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He was asked a question, he answered it. He gave the most non-committal, safe answer he possibly could have given.
What exactly are you guys "outraged" about?
I fail to see what the fuss is about...
If the Washington Redskins changed their name there are plenty of other names available to them
The Cheap Jews
The Drunken Irishmen
The Greasy Italians
The Stupid Polocks
Drunken irishmen is already taken. See the fighting irish guy.
and the proper term is "greeesey." try to get your stereotypes right.
He was asked a question, he answered it. He gave the most non-committal, safe answer he possibly could have given.
What exactly are you guys "outraged" about?
I don't blame Obama for answering the question. The fact that the AP wastes time asking softball questions of the President during a government shutdown is what pisses me off.
Of course the first Saturday of this crisis Obama spent on the golf course with DNC campaign contributors and this week he spent time posing for his portrait. After all, he only has 3 years and 3 months left to get his Presidential portrait done. Gotta get that important stuff out of the way.
Is that considered an Irish person or a mythical leprechaun?
Its typical of the basic irish sterotype of a fisty brawler, it even leans on the more simean portrayals of the irish from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I'm 1/2 irish, and this doesnt offend me, although it is culled from various Irish sterotypes.
This is a good example of it.
Can you post more source info on that graphic? I can't even read it.
I'm interested because I wonder if they're conflating the "Black Irish" population said to come from invasions of the Spanish Armada. That's part of my heritage.
TIA.
The Iberians are believed to have been originally an African race, who thousands of years ago spread themselves through Spain over Western Europe. Their remains are found in the barrows or burying places on sundry parts of these countries. The skulls are of low prognathous type. They came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out competed in the healthy struggle of life and thus made way, according to the laws of nature for superior races.
I fail to see what the fuss is about...
If the Washington Redskins changed their name there are plenty of other names available to them
The Cheap Jews
The Drunken Irishmen
The Greasy Italians
The Stupid Polocks
Drunken irishmen is already taken. See the fighting irish guy.
and the proper term is "greeesey." try to get your stereotypes right.
Are you trying to denote a voiced S there? (as in "sleazy")?
Because that's a regional effect.
Its typical of the basic irish sterotype of a fisty brawler, it even leans on the more simean portrayals of the irish from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I'm 1/2 irish, and this doesnt offend me, although it is culled from various Irish sterotypes.
This is a good example of it.
Can you post more source info on that graphic? I can't even read it.
I'm interested because I wonder if they're conflating the "Black Irish" population said to come from invasions of the Spanish Armada. That's part of my heritage.
TIA.
The Iberians are believed to have been originally an African race, who thousands of years ago spread themselves through Spain over Western Europe. Their remains are found in the barrows or burying places on sundry parts of these countries. The skulls are of low prognathous type. They came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out competed in the healthy struggle of life and thus made way, according to the laws of nature for superior races.
Black Africans have an extensive history of being in Europe before the ice age that produced the so called European type ad afterwards. Funny how in their ignorance they actually end up validating the African presence back then but deny it now.
Drunken irishmen is already taken. See the fighting irish guy.
and the proper term is "greeesey." try to get your stereotypes right.
Are you trying to denote a voiced S there? (as in "sleazy")?
Because that's a regional effect.
When denoting an italian's americans over-use of hair styling products we do tend to use the "z" sound, with the extended "eeee" shound.
Its a New York thing, considering how many of the damn guido dagos we have around here.
(and I'm 1/2 italian).
Are you trying to denote a voiced S there? (as in "sleazy")?
Because that's a regional effect.
When denoting an italian's americans over-use of hair styling products we do tend to use the "z" sound, with the extended "eeee" shound.
Wait -- you're saying that in your area you distinguish between greasy with a voice S and greasy with an unvoiced S as two different meanings?
This is a linguistic question. I'm fascinated. I know about the regional speech variation but I'm not aware of disparate definitions. Please elaborate.
Its a New York thing, considering how many of the damn guido dagos we have around here.
(and I'm 1/2 italian).
There's a restaurant in my Mother's town that calls itself "Li'l Dagos". As long as they keep that name I'll never go in there. I have a Sicilian girlfriend.
If he's going to be open to something, why not negotiate with Congress and get this stalemate over?
I'm a mutt - mixed German and Irish roots.
I would be just fine, patronizing a restaurant called the Sour Kraut.
I would be just fine, patronizing a tavern called the Drunken Mick.
It's a wee bit o' faux acknowledgment and cultural memory-preservation, as well as mildly humorous.
I'm not offended in the slightest, even though my own heritage holds some genuine meaning for me.
No problem.
And, come to think of it, if I DID have a problem with it, I don't expect the rest of the world to change, because I turn into a whiney little biotch over it.
Like everyone else, I'm an adult, and can vote with my dollars.
My dollars... my choice.
I would be just fine, patronizing a restaurant called the Sour Kraut.
I would be just fine, patronizing a tavern called the Drunken Mick.
I'm a mutt - mixed German and Irish roots.
I would be just fine, patronizing a restaurant called the Sour Kraut.
I would be just fine, patronizing a tavern called the Drunken Mick.
It's a wee bit o' faux acknowledgment and cultural memory-preservation, as well as mildly humorous.
I'm not offended in the slightest, even though my own heritage holds some genuine meaning for me.
No problem.
And, come to think of it, if I DID have a problem with it, I don't expect the rest of the world to change, because I turn into a whiney little biotch over it.
Like everyone else, I'm an adult, and can vote with my dollars.
My dollars... my choice.
Yep. And, apparently, the hundreds of thousands (millions?) who patronize the Redskins' NFL franchise, do not, for the most part, share a 'line' with a relative handful of surviving natives."...We've all got a line somewhere..."
"...Would you patronize a Mexican place called the Lazy Wetback? Or a soul food establishment called the Uppity ******?..."
You're against Obama giving his opinion.^^^Another hater of free speech.
How is that hating free speech?
I'm a mutt - mixed German and Irish roots.
I would be just fine, patronizing a restaurant called the Sour Kraut.
I would be just fine, patronizing a tavern called the Drunken Mick.
It's a wee bit o' faux acknowledgment and cultural memory-preservation, as well as mildly humorous.
I'm not offended in the slightest, even though my own heritage holds some genuine meaning for me.
No problem.
And, come to think of it, if I DID have a problem with it, I don't expect the rest of the world to change, because I turn into a whiney little biotch over it.
Like everyone else, I'm an adult, and can vote with my dollars.
My dollars... my choice.
I agree with most of what you said but why is it being "whiny" when someone else does it but "free speech" when someone you agree with does it?
Yep. And, apparently, the hundreds of thousands (millions?) who patronize the Redskins' NFL franchise, do not, for the most part, share a 'line' with a relative handful of surviving natives."...We've all got a line somewhere..."
"...Would you patronize a Mexican place called the Lazy Wetback? Or a soul food establishment called the Uppity ******?..."
Nope.
But I would not patronize a placed called the Lazy Redskin or the Uppity Injun, either.
But that's not what's happening here.
I made no such connection between whining and free speech."...I agree with most of what you said but why is it being 'whiny"'when someone else does it but 'free speech' when someone you agree with does it?"
I made no such connection between whining and free speech."...I agree with most of what you said but why is it being 'whiny"'when someone else does it but 'free speech' when someone you agree with does it?"
Each of us is completely free to speak in such a way as to be construed as a whiney biotch by some of their listening audience...
You're on the right track, but you've gotta use a better grade of 'bait' than that...
Yes, to my way of thinking, and based upon my own life-experiences, and in all sincerety (not just to vaguely reinforce a discussion-point)... yes."...Is the adjective 'lazy' even necessary when you've got 'Redskin'?..."
He was asked a question, he answered it. He gave the most non-committal, safe answer he possibly could have given.
What exactly are you guys "outraged" about?
