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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: zeitgeist on June 08, 2015, 07:31:18 AM
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http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10026797093
DU or Stormfront? You be the judge. It is also interesting to note a thread is also up on the Liberty Incident.
Bonobo (25,391 posts)
Bernie is Jewish. Please don't minimize his minority status by calling him "another white person"
Only 1.4% if the US is Jewish.
Posters here on DU even start OPs saying "Can we really elect a Jewish President"?
And yet I am told that being Jewish does NOT make me a minority by some.
Do the people who say that know what it is like to not be allowed into certain organizations? Do they know what it is like to have swastikas written on your personal possessions? Do they have family members who were killed in living memory because of their ethnicity?
Bernie IS a minority if the term has any meaning.
Please don't minimize the experience of Jews in this country or pretend that anti-Semitism and our tiny numbers doesn't qualify us to speak from the POV of a minority.
Jews have lived it and worked with POC and other minorities because it is something they know experientially.
Thanks.
I will leave you dear reader to haul back those comments you see fit. DUmmies are in a perfect snit lately so there are plenty of prominent DUmmies represented on this thread.
For my part I would remind all lurking DUmmies that when it comes to the Fat Bottomed Girl versus the Hook
Nosed NY Joooooo...... well, lets just say you need to factor in that Obumbler was elected by White Guilt and Black Pride with more than a sprinkling of Millennial Morons who believed if you put Hope in one hand and $hit in the other the hand with hope would fill up first. ( Such is the state of public indoctrination from the conformity factories run by the Pubic Union Miss-educators. /rant off) The millennial voters are leaning more towards Libertarians in this cycle. Old white Democrats (male or female) will have a hard time getting the job done.
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Bernie is a minority if the term has any meaning ?
The circular logic of that is inescapable.
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Ah, geeeeeez ... an appeal to victimology chic? The dude's a US Senator! He's running for POTUS! How is he a victim? If one goes to that level of detail, just about every person in the US is a "minority"!
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:facepalm:
Ah, geeeeeez ... an appeal to victimology chic? The dude's a US Senator! He's running for POTUS! How is he a victim? If one goes to that level of detail, just about every person in the US is a "minority"!
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Ayn Rand thought so: 'The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.'
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DU'er DFW posts a bouncy with an imbeded funny.
DFW (18,060 posts)
243. Two peripheral things to this
A guy I know from Den Haag still has his number tattooed on his arm. He is an Auschwitz survivor. He is also a soccer fanatic. One time, he accompanied the Dutch national team to a match in Poland. While he was there, he made a side trip to Auschwitz, After he got back, I asked him why in the world he would ever want to go back there. He said he wanted to gloat at the ruins and say "I'm still here, and you're not." He married an Austrian Catholic, so it's not like he bore any grudges. He was neither overly proud nor in the least ashamed of his ethnic identity. Things were what they were. I wish we could all adopt that attitude. You would think that if an Auschwitz survivor can, we all could.
A friend of mine once sent me the following story. He was once portrayed (very inaccurately) by Robin Williams in a film. His sense of humor is very different from Williams' characterization of him, but still......maybe it will lighten things up here for ten seconds or so:
A US Navy cruiser anchored in Mississippi for a week's shore leave.
The first evening, the ship's Captain received the following note from
the wife of a very wealthy and influential plantation owner:
"Dear Captain, Thursday will be my daughter Melinda's Debutante Ball.
I would like you to send four well-mannered, handsome, unmarried
officers in their formal dress uniforms to attend the dance."
"They should arrive promptly at 8:00 PM prepared for an evening of
polite Southern conversation. They should be excellent dancers, as
they will be the escorts of lovely refined young ladies. One last
point: *"No Jews please."*
Sending a written message by his own yeoman, the captain replied:
"Madam, thank you for your invitation. In order to present the widest
possible knowledge base for polite conversation, I am sending four of
my best and most prized officers."
"One is a lieutenant commander, and a graduate of Annapolis with an
additional Master’s degree from MIT in fluid technologies and ship
design."
"The second is a Lieutenant, one of our helicopter pilots, and a
graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago , with a BS in
Aeronautical Engineering. His Master’s Degree and PhD. In Aeronautical
and Mechanical Engineering are from Texas Tech University and he is
also an astronaut candidate."
"The third officer is also a lieutenant, with degrees in both computer
systems and information technology from SMU and he is awaiting
notification on his Doctoral Dissertation from Cal Tech."
"Finally, the fourth officer, also a lieutenant commander, is our
ship's doctor, with an undergraduate degree from the University of
Georgia and his medical degree is from the University of North
Carolina . We are very proud of him, as he is also a senior fellow in
Trauma Surgery at Bethesda ."
Upon receiving this letter, Melinda's mother was quite excited and
looked forward to Thursday with pleasure. Her daughter would be
escorted by four handsome naval officers without peer (and the other
women in her social circle would be insanely jealous).
At precisely 8:00 PM on Thursday, Melinda's mother heard a polite rap
at the door which she opened to find, in full dress uniform, four very
handsome, smiling Black officers.
Her mouth fell open, but pulling herself together, she stammered,
"There must be some mistake."
"No, Madam," said the first officer.
"Captain Goldberg never makes mistakes."
So here in one post we get a bouncy, a bash of Southern womanhood, a knock on blacks ( who would believe they could be...), and stereo typing of Jews. I rate this a hat trick!!
I did not find anyone on the thread who brought up the Hillary's Illinois roots or her past anti Semitic history:
http://aman.members.sonic.net/clintons.html
The MSM manages to cover that aspect of Hillary's life pretty deep. One could make a case that she really is a pretty foul mouth nasty drunk (that would explain a lot actually).
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2 Escapees from Clinton prison in New York are on the lamb.
So there is room for more Clintons.
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something they know experientially.
:thatsright:
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What a pathetically inept :bouncy: !I mean, seriously! The person who sent that letter to the captain of a USN ship wouldn't bother to address him by rank and name?! Geesh! That post deserves a Hide for sheer ineptitude.
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Why not ?
If speaking Spanish as one's native language makes them a "racial minority" (Hispanic) then a religion should be just as valid a reason. I figure if I convert to Buddhism, I'll be pushed right up in line for all sorts of free crap, as there are less Buddhists in America than Jews. (About 1.1%)
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Why not ?
If speaking Spanish as one's native language makes them a "racial minority" (Hispanic) then a religion should be just as valid a reason. I figure if I convert to Buddhism, I'll be pushed right up in line for all sorts of free crap, as there are less Buddhists in America than Jews. (About 1.1%)
Hmmm. A male lesbian buddhist. Taking minority status to a whole new extreme is getting easier and easier.
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Hmmm. A male lesbian buddhist. Taking minority status to a whole new extreme is getting easier and easier.
Im gonna make it rain ObamaPhones !!11!!!!