Posted on 10/23/2009 1:07:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I think many Asians are intelligent, frugal and hard-working, outperforming people of other races in many endeavors. Does this make me anti-Asian? I actually get a chuckle from listening to blacks complain about how Asians can come to the U.S. with literally nothing more than the clothes they are wearing and quickly network and prosper better than blacks who have been in the U.S. their entire lives.
I guess that makes me a bigot. Oh, well.
Never apologize to the permanently outraged.
If you’ve genuinely hurt someone’s feelings, and you’re genuinely sorry, then of course, by all means, take it back and do what you can to make it right.
If all you’ve done is put your foot ever-so-slightly in your mouth, and the only people who are offended are the ones who are always offended, then never ever take it back. Compound it with another joke and another even more outrageous comment. They’ll get tired of being mocked and you’ll enjoy it.
And if the press is beating the drum for your head? The press is always going to beat the drum for your head if you’re a genuine Repub, so get used to it, revel in it, celebrate it. And if you’re going to get burned at the stake, you want to go out big. Nobody respects a mealy mouthed milktoast. Not your friends and certainly not your enemies.
People are touchy. The Civil Rights Movement was supposed to “integrate” society. Instead it has made us all even more touchy.”
What about the Scots and Dutch?
What is the definition of a copper wire?
Two Dutchmen fighting over a penny.
As related to me by a Dutch citizen on vacation here.
Extraordinary how these leftists are suddenly so concerned about the Jews they’ve been betraying for the past several years!
LOL!!! Now that’s a businessman!
I don’t recall any national outrage levelled at the DNC or the MSM when Al Sharpton stood up among the DNC candidates in the 2004 presidential campaign at the debates.
My mom was not Jewish, but our relatives used to say that when it came to the family finances, she COULD “squeeze blood out of a turnip”; their way of saying she was good at “pinching pennies”. It was not an insult. It was a testament to how well she provided for us with so little. That’s nothing to complain about.
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Silly "controversy", I saw it it terms of thrifty, not cheap like the Dutch. But they should have known better. Racial/religious commentary like this will be turned against politicians. As to the ADL's rather nebulous contension that they need to understand the background of antisemitism, and how a comment like this will be misused, their rather long apology indicates they do.
Worrying about Politically Correctness is just plain STUPID. It make people into fearful speakers.
There’s nothing wrong about noting some trait of another culture when it’s not said with malice. There’s nothing racist about anything EXCEPT when one person believes that another culture, race, ethnicity, religion is BETTER than another.
So we can safely say Muzlems are racists when it comes to non-Muzlems.
Ah Ha. We have an insight. We have a charge we can get a Muzlem to admit to.
Q: Do you believe what the Koran says about Non-Muzlems?
Q{ Do you believe that the only true religion is Islam?
Q: Do you believe that the practice of Islam is better than the practice of any other religion?
Q: Do you believe that Muzlems are better than any one who practices another religion?
Similar questions until you can get the result which will lead you to state: Then by definition, you, as a Muzlem, are racist.
“Old story. Been addresse, with the conclusion that these to jerks are idiots.”
Several jews are laughing at you, as am I.
And I should care..... WHY?
OMG!!! It’s a SLUR to say someone watched their pennies and took care of themselves???? OMG!! ARe we to say just the opposite??? That they don’t give a damn about themselves or their hard earned money???? STUPID....Jews are so damned senistive even when POSITIVE things are said!!! geesh, Louise.
LOL!
I was teasing. sorry. I know better - that it doesn’t come through the keyboard well.
No Problemo!!!
Needed my 1st cup of coffee. LOL
The ADL’s a joke and always has been. They have hypersensitive feelers out for conservative American politicians, but utterly ignore the likes of Sharpton, Wright, Farrakhan and Ahmadenijad. The latter, of course, is understandable, because he’d probably use anything they said to his advantage. But nobody really takes them seriously, except for those conservative American politicians for whom they have these hypersensitive feelers out.
There is a difference between subtly shaded anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred. I have no use for an organization that only pays attention to the first and has no adequate response for the second.
I can’t add anything to the posts, other than to agree that the ADL is a bunch of whiners, just looking to slam Republicans for something, anything.
I will note that the “greedy” Jew sterotype is an old, hateful, sterotype utilized by the likes of Hitler, and the “frugal” Jew stereotype is a flattering, close relative, that utilizes the same basis for the ideas.
It’s easy to cross between the two.
So, while this is a tempest in a teapot, I would encourage others to stay away from these sterotypes, except about the Dutch. Those damn cheap squareheaded pricks would cheat their mother out of her wooden shoes for a tulip bulb.
;-)
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