Hearing the following terms from "Democrats"

[bliss_eternal]

...makes my ears bleed:

out of wedlock

slutty

illegals

whore or whoring

"white trash" :shrug: (As if somewhere there is blue, green or crimson trash).

"speaks so well" (when referring to an educated person of color, think Sen. Obama) :eyes:

(deep, heavy sigh)

....That is all.

Just needed to vent.
Thank you. Please return to your previously scheduled posting.

[Cerridwen]

1. One of the first posts I read in GD way back after I had just joined

DU, someone actually used the term "welfare queen" as a descriptor and in all seriousness.

I'm amazed, though I should not be, at the number of people who purport to be liberal, who have "bought" the themes, memes, and "values" of the very people they so ardently despise. It would seem, the only people they despise more than the opposition, is those who refuse to fit their definition of "good citizen".

Hi, Bliss. Good to see you this morning. No need to ask how you're doing. *wry grin*

:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

3. Haven't seen that one in a while....

"welfare queen." I think the last time may have been during the Duke rape trial threads. ((shudder))
:scared:

I don't know about you, but it's especially disturbing when I'm in a position to consider reminding a woman that she shares the gender of the candidate she feels the need to use sexist terminology to describe. This was away from the internet, but no less disconcerting.

Good to see you too, Cerridwen. :hi:

[Cerridwen]

5. Some of the words flung around here were truly disturbing.

The intensity greatly increased during the primaries. I think we will see it amped up even more for the general.

I predict a truly ugly election season. I hope I am NOT psychic and I am therefore, wrong.

I posted elsewhere that what I see coming up, will make the 60s look like a time of calm and reasoned debate.

[bliss_eternal]

6. I don't think you're wrong.

Without going into a lot, one of the reasons I didn't support either of these candidates was based in what I've seen here--about race and sex/gender. I had a feeling the cards that would be played in all of this, by society at large, the opposing parties, etc. I'm sad to have been correct.

[Cerridwen]

7. I think it was Ripley in another thread here, who said

something about a white woman versus a black man being the repubs wet dream.

It wasn't just the repubs who "got off" on that battle and the latitude it gave people to attack using the veneer of politics as an excuse. And it's not over yet. Using your cards analogy, I'm sure "they've" got more aces up their sleeves.

[bliss_eternal]

8. She's right.

I just added a comment to the end of that thread last night. After listening to a disturbed, elderly Democrat, I realized why I've been so reluctant to have a discussion with anyone about this race.

From all of the years of reading on DU, and seeing bigotry apologists trot out their "friends of color" who seem to always feel just fine and dandy about the most offensive of racist words and acts(according to the apologists, of course). :eyes: I refuse to become someone's token sound byte, and have my gender or background used in such a way. So I haven't been very talkative about who I don't support or why. :(

[BlueIris]

2. I've been alarmed at the way posters here throw around the term "illegal"

willy-nilly with no shame. It's creepy.

[bliss_eternal]

4. You nailed it.

Totally creepy. As if to say immigrant status, (illegal or otherwise) is somehow equivalent to one being "less than human."

[bliss_eternal]

9. Mini-rant...

...I sometimes wonder if people just blank out in the middle of conversation and fucking forget who they are talking to.

Is it possible that some forget who people are and what they fervently believe in--mid conversation? Or do they just expect to get a free pass on spewing filth in another's presence, knowing that they are completely and totally out of line, offensive and vile?

Given this isn't the first time this person felt unable to reign in their racist bullshit,....there's nothing they have to say, that I ever need to hear. :puke:

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. "White trash" gives away the game

It reveals that the class war between whites is still in full swing. We're smart, educated, compassionate and deserving, unlike those rubes. 'Illegal' shows that the war has widened to include Latinos. Loud handwringing over 'out-of-wedlock' births was used to calumny blacks in the years preceding welfare reform; the term retains that racist tinge.

[bliss_eternal]

11. case in point...

...a hideous conversation with extended family of my mate's.

Somehow this person managed to utilize almost all of the above in the course of a conversation. :puke: Yet, still claims to be "progressive and democratic."

I guess it speaks to their life experiences, age/generation and personal insecurities (over the age of 70, raised in a family of abusive men, religious, mentally ill, doesn't understand 'feminism' or those uppity women, claims to support choice--but is grateful their child was never impregnated due to assault/rape, as it would have been "oh so hard to not force birthing on them because abortion is a mortal sin", etc.). Get the picture?

Funny thing is when we were getting acquainted they were just oh so shocked and appalled that I recognized one of their children was racist. (Um--it's not like the person tried to hide the fact, or anything). Then (of course) I had to hear all of the "...I didn't raise them that way" apologetic, crap. Yet this person is all bent out of shape about "those illegals."

No, of course your child didn't learn bigotry from you. :eyes: