Whatever my failings as a parent may have been, I can safely say I nailed that one!
OK. I’ll glare at every Scion and mute the commercials. But I can’t promise more–I’m a bleeding heart, ya know. If I do more, I’ll start to pity the bears and the drivers and next thing you know, I’ll be holding candlelight vigils for these oppressed groups.
For the same reason that it is OK to judge conservatives by the actions of a small minority on Free Republic, apparently.
Yes, I can see the comparison between Freepers and middle-schoolers.
Or Dopers, for that matter.
Too late. I called it first. Nyeah!
If we are too tiresome for you, Shodan, I’m sure we would understand if you withdrew your invaluable presence. It will be hard, at first, no doubt. But we could learn to adjust.
Hey, I made that comparison pages ago!
Other than lynching “uppity” black men and screaming at black kids who dared to enter a white high school, that is…
With all due respect, it’s this kind of idiocy from the left and its Kool-Aid drinking devotees that has driven me nuts for the last forty years.
Milliions of kids grew up in this country circa 1900 - 1968 and I’d wager that 99.99% never saw and/or participated in any lynchings. And I’d wager that 99.9% percent of the adult population in the sixties never yelled at any black kids going to white schools.
People are robbed, raped, tortured and murdered every day in this country. Do those acts typify today’s society in the main? Shall we toss out what remains of societal convention and modes and mores of behavior in this country because it would put an end to rape and murder?
This kind of false equivalence where people attempt to excuse the negative consequences of liberal influence on this society over the last forty years and claim they were necessary to end racism is utter nonsense.
Besides, like I’ve said before blacks themselves had pretty much won that battle themselves before liberals began to champion it.
The fact of the matter is that the cultural revolution that started in the late sixties and which has resulted in so many of the societal ills that exist now was a reaction to the Vietnam war and resentment over The Establishment’s™ scorn and derision over long hair and hippie modes of speech, dress and behavior.
And drugs! Can’t forget that. Big resentment over not being allowed to use drugs.
Just ask luci. 
Unfortunately, that is more accurate than you realize.
Well, of course it’d be OK, if it was in Oklahoma.
I hope I was the first person to come up with this rather obvious joke. I scanned the thread but didn’t see it.
Sorry, man…you were the 3rd, I think! But it’s still funny. And no, I did not do that deliberately, as one person wondered. I’m just that much of a doofus. 
“I gave up whiskey for weed in 1974. May be the only really smart thing I ever did.”
- Willy Nelson
This was my first thought.
I’s wager you’d lose that bet. Count the number of asshole in any picture of the integration of the schools in Little Rock, divide by the number of people in Little Rock and you’d get a number >0.1. Betcha.
But schools in the Sixties were not as hard to integrate as Central High School in Little Rock in the Fifties. I don’t have any trouble believing Starving Artist’s estimate. There were a lot of people against integration. Speaking against it is one thing, but yelling at children takes it to another level. That is abusive behavior and it takes a real pond scum to do that sort of thing.
Of course you’ll get a higher number if you single out a small town that was a hotspot of racial tension. But since the changes that have occurred in this country since the late sixties have affected life throughout the nation as a whole, my comments were in regard to the nation’s population as a whole also.
You know, back in 2004, a very conservative friend of mine and I were talking in Economics class (high school) about the primaries. For the past few years, he had been cheerleading Bush. It was the night after Iowa and I was being very loud in my disappointment over Dean’s loss. The friend just sort of nodded and agreed with me, saying “Yeah, I would have liked Dean as President, he seems smart.”
The teacher, who was no stranger to our political chats, expressed a little bit of shock. He’d support a democrat? We all kind of laughed about it because it would have been like me proclaiming my love for George W. Bush - very, very surprising.
Sometimes teachers aren’t stupid. They know their students well. If the girl had espoused liberal positions, if she talked about how much she liked Obama, then one day walked in with a McCain shirt, wouldn’t you be surprised?
Sarahfeena, I’m always thrown off by your name, since I expect http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105316/, then read one of your posts and get http://www.forward.com/workspace/assets/ann-coulter-101907.jpg.
Wow, it must really suck to be in the minority.