You don't have to be the fiercest advocate for Barack Obama to recognize how many codewords, euphemism if you will, have been used over the past year by some of the harshest critics of the 44th President of the United States. Since calling the man a "nigger" isn't particularly the most politically correct thing one could say, more times than not you'll hear some uneducated maggot sloppily stringing together a litany of "ists" into one sentence without knowing what any of those words actually mean: Socialist. Marxist. Communist. Outside of a certain congressman from Georgia, its become pretty impolitic to refer to Obama as "uppity" - but you can't throw a rock without hitting a clumsy Politico reporter implying as much - or a former Vice Presidential candidate implying as much with her "not a professor of law standing at the lectern" dogwhistles.
Last night, as I watched Johnny Weir skate, I once again saw the euphemism game being played with reckless abandon. Maybe words like "Flamboyant", "Eccentric", "Different", and "Sassy" are accurate descriptions of Weir for all I know - but its Men's figure skating for Christs sake, not Bare knuckle boxing. I'm sure the same way I'm always screaming "Just call the guy a nigger already" at some mouth breathing Teabagger on television, similar sentiments adjusted for sexual preference are being screamed by my gay brothers and sisters to people trying to be polite about their bigotry.
4 comments:
You nailed it. And talk about some smug tones coming from the commentators. It's 2010 folks, grow up.
Really, really love your blog. And this post. And the Tea Party outing. You speak for a lot of us who don't quite have the tongue that you have. ;-)
Panjeani says....Your blog is really impressive, you are articulate, well educated in various things, and in this post you mention bigotry being disguised, I would just like to mention that you are pointing out bigotry against gays and blacks, but bigotry towards women seems to flow free as rhymes in your writing. Just remember that women have been slaves(including sex slaves) to the white man for a lot longer than black people as a population. Black men had the right to vote before white women and black women. I see your sexist comments and I file them away in my "we are regressing" future blog idea posts....
@Anonymous:
Yeah, what a steaming pile of shit you just left on my blog with that comment. The theme of my blog, throughout the tenure of it, has been about a misguided man(myself) with questionable actions in all departments - each cathartic blog post serving as a step closer to self improvement. Any person who has read this blog for even the shortest time knows that. I see your sloppily premature rant, your hamfistedly clumsy indictment - and just file it away as another misguided douchebag who doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about. You can truly fuck yourself, and if you don't like my blog simply don't read it.
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