Comments on: The Entitlement Society, Or: Massa need to rebuild New Orleans http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/ distributed humor Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:08:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hulk http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-709 hulk Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:43:24 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-709 <p>Good point Khaos. We should probably get a professor who can talk about "Otherization" in here so we can have an intelligent dialogue about what is the natural result of our brains trying to classify and group things according to similar characeteristics, which results in generalizations. The generalizations have a bunch of modifiers tacked on through the process of urban legend and angry fantasies inspired by whatever idiot thing Al Sharpton said this week leading you to believe, on some level, that ALL black people must be idiots with bad hair, and the whole mess of generalized nonsense gets translated back down to an individual level where I find it funny that while I get along quite well with my African friend from France I still feel a little uncomfortable around black people who I don't know, more so than white people I don't know.</p> <p>Oh, and liberal weenie sniping comments don't work all that well. Remember, "Bush lied, kids died", or "No Blood for Oil"? Where's my oil, wuss?</p> <p>(Not you, Khaos)</p> Good point Khaos. We should probably get a professor who can talk about “Otherization” in here so we can have an intelligent dialogue about what is the natural result of our brains trying to classify and group things according to similar characeteristics, which results in generalizations. The generalizations have a bunch of modifiers tacked on through the process of urban legend and angry fantasies inspired by whatever idiot thing Al Sharpton said this week leading you to believe, on some level, that ALL black people must be idiots with bad hair, and the whole mess of generalized nonsense gets translated back down to an individual level where I find it funny that while I get along quite well with my African friend from France I still feel a little uncomfortable around black people who I don’t know, more so than white people I don’t know.

Oh, and liberal weenie sniping comments don’t work all that well. Remember, “Bush lied, kids died”, or “No Blood for Oil”? Where’s my oil, wuss?

(Not you, Khaos)

]]> By: Blue Midget http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Blue Midget Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:19:58 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-708 <p>"/me is supposed to be at work so will shut up now…"</p> <p>I think most of us are getting paid to websurf... LOL</p> “/me is supposed to be at work so will shut up now…”

I think most of us are getting paid to websurf… LOL

]]> By: KhaosMousa http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-707 KhaosMousa Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:11:19 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-707 <p>"When a white guy is caught for something like insider trading or snorting coke, do black people say, “Yeah, those white people, always doing insider trading and snorting coke” ?"</p> <p>Actually... Yes! On both sides of the color line, there is a lot of "those people" attitudes. There are many blacks (not just in the South) that still hold on to the notion that all white people are out to get them. /me is supposed to be at work so will shut up now...</p> “When a white guy is caught for something like insider trading or snorting coke, do black people say, “Yeah, those white people, always doing insider trading and snorting coke” ?”

Actually… Yes! On both sides of the color line, there is a lot of “those people” attitudes. There are many blacks (not just in the South) that still hold on to the notion that all white people are out to get them. /me is supposed to be at work so will shut up now…

]]> By: Evil Iggy http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-706 Evil Iggy Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:35:24 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-706 <p>I guess it's not just a veneer. My bad.</p> I guess it’s not just a veneer. My bad.

]]> By: Jack http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-695 Jack Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:22:30 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-695 <p>Do white people have a spokesman? Is any particular white person thought of as a "typical white person"? Does anyone in the news media, when something newsworthy happens to a white person, go interview a bunch of random white people to find out what "the white community" thinks of the event? When a white guy is caught for something like insider trading or snorting coke, do black people say, "Yeah, those white people, always doing insider trading and snorting coke" ?</p> <p>They say that a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged,and a liberal is a conservative who just went to jail for something he didn't do.</p> <p>No, I'm not a liberal. I'm a conservative anarchist. I read people like Kropotkin and I don't wear T-shirts with circled-A's on them.</p> Do white people have a spokesman? Is any particular white person thought of as a “typical white person”? Does anyone in the news media, when something newsworthy happens to a white person, go interview a bunch of random white people to find out what “the white community” thinks of the event? When a white guy is caught for something like insider trading or snorting coke, do black people say, “Yeah, those white people, always doing insider trading and snorting coke” ?

They say that a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged,and a liberal is a conservative who just went to jail for something he didn’t do.

No, I’m not a liberal. I’m a conservative anarchist. I read people like Kropotkin and I don’t wear T-shirts with circled-A’s on them.

]]> By: hulk http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-694 hulk Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:14:39 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-694 <p>Clarice, thank you for posting. I miss you so much. I know you're busy so I keep hoping for at least an Edward Norton among this crowd. At least someone who wears Evian skin cream...even if it is today. Instead I get, "My name is Wussy McWussPants and I'm too superior to try to refute you or point out the flaws in your argument. No, rather than engage in time honored verbal conflict I choose to sit back smugly and snipe, 'You don't deserve a reply from ME'"</p> <p>Ninnies.</p> Clarice, thank you for posting. I miss you so much. I know you’re busy so I keep hoping for at least an Edward Norton among this crowd. At least someone who wears Evian skin cream…even if it is today. Instead I get, “My name is Wussy McWussPants and I’m too superior to try to refute you or point out the flaws in your argument. No, rather than engage in time honored verbal conflict I choose to sit back smugly and snipe, ‘You don’t deserve a reply from ME’”

Ninnies.

]]> By: Agent Zero http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-692 Agent Zero Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:19:17 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-692 <p>2/10 Please do not feed the trolls.</p> 2/10 Please do not feed the trolls.

]]> By: Evil Iggy http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Evil Iggy Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:42:34 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-690 <p>I have a lot of thoughts on the subject you brought up, and some personal experience living in the sort of neighborhood you describe when I was much younger. If your post were not coated with such a thick veneer of asshole, I would be willing to discuss it.</p> I have a lot of thoughts on the subject you brought up, and some personal experience living in the sort of neighborhood you describe when I was much younger. If your post were not coated with such a thick veneer of asshole, I would be willing to discuss it.

]]> By: izzat http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-688 izzat Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:05:47 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-688 <p>Well damn. I agree (can't believe I'm saying that, someone's gonna find out and take away my Liberal License!) but it's not necessarily a racial issue, it's an economic issue. You could make all the same statements about people on the bottom end of the economic spectrum regardless of race. More on this later.</p> Well damn. I agree (can’t believe I’m saying that, someone’s gonna find out and take away my Liberal License!) but it’s not necessarily a racial issue, it’s an economic issue. You could make all the same statements about people on the bottom end of the economic spectrum regardless of race. More on this later.

]]> By: MadMomma http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-686 MadMomma Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:28:03 +0000 http://halffull.org/2005/10/11/the-entitelement-society-or-massa-need-to-rebuild-new-orleans/#comment-686 <p>This is a very touchy subject, but I remember when this popped up last year...Mr. Cosby had a great deal to say about this sort of issue. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/11/cosby/</p> This is a very touchy subject, but I remember when this popped up last year…Mr. Cosby had a great deal to say about this sort of issue. http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/11/cosby/

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