Three-fer.
Jul. 17th, 2008 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgSomething I was tempted to do with yesterday's comments - but didn't - was respond to each one with a version of 'people who would abandon pets in situ have done it - it's the NICE people who are doing it now and you should fear.'
I had the cat with five kittens brought to me - but then again, Jim asked for that so I can't balk. But I strongly suspect I'll find something tied to the mailbox anyday now waiting for us to come take over. Or left in a box on the doorstep.
The dicks have had their day - it's people who have called everyone in town and found out the Real Story that are placing their pets themselves...without asking. Because if they did use the services their taxes paid for (not so well, actually), they'd find their pet would be euthanized within three days or less...and I think people truly love their pets. So. You see the other option employed.
Could have said it three times and more. People, watch for it.
And last, but not least - an oldie but a goodie - On the one hand, of course, such slurs are quite obviously inappropriate and offensive, and ought not to be used. That said, I pointed out that even the mention of the words “honky” and “cracker” had elicited laughter; and not only from the black students in attendance, but also from other whites.
The words are so silly, so juvenile, so utterly pathetic that they hardly qualify as racial slurs at all, let alone slurs on a par with those that have been historically deployed against people of color.
The lack of symmetry between a word like honky and a slur such as “nigger” was made apparent in an old Saturday Night Live skit, with Chevy Chase and guest, Richard Pryor.
In the skit, Chase and Pryor face one another and trade off racial epithets during a segment of Weekend Update. Chase calls Pryor a “porch monkey.” Pryor responds with “honky.” Chase ups the ante with “jungle bunny.” Pryor, unable to counter with a more vicious slur against whites, responds with “honky, honky.” Chase then trumps all previous slurs with “nigger,” to which Pryor responds: “dead honky.”
Jesse Jackson is an idiot.
And I've had less than four hours sleep. Expect weirdness.
I had the cat with five kittens brought to me - but then again, Jim asked for that so I can't balk. But I strongly suspect I'll find something tied to the mailbox anyday now waiting for us to come take over. Or left in a box on the doorstep.
The dicks have had their day - it's people who have called everyone in town and found out the Real Story that are placing their pets themselves...without asking. Because if they did use the services their taxes paid for (not so well, actually), they'd find their pet would be euthanized within three days or less...and I think people truly love their pets. So. You see the other option employed.
Could have said it three times and more. People, watch for it.
And last, but not least - an oldie but a goodie - On the one hand, of course, such slurs are quite obviously inappropriate and offensive, and ought not to be used. That said, I pointed out that even the mention of the words “honky” and “cracker” had elicited laughter; and not only from the black students in attendance, but also from other whites.
The words are so silly, so juvenile, so utterly pathetic that they hardly qualify as racial slurs at all, let alone slurs on a par with those that have been historically deployed against people of color.
The lack of symmetry between a word like honky and a slur such as “nigger” was made apparent in an old Saturday Night Live skit, with Chevy Chase and guest, Richard Pryor.
In the skit, Chase and Pryor face one another and trade off racial epithets during a segment of Weekend Update. Chase calls Pryor a “porch monkey.” Pryor responds with “honky.” Chase ups the ante with “jungle bunny.” Pryor, unable to counter with a more vicious slur against whites, responds with “honky, honky.” Chase then trumps all previous slurs with “nigger,” to which Pryor responds: “dead honky.”
Jesse Jackson is an idiot.
And I've had less than four hours sleep. Expect weirdness.
