Gotta Get Mad About Something, I Guess
Here’s a quick summary of right wing blog commentary heading into yesterday’s Aboriginal Day of Action:
Oh, my God…terrorists threatening us! How DARE they do whatever awful things we’re sure they’re going to do? Mommy! SCARY INDIANS!! HELP!!!
So the day happens. No violence. No confrontations. Peaceful meetings, demonstrations and workshops across Canada. Limited blockades, no arrests.
And of course, the righties are appropriately thankful for the peaceful resolution…
“…the fact that the Natives were too lazy to actually do anything in Ontario is quite symbolic… Say what you will about Osama, but at least when he says he’s gonna blow up westerners, he doesn’t call it off in the end to go outside of his cave and have a cigarette!”
Now THERE’S sophisticated analysis for you. Sigh. Just no pleasing some folks, I guess.
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UPDATE:
Like Jim Bobby said, I just touched the tip of the iceberg. Here’s another gem, from one of our best professional hatemongers (of pretty much everything not white and Conservative, as far as I can tell…)
“This Friday will mark the Native Day of Action(tm) here in Canada. It’s their chance to whine and complain that us white guys who pay 45% in income tax to support their smoking, drinking and daughter-fucking are ripping them off….I have no sympathy for the plight of the Natives, any more than I do for the Palestinians. In both cases they have the choice to get the hell off the rez, become fully-functioning, voting members of democratic society, but instead they choose to live in concentration camps, hands out to the government, ever ready with a complaint on their lips for the shoddy treatment they chose for themselves. Shut up and get to work, losers. You can bang the drum (not a euphemism for daughters) on the weekends.”
Don’t miss the comments, where self-proclaimed spokesperson for the Religion of Love, Prolapsed Catholic Shaidl, proudly declares her right to “hate who she wants”. Right Girl responds:
I do hate, a lot. But not the Natives. They repulse me in their ways, but I don’t hate them. I simply do not respect them. Respect is something you have to earn. Most natives have never earned a bloody thing in their miserable lives.
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
That last one from thepolitic.com was priceless. I wonder what a “wonder thinker” like the author of that nonsense happened to live in Northern Ireland for the past forty years.
What a smug little moron of a brain that dude has.
I’ll say it repeatedly and I’m sure it will piss of many: I don’t expect any statist, whether “elected” or not to ever represent my interests - but for Statists, I find it hillarious the depths they will go to - on any side - to justify whatever they want to justify.
Hey, welcome back! I hope the trip was all fish and no punts!
[...] Well, despite the blockades in some areas, yesterday’s Native Day Of Action went without any major conflicts. I would say this is to the various police forces credit - they decided not to take a confrontational approach, so we had no Oka-type scenarios anywhere. That attitude was in contrast to some of our right-wing blogosphere colleagues, who when they were not making derogatory statements about the First Nations peoples, were calling for the army and/or riot police to be sent in against “Native terrorists”. Thank goodness these people aren’t the ones making decisions on this - they would have had this country up in flames yesterday if it was up to them. [...]
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh stop. Your killing me. That was so hiliarious! What a bunch of ultra-maroons. I can’t… it hurts… This can’t be for real. Oh, my sides.
Thanks. I needed a good laugh.
I couldn’t help but go back and look again. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Is there someplace we can put these guys up as potential candidates for the Darwin Awards or something? Oh… can’t take it anymore. I need a break. My ribs hurt.
Did you get to the part where someone named “John” posts the following:
But…wait for it, now…that obsence, semi-literate rant was addressed to Scott Tribe - because, I assume, his last name is “Tribe”!
Too bad in a a way about “The Politic” - for awhile there they were pretending to be a serious blog. But if they keep posting hilarious shit like this, I’ll be a regular - this is just hilarious.
LOL
I hadn’t gone back to see that.
Didn’t that fellow just prove my point?
Absolutely. But hey, watch out for “John” - sounds like the kind of guy who might try to force feed you haggis because your first name is “Scott”.
Whooee! Pore ol’ Shmohawk sounds like he ain’t been too exposed to the wingnuttery from the righthand side o’ the Canajun boogeysphere. This sorta crappola is commonplace.
Yer right, Shmo. It’s funny… in a sad sorta way, though. The sad part is them few examples Balbu posted up is just the tip o’ the racist iceberg. There’s plenty more o’ them numbnutses in the ranks o’ the Boogin’ Tories. I reckon the real iceberg’s all the non-bloggin’ racists.
Like the ol’ song says — “How many? How many? I wonder, But I really don’t want to know.”
JB
JB, the way I see it, a person’s got choices with these types. You can take them seriously, lose sleep. Or sit back, watch them push each other further and further off the deep end, and watch the show.
Yeah, it’s bald, ugly racism gussied up as intellectual comment. If they said this shit in a public place or printed it on paper, they’d be arrested and condemned for the racist pea-brains they are. Does anyone every register official complaints for this shit? Would officials do anything about it? Don’t know. But there it is.
So, I prefer to laugh at the pure, 100 per cent, absolute stupidity. You got to admit, JB, it’s like watching a convention of village idiots. No?
Whooee! Reminds me of a line in an old blues song –
“When you see me laughin’, I’m laughin’ jut to keep from cryin’”
Good attitude, ShmoFeller. I’d probbly be better off if I did more laughin’ an’ less rantin’.
JB
I loved the “…I do hate, a lot. But not the Natives. They repulse me in their ways, but I don’t hate them…” thats gotta be a favourite. Thanks Balbulican, I needed a good laugh.
RightGirl and Matthew provide good examples of blatant racism that has come out of the shadows, and it’s good to know that these types exist because it’s really darned hard to defend against if it’s not exposed to as wide an audience as possible.
Quite frankly I have no doubts about which side people like this would have been fighting on had they been involved in the US north/south revolution, or had they been living in Germany on April 1, 1933 when Goebbels made his speech calling for national boycotts because of “atrocity propaganda”.
– stand proud righties, you’re in good company.
Wow. Here I was being impressed by the nonviolence of Friday, and the wisdom (usually missing) used by the various police forces, when all along the violence was verbal in the ’sphere. How incredibly ugly.
I can only speak for myself and those that I know, but everyone I know, except maybe for my Archie Bunker dad & uncle (who I won’t ask because we just don’t go there at family gatherings ever since we’ve all learned that my adopted cousin’s natural family hales from a reserve in northern Alberta) would like to see the land claims settled and put behind us. It’s not a partisan thing, it’s a governmental embarassment that has gone on far too long.
I need to go clean up the links on my site.
And she did. Once again Candace demonstrates why, in terms of integrity, she’s up there with Andrew and a small handful of other Conservative bloggers I respect, admire, and enjoy.