On a related note, I do not want to appear unsympathetic to the 10% of the nation's former Jr. Assistant Sr. Spend Process Account Outside Representative Sales Manager Team Leaders who are now living in tent cities or whatever, but when Digby writes:
Oh why pretend anymore? We have a permanent underclass and it's growing and nobody gives a damn about the cause.I just, I mean, I just, I just. Yeah. They're called BLACK PEOPLE, you cracker.
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White liberals just don't give a fuck about black people, and they freeze you out when you call them on it because they don't have the balls to admit it.
I never understood how "cracker" is supposed to be an effective insult. I mean, if racism is about power disparity.
Try harder, Anonymous. It's not especially complicated.
Oh, it's always something with you, isn't it, Monsieur.
Digby's made a lot of effort getting a fancy resume built up, to distance herself from that underclass.
Carrying with the euphemistic tradition that she uphohlds so nicely:
She's just about a Klansman, minus the sheets.
Oh, be fair, IOZ. She can't be thinking about black people all the time. She's got a lot on her mind. She's got that ... what do you call it? The prerogative to not have to think about unpleasant forces beyond your control if they don't affect you? The privilege of being able to ignore things? What's that privilege called?
I do not want to appear unsympathetic to the 10% of the nation's former Jr. Assistant Sr. Spend Process Account Outside Representative Sales Manager Team Leaders who are now living in tent cities or whatever
you really are a first-class creep. The white underclass may be smaller than the black underclass and also the latino underclass (off your rich daddy, do-nothing-blogging-middle-manager-with-rich-daddy radar completely, apparently) but they didn't come by their poverty any more deservedly, nor do they have greater means of escaping it.
I suppose it would count for something if you actually cared about black people, too. But I am sure that's not the case either.
It's all just little contests with other petty burghers who happen to be dumber than you. This post proves you're every bit the elitist asswipe they are. Moreso possibly.
Oh, Digby's not a Klansman -- all that violence is so unpleasant, doncha know, and being out late at night is so hard on a proper sleep cycle -- she'd have to double-up on her melatonin capsules.
No, no, no. Digby is a Klansman's PR shill.
"more elitist than thou" anon: yes, because failing to enumerate every single disadvantaged group in the United States is exactly the same as ignoring the existence of every disadvantaged group in favor of concentrating on a few white people who'll be out of work until the high-paying symbol-manipulation jobs start to open back up again.
Just about a..., Aaron.
Anon 12:31
"Message - I Care!"
No wonder you're anonymous. What a self-righteous asshole.
Try harder, Anonymous. It's not especially complicated.
explain it to me. ok, i get the etymology, but i still fail to see it as an effective insult.
call 10 white people a cracker, and call 10 black people n***, and i'm guessing you'll be physically attacked about 10 times, and none of them by crackers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJAVR5xGWE8
1:17 to 1:30
and i would find it particularly funny to be called cracker by some white dude.
and by funny, i mean, i'd laugh.
Two pair ah socks!
Post-racial America, we're all niggers now. I'm waitin for the beatdown...
Oh, hey, it's that guy again. The guy who says we care too much about black people. Hey, that guy.
What? Inkberrow isn't here yet.
That sucks. If only there were institutional measures put in place to specifically benefit minority groups. Darn our laissez-faire government!
is our empathy not authentic enough or something?
FUCK YOUR EMPATHY MAN, WHAT ABOUT MY JOHNSON!?
What do you need that for, Dude?
drip
Anon @12:18 and 12:57---
"Cracker" typically fails as an insult because the fulcrum of racialist offense-taking is not a "power disparity" between the disputants but in the uneasy self-consciousness and low group self-esteem of the target.
Related, overlapping, to be sure, but hardly synonymous. For instance, "Dumbass Jew" by almost all reports largely fails upon arrival.
Anon @12:31--
Not that they came by it any more deservedly, although it really depends on if you believe anyone deserves poverty. But no greater means of escaping it? It's situational. Whites do have far more advantages than minorities though, specifically blacks and latinos.
Anon @2:43
And a whole host of other laws that are extremely punitive towards blacks and latinos (cf. drug laws, gun laws). The great equalizer government, indeed.
"And a whole host of other laws that are extremely punitive towards blacks and latinos (cf. drug laws, gun laws)"
Uh, not unless you are claiming that wanting to do drugs while armed is in your DNA.
Uh, not unless you are claiming that wanting to do drugs while armed is in your DNA.
Come on man, it is 20-fucking-11. Time to get a new shtick.
This might me the greatest single day in IOZ history...
8:28--
Glad to see a prosecutor taking part in comments. Diversity!
Hey. Have we not been down this road before? SDS national convention, 1969?
OOps...forgot..this blog contains high concentrations of non-ideological anarchists who take pains to bemoan the plight of the black underclass and in the face of this oppression promise to do....EXACTLY NOTHING.
Caddy...wash this ball, please, and call the clubhouse to have my double Manhattan waiting.
The Real Donny.
Monsieur,
Well, the fact that negroes consistently score 0.7% lower on our managerial overclass' highly unbiased tests of measuring the intelect doesn't make it obvious that's their rightful place?
That, and entertaining us with acrobatic athletic displays on weekends, and occasionally weekdays.
Capt'n Obvious
Chris Rock really knows how to throw out a good 'Cracker!' invective. But I end up laughing cause he's so funny. And I'm privileged.
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