Even more Wankery that we find acceptable...

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

While I generally disagree with his politics I think Mr. Savage raises an excellent point.

Now consider this...

Bill Maher and NYT's David Carr the "Middle Places" and "Low-Sloping Foreheads".

I apologise for linking as I seem to be having trouble embedding the video.

Now I would assume that both men in the second video consider themselves to be reasonably intelligent and enlightened men. If accused of being racist or bigoted I would imagine that they would be properly offended.

Which is why I'm going to ask an uncomfortable question, why is it ok to disparage one socio-political/ethnic class as stupid, dangerous, useless, ect... but not another. Would his comments have been more or less offensive had he been talking about "Fags" "Twats" "Spics" "Wops" "Chinks" or *Gasp* "N*ggers"?

Discuss.

Comments

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Being white and living in a rural area does not mean you are a redneck.
Being black and living in an inner city area does not mean you are a gangsta.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

So if I was to joke "how do you stop five gangsta from raping a girl?"

... it would be okay?

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

depends upon whether the punch line alluded to the the gangstas being black or the gangstas acting like gangstas.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

Throw out a basketball.

Hilarious and totally not racist!

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

No that is racist because gangstas aren't known for being good as basketball.

Keep digging.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

Basketball is popular with gangstas.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

So is drinking pepsi, so what.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

In my neighborhood all the ganstas play either soccer or basketball....the reason for both sports is because they are brown, not black.

Actually the term gansta is much more diverse than the term redneck. A Redneck is always white, while depending on where you live a gangsta could be any color.

[foolsguinea.livejournal.com]

What's so black about roundball?

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Aside from being popular in inner city niehborhoods? nothing.

Kind of like how there isn't anything "redneck" about American football aside from the fact that it is most often played in rural areas.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Being white and living in a rural area does not mean you are a redneck.
Being black and living in an inner city area does not mean you are a gangsta.

And yet those generalizations are often made...

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Yes, and those generalizations would be deficient.