# F@\*& you Shirley Sherrod! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 29, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513 "2010-07-29T22:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/61 "2010-07-30T02:06:06Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > Idiots. It went from racist to class warfare. What’s the difference? Fucking assholes. (not literally). > > I wish i was rich so I could really be offended. You were wrong. You didn’t bother to get the real facts. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/62 "2010-07-30T02:18:13Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > Idiots. It went from racist to class warfare. What’s the difference? Fucking assholes. (not literally). > > I wish i was rich so I could really be offended. And I wish you were smart, so that you could be properly ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/63 "2010-07-30T02:18:48Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Can you coherently explain, in small words, exactly what point you think you just made? > [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > Well I’d never want to be accused of not “manning” up. With that in mind I have an erection and I’m owning this: The video was shit. It showed a woman being a racist that realized she was wrong, kind of like a lot of us have in our lives and then we realize everyone is pretty much assholes.. or was it superior? etc… ?? > > M’kay.. imagine this was a white person, same speech, different audience? Does that change anything? It doesn’t for me because it was still honest and from personal experience. That doesn’t make it any less right or wrong. Have you ever been discriminated against? I have but so what? My life goes on so fuck that jerk. So…no, then. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/64 "2010-07-30T02:24:15Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > > [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > > > I wish i was rich so I could really be offended. > > You’re just another right-wing sucker, gobbling up whatever shit sandwich Fox News tosses your way, and thinking its prime rib. You were lied to and played like a cheap harmonica and you’re such a fucking tool you’re still defending the people who shit on your plate. > > Imagine you go to your local high school and give a speech telling kids to stay off drugs. You illustrate your point with an anecdote about resisting the temptation to take drugs when you were younger. A few months later it turns on _The Daily Show_, heavily edited, making it sound like you were encouraging kids to shoot up heroin in class. Your boss finds out about it and fires you. You don’t think that … just maybe … you might have grounds to sue Jon Stewart for running such a false and libelous video? > > But go ahead, keep swallowing the shit. Keep blaming the crappy taste in your mouth on the liberals, and the blacks, and the unions, and whoever else the rich fucks jerking your puppet strings tell you to hate. In your heart, you love being their bitch. Completely true. The OP is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/65 "2010-07-30T03:31:04Z")
No, no, you guys; you’ve got it all wrong. The OP is a Beckbot, actually a prototype they’re still working on; not really quite to beta status even, so instead of launching it on, say, the CNN Political Ticker, they’ve turned it loose here to work out the bugs. Obviously, there are still a lot of bugs to work out in the programming before it’s ready to go into production. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/66 "2010-07-30T03:50:41Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > I wish i was rich so I could really be offended. I wish you were smart enough to follow the dam conversation. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/67 "2010-07-30T04:22:55Z")
Come on people, get it through your heads. This guy’s obviously a troll. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/68 "2010-07-30T04:46:29Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > Goalposts moving like we’re playing Missile Command. Were I the type, this would be my sig. ---
**Author:** ![NOLA\_Cajun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@NOLA\_Cajun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NOLA_Cajun)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/69 "2010-07-30T04:50:37Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > > [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > > > I wish i was rich so I could really be offended. > > I wish you were smart enough to follow the dam conversation. Don’t get me started about dams. Fucking shitheads you bury cities with your damn dams… ---
**Author:** ![NOLA\_Cajun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea666f/32.png) [@NOLA\_Cajun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NOLA_Cajun)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/70 "2010-07-30T04:54:24Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > > [@Smeghead](#): > > > > Can you coherently explain, in small words, exactly what point you think you just made? > > > [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > > > Well I’d never want to be accused of not “manning” up. With that in mind I have an erection and I’m owning this: The video was shit. It showed a woman being a racist that realized she was wrong, kind of like a lot of us have in our lives and then we realize everyone is pretty much assholes.. or was it superior? etc… ?? > > > > M’kay.. imagine this was a white person, same speech, different audience? Does that change anything? It doesn’t for me because it was still honest and from personal experience. That doesn’t make it any less right or wrong. Have you ever been discriminated against? I have but so what? My life goes on so fuck that jerk. > > So…no, then. Right. No. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/71 "2010-07-30T04:57:50Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > > [@Smeghead](#): > > > > > [@Smeghead](#): > > > > > > Can you coherently explain, in small words, exactly what point you think you just made? > > > > > [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > > > > > Well I’d never want to be accused of not “manning” up. With that in mind I have an erection and I’m owning this: The video was shit. It showed a woman being a racist that realized she was wrong, kind of like a lot of us have in our lives and then we realize everyone is pretty much assholes.. or was it superior? etc… ?? > > > > > > M’kay.. imagine this was a white person, same speech, different audience? Does that change anything? It doesn’t for me because it was still honest and from personal experience. That doesn’t make it any less right or wrong. Have you ever been discriminated against? I have but so what? My life goes on so fuck that jerk. > > > > So…no, then. > > Right. No. Ok, I think we’re done here. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/72 "2010-07-30T05:42:51Z")
Jesus H Christ, aint you people ever been to church? She was giving a typical sermon. (maybe it’s a southern or black thing) You don’t stand there and talk about sin in some hypothetical, theoretical way. You talk about your own personal sin and how you struggled to over come that sin. I knew that what she was doing without ever hearing the rest of the freaking story. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/73 "2010-07-30T05:46:30Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Worst. Pit thread. Ever. I’ts not so bad: We’re all twenty Moldavian sand-dollars richer now. Except **descamisado**. He’s going to have to hustle. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/74 "2010-07-30T14:13:01Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > ]I hope she wins, wins BIG, and wipes him out completely. All ALL this bullshit SUPPOSEDLY happened, uhhhhhnnn HOW many years ago, and the scumbag dredged it up now, after uhhhhhnnn HOW many years? I hope she kicks his ass in court. Well, strictly speaking, _she_ dredged it up, since she talked about it in a speech to the NAACP last year. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/75 "2010-07-30T14:23:36Z")
What I said: I hate people who are prejudiced against gay people. Breitbart edit: I hate people who are prejudiced against gay people. = I hate gay people. How do you not see what’s wrong with Breitbart here? F&\*% you **OP**. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/76 "2010-07-30T14:26:58Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > M’kay.. imagine this was a white person, same speech, different audience? Not this bullshit again. Does someone have to pull this every time we discuss a potentially racist remark? It’s a waste of time. > [@](#): > > Does that change anything? It doesn’t for me because it was still honest and from personal experience. The irony of it is that I agree with you about this. When any person identifies prejudice in himself and overcomes it, it’s a thing to be celebrated. It doesn’t matter what race or religion or other group the person belongs to. > [@](#): > > That doesn’t make it any less right or wrong. Have you ever been discriminated against? I have but so what? My life goes on so fuck that jerk. And yet you manage to be an idiot again by the end of your post. (Assuming “that jerk” is Shirley Sherrod.) Here’s what happened in the story: she admits that 25 years ago, a farmer came to her for help. She did help him. She didn’t help him as much as she could have, partly because he was white but also because she felt he was being an arrogant racist in dealing with her. So she sent him to a white lawyer and assumed the lawyer would help him. She found out the lawyer was screwing him and helped again, ultimately saving his farm. She learns a lesson and the white family is grateful to this day. Did she do the wrong thing in discriminating? Yes. But she learned a lesson and no one was harmed. If that’s your standard for being a jerk, what would you call someone who insults other people without bothering to learn what he’s talking about? ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/77 "2010-07-30T14:37:37Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > Well I’d never want to be accused of not “manning” up. With that in mind I have an erection and I’m owning this: The video was shit. It showed a woman being a racist that realized she was wrong, kind of like a lot of us have in our lives and then we realize everyone is pretty much assholes.. or was it superior? etc… ?? > > M’kay.. imagine this was a white person, same speech, different audience? Does that change anything? It doesn’t for me because it was still honest and from personal experience. That doesn’t make it any less right or wrong. Have you ever been discriminated against? I have but so what? My life goes on so fuck that jerk. In other words, you have learned nothing from your fuck up and next time this happens, you’ll fall for it again. In fact, since this happens so often in rightwing ‘news’, you’re probably being suckered right now. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/78 "2010-07-30T14:56:34Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Indeed, if a white person would have changed his ways and publicly recanted from racist, he would forever be a social pariah. Thus the all-too-short political career of Robert Byrd. Poor bastard ended up panhandling in the streets with George Wallace. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/79 "2010-07-30T14:59:29Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > In other words, you have learned nothing from your fuck up and next time this happens, you’ll fall for it again. In fact, since this happens so often in rightwing ‘news’, you’re probably being suckered right now. The truly bizarre thing is that most of the hardcore right-wingers here will at least admit the facts despite trying to spin them but **NOLAcajun** can’t seem to get past the edited video. I understand having your own party jerk the rug out from under you causing you to look like a stupid jerk in public must be a hard pill to swallow but to save the last shred of credibility the OP might have, I for the life of me can’t understand why he can’t bring himself to admit he was duped. I think \*\*The Hamster King \*\* hit the nail on the head. Quoth him: "_You’re just another right-wing sucker, gobbling up whatever shit sandwich Fox News tosses your way, and thinking its prime rib. You were lied to and played like a cheap harmonica and you’re such a fucking tool you’re still defending the people who shit on your plate"._ Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513/80 "2010-07-30T15:14:15Z")
> [@NOLA\_Cajun](#): > > and therein lies the whole of the arguement. we’re all good little ponies with no prejudices. fuck you. you’re all guilty. WE are all guilty. > > Let’s move on beyond that now. We’ll thank each other later. > > **you owe me Twenty Moldavian sand-dollars** I never said I’d pay it to you; besides, you’re white, I’m Black, so, no way am I enriching you! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-you-shirley-sherrod/548513.md?page=5)