posts with context are awesome

posts with toast are awesome too.

Funny how some folks "care so much" when they think it will help them. They got to give it up. It ain't floating.

It may be a regional thing; my family doesn't talk that way (and we have mixed race relatives).

It's not working. Try a different argument, because that one is a failure.

I was answering the question about the word because I was also unfamiliar prior to this kerfuffle. It also seems odd to me since his family is mixed race. Maybe it is a younger generation/his kids use it/it isn't offensive to that generation?

This may just be "old people" trying to be "cool" and stepping into some tacky foolish stuff. My family doesn't talk that way, so I repeat - maybe a regional thing.

Or maybe we are "old" and the teens try not to confuse us?

Save yourself, Bill. Just walk away as quickly as you can. You too, Alexander.

the racial makeup of their mayor's family and will let it slide. It would have to have been Clinton saying it directly for it to have had any kind of impact on her supporters changing their vote.

I don't think she will lose anyone even if she shots someone.

Think carefully.

If you call someone stupid, you should get called out for a typo

The get a brain morans rule

You should be banned.

Really? Posting shit like that sucks.

then maybe others might follow along.

Keep.alienating you are the gops best weapon

You missed the hyphen.

If you are going to call people brain dead, make sure that your spelling is tight.

my spelling tight as a tick.

Would you like to be called brain dead for supporting someone who has almost a zero chance to win the nomination? No, because some of us respect your right to support your candidate until the last vote is cast.

Therefore, grow up and grow some class, while you're at it.

"even if she shots someone"? New drinking game?

Jews and lower income African Americans. Are we going to act like that isn't the case?

I mean, its part of the definition:

ghet·to
ˈɡedō/
noun
plural noun: ghettos
a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups.
historical
the Jewish quarter in a city.
"the Warsaw Ghetto"
an isolated or segregated group or area.
"the relative security of the gay ghetto"

and ghettos? I mean, thats just blatently ignoring history

Due to segregated conditions and widespread poverty, some black neighborhoods in the United States have been called "the ghetto" or "the projects." The use of this term is controversial and, depending on the context, potentially offensive. Despite mainstream America’s use of the term "ghetto" to signify a poor urban area (predominately African-Americans), those living in the area often used it to signify something positive.

The black ghettos did not always contain dilapidated houses and deteriorating projects, nor were all of its residents poverty-stricken. For many African Americans, the ghetto was "home", a place representing authentic blackness and a feeling, passion, or emotion derived from the rising above the struggle and suffering of being black in America.[25] Langston Hughes relays in the "Negro Ghetto" (1931) and "The Heart of Harlem" (1945): "The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone/And the streets are long and wide,/But Harlem’s much more than these alone,/Harlem is what’s inside." Playwright August Wilson used the term "ghetto" in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984) and Fences (1987), both of which draw upon the author’s experience growing up in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, first a neighborhood of early European immigrants, then a black ghetto.[26] Depending on the context and social circles, the term 'ghetto' or 'hood (short for neighborhood) can be a term of endearment for where the individual person has been brought up or lives.

In the Jewish diaspora, a Jewish quarter (also known as juiverie, Judengasse, Jewynstreet or proto-ghetto[1]) is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews. Jewish quarters, like the Jewish ghettos in Europe, were often the outgrowths of segregated ghettos instituted by the surrounding Christian authorities. A Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is "Di yiddishe gas" (Yiddish: די ייִדדישע גאַס ? ), or "The Jewish quarter."[2] While in Ladino, they are known as maalé yahudí, meaning "The Jewish quarter". Many European and Middle Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it.

Jewish quarters in Europe existed for a number of reasons. In some cases, Christian authorities wished to segregate Jews from the Christian population so that Christians would not be "contaminated" by them[citation needed] or so as to put psychological pressure on Jews to convert to Christianity. From the Jewish point of view, concentration of Jews within a limited area offered a level of protection from outside influences or mob violence. In many cases, residents had their own justice system. When political authorities designated an area where Jews were required by law to live, such areas were commonly referred to as ghettos, and were usually coupled with many other disabilities and indignities. The areas chosen usually consisted of the most undesirable areas of a city. In the 19th century, Jewish ghettos were progressively abolished, and their walls taken down, though some areas of Jewish concentration continued and continue to exist. In some cities, Jewish quarters refer to areas which historically had concentrations of Jews. For example, many maps of Spanish towns mark a "Jewish Quarter", though Spain hasn't had a significant Jewish population for over 500 years.

Especially knowing that Bernie focuses on economic disparity, the issue IS the segregation of low income minorities into ghettos and the surrounding issue with those ghettos, such as food deserts, crime, and the corporate prison pipeline.

... using a racist ass'd word in the context of the statement and the connotation of the conversation he was replying to (not groups of people of a religion living in a neighborhood) but you'll be the same person when this is brought up later who'll act like no one ever defended this shit.

But we have the internets and screen prints for later...

done

Take it down a notch, high-speed.

Anyone who is outraged about this wasn't voting for her anyway.

Do you support it?

Racist or blatant lack of judgment. There is no escaping this one.

If "super predators", kicking out a BLM protester with armed security, and Bubba admitting what super predators actually meant didn't change people's minds then I'm afraid nothing will.

and the pain of only winning Vermont was multiplied by us not making it past Super Tuesday. Thankfully we did but then we were going to be gone by March 15. Here it is April 11 and still here we are. So do you wish to comment about nomination-ending events? We are anxiously awaiting some bold predictions since you guys have done such a bang up job before.

I will wait for.. well ever because there is no such post.

You mean Mayor DiBlasio's wife?

Sarcasm, have you heard of it?

A dumb joke by Deblasio, not Hillary, ain't gonna cut it.

Do I understand correctly that "CP Time" refers to "Colored People Time"? If not, I apologize.

If so, did DeBlasio have an aneurysm? I don't understand how the mayor of NYC could say that on stage.

What is going on here?

I know, I know, he's so racist for using that expression it must be a shock to many that his wife is black, but there you have it.

I can't figure out what anyone could find offensive there. Really . You are really searching imo.

Try this, imagine Donald Trump saying it. Still not offended?

though. It was clearly a scripted sequence.

I've lost count.

Good luck with this.

Posters on both sides need to get a damn life.

No one's vote is changed by these silly threads.

Self-abuse on both sides. Surely every one of these OP posters is growing hair on their palms.

Yecch.

Stepping back out of the sewer now...cleaning off my shoes, and burning the clothes I had on.

Everyone participating in this nonsense should be ashamed. You look like fools.

candidate was being pushed at the panel she was on, but she shook her head and said something like, "We have to stop picking at every little thing." I wish more writers, anchors and strategists would say things like that. Big issues are involved, life and death issues for real people.

We need to stop bashing one another.

Those of us who are Democrats need to stick together.

This is an important election. The thought of Trump (who has no chance) or Cruz (who does) terrifies me.

I'll vote for our nominee. Anyone who doesn't...well I really have no words.

I could not care less how anyone votes in the GE.

That's between them and their conscience.

Sorry you misunderstood me.

Thanks for attempting to lower the mutually-assured level of malevolence around poor old DU.

I just don't see the point of it; no one is going to change anyone else's mind, ya know?

I sometimes hang out in the HRC room, just to compare notes on perceptions, etc. in a protected space.

Mention anything about her in the open forum, and you get summarily slaughtered.

What an unpleasant place DU has turned into. I just pray that some semblance of civility can return after the primaries.

I wouldn't be surprised if some posters will no longer be with us after the nomination.

I guess he's pinning his hopes on a cabinet seat now.

Smh

He's all over CNN nowadays. DeBlasio is toast. Which is what you get for nominating and supporting a racist cop like Bill Bratton.

And how can LePage look so normal and be so nuts?

I doubt that it will cost her many votes.

Not

and even I don't really think this is some big deal. A candidate was standing in close proximity to someone that made a remark in poor taste. Big deal. This is nearly as bad as some of the absurd twisting to pretend that Bernie is saying something sexist. It's really getting hard to care about a lot of this stuff.

This is ridiculous.

Why was this supposed to be funny?

Its supposed to be a getting late joke that ignores the minority that's being made fun of. It was in poor taste.

What the hell is up with that campaign. Who thought that was a good idea?
Strange.

didn't influence his decision. I'm reminded of that one Seinfeld episode where his dentist converted to Judaism so he can crack Jewish jokes.

But not as funny as your comments about it!!



Oh, wait.....that wasn't satire you were doing?

The people who are voting for her will not be bothered by that. Poor taste never killed anyone.

It's the litany of bad, off-color comments that changes the perception of a candidate in the voter's mind.
Hillary has made more than enough stupid, racist comments in the last 6 months for voters to determine that she is not who she pretends to be.

Black Lives Matter, but after she gets their votes, she forgets about their issues, she forgets about their problems, and moves on to the new issue at hand.

One way to determine if a comment is offensive is to place it in a different venue.
Tell the same "joke" in front of a different audience.

Would Hillary have been so bold to make these comments on a Sunday in front of a Black congregation in a church in Georgia?
Would she have been comfortable enough to make these same comments in a rally in Mississippi?

It's just my opinion, but comments like this are what turn people off from politics, because politicians act like it's all a big joke to them.

She'd make it at a black church. That's the point of t all. It's clear upon viewing the clip that in the skit she has no clue what "CP" might mean.
So, she inserts her understanding if it " cautious politician".
Seems fine to me , and totally non-racial on her part.

The joke is that the de Blasio character uses an acronym that appears to mean one thing (hence the Aaron Burr character's initial reaction) but actual is something innocuous. It would be like if he said:

DeBlasio: "I got so mad at Cuomo that I called him the n-word."

Burr: "What? You called him the n-word?"

HRC: "Yeah, nincompoop. Because that is exactly what he is!"

Dumb jokes like that permeated the entire skit, as well as the other skits throughout the show.

If you want to get offended, watch de Blasio try to rap and then introduce Hillary as his "homegirl".

He is the only Caucasian appearing member of his family.

If a person who hears that isn't bothered, they don't have a clue.

There are a lot of clueless posters up-thread - sad really.

Or is the goal to create performance art?

Since this is THE ONE that will sink her campaign?!11! I mean the one hundredth time that a hater has declared her campaign over.

Being ahead in pledged delegates, super delegates and popular vote means her campaign is over?

Oh well,