Comments on: Bring It On, Bitches

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:29:21 +0000

Oliver,

You talk about conquering bigotry. I thought you’d be interested in this:

“These days, men sometimes face the B-word, too. The reason it’s insulting to call a man a bitch is the same reason men don’t want to, for example, hit the baseball “like a girl.” To call a man a bitch is calling him a woman. In our sexist society, that alone is an insult.”

http://www.alternet.org/story/17807/

“The social consequences of the lingusitic effeminitization of men are nontrivial. Boys and girls hear boys and men say things like “he throws like a girl” or “he’s my bitch” and an inevitable consequence of this is that the boys and girls who do (which will likely be most of them) will learn however nonconsciously that there must be something not so good about girls and women.”

http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/2005/03/hes-my-bitch.html

By: Raphael

Raphael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:43:14 +0000

As for “overtly non-white”- I guess for the openly racist fringe, every US president since at least FDR was a “race traitor”, wich, for them, might count as “covertly non-white”.

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:19:26 +0000

Now those guys know how the rest of us felt when a couple of right-wing wanna-be dictators took over the Executive Branch.

Why didn’t the Washington Post ask US how we felt about the authoritarian takeover?

To some extent we are defined by who doesn’t like us. The more of these asshats that are exposed, the better Obama looks.

And another thing. When is the Firefox ™ spell checker going to start recognizing the words Barack Obama?

By: Scratch

Scratch — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:33:32 +0000

“I haven’t seen this much anger in a long, long time,” said Billy Roper, a 36-year-old who runs a group called White Revolution…

That sounds like the typical marketing quote along the line of, “Our overseas sales are exploding,” or, “We just can’t keep up with all the orders!”

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:07:34 +0000

I’d avoid comparing these Neanderthals to cockroaches, Oliver.

Me too, but for different reasons. See Rwanda.

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:58:46 +0000

I’ll be looking for McSame to denounce the support of these white racists. Oh, that’s right only black candidates have to denounce radical elements from their race.

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:04:19 +0000

I’d avoid comparing these Neanderthals to cockroaches, Oliver. I think cockroaches outlasted the dinosaurs, in fact.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:31:31 +0000

What about groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC–get it?), the barely under the radar group for Trent Lott types. I’d keep an eye on them groups too (I think they’re known as “Republicans” in the south).

By: El Cid

El Cid — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:11:03 +0000

It’ll be good to flush all this racist claptrap out from underneath the rocks from where they’ve stung us the last 30 years so we can finally squash them underfoot.

By: Leota2

Leota2 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:07:04 +0000

Ah. . . .all that latent and not so latent hate.
War, gas prices, bad schools, no jobs, failing infrastructure–
didn’t move the idiot haters. But a
“overtly non white” who happens to be half white–did.
Sad, sad, stupid losers.

By: somejackass

somejackass — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:47:18 +0000

I just find it hilarious that the guy who runs StormFront has the last name Black. They’re a sad, dying breed, and in the long term having Obama as president will further decrease their numbers.

By: Aakash

Aakash — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:05:24 +0000

It has been quite awhile (years perhaps) since I’ve been back here… When I saw the “…About Obama” and “…About McCain” links, on the top heading bar, of this site, I was kinda hoping that Oliver opposes both Obama and McCain, like many liberals, conservatives, and libertarians do.

As for this supposed news, it is quite disturbing… But I think that many of those who will be opposing Senator Obama, in this upcoming election, will also be those from other ethnic minority groups.

By: beemer

beemer — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:35:40 +0000

I’m looking forward to seeing these Neanderthals lose their f*cking minds (even more so).

By: icruise

icruise — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:20:13 +0000

“Overtly non-white” is an interesting phrase. Like it’s OK if you’re not white as long as you don’t make too big a deal about it by being flagrantly black or something.

I can’t help but think that at least a portion of any increase in traffic to these sites is from people wondering how the nutjob community is reacting to Obama’s candidacy, rather than people wanting to join up.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:48:35 +0000

I’d call them jackasses, not bitches.