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cdb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:57 AM Original message |
Sick of ignorant rednecks |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. vent away. |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. I know how you feel |
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cdb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It is another reality, |
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Dissent Is Patriotic (793 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. I am sick of Bush apologists...n/t |
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Felix Mala (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
49. Talk about lowered expectations... Bush's most recent "cause" for |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
4. I sometimes wonder if it's worth listening to them |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
6. I have a friend who's an ex-paramedic. |
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tx_dem41 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
7. Since you desire to shut yourself off of a large portion of the |
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GrpCaptMandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I would tend to disagree |
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tx_dem41 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 11:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. Acting as an individual person, I can understand that. |
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GrpCaptMandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
48. From an organizational standpoint |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 06:00 AM Response to Reply #48 |
66. That's it. |
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demnan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
8. Join the club |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
10. The result of taking pride in ignorance. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
46. Ignorance is forgivable... |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 05:35 AM Response to Reply #46 |
62. A teacher once said something similar. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
11. I'm sick of alleged "progressives" indulging in class hatred |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 11:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. "librul elitist"? What's wrong with being elite? I am regularly horrified |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 11:22 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Nice dodge, but that's not the elitist stereotype we all know and hate. |
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MN ChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 11:57 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Perhaps the term "willfully ignorant" |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:08 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Well, since I am a professor myself, I obviously don't think |
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MN ChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Good points |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-14-05 11:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
58. Great post |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 05:39 AM Response to Reply #21 |
63. "have to take their pants off to count to 21" |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 05:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
65. ...end the cycle of poverty, crime, and ignorance? |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
12. Not all rednecks are ignorant, not all Americans are rednecks |
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cdb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I know, generalizations are odius |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
52. I find mercy in the fact that others see me in such "blobs" too |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Beat me to the post |
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Tom Bombadil (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 11:02 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. You didn't mean that the US is |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. I've never been to Europe myself |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
51. No, I meant that we're more diverse than merely one nation n/t |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 06:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
67. I don't think the OP was saying they really hated America. |
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CrazyOrangeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. Go ahead and rant . . . |
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nancyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
20. Sick of Ignorant Rednecks |
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info being (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. It isn't just America |
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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
25. John Fitzgerald Kennedy looked at the people of Appalachia |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Bravo! |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. The people I know from rural West Virginia |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:43 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. most people on the lower end of societys scale probably |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:43 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Blue-collar kid here. First in the family to go to college. |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:49 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. the pity part... |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:54 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I wasn't responding to you. |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:59 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. I see... |
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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:47 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. They also do not react well to derision. |
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The Whiskey Priest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:43 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. This is anti-redneck bias is a continuation |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:46 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Good point. |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:54 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. I read some of your posts and think we agree on this topic |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:56 PM Response to Reply #25 |
40. Well, said, but you don't need to embrace or praise their "culture". |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
34. Ignorance is a "Traditional American Value" held in esteem. |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. case in point here in this post above QC |
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mr_hat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
36. You need a tangible cause. Support trans fats! |
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Jara sang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
41. Bush supporters are anti-American and they are not patriots. |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:02 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. many of his supporters...... |
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under_snow_in_NY (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:06 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. that must have been a drive by post I guess |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
45. Aren't we all? |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
47. I knew you'd get heat for your headline, but the "ignorant rednecks" |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 02:56 AM Response to Reply #47 |
61. hear, hear! The Know-Nothings ride again! |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:12 AM Response to Reply #61 |
69. Your grandparents sound exactly like my grandparents |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 05:50 AM Response to Reply #47 |
64. I agree with what you are saying. |
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stop the bleeding (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
50. "ignorant rednecks" - redundant - redneck means ignorant |
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The Flaming Red Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
53. Me too. |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
54. Gee. Most of the rednecks I know HATE Bush |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
55. I'm with you... |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
56. ignorant rednecks |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-13-05 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
57. Frist is not a redneck. |
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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 12:52 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. What did you say about cats?? |
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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
59. Just one little ray of sunshine for ya: |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
68. Here is some comic relief for you if you are referring to those |
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