I don't see what was being said as something racial, but I'm not USanian, so maybe Kansas all white or something and I'm missing it.
It is. and can be expanded to the central US in general.
I see this as analogous to the "Real America" BS spewed by the Palinbot etc.
A fair point.
The issue as I see it is that a certain amount of bigotry has become acceptable. Folks like Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are rightfully ridiculed for refering to leftism as treason or a disease but nobody bats an eyelash when a promenant pundit refers to the entire population of a state as neanderthals.
Maybe I'm just more sensative to it coming from a lower-class white family but it strikes me as being quite hypocritical.
There's an old joke that gets passed around on conservative blogs...
Politician: Why won't these piece of shit, cousin humping, white trash cunts vote for me? Don't those idiots the understand that is in thier best interest to do so?
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It is. and can be expanded to the central US in general.
I see this as analogous to the "Real America" BS spewed by the Palinbot etc.
A fair point.
The issue as I see it is that a certain amount of bigotry has become acceptable. Folks like Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are rightfully ridiculed for refering to leftism as treason or a disease but nobody bats an eyelash when a promenant pundit refers to the entire population of a state as neanderthals.
Maybe I'm just more sensative to it coming from a lower-class white family but it strikes me as being quite hypocritical.
There's an old joke that gets passed around on conservative blogs...
Politician: Why won't these piece of shit, cousin humping, white trash cunts vote for me? Don't those idiots the understand that is in thier best interest to do so?
Redkneck: The answer is in the question asshole.