So the best way to object to bigotry in West Virginia...

[MonkeyFunk]

is to make hateful, bigoted comments about the whole state?

Do you guys even think for a minute about what you're doing?

I would hope the mods would enforce the rules against regional attacks - I suspect we're going to see a LOT of bigoted hate against West Virginia today, and it would be nice if it were shut down early.

[NJmaverick]

1. So it's better to make bigoted hateful comments about Obama supporters?

Your "logic" eludes me

[Lerkfish]

4. We can't have people being bigoted about bigoted views of bigots.

we have to shut that sucker down right now!

[cliffordu]

19. THat's right, you bigot!!

:rofl:

[Lerkfish]

28. hey! youse is the bigoted bigot who is bigotted against bigotted bigot bigots!

er...I think.

:)

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Why not address the topic?

Calling the whole state a bunch of "toothless cousin-fuckers" is bigotry, wouldn't you agree? Does it make sense to object to bigotry by making bigoted statements about the whole state?

I haven't called all Obama supporters ignorant, hate-filled lying douches. Just the ones that act that way here.

[Lerkfish]

"I haven't called all Obama supporters ignorant hate-filled lying douches"

I just think its because you got wore out after the first 5,000. Better rest so you can get around to the rest of us, there's a LOT of Obama supporters to work through at this point.

[NJmaverick]

17. You are doing the EXACT same thing

You can find true bigots and racists in WV and you can find Obama supporter that will go over the top in their descriptions of WV. So how does your comments suggesting they represent Obama supporters any different than saying that the racists represent WV?

Beyond that if racism doesn't have a strong hold in WV, why did Hillary run there on the I am white position? In Ohio it was anti nafta, in PA it was faux blue collar, in Idiana it was the populist position. Then she kicks off her WV campaign with comments about how she (being a white person) has greater appeal to whites. What was that all about? Seems to me even Hillary knows that racism exists in better than average numbers in WV.

[MonkeyFunk]

41. I'm referring to the people

who dismiss the entire state as racist, toothless cousin-fuckers. What's hard to understand?

[thunder rising]

20. There is no such thing as a "state bigot" Are you a product of WV public education or what?

[razors edge]

27. As a matter of fact, I am.

They never taught anything bigoted to me, and I'm an Obama supporter.

Whats your point, bigot?

[Clark2008]

30. Oh, Monkey... picking on Southerners is "OK" bigotry on this site.

I've been fighting that stereotypical nonsense for years.

[DemBones DemBones]

51. Yes, it always has been and I've been fighting it for years, too, along

with sexism and anti-theist posts, mostly anti-Christian and mostly anti-Catholic.

I've learned a lot of disturbing things about the people who call themselves liberal Democrats in the seven years I've been reading DU. The bigots can't all be trolls.

[rodeodance]

48. many obama supporters should be ashamed of themselves for calling

Hillary and her supporters racist.

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[MonkeyFunk]

8. And would you object

if somebody argued that "African-americans have shown their XXXXX by YYYYY" and therefore it was OK to disparage them all as a group?

You're doing the same thing.

[thunder rising]

15. Wrong you have singled out one a specific minority. WV is a state, bigotry? Get a clue.

[NOLALady]

29. Phew.

Thank Goodness for WV. Louisiana is off the hook for now.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. is Hillary 44 message today "go post stuff about racism at DU" ?

n/t

[Lerkfish]

5. they all got the xerox

[MonkeyFunk]

9. beats me

never been there.

But this isn't about racism. It's about the bigotry shown by Obama supporters against an entire state.

[Kittycat]

46. While I agree we shouldn't bash an entire state... I've seen plenty

of just plain on bigotry about the AAs that support Obama. DU even has it's own Resident Racist/Clinton supporter that leads the daily charge in posting crap to diminish the AA vote. Without ever reading a single post discussing why the vote is tilted that way, or refusing to recognize any of the reasons.

With that said, I think there are plenty of individual racists in WV & KY (I have extended family from KY that fit that bill quite nicely, along with all their friends) - but I disagree that the entire state is that way. But when people hold up racially charged signs, and don't even bother using spell check... Yeah, I'm going to laugh at it.

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[MonkeyFunk]

10. so is it your contention

that everyone in WV is a bigot?

[scheming daemons]

14. Not everyone.... but more than 50%+1...... I deal with these people all the time...

[Saturday]

18. Tell the truth. You're against anyone who doesn't support BO.nt

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[Clark2008]

31. My husband, who is from Massachusetts would take issue with this.

He says Boston's more racist than any place he's been down South.

FWIW.

[BlooInBloo]

32. Possibly - especially back in the Lie Of The Curse Of The Babe days...

But it's hairsplitting.

[AspenRose]

55. Boston *is* pretty bad.

*nods*

My husband's from New England too.

My worst personal experience with racism, though, was in Indiana. I grew up in Texas and briefly lived in West Virginia.

[The Great Escape]

37. Yinz....Need To Clean Up Your Own House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5I3NB9JtRs

[JVS]

11. If you love WV so much why don't you spend some time there?

I doubt you'd find it a very nice place to live.

[Saturday]

16. Wherever you live is worse, I'm sure.

What a stupid comment to make.

[MonkeyFunk]

42. Well

my family's from Appalachian pennsylvania. They were coal miners. It probably wouldn't be too much of a shock to my system.

But you do realize how stupid your post is, right? It's like telling a liberal to "go live in Cuba, if you love it so much!"

[JVS]

52. So you consider WV to be as foreign as Cuba?

The logistics involved in moving to WV are nowhere near as complicated as going to Cuba. You could at least vacation there to support the local economy of the state you hold so dear. Or is your fondness of them only lipservice?

[thunder rising]

12. Please define bigot and how that word could be used in this context. A state bigot?

[MonkeyFunk]

43. OK

"A bigot is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own."


Why can't that appy to a state? You keep spamming this thread with your idiotic contention that bigotry can't apply to a state. It just makes you look stupider.

[Saturday]

13. They'll be on to Kentucky next. nt

[rug]

22. Wait until the posts on Puerto Rico.

[scheming daemons]

25. Puerto Rico comes after Obama has reached 2025.... no issue there.... and....

They can't turn around and vote for McCain in the GE.... like the WV and KY "democratic" voters can.

[thunder rising]

23. Maybe, maybe not. But West Virginia is gonna feel the heat from this.

[Bake]

39. I got the Kentucky stuff last week, I think ...

When the first polls were coming out showing HRC with a 25 point lead ... I think there were references to banjos, Deliverance, etc.

As a long-time (and sadly, former) Kentuckian, it rather irritated me.

Bake

(oh yeah, I play the banjo too!)

[cali]

21. I've said nothing of the kind. In fact, I wrote a thread in defense of WV

yesterday, but YOU don't hesitate to make a bigoted and hateful generalization about Obama supporters on DU. Figures.

[gateley]

26. The best way to object to bigotry in West Virginia is to vote for Obama. nt

[OzarkDem]

33. Pretty sad, isn't it?

Who would ever think Democrats would make such broad brush judgements about a group of strangers.

Grasshoppers have many lessons to learn...

[PoliticalAmazon]

34. I admit, I am intolertant of bigots, but....

I also don't think any one state or demograpic group has the cornery on bigotry.

In general, I don't like to make generalizations. Having heard lots of cruel and inaccurate generalizations about Arkansas, I especially don't like generalizations about an entire freaking state.

I think some Obama supporters feel threatened by WVa's refusal to immediately jump on the OBama bus, and so are willing to throw them under the bus. This is so "Hillary" that it makes my head spin. She has continually isulted OBama supporters by telling them they, their state, and their entire demographic are "unimportant" just because they didn't vote for her.

Don't like it when Hillary does it, and don't like it when Obama supporters do it. I'm an Obama supporter and I think it reflects badly on all Obama supporters AND Obama who is certainly not a divisive, "vote for me or you're worthless" candidate like Hillary is.

[2rth2pwr]

35. This is exactly why Obama supporters agreed 100% with the "clinging to religion and guns"

line Obama was feeding to the fat cats in SF.

[hokies4ever]

36. Are you still crying?

:cry:

[WeDidIt]

38. There is no more racial biogotry in West Virginia

than in any other state.

[The Magistrate]

40. We Need Alerts To Enforce That Rule, Sir

We cannot act against what we do not know of.

[PurityOfEssence]

44. No, no, no, it's never bigotry when the downtrodden or self-proclaimed virtuous do it...

In fact, criticizing the downtrodden or morally beautiful is calumny!

[Jamastiene]

45. My alert button doesn't work.

It hasn't for a while now. Lucky for me, the "def con" levels DU has experienced have let me see that you are a stand up guy. I might not be here much longer in the face of the very attacks against those of us in southern and Midwestern regions that you are talking about in your OP. I wanted to say my piece to you before I get my TS, because it is becoming quite clear to me that those of us from the regions in question are NOT welcomed here on DU by the ones who run the place. If it wasn't for individuals like you standing up to the bigotry, I would feel a lot worse than I do right now.

Thank you for standing up for those of us who don't really feel we have a right to stand up for ourselves in the Democratic Party, yet do not ever want to be in the Republican Party either.

[Dr Fate]

47. You mean evidence of bigotry against Obama actually exists- in WV of all places?

I thought that the only racism that still existed today was "reverse racism" when the black people play the race card against the working class-or something like that.

What is best way to object to bigotry in WV? LOL- I'm still in shock that we are admitting that there IS bigotry to object to in WV or any where else.

;)

LOL! But all kidding aside- I think you and I can agree that targeting an entire state is counter productive.

I'm ready to retire the subject and let by-gones be by-gones whenever you guys are.

[BlooInBloo]

49. I can't read anything you say with that sig pic.

[rodeodance]

50. thanks for the good OP.

[SIMPLYB1980]

53. Why all the hate for the South?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1656111

[Occam Bandage]

54. Sounds like you're painting Obama supporters with a pretty wide, pretty bigoted brush.

[dchill]

56. Well, it IS "Almost heaven..."

I assume that means it's 96% white...

"Do you guys even think for a minute about what you're doing?" - Right back at you, MF. Hillary blew the dog whistle, and she knew which dogs would come.