Is preoccupation with "teh stupid" uniquely American?

RandySF

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Sun Mar-27-11 12:56 AM
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Is preoccupation with "teh stupid" uniquely American?

Growing up in Detroit, I got the opportunity to follow Canadian politics via CBC. With a smaller population, our northern neighbors do not face as many huge issues as we do. But despite all the "free time", I don't recall an election that centered around stupid things. No birtherism, no "death panels", no crazy talk of shooting illegal immigrants like wild hogs. EIn Europe and Asia, I still cannot find a country whose politicians stories about their presidents being secretly born in foreign lands. So the question is, is "teh stupid" uniquely American?

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ashling

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Sun Mar-27-11 01:02 AM
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1. What is the preoccupation with the spelling "teh"?

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Tesha

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Sun Mar-27-11 08:15 AM
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4. It's a parody of what we've observed in Right Wing writings and on Right Wing protest signs.

Edited on Sun Mar-27-11 08:16 AM by Tesha

"Morans" is another prime example of that here.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-a-brain-morans

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Grey

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Sun Mar-27-11 01:41 AM
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2. As far as I can tell, Yes.

steve harper may try to change that but we only have 6 weeks of election madness, Yours is non-stop.

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alp227

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Sun Mar-27-11 02:03 AM
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3. bigotry knows no bounds...ever heard of Geert Wilders?

He's a Dutch politician who as an agnostic ran on an aggresively anti-Muslim platform that sought to impose religious freedom restrictions on Dutch Muslims. And Switzerland passed a law banning minarets. These kinds of laws/propositions wouldn't fly in America, where "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Similarly, the Swedish Democratic Party has an anti-immigration platform like many other newly elected European parties do.

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