuff is a lie coming from the party that uses every tool to bait minorities. This "you're the real racist because you noticed" garbage is fraudulent and needs to be called out at every time. It’s a disingenous argument that Mike made. To believe it, you would have to believe that the Weekly Neocon didn’t know that portraying a black man in a chauffeur cap was a loaded statement. This “gee, we didn’t know” stuff is a lie coming from the party that uses every tool to bait minorities.

This “you’re the real racist because you noticed” garbage is fraudulent and needs to be called out at every time.

]]> By: Zython http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41640 Zython Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:18:06 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41640 <i>Uhh, did you actually read what OW said. His entire point was to single out Republicans and conservatives. Mike demonstrated several incidents of obnoxious racism on the left. Free advice: Think first, engage keyboard second.</i> Not really. I don't come here for Oliver's post. I come here for the comments section specifically. That's why I usually post in response to others. Uhh, did you actually read what OW said. His entire point was to single out Republicans and conservatives. Mike demonstrated several incidents of obnoxious racism on the left. Free advice: Think first, engage keyboard second.

Not really. I don’t come here for Oliver’s post. I come here for the comments section specifically. That’s why I usually post in response to others.

]]> By: factcheck http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41639 factcheck Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:23:48 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41639 Every so often, con outlets remind their readers who they are, that no matter what they "say" about house cons like Condi Rice and Michael Steele, that blacks will always be 2nd class in the con party. Next week: Drawing of Jesse Jackson eating watermelon on the cover of the National Review. Crazy Jay will say "What? Depicting Jesse Jackson eating watermelon is racist now?" Cons just don't get it. And because of that, they will continue to struggle to get 5% of the black vote. Every so often, con outlets remind their readers who they are, that no matter what they “say” about house cons like Condi Rice and Michael Steele, that blacks will always be 2nd class in the con party.

Next week: Drawing of Jesse Jackson eating watermelon on the cover of the National Review. Crazy Jay will say “What? Depicting Jesse Jackson eating watermelon is racist now?”

Cons just don’t get it. And because of that, they will continue to struggle to get 5% of the black vote.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41638 Duros62 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:56:11 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41638 Sorry, that should be "with you" Sorry, that should be “with you”

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/08/14/the-weekly-standards-bigot-eruption/#comment-41637 Duros62 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:54:12 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=2525#comment-41637 Jay, for once I agree with out. Stupid, yes. Racist, not so much. Jay, for once I agree with out.
Stupid, yes. Racist, not so much.

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