Welcome To Yet Another Installment Of WUT I DON'T EVEN

[filkertom]

Take a look at this. Take a good, long, steamy gawk.

Ah, our elevated discourse. I did notice that the article touches on the sexist aspects, but sorta glosses over the racist aspects. Not to mention the amateur-night "production values".

I seem to remember at some point in the 70s and 80s, and even into the 90s, that this country wasn't overwhelmed with racism, stupidity, and utter bullshit, at least not on an hourly basis. Obviously, my memory is wrong.

Comments

[mimiheart.livejournal.com]

WTF did I just watch? That's an actual ad? Not a parody? And I thought Faux News saying that Obama having Homies in the Hizzouse was bad.

Why is the country going backwards?

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

...the fuck?

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Trying to be as objective as possible, I don't even get who the target audience might be. ...or maybe it was created solely to heighten the blood pressure of the left their opponents anyone sane.

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

Looks like you've got a winner... they just want to piss people off...

http://www.newser.com/story/121136/offensive-ads-creator-to-critics-suck-it.html

[arensb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but no one could have predicted that 538 groups might not all be puppy-dog angels dipped in marshmallow, or that some of them might even present controversial opinions.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh, lemme guess - It Was a Social Experiment! (http://www.derailingfordummies.com/#surprise)

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

Found another article... this one says the program being bashed here is actually effective, and even her republican opponent thinks the ad is awful.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/15/245985/give-us-your-cash-bitch-ad/

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

*boggle*

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

GOP attack ad check list;
crappy - check
sexist - check
racist - check
stupid - check
lies - check
bull*hit - check
officially disowned by GOP candidate - Check and checkmate!

Yeah, pretty much business as usual with them.
It doesn't matter if the majority think it's bull... just as long as enough people buy into it and are enraged enough to vote for them.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow. I've seen a lot of stupid, racist and sexist things in my time but this one really takes the cake.

Stay classy USA PAC, stay all kinds of classy.

[janedit.livejournal.com]

I particularly like the prominent photo of Charles Manson, who is there strictly for terror value, since he will never be released under the gang prevention program the ad is ostensibly about.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

But don't you DARE call them "racist" or they'll accuse you of being "politically correct", which is a code word made up by the right in the 90s so they can feel GOOD about being sociopathic.

Oh, and according to the right, THIS ad is fine, but THIS ad...



THIS ad is "mean" and "offensive".

What... A bunch... Of fucking... Pussies!

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Well of course. Facts are offensive, their irrational fantasies are just fine.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

It's generally been my experience that when someone raises the specter of The PC Police, what he really means is "How dare you ask me not to be a deliberate douchebag!"

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to stay out of political debate in here lately and concentrating on the positive. With the economic and political stuff coming down the track like a runaway train, the only way for me to stay sane is to be as quiet as possible and just let it happen until people realize I've been right all along.

That being said, I really have to comment on the term, "Politically Correct":

You see, I am the co-inventor of the term. Back in 1970 at a conference of Underground Newspaper reporters and editors, a bunch of us (including myself and a guy who's now known as the essayist who was the Rolling Stone imbedded reporter during the First Gulf War) did a series of skits on what America was going to be like "after the Revolution."

The two of us looked at the situation in Stalinist Russia and put on a satire for the conference on how the New Left was going to set up re-education camps for Nixon and the rest of the GOP and not let them go until they were all "Politically Correct", which was a term that had been translated directly from the Russian.

In other words, the whole concept was meant to be a joke on the radicals around us, (which included Panthers, SDS, and assorted other crazies) poking fun at the fact that they were just as intolerant as the folks they were trying to replace. Not too far-fetched an idea, since the first thing revolutionaries normally do when they gain power is shoot all of their allies.

Anyway, that's where the term comes from and what we meant it to mean. What's been done since to it horrifies me, especially since some Leftists in the 80s co-opted it to mean "The Way Things Ought To Be." I am just as horrified by modern conservatives using the term as an excuse to be rude, even if I do agree with them that religious folks, white folks, and male folks are currently getting the short end of the stick.

Best always,

Tom Trumpinski

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Then may you be reborn as a black Christian woman so you may know a life of luxury.

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

Actually, I dated a couple of black Christian women and they seemed to be doing ok--one of 'em worked for the State Department and had quite an exciting life. I wouldn't have minded switching places with her.

Tom T.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

That's been my experience too. Some people talk about being anti-PC when it's really an excuse to be jerks. These also tend to be people who get all bent out of shape when they're the ones offended.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

A) "Politically Correct" was a term coined by lesbians, to poke fun at their own hyper-marginalized fringe elements, well in use during the late 70s and early 80s. ("She was all 'Well, I can't eat rice, it's harvested by oppressed migrant workers. No meat, of course. Fruit? What are we boycotting this week?' Poor thing starved to death.") The right got hold of the term in the early 90s and now it means "anything that doesn't put straight white Christian males first."

B) ..."Pussies." Oh, right. Because we mustn't ever forget for a minute that the worst thing in the world, ever, is to be a woman.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

How about "obtuse", is "obtuse" still okay?

[dysprog.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the English term "Politically Correct" was independently invented several times.

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

With all due respect to gardnerhill above, Toni Bambera, the lesbian that first used the term in her paper later, was at the conference. She got it from us.

English being what it was, I am sure that there were others that put the two words together before 1970. The present satirical derivation (from Russian) can be traced to those of us at the meeting.

Tom T,

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd miss the Nixon days...

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

That's beyond disgusting.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

...huh? They go from "people released from jail and paid to be anti-gang mentors" to "they went back to committing crimes" without so much as a "...and THIS ONE used the money to buy guns, finance a meth lab, and be a complete thug" anecdote?

Plus, so much eww.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

The blistering frack?

Perhaps they were trying to push Poe's Law as far as it would go?

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Wow, play the sex card and the race card, all in one video.

Of course, it may be very effective. :-(

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Chris Hayes, subbing for Lawrence O'Donnel covered this ad on The Last Word tonight. Apparently the jerk behind this atrocity has responded to his critics by telling them to, and I quote, "suck it'"

To be honest I'm not really surprised by the monosylabic nature of his reply.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

But remember - if you call the Tea Party out on their toleration of racist fringe-elements like the 20something sociopathic white fratboys who put this thing together, YOU are 1) playing the race card, 2) The REAL Racist Here, and 3) another know-nothing liberal who whines about racism because you don't wanna talk about the issues. (Issues like Those Damn Brown Folks Taking Our Country and Our Jobs Away.)

[kayshapero]

For some reason whatever's on the other end of that link is "temporarily out of service". Alas, this is probably not because they've realized their error, but more likely because everybody on the net is pointing and sneering... The discussion in here suggests I didn't really want to see it anyway.

Even passing up everything people here have said

[capplor.livejournal.com]

the thing was entirely too long. A mere 3 seconds of that mock hip-hop would have made the point, if that were the purpose of the ad.

[kayshapero]

And as always, Tom - the icon is just perfect...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I need to get a few more for some subjects, but I try to pick ones that I can use a lot. Sadly, that's one of 'em.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I watched that ad last night on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, and the commentator (a black professor at Tulane) said, "This makes me nostalgic for Willie Horton." Unbelievable.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

My problem has always been that Willie Horton (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Willie_Horton_%28baseball%29) is one of the all-time greats of the Detroit Tigers and a hero of the glorious 1968 season. So I'm always nostalgic for the guy.