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[NYCmetsfan]

Shocking!

More here http://nytimes.com/2014/04/24/us/po...eaks-the-law-becoming-a-hero-in-the-west.html

 

[archnemesis]

Isn't "didn't have nothing" a double negative?

 

[kingkitty]

Legit shook.

 

[The Technomancer]

SHOCKING NEWS

 

[Vanillalite]

Legit shook.

 

[Phobophile]

Wow, even a whiff of the White Man's Burden in there, too.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

Damn, saying that black guys go to jail because they don't know how to pick cotton?

Wow. That's terrible.

 

[TheContact]

Can't wait until him and his whole racist generation is dead

 

[The Technomancer]

But I mean, if you ignore all of the racists in it then the Tea Party isn't racist at all, right guys?

 

[Suikoguy]

Can you use tranq rounds with a sniper rifle?

Sounds like it's the only thing that might allow this situation to be resolved without killing them.

It's basically a cult at this point.

 

[Grym]

So he saw a couple people sitting on a porch. Therefore blacks would be better off as slaves.

Sounds legit

 

[Real Hero]

Can't wait until him and his whole racist generation is dead

it's not that easy.

 

[Ourobolus]

I hope someone quickly gets this welfare queen to some more government assistance, inside of a jail cell.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Ugh. Because there are only two possible scenarios for "the negro" either we on the dole or we in chains. Ugh.

I really wish the term "Negro" would be removed from legit terminology. Cause racist fucks like this use it then claim "Well, golly I'm not racist at all! It's in the dictionary!"

 

[FortuneFaded]

Do you have to learn how to pick cotton? I've never done it myself but I don't imagine it's that difficult.

 

[immortal-joe]

Smell that? That right there is vintage "Racist Musk"

 

[Fusebox]

I heard about this guy on TDS, what a freeloading douche. Hannity got ripped a new one by Jon for backing the guy too.

Can't believe he actually ran off some US rangers by threatening them, time to put those domestic drones to use Obama!

Edit: just saw Hannity has responded with a bizarre squirm:

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/23/sean_hannity_jon_stewart_is_a_comedic_hack/

Hannity, attempting to set the record straight, said that he supports “proportionality.” “Can I make my position any more clear to Mr. Stewart?” he said. “I stand for proportionality. What I do not stand are 200 armed federal agents and snipers pointing their guns at the Bundy family and their supporters.”

 

[……forgetit]

I'm a black man who's never gotten a "government handout," like free grazing land for example.

 

[DeaviL]

That hot tub i just stepped into truely was a time machine.

 

[gcubed]

But he's just a fine upstanding gentlemen with real morals and pride that none of you would understand

 

[Xdrive05]

The white suprem-census should have its own flow chart.

Race?

Caucasian or Negro or Other

If "Negro"...

Occupation?

Cotton Pickin' Slave or Gov't Dole

If Gov't Dole...

Address of front porch?

......

By the way, isn't this basically the same thing that Duck Dynasty guy said about black people? That they were better off before civil rights?

 

[capslock]

I am shocked.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Wow. Can't get much more racist than that.
Although it's a tangential issue, the remaining people who will still sympathize with Good Old Clive Bundy can go fuck themselves.

 

[kess]

Sounds like an expert on family issues

 

[benjipwns]

Just like our Founding Fathers.

 

[thecouncil]

Can't wait until him and his whole racist generation is dead

That generation probably raised a few kids, I'd guess.

 

[The Technomancer]

That generation probably raised a few kids, I'd guess.

And most of them have Xboxes

 

[Mumei]

"Having a family life and doing things"
"Better off as slaves"

Which history do I have to read to learn about the idyllic family lives of slaves in the antebellum South?

 

[neorej]

That generation probably raised a few kids, I'd guess.

 

[sangreal]

That generation probably raised a few kids, I'd guess.

few? this deadbeat has 14 on his own

 

[dapperbandit]

What is it about American racism and this obsession with the porch?

Like, if they were "doing nothing" inside the house as opposed to on the porch would that be a more positive thing?

 

[benjipwns]

Like, if they were "doing nothing" inside the house as opposed to on the porch would that be a more positive thing?

Yes, then it's harder to see them.

 

[PhoenixDark]

It should be pretty clear what he's doing here, or what he was told to do. Harry Reid got in some trouble a few years ago for saying Obama didn't use a "Negro dialect" and didn't receive much of any pushback from the media or democrats. The GOP has decided attacking Reid is an allegedly good way to build base momentum. The inevitable denouncements that occur now will spur Bundy, Fox, and republicans to point out no such outrage occurred on the left when Reid used the same word.

Nevermind that Bundy went overboard into blatant racial rhetoric; the problem isn't saying "Negro" it's what comes afterwards. If we had a decent media it would be very easy to step over this trap and simply ask Bundey supporters if they believe blacks are better off now than they were as slaves. Yes or no question.

I guarantee you Fox, right wing media, and certain GAF posters will bring up Reid today.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

What is it about American racism and this obsession with the porch?

Like, if they were "doing nothing" inside the house as opposed to on the porch would that be a more positive thing?

Look up the term 'porch monkey'. It's a racist trope.

 

[Ultima_5]

Can't wait until him and his whole racist generation is dead

Yes. Put a blanket statement over a group of people you hate because they put blanket statements over other people.

Don't be a shit. Not everyone in their generation is racist and racism will always exist in one form or another

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Obviously a man who has been freeloading off the federal government for 20 years is an expert on the damning effects of government subsidies.

 

[SyaraSystem]

What a fine, upstanding American.
Well, I sure am glad to breath the same air as this glowing example of humanity.

Spoiler

<Iron Sheik> FOKKEN BOLLSHED

 

[Arrowgigantic]

That generation probably raised a few kids, I'd guess.

Bundy himself has 14.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Look up the term 'porch monkey'. It's a racist trope.

Its not racist. We're taking it back.

 

[Slayven]

Racist dudes sure spend a lot of time worrying about what black people do.

 

[statham]

This is something he just said to his supporters too, not something from 20 years ago.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

As the right wing tries to distance themselves from this guy its important to point out besides the crudness of his language this idea is popular on the right.

WSJ
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704881304576094221050061598?mobile=y

Even in the antebellum era, when slaves often weren't permitted to wed, most black children lived with a biological mother and father. During Reconstruction and up until the 1940s, 75% to 85% of black children lived in two-parent families. Today, more than 70% of black children are born to single women. "The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn't do, what Jim Crow couldn't do, what the harshest racism couldn't do," Mr. Williams says. "And that is to destroy the black family."

 

[linsivvi]

I remember that one guy who defended this piece of shit said these are people who have moral.

LMAO.

 

[Ourobolus]

Yes. Put a blanket statement over a group of people you hate because they put blanket statements over other people.

Don't be a shit. Not everyone in their generation is racist and racism will always exist in one form or another

I won't say that his statement wasn't a blanket statement, but they are almost the last generation that was alive when racism was basically legal. Of course not everyone there is racist.

 

[sangreal]

As the right wing tries to distance themselves from this guy its important to point out besides the crudness of his language this idea is popular on the right.

WSJ
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704881304576094221050061598?mobile=y

Of course, but they're not supposed to say it out loud. That other conservative hero, Phil Robertson (Duck Dynasty), said the same thing:

&#8220;I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I&#8217;m with the blacks, because we&#8217;re white trash. We&#8217;re going across the field.... They&#8217;re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, &#8216;I tell you what: These doggone white people&#8217;&#8212;not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.&#8221;

 

[Slayven]

Somebody ask him about women.

 

[AnotherNils]

Yeah, Clive, negroes were "freer" when they were slaves.

 

[benjipwns]

Yeah, Clive, negroes were "freer" when they were slaves.

Look on the upside. Housing, food, knowing that not just will you always have a job but your kids will too and their kids.

 

[Slayven]

Yeah, Clive, negroes were "freer" when they were slaves.

Reminds me of that college kid that wanted to be thanked for all the free housing and food his ancestors gave slaves.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Look on the upside. Housing, food, knowing that not just will you always have a job but your kids will too and their kids.

So was slavery the ultimate welfare?