First I’ve heard of it. Got any cites?
First I’ve heard of it, too, but, like many things, there’s a Wikipedia article on it. Although (again like may things) the Wikipedia article isn’t that great, it does have a couple informative popular press cites: ChicagoNow and Huffington Post, the later of which quotes an interesting early 70s article from Black World magazine.
I’ve also heard a black friend refer to “colored people’s time” when she was late for something.
I agree that Clinton/De Blasio’s use was a bad attempt at a joke, and that it’s a term I, as a white dude, would not try to drop casually into my conversation.
I dunno if this link will work but a cursory googling will demonstrate that we’ve had several conversations on the board that revolve around, at least in part, the phrase ‘colored people time’.
So it’s a thing, then. Live, learn and avoid like the plague.
I hadn’t heard of that, but I’ve heard the term “Indian time,” which is the same thing, only for Indians (duh).
I’ve also heard it used for many specific situations, such as for a certain person who is always late or the culture of late meetings at a certain company.
Well, on the whole I agree. But we still have a chance, however slim, of getting something like Colbert savaging Bush.
Nah, the point was to turn the tables on men.
Science Fiction fans have lived by “Fannish Standard Time” for over fifty years.
Must read. You know some of it, but not enough and this well written vol. stitches together all the various news items you hear or read over years.
It is primarily about the Koch Bros and their cult of evil billionaire Oligarchs. I thought the Kochs were merely selfish, greedy and radical whackos, but I was wrong; they are common criminals, serial liars, have cheated and will cheat anything, and wish to spread their billion success all over the land. That is IMPOSE their own hideous and miserable lives and lifestyles on an entire nation (you can finally truly understand how little a lot of money means to happiness).
Funny note: their fall back candidate for the GOP was Paul Ryan. They hate Trump. Kasich said something about being kind of the poor which really was a heresy, so he is dead to them. Now we have to hope that Trump will be the candidate to beat because Cruz is ever on his knees before any and all of the oligarchs.
That certainly sounds like a stupid liberal idea.
I’m not at all sure that the Koch Brothers have any familial connection to the dreaded Ilse. It is not at all uncommon Germanic name. Besides, they have enough bad karma on their permanent record, no need to draw in any second hand.
Might be reincarnated as a slug. Or an assistant slug.
How exactly do they IMPOSE anything?
Having dickish opinions and spreading them isn’t illegal. If it were, half of us here on this board would be in jail.
I’m not sure what this is doing in this thread, but when you fund an organization like ALEC that writes legislation that it then asks state and local politicians to propose and pass - even though those politicians haven’t fully read or understood that legislation - in return for sizable campaign donations, and when this is done on a systematic basis across the country for years in a manner calculated to hide your involvement as much as possible, one could make the argument that you’re “imposing” your will on the general public.
Of course many PACs could do the same, but then very few people are wealthy enough to fund such efforts on their own.
Surprised no one has mentioned 17 AGs plus Bill Nye calling for prosecution of climate change deniers. That’s 17 AGs who just disqualified themselves for higher office.
Do you have a link?
Nye and the Attorneys General aren’t targeting “climate change deniers” as such; they’re specifically targeting large energy companies such as Exxon who knew, through their own scientific research, that climate change was real and yet acted in a way contrary to that evidence. The real question is what charges they’re actually pursuing. “Denying climate change” isn’t a crime…but “fraud” is.
Sadly I’ve been unable to find a non-partisan source for this story to figure out what’s what. Here’s one supporting Nye and the AGs, and here’s the Washington Timesfor an opposing viewpoint. There are plenty of other ones opposing them but the level of vitriol in the RW publications far outweighs that in the ones I’ve linked to; feel free to go read sites like “Climate Crock” and so forth if you want.
Of course, the facts of the matter remain that Exxon did know climate change was real and did lie about it. Whether that is a prosecutable offense is yet to be shown.
Adaher just says shit. Doesn’t have to be real. He just says whatever it takes in the moment to make a dig at the lefties.
He does, yes. But this could be a SLIOD or it could be an actual legal prosecutory investigation into fraudulent behavior by large companies. The lack of unbiased reporting makes it difficult to tell.
You can see the section in particular here: Bill Nye Jailing Skeptics - YouTube