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DUmmies Discuss Stunted Vocabularies
« on: August 07, 2009, 01:54:53 PM »
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Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Fri Aug-07-09 01:52 PM
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Okay, that was the third time she used the word.
Savannah Guthrie.

Talking about Obama's remarks a little while ago.

She brings it back to the white house being cautious in describing the good news in the job numbers and the modest drop in unemployment.

The offending word?

Pick it out in this sentence that she has uttered now three times:

"The President/White House are announcing this but not dancing a jig."

Maybe its just me. But the word was totally jarring when she uttered it the first time, minutes after Obama'a remarks. In light of the fomenting of racism going on in the country, use of this word seems egregious. Once was not a problem. Twice was unfortunate. Three times is a pattern.
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groovedaddy  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-07-09 01:56 PM
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1. Not so subtle, if you ask me. n.t
   
 
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ingac70  (1000+ posts)        Fri Aug-07-09 01:57 PM
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2. WTF? Seeing things that aren't there.
 jig

1.
a. Any of various lively dances in triple time.
b. The music for such a dance. Also called gigue.
2. A joke or trick. Used chiefly in the phrase The jig is up.
3. A typically metal fishing lure with one or more hooks, usually deployed with a jiggling motion on or near the bottom.
4. An apparatus for cleaning or separating crushed ore by agitation in water.
5. A device for guiding a tool or for holding machine work in place.
   

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Ikonoklast  (1000+ posts)        Fri Aug-07-09 02:11 PM
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16. Also shorthand slang for "Jiggaboo".
Another derogatory racist word.

I have heard black people referred to as 'jigs' many a time by white people.

Yes, it is an offensive, deliberate dog whistle.

Actually, DUmmy Ikonoklast, I believe that in polite company, it is spelled with only one "g".

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ingac70  (1000+ posts)        Fri Aug-07-09 02:29 PM
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38. I have never heard jig used as short for jiggaboo...
And I live around a bunch of redneck shitheads.

A jig is an Irish dance, and was not used by this lady in a sentence that could be construed as a slur.
DUmmy ingacnumbers is another of the DUmp's ESL students. 

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Enrique (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-07-09 01:58 PM
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3. I knew it
Obama was born in Ireland.


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tblue37  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-07-09 02:11 PM
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17. Yep. That's exactly what I thought of when I read the OP--
the absurd outrage expressed over the innocent use of "niggardly."

That's nothing compared to the snarling rage they flew into when someone accused the jug-eared Kenyan of reneging on a promise.

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sailor65 (894 posts)        Fri Aug-07-09 02:18 PM
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25. Those who make a career out of being offended
don't get the privilege of taking any word they like as part of the outrage repertoire.

"Dancing a jig" is a very old and very widely used expression and everyone with more than 2 firing synapses knows it's a reference to joy or lack of joy.

It's no wonder nothing ever gets fixed.

I hope DUmmy sailornumbers enjoys his short stay at the DUmp.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Stunted Vocabularies
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2009, 02:00:45 PM »
Oh Lord.  They will use anything for their 'outrage'. 

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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2009, 02:44:05 PM »
I have never heard the word jigaboo and I did not know jig was racist. dear me.
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2009, 03:02:31 PM »
Just goes to show, that when people WANT to be offended, they can always find something to fit the bill.   It amazes me how they can take such innocent phrases and twist them all to hell and back to they can claim offense.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Stunted Vocabularies
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2009, 04:03:42 PM »
Quote from: FGL on August 07, 2009, 02:44:05 PM
I have never heard the word jigaboo and I did not know jig was racist. dear me.

OK, I was raised in the south so I've heard the term jiggaboo.....but it has been many years ago. At the rate DUmmies are handicapping white folks language it won't be long before Micheal Moore comes out with his newest movie......"White Men Can't Talk".

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« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2009, 04:05:44 PM »
Oh Hell.

The only context in which I've really thought of "jig" has always been in the sense of the Irish doing a dance.
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« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2009, 04:08:17 PM »
Well, being a welder for many years the first thing that comes to mind when someone says 'jig' to me is a device used to hold parts in place until you can get them welded or at the least tacked together.

I have heard black folks referred to as jigs but that isn't the first thing that comes to mind and it certainly doesn't fit the sentence it was used in above. 

Good Lord those people are complete idiots.  I would imagine some of those with a little common sense over there are completely embarrassed about some of the shit that gets posted.

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Re: DUmmies Discuss Stunted Vocabularies
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2009, 04:13:22 PM »
Remember how the DUmmies wanted to "Frog March" Bush and Cheney from the WhiteHouse????? Couldn't you concider "Frog" a racist term for "French"?
So what's wrong with making Obama dance a "jig" when he's arrested for high crimes and marched outta the WhiteHouse?

Hey, if you're gonna be accused, might as well be guilty. :-)
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Stunted Vocabularies
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2009, 04:14:27 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 07, 2009, 04:05:44 PM
Oh Hell.

The only context in which I've really thought of "jig" has always been in the sense of the Irish doing a dance.
In the movie The Last Boyscout, Bruce Willis declares "If I live through this, I swear to Christ, I'm dancin' a jig." He does, and he does
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« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2009, 05:12:05 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 07, 2009, 04:03:42 PM
OK, I was raised in the south so I've heard the term jiggaboo.....but it has been many years ago. At the rate DUmmies are handicapping white folks language it won't be long before Micheal Moore comes out with his newest movie......"White Men Can't Talk".



I am born and raised in Texas. Lots of rednecks in my family. I have never heard the term.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss Stunted Vocabularies
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2009, 05:15:43 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 07, 2009, 04:03:42 PM
OK, I was raised in the south so I've heard the term jiggaboo.....but it has been many years ago. At the rate DUmmies are handicapping white folks language it won't be long before Micheal Moore comes out with his newest movie......"White Men Can't Talk".



FGL must be somewhat younger than I. I grew up with the term, "jiggaboo", amongst other racially charged euphemisms.
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« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2009, 05:23:48 PM »
Quote from: Thor on August 07, 2009, 05:15:43 PM
FGL must be somewhat younger than I. I grew up with the term, "jiggaboo", amongst other racially charged euphemisms.

I am 37. Yes, there were racists in my family and I guess they were too stupid to know the word.
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« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2009, 05:57:18 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 07, 2009, 04:05:44 PM
Oh Hell.

The only context in which I've really thought of "jig" has always been in the sense of the Irish doing a dance.

Hmmmm, the first thing that comes to my mind is fishing.
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« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2009, 06:10:05 PM »
I have never heard jig used in reference to anything other than a dance, a fishing lure, a type of saw, or a cutting pattern. Its like the false outrage over the French word picnic - normal people think about outdoor lunches, race baiters think its a southern expression that short for 'Pick-a-N......' , where a black person is chosen to be beaten mercilessly after lunch.

In both cases its overreaching to apply the label 'racist' to something liberals don't like. ( In the case of Picnic, it was to stop college Republicans from having one for its members, which worked. They then advertised the event as an 'outing' which got the gay/lesbian alliance involved in stopping the event, which also worked )
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« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2009, 06:12:12 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on August 07, 2009, 05:57:18 PM
Hmmmm, the first thing that comes to my mind is fishing.

Same here.

I suspect that Stinky is doing a lot of projecting here. Maybe the "racial" misuse of that word is so clear to him because he actually uses it in that context?
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« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2009, 07:51:40 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on August 07, 2009, 06:12:12 PM
Same here.

I suspect that Stinky is doing a lot of projecting here. Maybe the "racial" misuse of that word is so clear to him because he actually uses it in that context?


Wouldn't surprise me.  For all the projection of racism they do, the biggest racists in this country's history have always had a (D) following their name.
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« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2009, 09:27:14 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on August 07, 2009, 06:12:12 PM
Same here.

I suspect that Stinky is doing a lot of projecting here. Maybe the "racial" misuse of that word is so clear to him because he actually uses it in that context?


Yea, the liberals are the ones that know all the racist words.  They know words that never enter the minds of normal people or are never connected to race in the minds of normal people.   Who are the racists again?
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« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2009, 12:03:03 AM »
Quote from: miskie on August 07, 2009, 06:10:05 PM
Its like the false outrage over the French word picnic ...
In both cases its overreaching to apply the label 'racist' to something liberals don't like. ( In the case of Picnic, it was to stop college Republicans from having one for its members, which worked. They then advertised the event as an 'outing' which got the gay/lesbian alliance involved in stopping the event, which also worked )
You gotta be kidding. I've heard of the J-word :lmao: but picnic? When and where did that happen? That's got to be one of the dumbest things ever, only surpassed by the republicans who cancelled their "outing". Do they also go into convulsive fits when Yogi the Bear comes on?
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« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2009, 07:59:40 AM »
Quote from: terry on August 07, 2009, 09:27:14 PM
Yea, the liberals are the ones that know all the racist words.  They know words that never enter the minds of normal people or are never connected to race in the minds of normal people.   Who are the racists again?

One has to remember too that the sparkling husband primitive is a southern Democrat, being from Maryland and its corrupt machine politics.  While decent and civilized people let go of the past and moved forward, those who remained Democrat down there never did.

I'm sure the sparkling husband primitive in real life uses the "n" word more, and treats brown people, in real life, more roughly than any traditional southerner.
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« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2009, 09:07:23 AM »
Projection--something the DUmmies have raised to an art form.
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« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2009, 11:08:32 AM »
Back in the days when Jesse Jackson tried to run for president, my (conservative) mom acquired a black cat (best cat in the world BTW.)  She named him Jesse, tongue in cheek.  Some people gasped and thought it was racist.   ::)
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