WillyT rocks.

[bettyellen]

162. Some love to step right up to the line and say they don't see it, even when responding to posts....

posts that discuss the line itself.


So, there were 2-3 busy threads one February- about a menu made for black history month where a school served fried chicken and watermelon, and people discussed the racial or racist implications in GD.
So they made an OP in response mocking the issue (apparently having no desire to actually read and learn from the POC discussing it) and joking about how he doesn't care if people make "gefilte fish" jokes. Yep. And many fans on that mocking OP had no idea- thought it was context free rambling about gefilte fish (and dutifully applauded it as more evidence of genius!).

So basically, he was telling POC to get over it- while claiming later, somewhere below the pseudo apology, that he didn't know what "it" actually was. Not aware of the connotations. Maybe he could have perused a thread or two- for the sake of Black History Month, that would have been wise.

Jury- please note, embarrassed parties actually asked for the links to be provided further up in this thread:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4472335
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024478358#post11