"These people are ignorant and they are proud of it"

Wasn't that a quote from candidate Obama last year?
I can't get it out of my head after the hateriot's do in DC this weekend.

I almost expected bumper stickers that read: I'm ignorant and proud of it!

I never saw Americans so proud of not wanting to know or lean anything!

Blond jokes are now being told substituting American for the blond.

Just sayin'

an American walks into a bar and asks the rest of the world to buy him a beer because he lost his job, lost his health insurance and lost his house.


The rest of the world laughed at him for demonstrating against his own needs.



Jeez, I think that was more true than funny

I'm new around here and felt this was a perfect spot to jump in.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels as though there is a new celebration of ignorance.
I am temporarily living in Georgia and to walk around with any pride of knowledge is almost a sin in their eyes.
I was actually told by a conservative to stop being so intellectual if I was going to try and debate politics with them.
And people wonder why I'm frightened at how my child may turn out with those sort of influences all around.

To properly debate ANY topic with a right winger, you must first level the playing field.

You have to get a lobotomy.

:hi:

right in with the south-bashing?

Talk about neo-cons or repubs if you want, but leave the regionalism out of it please.

Geez, get of it.

it is the generalization.

Has he met everyone in Georgia? No, he hasn't.

The south bashers on here are who needs to get off it.

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I am no troll and my history will show it.

But you just go ahead and make personal attacks, which ARE against the rules in case you didn't know.

New posters get attacked on here all the time and my response to them was not an attack; if the poster's skin is as thin as yours, they won't last long anyway.

Now should I alert on YOUR post for your personal attack on ME?

You might enjoy, if you've not already read it, Charles Pierce's article in Esquire, Greetings from Idiot America.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0207GREETINGS

"The rise of Idiot America is essentially a war on expertise. It's not so much antimodernism or the distrust of intellectual elites that Richard Hofstadter deftly teased out of the national DNA forty years ago. Both of those things are part of it. However, the rise of Idiot America today represents -- for profit mainly, but also, and more cynically, for political advantage and in the pursuit of power -- the breakdown of a consensus that the pursuit of knowledge is a good. It also represents the ascendancy of the notion that the people whom we should trust the least are the people who best know what they're talking about."

I'm reading Idiot America right now. I was going to mention it in the thread. While I'm not the brightest bulb in the lamp, I'd recommend it as a good read. Very funny in places, too. I briefly considered changing my name to "Evil J. Transylvania". Boy, I laughed so hard at that bit.... :rofl:

He's just as funny off-the-cuff as he is in print.

I had to go work in Albany for a week once. I felt so strange. Like I was in a different world. BTW I live in eastern Iowa.

Perhaps we could get a list of them, so all of us southerners could aspire to move there one day.

I can only imagine...a place with no prejudice or ignorant people, no rednecks and no republicans.

How wonderful it must be for you.

I had to read the post more than once because I thought I missed something. The poster merely said he lives in eastern Iowa. Nowhere did he say it was a paradise, although it isn't a bad place to be. So please calm down and don't take offense to everything everybody says. Btw, I live in eastern Iowa too. And I have been to Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. I had some problems way back when because I had long hair and some of the people didn't deal with it very well. However, we had a wonderful time in Mississippi going into some juke joints and hearing some authentic Blues music. Very friendly people and like one guy told me, "It don't matter what color your skin is, as long as your money is green." I thought that summed it up fairly well.

overly sensitive people already.

I got the same thing in Kansas. I'm from California and was told to stop using my "high falutin language" there. Sorry, but I was using the same language my fellow Californians use and there is nothing high falutin about it. So I understand your pain and anyone who thinks we are bashing their state really need to get off their high horse. They can't deny what's going on just because they don't like it.

There has just been an inordinate amount of south-bashing on DU lately, so excuse the fuck out of me for being a little sensitive about it.

So sick of people who think they are better than others because of their zip code; some very "unprogressive" opinions have been expressed here lately regarding southern DUers. Do a search if you do not believe me.

And, by the way, I live in a southern state. Further, sometimes I am disgusted by attacks on entire states, wherever they are, based on stereotypes. But your attack on a brand-new poster on DU is simply inexcusable.

post that weren't there.