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To Democratic readers: Are you tired of this bullshit Republican formulation? And are you tired of their pedantic excuses for using it? Then shut them up. Post this whenever and wherever you see it used, copy any variation of the text or just drop a link, doesn't matter to me. If there are no comments, send an email. If they're a talk show host, ask them on the air. If they're a politician, call their office. If you see it in a clip on Jack Cafferty's show, email Jack about it. If Cal Thomas or David Brooks slips it into a column, write a letter to the editor. You get the picture. George Bush's favorite insult will no longer go unchallenged.
To Republican readers:
Please answer the following.
As a thought experiment, let's say you lived next door to a Jewish day care center and you were bothered by it, not because you are anti-semitic, but because it's noisy and smells bad. Would you go around saying things like "I'm really getting sick of this Jew day care center"?
Furthermore, in your everyday parlance, do you frequently use terms like "that Jew lawyer" or "the Jew fraternity" or "a Jew holiday"?
Why or why not?
All are free to leave their thoughts in the comments.
To Republican readers:
Please answer the following.
As a thought experiment, let's say you lived next door to a Jewish day care center and you were bothered by it, not because you are anti-semitic, but because it's noisy and smells bad. Would you go around saying things like "I'm really getting sick of this Jew day care center"?
Furthermore, in your everyday parlance, do you frequently use terms like "that Jew lawyer" or "the Jew fraternity" or "a Jew holiday"?
Why or why not?
All are free to leave their thoughts in the comments.
posted by Jim at 3:13 PM
2 Comments:
here's a suggestion for this blog: why not make it an action alert clearing house for instances in the mmm (multi-millionaire media) where we find this destructive meme used, a place where we can post contact info of the guilty parties, a center where we can rally our troops in blogtopia (and yes, i coined that phrase) to write the offending miscreants and demand they correct, or at least stop using, this demeaning meme?
i'm working on one such example on my blog, when i've finished, i'll come back and post a link.
I used to think that the terminology denoted lazy grammar on the speaker's part, such as the president's repeated mispronunciation of the word "nuclear">
However, the repeated use of "Democrat Party" by Republicans who should know better indicates that the term has since become a political perjorative and convey a personal disrespect for members of the political opposition at a very fundamental level.
I'm all for doing the same to the Publican Party for a while, and see how its members feel about it. Perhaps a taste of their own rancid medicine can put a stop to it.
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