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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You're a disgrace sir. You sound like the Che Guevera of Geraldo Rivera.
Maybe the letters section should be suspended for awhile until the professional trolls get tired and go back to their natural habitats.
Or people could, you know, not feed the fucking trolls, be they "Rove operatives" or not.
I take offense good sir!
For even if I could grow facial hair with any regularity, I most certainly would NOT commit such a travesty as loosing yet another Geraldo moustache upon the unsuspecting world!!
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That's assuming that "great white Middle America" was watching PBS instead of the swill on channels 2-7.
That's assuming that "great white Middle America" even knew the DNC was on T.V.
That's assuming that "great white Middle America" even knows what the DNC is, THAT it is.
You "could" make a guess, but I notice you don't.
So you DO assume every time you meet a successful black person that they are there via AA. I mean, hey, its just easier to pre-judge an individual. It's not your fault if the system is gamed.
Do you assume all successful white people at your vaunted institutions are there via legacy? Or wealth? A good number of them are you know. It's not your fault if the system is gamed. You'd better start expending a lot of energy pre-judging them as thoroughly because you really really seem like a bigot right now.
Chris Rock said: ".. affirmative action is like being sent to college by the Uncle that molested you..".
Still better I guess than getting molested and having to pay for college. Do pre-law on his dime and go on to get a JD so you can get back at him!
Mary Jo Kopechne...blah, blah, blah...Joe broke the law during prohibition...waaa, waaa, waaa...a new generations of the evil dynasty is supporting Obama!...yada, yada, yada.
Yes, you do become emotional.
Liberal support for affirmative action reminds me of liberal support for the public schools--they support them with their words but not their actions.
In Michigan, the Democrat Governor who like most liberals absolutely opposes vouchers, "agonized" over whether to send her two children to the big city public school. Surprise, surprise, she ended up exporting one to a private school and one to a mostly, white suburban school. Most liberals who can afford to do the same thing. I don't blame them cuz their kids should come first. But then they go and support policies that, as a practical matter, condemns poor children to the public schools they 'support' but desert.
Re: affirmative action, I'd like to see a study on the cardiologists and cancer specialists and other physicians that pro-AA liberals choose. That is not a time when you want to pick someone who got into medical school with much lower grades and test scores simply because it is good for society.
The only good AA is the AA that begins with young children. If they have not learned to read well and mastered a number of subject areas by the end of high school, AA is not going to work.
And in fact, it is a travesty and tragedy how many African American law students, having taken out huge amounts of student loans, are unable to pass the bar. Thanks, AA.
Yes, the "one leader, one voice"slogan was Mussolini's, the first fascist (Italian word) in Europe in the early twentieth century. It's a really great idea to silence all voices that don't sing in unison to the marvellousness of the great leader. Fascism comes in all shapes and colours.
has contributed enormously to this forum. Of course, you could deal with facts, not emotions. Try Wikipedia for starters and read all about it, not forgetting ALICE PALMER, Barack's predecessor.
still diggin' that latrine.
In the article and in the comments. First Traister, then AKA in the comments reducing jumping on Michelle Obama for being a well rounded person and not a simply a corporate bot.
As usual you attempt to smear me by critiquing some post I did not write rather than the post I actually did write. I certainly did not complain that Michelle Obam is a well-rounded person. I have every reason to believe that she is. However, all my comments were based upon her speech alone and not her "well-roundedness" which I didn't see as well-presented in her speech as it could have been. The speech seemed designed to promote Michelle Obama as wife, mother, and to complement her brother's speech that she is a woman of good works.
Whether or not one gets to become a "corporate bot" rather depends upon the position one starts out in in life. The truly poor have little opportunity to be corporate bots and are often fortunate to find a job that doesn't involve physical labor. I am certainly no fan of corporatism or the advantages it generally confers on people who started out with advantages in the first place.
However, law school, especially graduating from Ivy to Ivy is an achievement even for middle class girls and I would like to have seen more emphasis on those types of accomplishments in Michelle's life. It seems to be you who are worried that she might be perceived as a corporate bot. Just what would you call her administrative position with the hospital?
It is funny (not haha funny) and sad to me that so many reduce feminism to having a corporate or political career or at the very least competing n the same ground men have traditionally dominated.
Anyone who reads the things I have written in Broadsheet knows that I don't do that. Just yesterday I was defending women's choices on whether to breastfeed or not, but the breast is best for babies.
I have often pointed out to privileged feminist -- so many of whom now occupy positions in women's studies programs -- that life for working class women may mean that they have a different view of feminism.
In fact, I rather liked Michelle Obama's speech. I like Pleasantville both before and after technicolor. I can see the good and bad of both ways of life.
Why don't you critque the post I actually wrote and not the one I didn't?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
