Are we done with this episode of “anecdotal evidence with Rimbo” yet?
I took the liberty of assuming you wouldn’t claim dictionaries agree with you when 20 posts back someone showed how dictionaries do not actually agree with you. My bad!
Rimbo
1844
The “someone” from 20 posts back showing what the dictionary was saying was me.
Rimbo
1845
Oh gimme a break. Every post on this thread other than the ones that have quoted dictionaries and etymologies has been anecdotal – a whole bunch of “Uh huh, it sure is!” and “Nuh uh, no it isn’t!”
While it may have carried that connotation, guaranteed, once upon a time, nobody’s come forth with a legitimate reference (i.e., not some guy’s blog, not some journalist’s column, but some actual Linguistical research that shows that it necessarily must have that connotation today, which is what people seem to be saying.
Now was whatsisname’s comment about the Obamas getting “uppity” racist? Damn straight it was; would it have been any less racist if he’d chosen a different word? Not one bit.
Er, it’s dogwhistle politics. It’s for the people who get what it means, and it’s supposed to glide over those who don’t.
He knew what it meant, therefore it was more racist. How is that hard to follow?
Rimbo
1847
Ehrrrrrr, ok, I’ll buy that for a dollar.
Clearly I am one of those over whom it will glide.
Wouldn’t be the first time, eh, P&R?
Democrats are focusing on Palin because she’s a double edged sword. Her message may strike gold with pro-life right, but it also fires up the pro-choice left. And, as others have mentioned, she sounds a lot more like Bush than McCain does, which is just the ticket for selling the “4 More Years of Bush” message.
Respectfully
krise madsen
I understand that but the more she’s the focus it appears that she’s more of the presidential candidate (especially when the Republicans say she has more executive experience than Sen. Obama (and technically, Sen. McCain as well)).
Again, I think both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report do a better job pointing out the hypocritical flip-flopping (I really hate that term) of Sen. McCain on various issues and policies.
For example, last Friday’s The Colbert Report showed part of Sen. McCain’s acceptance speech where he said one reason why he should be president is because he knows everything, then for the next minute they show him in the past two years during interviews, “I don’t know the answer… [pick a subject].”
Even though I’m from the south, I never heard the word “uppity” until Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings, which he described as a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Since then I’ve only ever heard the word in a racial context.
rei
1851
I’m Canadian and have only heard of it used with reference to black people.
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I’m pretty sure it’s Sarah Palin.
Dirt
1853
Here’s the first Palin == Muslim extremist opinion I’ve seen. My thoughts:
- I completely empathize and mostly agree, though of course I have to make the caveat that Republican evangelicals don’t hold a monopoly on this type of thinking.
- Editorials like this will do a good job firing up both sides.
- His attempt to bring the Founding Fathers into this was weak. Neither party is even on the same order of magnitude as those individuals’ beliefs about the role of government, except for the easy gimme on freedom of speech.
bago
1855
<shorter Dirt> VAGINA</shorter Dirt>
Michelle Cottle says these morons and Palin are setting feminism back.
And, just like that, the strong, proud, fearless, gender-transcendent Hillary morphed into a disrespected, mistreated victim. Grievance feminism came roaring back with a vengeance. Clinton’s supporters increasingly went from praising her gender-neutral success to celebrating her triumph over a male-dominated system and decrying the patriarchal forces still aligned against her. Obama wasn’t just beating Clinton; he was behaving, as Hillary surrogate Geraldine Ferraro charged, in a “terribly sexist” fashion. Party bigwigs, we were told, were pushing Clinton to bow out in a way that they would never pressure a man. Her supporters, meanwhile, saw themselves as suffering the same demeaning treatment women have endured through the ages. As one pro-Hillary group raged, women were being told to “sit down, shut up, and move to the back of the bus.” In May, to combat the growing sense that Clinton had little chance of winning and so should drop out of the race, a group of her devotees formed a group pompously yet plaintively titled Women Count–as though all those who wanted the Democratic race over did so out of disrespect for an entire gender.
[URL=“http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=ef856c1e-f030-4f1e-b297-5d81ad9bcc16”]
E.J. Dionne on Palin avoiding the media.
Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, gave the game away when he said on “Fox News Sunday” that she would not meet with reporters until they showed a willingness to treat her “with some level of respect and deference.”
Deference? That’s a word used in monarchies or aristocracies. Democracies don’t give “deference” to politicians. When have McCain, Obama, Biden or, for that matter, Hillary Clinton asked for deference?
bago
1858
Bow to the emepror and your gods bitches!
Dirt
1859
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/09/palin.poll/index.html
I somehow get the feeling that the men aren’t thinking with the right head.
Fooey
1860
That poll’s not of much use without a racial breakdown. What’s pushed McCain up in the national polls is that he’s now winning among white woman for the first time. Obviously Palin’s not going to be swing much support from black women to McCain.
