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re: Hey Michelle, I've been asked to do the same thing. Many times
Posted on 12/17/14 at 12:02 pm to LSUnation78
Posted on 12/17/14 at 12:02 pm to LSUnation78
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So now its racist to ask for help getting things off of a shelf? Well thats great, I can drop my white guilt since I myself have experienced such petulant racism many times.
ETA: If SNL had any balls left, this would make for a great skit.
It is likely at least partially untrue because of the security precautions. She likely had to embellish or completely make-up a situation then extrapolate it to this larger narrative of prejudice and discrimination, even though the "facts" are so limited and trivial that it is impossible to link it to any larger psychological or sociological concepts.
If anything, it makes her sound like an elitist. It's almost as if she thinks people should be flocking to her like teenage girls at a Justin Beiber concert, and that being asked for assistance is below her status. Very narcisistic-like.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:08 pm to Frank Black
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Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her.
Well, at least she's good for something.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:11 pm to Frank Black
I'm a 5'11" white man, and I have ladies ask me all the time to help them get something off the top shelf at stores. Does that make them sexist? Or am I a hightist?
I'm confused.
I'm confused.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:13 pm to Frank Black
Seriously, this guy and his transgender shemale wife can both die in a fire.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:24 pm to Frank Black
What's missing in this daily installment of this board's Faux Outrage Du Jour is the context, and that's usually the case. If the Interviewer prefaces a question with the statement that they've been criticized by some in the black community for not standing up against racism and for being out of touch with the black community and your answer is examples of I've been there done that, it's not like they were getting up on stage and whining. In fact what's not being cut and pasted presents a different light on the interview (I know shocking):
Things have gotten better, both Obamas agreed, but there's still more progress to be made.
"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced," President Obama said. "It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."
Things have gotten better, both Obamas agreed, but there's still more progress to be made.
"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced," President Obama said. "It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:31 pm to Vegas Bengal
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is the context, and that's usually the case.
Wait, Michelle cites a short person asking her to get something off a shelf as a racial issue and we are the ones supposed to consider context?
How stupid are you willing to look to defend? Don't answer - rhetorical question.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:32 pm to Vegas Bengal
Vegas... being ASKED for HELP getting something off a shelf can hardly be looked at in the lens of race. Come on you dense neophyte.
Even the quote you decided to add... "the way teenagers dress" Wtf is he saying? How can it be racist if all teenagers dress that way?
Even the quote you decided to add... "the way teenagers dress" Wtf is he saying? How can it be racist if all teenagers dress that way?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:34 pm to Godfather1
quote:*e-brohug*
Traumatizing, I tell ya. I feel so abused.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:35 pm to Frank Black
quote:Poorly.
That seems to be the point she was making.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:37 pm to LSUnation78
She may have used a poorly explained example.
But she was completely right about her assessments.
But she was completely right about her assessments.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:45 pm to StrongSafety
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She may have used a poorly explained example.
Nothing was poorly explained. 2 years ago it felt SO GOOD that someone talked to her as a person in Target when trying to defend it not being a photo op - today the very person that made her feel SO GOOD subjected her to racism by asking her as a taller person to get detergent.
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But she was completely right about her assessments.
Her assessment that she was subject to racism in this instance is completely and utterly wrong. She is race baiting. Again. Shocker.
But of course, who cares if she is actually lieing as long as it is for a good cause, amirite?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:46 pm to Vegas Bengal
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"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced," President Obama said. "It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."
His analogy is inconsistent. First he compares his generation to the older generation, i.e.
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"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced".
But the supporting example he gives has no correlation with the analogy he presented in that first sentence, i.e.
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"It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."
So he went from comparing his generation with the one prior to comparing his generation with Trayvon Martin's. He did a little switcheroo there. See it?
This post was edited on 12/17/14 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:48 pm to Frank Black
Maybe they asked her not because they thought she worked there, but because she is tall
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:49 pm to DosManos
quote:Trust me, he didn't.
See it?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 1:55 pm to Frank Black
wait this is the 2nd "moo got dissed" thread today..
can't you liberals learn to grovel better, I mean, flying around on Air Force 2 all year has to be a ruff fukin life huh? The sycophantic left fails to suck up properly according to the First leftists in the White House but it's the fault of all the rest of us?
Posted on 12/17/14 at 2:00 pm to StrongSafety
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Strongsafety
Just for the record, perpetual victims may garner the sympathy of the weak-minded, but they will NEVER earn the respect of successful people. This would trouble any person of character. A narcissist, or a professional victim, -not so much. The constant whining and special pleading about how she is "disrespected" somehow is not some kind of moral capital being earned, but rather a shallow moral vanity being displayed. She does it, because she knows her audience expects it and will reward her for it, reinforcing her victimhood status. It's essentially pandering to the lowest expectations of her audience. This is what Race Grievance Politics looks like from the First Lady, and it's a really, really sad cultural statement.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 2:03 pm to Frank Black
shite, I get asked to help people all the time.
Friggin racists batards.
Friggin racists batards.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 2:06 pm to Lsupimp
Says the perpetual victim.
Its a rare day when you're not complaining how someone did you wrong. The press, the liberals, the clerk at Albertsons. It's all a conspiracy.
Its a rare day when you're not complaining how someone did you wrong. The press, the liberals, the clerk at Albertsons. It's all a conspiracy.
Posted on 12/17/14 at 2:10 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
Saw a black guy in Church a couple weeks ago wearing orange cargo pants and an orange generic collar shirt.
Remarked to my girlfriend that perhaps that is not the best choice of attire
Remarked to my girlfriend that perhaps that is not the best choice of attire
Posted on 12/17/14 at 2:34 pm to Frank Black
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Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.
Is she really 5-11? That means in heels she is about 6-2. She doesn't look that tall.
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