Boy oh boy am I glad you posted this! I really wanted to be the first to post a bouncy uh, completely true incident where I was able to put an ignorant, knuckle dragging RW hick in their place. Of course, I remember every single word because I just made it up it pretty much covers all our preconceived prejudices, uh illustrates how uniformed they are that it has been seared in my memory.
So, I was in Burger King eating lunch. I never go there but spent all my food stamps at the organic grocery store. It infuriates me that the government doesn't give us enough money to buy healthy food but maybe after health care kicks in we'll all be saving so much money that they can give everyone sucking the citizens who work for a living dry who needs a handout UP a raise. Anyway, I was ordering off the dollar menu minding everyone else's my own business when I noticed an obviously right wing couple sitting there. I knew they were RW nutjobs cuz the woman was wearing a cross necklace and she was dressed nicely like a rich bitch and he was dressed like a cowboy.
They were talking about how awful it would be to live in Cuba and not be able to say anything they want. What a coincidence that this should happen minutes before I got home and read your post. So I say, "Actually, they have plenty of freedom of speech there." The guy just grunted what I think was a "no" and Mrs. Rich Bitch sat there reapplying her lipstick. It's obvious she doesn't have to think because she just waits for her husband to tell her what to think. While I figured it was futile, I'm a benevolent official smart person that I think it's only right to spread the wealth my knowledge around.
"Did you know a history professor just wrote an essay about government corruption and he hasn't been arrested or anything else."
The guy reaches over and covers his wife's ears with his hands and says. "Nuh uh! They're commies and kill everyone who disagrees with them."
So then I said, "There was just a historian who wrote about government corruption and they just want him kicked out of the party."
At this point he's getting pretty agitated and sends his wife to the restroom to powder her nose so she (being a CONSERVATIVE woman and unable to think for herself) won't be influenced by liberal dogma, then says, "Well they probably haven't come to get him yet cuz they have to kill another free speecher to make room in the gulags first."
I said, "The gulags were in the Soviet Republic, not Cuba and the state wasn't even involved. This was at the local level." At this point he starts sputtering, grunting and telling me I should go live in Cuba since I'm a commie too. I tried, I really tried but there's no reaching these people. I thought he was gonna start throwing chairs all over the place and started looking for a cop. Just at that very second one came out behind a ficus plant at the entrance to the food court. Then I looked closer and realized he was just a mall cop. I left with all the smug condescension such sadness that our country could have so many misinformed people that the corporate, warmongering rich could take advantage. I just shook my head and made a mental note to call NOW and tell them they should set up a kiosk at the mall to help these poor women.
Cindie
