Beat me to it.
I know a fun experiment. Naturally Oblivious, why don’t you run out to a black neighborhood and call the first adult black man you see “Boy”, for bonus points after he gets done kicking the shit out of your oblivious ass, tell him he is being “uppity”.
Askeptic-born in Bessemer, Alabama.
Co-sign.
5-4-Fighting,
Black, born and raised in MS and knows how to avoid ass-kickin’s every day in Crown Heights, NY.
This is the Dope, where people once argued that spraying a black person with toxic bugkiller while screaming “nigger” was not necessarily a racist act. Of course someone showed up to defend this within the first few posts.
“Watch that ‘boy’ shit, redneck. You’re talkin’ to the Senator of Illinois.”
I realize “uppity, boy, darlin” and “honey” can all be something-ist, and I also realize 99.9% of adjectives can’t be used with regard to certain “uppity” people who should, in order to be politically correct, remain completely adjective-free, with the remaining allowable adjectives being “strong,” and “intelligent.” Even then you have to be careful you’re not being patronizing. Goodness forbid you say Obama is “well-spoken,” or “articulate.” We all know what you meant by that.
I won’t defend another thing the representative said and might not ever, but his use of simulation was correct. Obama was taking part in some sort of war game simulation at the time.
Yeah, that damn political correctness. Why, I bet 99% of the complaints the FCC receives and uses to regulate our freedom of speech probably come…from…the left…wait…damn.
Maybe I’m just stupid, but someone please tell me how uppity and boy are “blatantly racist”
I don’t care about if its talking down to someone, condescending, or anything of that sore.
Racist. How?
Well, because for a very long time whites used the term “uppity nigger” to refer to black people who didn’t know their place, i.e., who weren’t Uncle Toms. They also used the term “boy” to refer to adult black males, because no black male could be a man.
I’ll tell you something else. Any Georgia elected official (I’m from Georgia, and I’ve worked for elected officials here) who says he doesn’t know that the terms “uppity” and “boy” when used to refer to a black man are racist, is lying his fucking ass off. (His apologists may merely be mistaken, but, um, probably not.)
Words have history an context. BOTH of those words have historically been used by racists to belittle black people. So exclusively, in fact, that their use can have no other possible interpretation.
Couldn’t it just be performance art?
Fuck yourself sideways with a cactus, asshole.
Was that code enough for you?
I didn’t realize that the OP only applied to Elected Officials, just not actually saying it or anything. On the other hand, your incredibly sourced rebuttal of my basic point that the sexism is flying fast and furious (much moreso than the racism) has caused me to curl up into a fetal position and cry, cry, cry my life away. Oh, how I wish my mother had stayed at home and raised me instead of helping to support my family! Oh, how it burns, knowing her selfishness has caused me to hurt askeptic’s feelings. What a bad, bad mother she is for having a career.
Oh wait, you’re just full of shit and have absolutely nothing to say.
Your mother must have been awful.
Well, to be fair, 99% of FCC complaints come from the Parents’ Television Council. Although it’s a conservative organization, it’s not exactly representative of conservatives in general, most of whom can’t be bothered to complain to the FCC any more than the rest of us.
The point is that it’s completely absurd to whine about “PC” being “out of hand” when even a fringe righty group like that can have such an iron grip on what we are allowed to say where.
OK, I didn’t realize the history behind those words.
However, because I didn’t know the context and meaning behind those words, completely refutes your statement that they “can have no other possible interpretation”. They absoluetly can, and do have other possible intrepretations, and to say otherwise is to tell me what my interpretation has to be.
However they may be out of line to use, the terms aren’t inherently racist. People I know call each other ‘boy’ and don’t mean ‘nigger’. How do I know? because it was being said from one white ‘boy’ to another.
you freakin’ win!
I’m not saying this is wrong, but if true, I genuinely didn’t know it. So ISTM that accusations of blatant racism may be overstated, if ignorance can be blamed instead.
What struck me from the article was the second step – not asserting that “uppity” is code, but asserting that “elitist” is also code: code for “uppity.” Does that mean all black people are immune from accusations of elitism, because those accusations cannot be divorced from racism? Elitist = uppity, uppity = racist. Mind you, I don’t think Obama is particularly elitist, but I certainly think he could be, and I don’t see what his race has to do with it.
Not everything is code, and not everything is code to everybody.
That would be a valid point if you were an elected official in Geogia.
Dude, that’s like arguing that since you, yourself, don’t speak French, then calling someone a nigger crack whore, or whatever, in *French *. . . . whatever, done pissing into the ignorant wind.
Thankyou. And you know, I rather agree. 