I had some Hindu classmates in college who ate beef. I remember one of them saying “I would never eat this at home, but in the US it’s too hard to avoid it.” I thought that was pretty funny, since I’m an American and I’ve managed to avoid beef for many years!
Maybe he’s a crusader. Then again, I guess you of all usernames would know a crusader when you saw one. 
That is insulting the pig. They are quite smert, actually.
So, I guess by not knowing that, kaylasdad is himself pig ignorant?
Did anybody see The Colbert Report when Colbert went to Colbert county (opening a Stephen Colbert museum and having a scene from MIRACLE WORKER [Colbert County is the birthplace of Helen Keller])? He also got a friendly reception. (True he’s a white southerner, but only tangentially on the latter part- his parents moved to South Carolina from non-southern states; so far as I know he’s white, though Sally Hemings had some relatives named Colbert so it’s possible that in some states he’s not.)
Yeah, they were trying to get her to react, but I still think that if someone’s dumb enough to call out the boys because of some fairly inoffensive stuff, then it’s their own fault. If I saw some stereotypical Southerner driving a car in NYC that says “BILL GRAHAM ROCKS” and “HOMOS SUCK (get it?!),” I’d think they were asinine, but I wouldn’t dignify them with a response, especially if they had a camera.
That is your idea of the "stereotypical Southerner’? How bizarre. I wouldn’t think the stereotypical Southerner would have an “obscenity” on a bumpersticker or shorten Billy Graham’s name. And in real life, the two concepts wouldn’t be paired together.
Very true. My grandchildren have been upset by nuns from time to time, but you have to expect that in Catholic schools. I’m Protestant and think they’re all like Ingrid Bergman and Julie Andrews.
I have always wanted to check out the exit on !-65 in Alabama that says “Ava Maria Grotto.”
When people vote, how do we know that they voted based on the racial issue? I know that I heard Republicans try to tie Barack Obama to the word terrorist and to Middle Eastern and Muslim roots to the point where some people (even in Northern states) were afraid of him. If that kind of misinformation changed a vote from Obama to McCain, then that vote would have been based on bigotry of a different nature, but not exactly on race.
I didn’t hear any blatant appealing to “Don’t vote for the African-American; “they” can’t handle the Presidency.” I did hear African-Americans ridiculed in many ways including musical CDs and cookies.)
I don’t deny that some of the voting was based on “race.” I just don’t know these people except at SDMB. Or maybe they just remain silent.
No, but it’s the type of thing someone would do if they’re trying to bait a super liberal Manhattan type. I’m just saying that if someone did something that was clearly designed to push my buttons to get a reaction out of me, I wouldn’t take the bait.
Wonderful; you’re a good person. Is *everyone *in Manhattan so tolerant? If you drove the “HOMOS SUCK” car through Manhattan all day you wouldn’t get at least one response like they did?
You’d probably get weird looks and maybe someone coming up to you to ask you what you’re doing. But rocks? IMHO, once you think it’s permissible to throw rocks at someone just because they criticize NASCAR and Country/Western or have liberal politics or are gay, then you’re officially an asshole.
OF COURSE. The fact that they are assholes is the point. Are there no assholes in Manhattan? If putting on a McCain T-shirt and carrying a sign can get crowds of people to curse and give you the finger, is it such a stretch to think that an explicitly anti-gay message might not get you a punch in the mouth from at least one angry manhattanite?
Actually, I shouldn’t be asking it as a question. I’m from New Jersey, and I damn well KNOW that if you go around deliberately trying to insult/offend New Yorkers, sooner or later one of them will lose it.
Okay, so there are assholes all over. I still think it’s pretty scary that a pro-gay message could get someone to throw rocks.
You could probably get rocks (okay, hot dogs due to a shortage of rocks) running around saying "new york sucks! " in new york, and thats pretty much a meaningless statement.
Yeah, the definition of New York is ‘you got all kinds here’.
Yeah, but it does make me think that someone is a bigot if they react that way to a declaration of being gay.
And the funny part is that she was obviously not Southern. Sounded like a Midwestern accent.
:rolleyes:
And the point, which you seem determined to miss no matter how many times it’s explained is there are bigots everywhere. Thus, while she may be a bigot, it’s unfair to make her out to be a typical Alabaman, any more than it would be fair to label the punch-you-in-the-face-because-you’re-conservative people typical of their home.
I never said she was a typical Alabaman or Southerner. Just that she was hardly being harassed. Showing someone a sign with a message you don’t agree with and setting up a video camera isn’t harassment. I just think it’s her own damned fault she came off as an ignorant creep.
Louisiana also elected David Duke to its state legislature 20 years ago.
And what I’m arguing is that she wasn’t reacting a gay pride message. No one paints “I’m bi” on their hood and means it. She was reacting to the correct assumption that people were coming in from out of town to mock stereotypical southern behavior.
Yes, she handled herself extremely poorly. No, that probably wasn’t the first or second gas station they stopped at.
Exactly – it was a deliberate attempt to make fun of and insult the people there, and they knew it. Surprise! You go around insulting people based on your bigotry, and they get pissed. Who knew?