You recall my mini-rant about the racist button sold by a Republican vendor at a recent event held by the GOP? Well, the button’s creator calls it humor, which is where my “irrelevant” in the title ties in. Because as humor goes, it sure as hell is irrelevant. The only crowd guaranteed to laugh at that one with regularity would all be unrecognizable in their matching bed-sheets.
But the creator was humor impaired, witness his earlier efforts to make us all splort Pepsi through our noses:
Are any of those working for you? Not working for me, but I do have a strange craving for a Pepsi now. The first one makes me think they all failed high school civics class, you know, where they taught that a representative democratic republic needs more than one political party?
The second button calling liberals “commies” makes me pretty sure none of them went to college, because a good many college programs require at least one course in beginning philosophy. Wherein, during the part that teaches about political philosophy, one learns that theoretical Communism has more in common with early Christianity than it has in common with the Democratic Party. Course, if they HAD taken that class, they might at least recognize the militaristic, nationalistic proto-fascist behaviors that the GOP has been recently displaying. Yeah, silly little old progressive lady me, having mid-afternoon fantasies again!
And the final one? Well, that isn’t humor either. Stupid people who can’t even pass history really do get on my last nerve. Because other than the first couple waves of prissy Puritans, indentured servants, and forcibly shipped prisoners almost nobody who came to this country had English as a first language. Certainly, the slaves didn’t get the chance to study English as a second language in the holds of those ships, now did they? The Irish and Chinese immigrants who built our railroads didn’t start with English as a first language either. The Germans who fought Indians on the plains of Texas, sometimes alongside remnants of the Spanish settlers who got there before them, didn’t speak English. Nor, btw, did those Indians, who sure as hell would be happy to come up with a button asking that all who don’t speak THEIR languages be deported. They do have “time in place”, now, don’t they? The Russians who first settled in Alaska, and who explored my own beloved Nor’west were not English speakers. The Scandinavians who flowed into the Midwest and Great Plains didn’t arrive knowing how to say much in English, either. My Welsh fore bearers couldn’t even get some schmuck at Ellis Island to spell the family last name correctly, for lack of enough American English.
So, take that knee jerk crap, and your lousy all-too-often-heard excuse of “It was a joke, gee, don’t you have a sense of humor?” and shove it all where the sun doesn’t shine. You aren’t funny. You are NOT acting “American” and the Statue of Liberty, if she came to life, would put you over her knee and paddle your deserving fanny with that book of hers. You don’t speak for me, and you know what, if I thought you did? I’d possibly prefer to be a commie than someone aligned on your side of stupid!
Your sincere “dripping fang liberal” who gets Dracula-moods on occasions like this!
Labrys
