Outraged beyond words.
State Sen. Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) represents the area, and his wife, a Latina, is a member of the club.
“I thought it was unacceptable and a failed attempt at humor,” Dutton said. “My wife isn’t taking it personally because she knows the people involved. I called Diane and talked to her and told her it was inappropriate. She is a sweet lady without a mean bone in her body. But we all have to be more sensitive.”
Once again we can see that it’s perfectly possible to be a sweet lady without a mean bone in your body and still be blindly, ignorantly, hatefully, bigoted.
There was a report in the Sacramento Bee on a similarly offensive image put out on a local Republican website, and on CDs of a very fact-challenged movie that was sent out free in a lot of regional newspapers, with fund-raising sources not disclosed.
It ain’t comin’ outta nowhere, honey, it sure ain’t.
And we’re supposed to want these wingnuts to run the country into the ground a little longer??
That’s fucking horrific.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly give them a pass on this. The claim of ignorance can’t wash here. It’s insultingly blatant.
There was a report in the Sacramento Bee on a similarly offensive image put out on a local Republican website, and on CDs of a very fact-challenged movie that was sent out free in a lot of regional newspapers, with fund-raising sources not disclosed.
It ain’t comin’ outta nowhere, honey, it sure ain’t.
And we’re supposed to want these wingnuts to run the country into the ground a little longer??
That’s fucking horrific.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly give them a pass on this. The claim of ignorance can’t wash here. It’s insultingly blatant.
There was a report in the Sacramento Bee on a similarly offensive image put out on a local Republican website, and on CDs of a very fact-challenged movie that was sent out free in a lot of regional newspapers, with fund-raising sources not disclosed.
It ain’t comin’ outta nowhere, honey, it sure ain’t.
And we’re supposed to want these wingnuts to run the country into the ground a little longer??
That’s fucking horrific.
I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly give them a pass on this. The claim of ignorance can’t wash here. It’s insultingly blatant.
Actually, a Latina is about the only one I might see not getting what’s wrong with it, because they may focus so much on their group + whites that they aren’t aware of how whites mocked blacks in the past.
OTOH, if she gave a damn about other members of her own culture (and if she did, I don’t think she’d be Republican), she wouldn’t mock the use of food stamps.
It’s not the hate, it’s the stupidity.
Willful ignorance is about the most malignant force around. Or, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, it’s not the unknown unknowns that are the problem. It’s the stuff you don’t know that you know you don’t want to know.
It also occurs to me that *she* didn’t say this directly to the reporters, her husband did…
I know of a lot of Latino republicans. They think of the party in the old sense, hard word and personal accountability. I’m wondering what they’re thinking right now. I’m too chicken and tired and fried to start any of those conversations.
Yes, I think wilful ignorance is an enormous component of racism. It allows perfectly sweet women to deny that they ever knew that watermelon and fried chicken have social connotations. But the sheer force of that will, OMG!
Actually, a Latina is about the only one I might see not getting what’s wrong with it, because they may focus so much on their group + whites that they aren’t aware of how whites mocked blacks in the past.
OTOH, if she gave a damn about other members of her own culture (and if she did, I don’t think she’d be Republican), she wouldn’t mock the use of food stamps.
It also occurs to me that *she* didn’t say this directly to the reporters, her husband did…
I know of a lot of Latino republicans. They think of the party in the old sense, hard word and personal accountability. I’m wondering what they’re thinking right now. I’m too chicken and tired and fried to start any of those conversations.
I forget who said it but
It’s not the hate, it’s the stupidity.
Willful ignorance is about the most malignant force around. Or, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, it’s not the unknown unknowns that are the problem. It’s the stuff you don’t know that you know you don’t want to know.
Re: I forget who said it but
Yes, I think wilful ignorance is an enormous component of racism. It allows perfectly sweet women to deny that they ever knew that watermelon and fried chicken have social connotations. But the sheer force of that will, OMG!
Actually, a Latina is about the only one I might see not getting what’s wrong with it, because they may focus so much on their group + whites that they aren’t aware of how whites mocked blacks in the past.
OTOH, if she gave a damn about other members of her own culture (and if she did, I don’t think she’d be Republican), she wouldn’t mock the use of food stamps.
It also occurs to me that *she* didn’t say this directly to the reporters, her husband did…
I know of a lot of Latino republicans. They think of the party in the old sense, hard word and personal accountability. I’m wondering what they’re thinking right now. I’m too chicken and tired and fried to start any of those conversations.
I forget who said it but
It’s not the hate, it’s the stupidity.
Willful ignorance is about the most malignant force around. Or, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, it’s not the unknown unknowns that are the problem. It’s the stuff you don’t know that you know you don’t want to know.
Re: I forget who said it but
Yes, I think wilful ignorance is an enormous component of racism. It allows perfectly sweet women to deny that they ever knew that watermelon and fried chicken have social connotations. But the sheer force of that will, OMG!