America, the Stupid. And Racist.

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/america-the-stupid-and-racist/

Snip:

The Twitterverse exploded with the slime and garbage from stupid, ignorant, bigoted American f*** wits this past weekend, as an Indian-American woman won the Miss American pageant. Nina Davuluri, born in Syracuse NY, is according to the meth-mouthed, inbred, and generally useless subhumans who tweeted their racist s*** after she won, a terrorist convenient store clerk whose coronation is a slap in the faces of all Americans. Here is what she actually looks like:


As to what the Twittering Twits said, well, it comes down to her being “Arab”, or “Al-Quaida”, or “7/11? or some such crap. Christ on a pogo stick, these alleged “Americans” make you want to puke. They:
Number A, can’t tell one non-lily-white person from another;
Letter 2, think all non-lily-white people are terrorists, and;
Thirdly, think that only white women, (preferably rednecks) should be crowned as Miss America."

More at the link.

Also see: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/a-lot-of-people-are-very-upset-that-an-indian-american-woman

[Nye Bevan]

1. It's despicable, but it's not a uniquely American thing.

There are many other countries where racism is worse, if anything.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23319256

[onehandle]

2. She's more closely related to the original Americans, than these racist Tweeters are. nt

[el_bryanto]

4. I believe her lineage is through India not Native American. I got that impression anyway. nt

[onehandle]

5. Yes, but Native Americans are more closely related to Indians than the white Tweeters.

Asians in general.

That's what I meant.

[el_bryanto]

6. I guess this is an area I don't know much about

Bloodlines and the like. Spiritually speaking, though you are right.

Bryant

[el_bryanto]

3. Why won't those stupid racist Americans listen to Liberals and our plan to make everything better?

I really can't think of a reason.

Bryant

[Mopar151]

7. Their only route to happiness is through the misery of someone else n/t

[PowerToThePeople]

14. They are fully vested in the Capitalist propaganda

and everything that flows from it. They can not admit that it is all the 1% that causes the evils. It must be immigrants and the poor. It is like an addict admitting they have an addiction. They can not admit that they have been played their entire lives. I was younger when I made the leap, so I was not very vested.

[el_bryanto]

15. That's a good explanation

Way better than considering that the fact that we think they are racist morons might make it difficult to connect with them. Your explanation makes it clear that it's their fault they are racist morons; and we are just helpfully pointing that out.

They should be thanking us - and then doing what we tell them to improve their racist moronic lives.

Bryant

[rustydog]

8. You forgot forthly: They want to bed Sarah Palin

[riqster]

11. That's a disturbing thought.

But you are likely correct.

[TeamPooka]

9. This is also what happens when you destroy education and demonize teachers -

the people get dumber and you get racists who can't spell and don't know geography

[Supersedeas]

19. especially true among racist who claim that public education

is designed to inculcate a certain racial perspective.

Thus, you have parents who trivialize and marginalize public education in order to maintain a particular racial ethos.

[RZM]

10. Lame OP

Take a look at the obsession with fair skin all over the world and get back to me about how special America is in that regard.

Ironically, the Indian subcontinent wouldn't be a bad place to start.

[riqster]

16. "Not being unique" does not equal "Doesn't suck".

Yes, discrimination is found around the world. But these ignorant assholes and their stupid fucking tweets still deserve to be called out.

[RZM]

17. No argument with that

It's just the framing and title makes it sound as if this is an American thing. As pointed out upthread, these problems are actually significantly worse in a lot of the rest of the world.

[riqster]

18. Point.

I have been the victim of skin-based discrimination myself when in other countries. Being a white North American, it was quite the illuminating experience, to be on the other side of that cultural dynamic.

[gopiscrap]

12. yup we do have a lot of stupid in this country

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. I don't see DU as all that different, frankly.

Had a white girl won, and particularly had she committed the sin of being less-than-perfectly articulate, she'd have been
pilloried here and the value of any pageant would have been called into question, as they usually are.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. On the other hand, America the country that made Nina Miss America

The idiots on twitter being all racist don't make the culture, people like Nina make the culture. She's Miss America, and they're not.

[riqster]

22. True enough. The headline is a rather broad brush, at that.

A lesson learned for the next post.

[riqster]

23. Update - Tweeting racists get their taints kicked:

http://www.ibtimes.com/nina-davuluri-twitter-fiasco-critics-shamed-twitter-following-racially-charged-miss-america-insults

Snips:

"Davuluri, who was named Miss America 2014 on Sunday night, is the first woman of Indian descent ever to win the coveted beauty pageant. Shortly after her crowning achievement, Twitter lit up with digital cheers for her, as is Twitter's wont. But buried just beneath the countless well-wishes was no shortage of ignorant, racist comments from Twitter users who seemed to see her victory as somehow encapsulating the downfall of American society. Using insults like “Miss Al-Qaeda” and “terrorist” and “a slap in the face to the people of 9/11,” the tweeters demonstrated not only a lamentable absence of manners but also a complete lack of historical cognizance.

Within hours, BuzzFeed writer Ryan Broderick had culled together more than two dozen of those tweets, posting them in an article that has since been shared more than 25,000 times. Other news outlets, such as CNN and USA Today, followed. Many of the tweets were also collected and placed on the Public Shaming Tumblr page.

By Tuesday morning, the law of social media outrage kicked in, with Twitter users unleashing their fury upon the demonstrated ignoramuses who had sought to rain on Davuluri’s parade."

Good to see that we're not as fucked as I thought.