Thursday Open Thread
It’s Thursday open thread time. Today’s open thread has a theme: racism. The floor is yours.
Oh, what is this world coming to when you can’t make a good racist joke among friends?
Bill O’Reilly is very very sad that you can’t make “Arab jokes” anymore:
O’REILLY: So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs. … We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab was the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can’t. What has changed in America?
The subtext of this lament is O’Reilly mourning the demise of what he refers to as the “white Christian male power structure.” It’s not really that you “can’t” make racist jokes anymore; it’s that you when you make them, you can’t expect everyone to remain silent as you assert your cultural or racial superiority through humor.
Remember, O’Reilly is one of the more sane ones on Fox.
Welcome to post-racial America:
A new professional basketball league called the All-American Basketball Alliance (AABA) sent out a press release on Sunday saying that it intends to start its inaugural season in June, with teams in 12 U.S. cities. However, the AABA is different from other sports leagues because only players who are “natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.” AABA commissioner Don “Moose” Lewis insists that he’s not racist, but he just wants to get away from the “street-ball” played by “people of color” and back to “fundamental basketball.”
Oh no, definitely not a racist. Not everyone is happy about this, and at least one proposed city has said no thanks:
The AABA is targeting Southern cities, but one proposed city — Augusta, GA — is opposed to the league. Several other cities have reportedly told Lewis to “stay out of town.”
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An open thread w/ a theme? C’mon. Be brave and separate the posts! Have the conversation.
Hmmm, two days after the teabaggers win a Senate seat and the stock market is down for the second straight session (almost 200 points so far today).
Is the Governor’s address going to be live anywhere (as in broadcast)? With no Delaware public station…..
meanwhile in PA…
Pennsylvania Senate: Toomey Leads Specter (49-40) and Sestak (43-35)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | January 21, 2010
Republican Pat Toomey now leads incumbent Senator Arlen Specter 49% to 40% in Pennsylvania’s race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters also finds Toomey with a 43% to 35% lead over Democratic challenger Joe Sestak. A month ago Toomey led Specter by four and Sestak by six. In the state’s Democratic Senate Primary race, Specter now leads Sestak by 21 points. Just 41% of Pennsylvania voters favor the health care legislation currently before Congress while 57% are opposed. Those figures include 22% who Strongly Favor the legislation and 47% who are Strongly Opposed….
Oh, BillO, does your doucheyness know no bounds? If this was 30 or 40 years ago he’d be complaining about how he can’t beat up the colored boys any more for staring at his wife.
I’m sure 10 years ago BillO was complaining because he couldn’t pinch the secretary on the butt anymore either.
Hmmm, two days after the teabaggers win a Senate seat and the stock market is down for the second straight session (almost 200 points so far today).
It’s because your brain dead president announced further restrictions on banks you friggin moron
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=518699
Another teabagger who thinks he is above the law. Except this time the teabagger seems to have ambitions to be a domestic terrorist with his grenade launcher. But even more despicable is that this teabagger was arrested on charges of child rape. 7 years old. And his compatriots are claiming the kid set him up.
No wonder these guys don’t want DHS looking at them too closely.
Think I’m going to try out for the white basketball league. My dad was born in New Jersey, does that count as natural born?
I can see it now: 2-handed set shots, bounce passes, no dunks. Wow, can’t wait. When does the And 1 mix tour start?
Klanball!
it’s been a tough week for the left:
1. Brown wins in MA
2. USSC rules against McCain/Fiengold
3. Edwards admits love child
4. ObamaCare dies
5. Air America Dies
If im not mistaken, McCain is a right wing republican. But feel free to keep being wrong. I had an epiphany about the SCOTUS giving more power to corporations than the american people. GE has a lot of money, and a lot of left leaning ceos. Unions are totally pro democratic and pretty rich. Sure the repukes will get propped up by big oil and big Klan,
but it also affords politicians to now publicly refuse legal bribes from dubious organizations. Imagine US senate candidate a.price (in a couple elections from now) calling a press conference to tell Blue Cross and Blue Shield that he will NOT be bought… unlike candidate gecko who has accepted bribes from the following corporations currently ruining delaware….. but then again, maybe i put too much faith in the cahones of the people who run for office in this country.
either way LIEzard, the SCOTUS decision will hurt both sides. it only benefits business… who you might remember put us in this recession.
also… did anyone see John Stewart call out Keith tonight? uh boy… crazy times we live in
you are mistaken, McCain is a moderate republican and Fiengold is not any kind of republican.
McCain WAS a moderate. M/F was by NO means a “leftist” bill. but please, by all means keep being a delusional moron. you guys had a good week. The left wing will wake up. As soon as the country remembers that republican means Sarah Palin, the idiotic policies of the right will be beaten down again.
McCain has moderate credentials in his past, but he worked hard to become a right-winger. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have been nominated.