tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post3794526265572104283..comments2019-11-26T01:02:19.704-08:00Comments on Blue Ridge Grass: Two Americas: Part 4382910-DW-http://www.blogger.com/profile/00317694907437297720noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post-77890910797402825482008-11-10T19:27:00.000-08:002008-11-10T19:27:00.000-08:00PS This article suggests that white comics don't r...PS This article suggests that white comics don't realize that there is a lot that's funny about Obama: <BR/><BR/>http://www.theroot.com/id/48788Pamphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07709191371678901051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post-61217888488506065242008-11-10T19:25:00.000-08:002008-11-10T19:25:00.000-08:00I'm with aaron here. It's one thing to compare a ...I'm with aaron here. It's one thing to compare a white upper class guy to a chimp. It is another, very racist thing, to compare any black person to one. This is actually a really old racist stereotype, one that was already around in the Renaissance. It gets mentioned in Shakespeare, and it's all over the art and printed books. For this reason, it's pretty similar to a medieval antisemitic stereotype (hook noses, money, and blood libel). I think it is particularly offensive to invoke such old, powerful, racist stereotypes.Pamphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07709191371678901051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post-13724730995024389412008-11-10T05:49:00.000-08:002008-11-10T05:49:00.000-08:00If you're determined to get the counter-perspectiv...If you're determined to get the counter-perspective on things, don't just my end of the spectrum by Fox news. Whatever the slant may be, it is to news what the Backstreet Boys were to music. National Review is worth a look though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post-31568470869901296342008-11-08T18:27:00.000-08:002008-11-08T18:27:00.000-08:00Bross -- Yes, I watched the first Daily Show follo...Bross -- Yes, I watched the first Daily Show following the election, and it was distressing to see Jon Stewart struggling to find ways to make things funny. I think that this is going to present our comedy show hosts with a real problem.<BR/><BR/>Aaron -- I agree that our political dialogue is looking pretty ugly these days. I was very tempted to tell this conservative friend of mine (after receiving the emails I described and various others of the sort) to go fuck himself, and then to return to the comfort of relatively like-minded news sources like NPR, Daily Show, NYTimes, etc. But this seems like a part of the problem. So I try to watch FOX News every once in awhile to get the other major perspective in our country's dialogue, and to read this guy's emails with some degree of open-mindedness. But these things can be so very, very hard...-DW-https://www.blogger.com/profile/00317694907437297720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post-31071456398308562062008-11-08T17:54:00.000-08:002008-11-08T17:54:00.000-08:00The Bush-chimp comparisons, while certainly not ra...The Bush-chimp comparisons, while certainly not racist like the Obama-monkey pictures, are nonetheless a constituent part of the decline in political conversation over the recent decades (since Clinton, or earlier?). <BR/><BR/>Perhaps I regard <I>our</I> intelligence too highly, but I'd like to think that we can disagree with the policies of a given person without impugning his/her intelligence or resorting to personal vilification. Such comments are beneath us and, as above, add nothing to a discussion. <BR/><BR/>I've grown increasingly weary of the vitriolic inanity of political discourse in the US over the past 10-15 years - e.g. people referring to George W. Bush as an 'idiot,' or to Hillary Clinton as a 'bitch' - and I thus make every effort to scrub it from my own conversations, as such denunciations only make us smaller and, worse, make us seem even less intelligent than the people we criticize.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03227816894149818921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-768978829326219067.post-10642875558698659262008-11-08T17:48:00.000-08:002008-11-08T17:48:00.000-08:00This sort of thing is going to hold us back as a n...This sort of thing is going to hold us back as a nation.<BR/><BR/>Obama is giving us to little to work with. We knew before they were sworn in that Clinton was a liar and a womanizer, and that Bush was dumb. We've got nothing on the new guy. <BR/>We need to find the humorous angle on Obama that'll get us through 8 years. <BR/><BR/>If we're sinking to baseless monkey jokes now (neither of the Obamas, no matter how much you squint, actually resembles a monkey) we'll never come up with our go-to Obama joke.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I'm not prepared for 8 years of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com