# Re-elect Sheriff Joe Arpaio and help put the "or" back in honor **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 20, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389 "2016-08-20T07:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/21 "2016-08-20T23:37:56Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Why is it only conservatives who practice bigotry against people of color? Why are racial characteristics like skin-color permitted to be used in profiling suspects? Why is this kind of behavior acceptable to you, so much so that you accuse someone of bigotry for pointing it out? > > “That policeman just beat the living crap out of that black guy over there.” > "You bigot! You referred to his skin color!) > > It’s like you care more about words than people. (Oh, wait… Conservatives. Fuck right you do.) Please stop using “conservative” as though it means the same thing as “reactionary.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/22 "2016-08-20T23:40:43Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > You know, this part of your post does a good job of describing the Bundys. And the only reason it doesn’t describe Arpaio is because the goddamn psychopath somehow avoids punishment for everything from spouting lies that would make Cliff Claven blush in embarrassment at having said it to stealing money from the state to indulge his humiliation fetish. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/23 "2016-08-21T00:01:23Z")
> [@aliensshow](#): > > Why is it only liberals who use the bigotted colloquialism “brown people?” I mean, I know why, I’m just wondering how long it’ll take the slower members of the short bus to catch on. You really should take a look at [this](http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/twitter-douchebag1.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/24 "2016-08-21T00:35:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Please stop using “conservative” as though it means the same thing as “reactionary.” You have a point…but, in the U.S., today, there is almost no non-reactionary element of the conservative movement. The extremists own the ideology. Donald Trump is the face of conservatism today. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/25 "2016-08-21T04:53:22Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I was confused by this article. If a judge wants to hold someone in contempt, can’t he just do it? Why do the prosecutors have to get involved? 😕 If I recall correctly from law school, a judge can handle civil contempt himself, but criminal contempt must be prosecuted like any other crime. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/26 "2016-08-21T16:01:32Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Why is it only conservatives who practice bigotry against people of color? Why are racial characteristics like skin-color permitted to be used in profiling suspects? Why is this kind of behavior acceptable to you, so much so that you accuse someone of bigotry for pointing it out? > > “That policeman just beat the living crap out of that black guy over there.” > "You bigot! You referred to his skin color!) > > It’s like you care more about words than people. (Oh, wait… Conservatives. Fuck right you do.) Wow. Bigot much? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/27 "2016-08-21T16:05:42Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Wow. Bigot much? Wow. Mirror ever? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/28 "2016-08-21T16:09:07Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I was confused by this article. If a judge wants to hold someone in contempt, can’t he just do it? Why do the prosecutors have to get involved? 😕 Carefully dotting every i and crossing every t to insure that there are no complications is getting Joe his hot-pink jumpsuit and stale baloney sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/29 "2016-08-21T16:49:38Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Wow. Bigot much? I sincerely hope that was a joke. He literally just pointed out how conservatives cry bigotry at things that aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/30 "2016-08-21T21:35:00Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I sincerely hope that was a joke. He literally just pointed out how conservatives cry bigotry at things that aren’t. **Clothahump** is, alas, totally humor-impaired, and wouldn’t know irony if it bit him in his shiny metal ass. He has made a long career on the SDMB by proving others right and himself wrong, by demonstrations of exactly this kind. He is definitely one of those, “You said ‘boo’ to someone for using the n-word, so you’re exactly as bad as they are” brands of tools. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389/31 "2016-08-21T22:53:09Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > **Clothahump** is, alas, totally humor-impaired, and wouldn’t know irony if it bit him in his shiny metal ass. He has made a long career on the SDMB by proving others right and himself wrong, by demonstrations of exactly this kind. > > He is definitely one of those, “You said ‘boo’ to someone for using the n-word, so you’re exactly as bad as they are” brands of tools. Ah. I’ve had him on ignore for so long, I didn’t remember his schtick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-elect-sheriff-joe-arpaio-and-help-put-the-or-back-in-honor/763389.md?page=1)