Black Racist CBS Contributor Flaunts Her Protected Status

[_Droopy]

Usually you blow a gasket when someone corrects your regular malapropisms, but here we're told we're idiots because we thought it was funny enough to ignore.

Actually, they're:

1. Quite rare.
2. No more common than those of the vast majority of other posters.

"Vitro" = Latin for "glass." My seventh-grader knows that, yet you try to make it seem like we're the idiots because you didn't know that.

I give most people here a very generous 6th to 7th grade reading level score. For you, I think this would probably have to drop to pre-school level, assuming you're reading the posts at all. I never said anyone was an idiot for pointing this out. In fact (had you read this thread), I thanked modo immediately for pointing it out. It actually caught me quite by surprise (but I've never found any real reason to check the lexical definition, as I only use it vary rarely, and usually out of its medical context).


Try to enjoy the daylight.

[_Quasimodo]

I do find it interesting that, for years, I've been using the term "in vitro" for "in vivo," "in the living." Quasimodo is the first of anyone online for a decade to have caught it, which is why I thanked him. I have no medical education, and have always just inferred its meaning from context, not from a lexical check.

That modo's reading comprehension levels well exceed the average 6th to 7th grade levels in this forum is to his credit.

Well, thanks Droopy! Nice to receive an unexpected compliment from you. In fairness, though, I find the people on this board to be (in general) significantly brighter than most boards I've seen. Erudition is the norm here.

If well educated and well read are considered, this is the big pond.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Actually, they're:

1. Quite rare.
2. No more common than those of the vast majority of other posters.

Right, Mr. Viscous.

I give most people here a very generous 6th to 7th grade reading level score. For you, I think this would probably have to drop to pre-school level, assuming you're reading the posts at all. I never said anyone was an idiot for pointing this out. In fact (had you read this thread), I thanked modo immediately for pointing it out. It actually caught me quite by surprise (but I've never found any real reason to check the lexical definition, as I only use it vary rarely, and usually out of its medical context).

You implied that the rest of us must be idiots because we didn't point it out to you. As I said, my seventh-grader knows Latin roots better than you do, and if I were you, I wouldn't be trumpeting my poor grasp of the English language.

Try to enjoy the daylight.

I quite enjoy the daylight, thank you very much. It's pompous blowhards I don't enjoy.

[_Droopy]

Actually, they're:

1. Quite rare.
2. No more common than those of the vast majority of other posters.

Right, Mr. Viscous.

I give most people here a very generous 6th to 7th grade reading level score. For you, I think this would probably have to drop to pre-school level, assuming you're reading the posts at all. I never said anyone was an idiot for pointing this out. In fact (had you read this thread), I thanked modo immediately for pointing it out. It actually caught me quite by surprise (but I've never found any real reason to check the lexical definition, as I only use it vary rarely, and usually out of its medical context).

You implied that the rest of us must be idiots because we didn't point it out to you. As I said, my seventh-grader knows Latin roots better than you do, and if I were you, I wouldn't be trumpeting my poor grasp of the English language.

Try to enjoy the daylight.

I quite enjoy the daylight, thank you very much. It's pompous blowhards I don't enjoy.

Goodbye "Bob." We're done.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Goodbye "Bob." We're done.

You keep saying that, but alas, you never follow through. Still dodging my request about intellectual substance, I see. No surprise.

[_beastie]

Both Giles and Melissa were clearly making statements of personal belief/values (and in particular Melissa's eugenics comment, which was given in complete seriousness as a logically relevant point regarding something related to Gile's comment about "building up the race." "Maybe," Giles says, followed by an interested and animated Melissa who comes right back with "Well, there is always eugenics associated with this question." Notice Melissa's completely serious demeanor, facial expression, and the tone of her voice. She was being totally serious here, without question.

Fast and furious spin, Beatie - exactly what you're known for and what generations of leftists like you have had to do when caught just being who they really are and saying what they really think.

Oh, please. She made one throw-away statement and/or joke that had nothing to do with the broader conversation, and you're pretending as if you have enough information to assert that this was a "statement of personal belief".

Actually, black Americans are an officially protected class for the purposes of AA programs/preferences and other institutional race-based preferences mediated by government. They, as with other selected minorities, have also long been the left's mascots; helpless, hapless little children that, without the enlightened, benevolent guidance and ministrations of the Anointed, would soon fall prey to and be devoured by the relentless, pervasive, abyssal evil that is America and its core values.

I know the ideology and psychology well.

And what in the heck does AA and race-based preferences have to do with her making this statement on TV? Your OP was clearly insinuating she could get away with this statement because she's black which has nothing to do with government or programs.

Unlike Melissa and Giles, however, Bennett was not actually advocating a position, but making a hypothetical argument within a broader argument about the morality of abortion. You're still in check, Beastie.

LOL!

Here's Bennett's statement:

On the Wednesday edition of his radio show, "Bill Bennett's Morning in America," syndicated by Salem Radio Network, a caller raised the theory that Social Security is in danger of becoming insolvent because legalized abortion has reduced the number of tax-paying citizens. Bennett said economic arguments should never be employed in discussions of moral issues.

If it were your sole purpose to reduce crime, Bennett said, "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

"That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down," he added.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Politics/stor ... KQHI4fAfO4

I know that you're so blinded by your own bias that you're a case study, but it's hard for me to believe that even YOU had a straight face when you typed those words. He was CLEARLY stating his belief that "crime right would go down" if you aborted all black babies. Of course he wasn't supporting aborting all black babies, but he was clearly stating his belief about aborting black babies reducing crime.

And, of course, the right dismissed the outrage over that statment just as you have here.

Blacks are an official protected class

http://www.mtu.edu/affirmative-programs ... ed-groups/

In an unofficial, ideological sense, they are for progressives yet another lumpen mass of uniform automatons - balkenized, tribalized, and alienated from their common intellectual and national patrimony - used by the Left to further its interests (power and control).

And what in the WORLD does this have to do with her "flaunting her protected status" with this statement? Her statement had nothing to do with affirmative action, or any other government initiative. Now if she had gotten on TV and bragged about having a low GPA and still getting into a good college due to affirmative action, then you could rightfully charge she's flaunting her protected status. But that's not what happened, and you clearly were insinuating she was getting away with making this statement because she's black. THAT is what you meant by protected status, and THAT is what is absurd, because you and the rest of the right-wing are having conniption fits about it, all up in outrage. So she hasn't gotten away with it because she's black.

I'm much more interested in the connection between the eugenics movement and progressivism.

Snore.

[_Bob Loblaw]

I know that you're so blinded by your own bias that you're a case study, but it's hard for me to believe that even YOU had a straight face when you typed those words. He was CLEARLY stating his belief that "crime right would go down" if you aborted all black babies. Of course he wasn't supporting aborting all black babies, but he was clearly stating his belief about aborting black babies reducing crime.

And, of course, the right dismissed the outrage over that statment just as you have here.

Dear God, that's insane. It just shows you that when people like Droopy think of black people, they picture crack-addled welfare recipients engaged in violent crime. I wonder what Droopy would say if Bennett said that aborting more Mormons would reduce the rate of fraud in America.

You know, as much as I dismissed your concerns about racial code words, sometimes there isn't even the pretense of a code. What Bennett said is obviously racist and reprehensible. I always thought he was one of the saner voices among social conservatives. Maybe not.

[_beastie]

Dear God, that's insane. It just shows you that when people like Droopy think of black people, they picture crack-addled welfare recipients engaged in violent crime. I wonder what Droopy would say if Bennett said that aborting more Mormons would reduce the rate of fraud in America.

You know, as much as I dismissed your concerns about racial code words, sometimes there isn't even the pretense of a code. What Bennett said is obviously racist and reprehensible. I always thought he was one of the saner voices among social conservatives. Maybe not.

What's ironic is that one thing that indisputably lowered crime rates was - gasp - REGULATION. When the gas industry was forced to regulate lead, crime rates eventually dropped. This was due to the fact that lead has a serious impact on a child's development, and directly, negatively affects things like intelligence and impulse control. But people like droopy would be adamantly opposed to regulation.

It irritates me a lot to read some of this crap, partly because I have worked with children in poverty my entire career. Many of those children are African American. And even if their parents have to have government assistance, the vast majority of them work just as hard as most of us. Many work TWO low paying jobs just to put a roof over their kids' heads. The real problem isn't the color of someone's skin: it's poverty.

[_Bob Loblaw]

What's ironic is that one thing that indisputably lowered crime rates was - gasp - REGULATION. When the gas industry was forced to regulate lead, crime rates eventually dropped. This was due to the fact that lead has a serious impact on a child's development, and directly, negatively affects things like intelligence and impulse control. But people like droopy would be adamantly opposed to regulation.

It irritates me a lot to read some of this crap, partly because I have worked with children in poverty my entire career. Many of those children are African American. And even if their parents have to have government assistance, the vast majority of them work just as hard as most of us. Many work TWO low paying jobs just to put a roof over their kids' heads. The real problem isn't the color of someone's skin: it's poverty.

One of my wife's cousins has adopted three boys: one is white, one is African-American, and the other is Polynesian/Latino. my wife's extended family was thrilled about the first one, but horrified when her cousin adopted the "nigger baby." Black children, they said, would cause nothing but trouble, so she should stick with "her own kind." The same was said about the youngest boy.

The oldest kid has all kinds of emotional and psychological problems and for over a year lived in a tent in the Uintahs with his girlfriend and their baby, until his mother got his parental rights canceled and took the baby in. The "nigger baby" is pretty much the poster child for perfect Mormon kids: returned missionary, full scholarship to BYU, married in the temple. And the youngest kid has a genius-level IQ and is a great kid. The notion that skin color has some major determinant factor on a child's abilities is ridiculous. Apparently, Bill Bennett doesn't think so.

I know I said I wasn't going to talk about politics, but to me this isn't about politics but racism and intolerance.

[_beastie]

One of my wife's cousins has adopted three boys: one is white, one is African-American, and the other is Polynesian/Latino. Dear Wife's extended family was thrilled about the first one, but horrified when her cousin adopted the "n***** baby." Black children, they said, would cause nothing but trouble, so she should stick with "her own kind." The same was said about the youngest boy.

The oldest kid has all kinds of emotional and psychological problems and for over a year lived in a tent in the Uintahs with his girlfriend and their baby, until his mother got his parental rights canceled and took the baby in. The "n***** baby" is pretty much the poster child for perfect Mormon kids: returned missionary, full scholarship to BYU, married in the temple. And the youngest kid has a genius-level IQ and is a great kid. The notion that skin color has some major determinant factor on a child's abilities is ridiculous. Apparently, Bill Bennett doesn't think so.

I know I said I wasn't going to talk about politics, but to me this isn't about politics but racism and intolerance.

I hope that this experience has changed your wife's extended family's views on the issue.