I blame Alanis Morissette.
Bet they could fix your squeaky [sic] breaks. :rolleyes:
The way you talk about them and the way you insult people here for being old, I wouldn’t be shocked if they were doing it on purpose.
It’s also kinda funny, since it’s always the young kids throwing their parties that I see do the stuff you describe.
I sure hope they pepper spray back.
Screw Mister Fist… jail 'em Both.
I’m really curious what makes you think it’s racist, rather than maybe elitist or anti-poor or anti-rural. Did something **justjake **wrote give you the impression that the other 2/3rds of the neighbors are black? Or Persian maybe? As opposed to generic neighbors who happen to not be unintelligent or redneck?
It was a really obnoxious and judgmental post for sure, I just don’t see any racism.
“Bag up your garbage and toss the bags through their windows.” - Red Green
Is Batman okay with that?
I have a lot of sympathy for the OP because I’ve been there and done that. But I’m afraid that Jake may just run afoul of “community standards” if, as he says, a lot of his neighbors just don’t care. Even if the township/county/whoever do take steps and stop or fine the people it could turn into a neighborhood war he could just end up losing. My one serious suggestion would be to talk to some of the other neighbors and see if I had any support there before firing the first salvo. If I was going to be basically alone, I think I would rather move. But that could just be me.
Seriously. Stop raping Batman. Rape is not cool.
You are not a good liberal. According to the organization, “Teaching Tolerance,” redneck is a racist term, regardless of connotation, because it disparages certain people based on skin color. The reasoning is that only white people get red necks from working outside, so a reference to “red necks” is anti-white and racist. Also, because the term is often (usually?) used pejoratively.
“Teaching Tolerance” also believes using the word “lame” as a pejorative is highly offensive because it disparages the handicapped, so you can take their nonsense with a grain of salt.
ETA: they hate “sinister” too. Don’t use it unless you’re a hater.
I bet the ratio of the number of liberals who actually think redneck is racist to the number of conservatives who would love for such a batshit insane liberal to really exist is about several hundred thousand to one.
There’s probably many many thousands of conservatives all over the country just champing at the bit, saying, “come on! There’s got to be **one **self-identifying liberal who fails to realize that redneck is a slur on grounds of poverty, class, or rural lifestyle and stupidly thinks it’s about race! Just wait until he shows up and says something dumb and we’re all proven right!”
“Teaching Tolerance” is part of the Southern Poverty Law Center; it’s mainstream liberalism, not a bunch of nuts.
I took those examples directly from a high school lesson plan TT provides. It includes “gay” as a pejorative and “Jew” as a verb, but also “Iron Maiden”, “old wives’ tale”, “burying the hatchet”, “smoking a peace pipe”, “sitting pretty”, “gyp” as a verb, “screaming like a banshee”, “hysterical”, “chairman”, “dark horse”, “black sheep”, “henpecked”, the examples above, and a whole bunch more examples of “words that hurt” and that should NOT be used.
Doing the lesson as it’s intended (for grades 6-12) would leave a kid terrified to ever say ANYTHING, but I guess that’s sort of the point.
Banshee liberation! The next political battlefield.
There was a wave of maniacal PC madness (with apologies to maniacs and persons of the mad persuasion) in the 1980’s - 1980’s or so, regarding the words that may be used in real estate advertising (including apartment rental ads). Does anybody here remember that?
In a series of increasingly idiotic slippery-slope lawsuits, supported by laws that allowed just about anyone to sue on other people’s behalf, various groups of self-appointed PC police sued real estate advertisers for discriminatory advertising.
Not only could you not write anything outrightly discriminatory (“Dogs, Blacks, Jews, Irish need not apply”), but ads that “suggested” a property would be suitable for certain classes and not for others were considered “steering” and that was also forbidden. And it was considered discriminatory to “steer” certain groups toward your property as well as away.
You couldn’t write “near schools” as that would tend to attract families with children. You couldn’t write “quiet neighborhood” as that was interpreted to be a code-phrase meaning “No children”. You couldn’t write “walking distance to <anywhere>” as that favored people who could walk. You couldn’t write “beautiful ocean view” as that favored people who could see. You couldn’t mention churches, synagogues, etc., nearby as that favored people of particular religions. You couldn’t mention that the house for sale has “spacious family room” as that favored families. If you were offering rooms in, say, a boarding house where meals were provided, you couldn’t say if the meals were Kosher.
The real estate industry published handy cheat-sheet cards, printed on plastic, with long lists of “problem” words and phrases, color coded. Red phrases were a no-no; yellow phrases were considered dangerously questionable; green phrases were safe. Alternative “safe” phrases were suggested; for example, “living room” instead of “family room”.
This all seemed to be coming down from the federal HUD department and especially the Secretary of HUD at the time, during the Clinton administration. Eventually HUD published a set of guidelines specifically saying that a lot of that nonsense was okay after all, and I think the whole fad pretty much blew over. But I think real estate people still feel fairly paranoid about it all, and are very careful how they word their ads.
That’s awesome. I never knew that. I think the pendulum may have swung the other way.
I’ve got a buddy who owns a couple of triple flat buildings in Cambridge, MA. He falsely advertises that his buildings “may” have lead paint and puts it in the lease. There’s no lead, but it keeps out kids and couples young enough to get pregnant. He rents to only adults, usually older professionals.
He’s got the quietest buildings in Porter Square.
He can’t change a light bulb, and he has no money to pay for one, so I don’t see this happening