Comments on: New York GOP Nominates Freeper to Challenge Hillary in Senate Race

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Wed, 03 May 2006 18:28:01 +0000

I find your site very Informative

By: STH

STH — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:19:02 +0000

I know what you mean, Marq. I’ve been doing this whole woman/femininity thing for 41 years now, and I’ve never managed to get anywhere near that femmy. Thank God! Poor guy sure paid the price for being himself–if I recall the book correctly, he got beat up constantly. Gotta respect that (the honesty, that is, not the pummelling).

By: Marq

Marq — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:36:12 +0000

Quentin Crisp died back in 1999. He was 91. PBS’s “The Naked Civil Servant” was one of many things I saw growing up that terrified me in that I was beginning to realize that I was gay and didn’t want to wind up like… that. Fortunately, one doesn’t have to be that swishy or femmy. Phew!

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:30:57 +0000

Just to push the etymology: “cracker” is not derived from the whiteness of saltines. It is from “craiq,” which is Gaelic for talking a lot, or jabbering.

So it is really a limey term signifying loud-mouthed rednecks.

By: STH

STH — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 06:59:15 +0000

Many points for the Quentin Crisp reference, Marq. I didn’t think anybody remembered him anymore but me. Is he still alive? I think he would be about 300 now . . . .

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:08:02 +0000

Oh, and technically- “cracker” is not necessarily a geographical pejorative (though it is most frequently used in the South; redneck is the geographical specifacation), but a socio-economic descriptor of a working or lower middle class rural white person (which I am), presumambly one who is conservative in adapting their personal habits to the prevailing society (which I probably also am), though “honkey” might be more catch all.
I’m also of Irish decent- hence “Mick”- and a Kraut, for that matter, since I’m also 3/8th German… though technically, since my family controlled lands on both sides of the German-Poland border, I could be called a “Polack” as well, I suppose.
While not accurate, I actually have been called a redneck (even if, as a midwesterner, I’m technically not one) repeatedly by suburban types at my college, so I included it for the sake of completeness.

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:58:28 +0000

My head hurts after reading that... Especially considering that The Cartoon Jihad in Ohio was her previous work. The dissonance is astounding- nay, mind-blowing

By: elemental

elemental — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:21:02 +0000

In 3 Kings, which was a great movie, the irony was that Ice Cube didn’t want them to use dune coon or sand nigger because they include derogatory terms for black people unlike raghead or camel jockey which were acceptable.

You should definitely use Raghead, just so Michelle Malkin can get all sanctimonious about race baiting, which has got to be one of the funniest things evah.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004539.htm

By: Osama Bin Forgotten

Osama Bin Forgotten — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:13:47 +0000

You guys kill me, your politicians are doing a great job fucking things up…it’s worth being stuck in a CIA safecave in Pakistan.

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:57:06 +0000

Oh yeah… that’s a sweet movie, gotta go rent that sometime.

By: dAVE

dAVE — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:36:59 +0000

Can you be a Mick AND a Cracker at the same time?
Actually, you can – sort of. Many of the poor southern whites in the US are descendents of Irish (or Scottish) immigrants.

Re: Raghead. Y’all see Three Kings? There’s this whole scene about what constitutes acceptable slurs for the Iraqis “sand nigger” was unacceptable, but “raghead” and “camel jockey” were OK.
It was a pretty funny scene.

By: Oh, FTLOG

Oh, FTLOG — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:43:05 +0000

oooh! I like this game…

I’m a Coon-Ass Cracker…and damn proud of it!

Gumbo anyone?

By: Woodrowfan

Woodrowfan — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:02:16 +0000

Can you be a Mick AND a Cracker at the same time?

By: teh l4m3

teh l4m3 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:52:38 +0000

What? Nobody lacked the good taste to come up with “Dhun ibn Qoon”? Well let me be the first, ‘cos you know, Ann Coulter’s kinda stealing our thunder here…

By: Major Woody

Major Woody — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:51:43 +0000

STH, I took the use of the slur ‘raghead’ to be ironic. And yeah, it is viewed as appropriate in your more virulent righty circles. Think about what happened at the Conservative Politial Action Caucus recently, where Ann Coulter said â€œI think our motto should be post-9-11, â€˜raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences,â€™â€? which received a boisterous ovation. Substitute ‘nigger’ or ‘kike’ for raghead, and would the audience have still applauded? God, who am I kidding, they probably would have.

By: MCH

MCH — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:44:51 +0000

[Y]'all remember "Perfect Strangers," right? NOW I do. Thanks a fucking lot.

By: Random Guy

Random Guy — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:53:36 +0000

I think that the term ‘raghead’ is viewed by many to be more acceptable than other ethnic slurs, but that this fairly widespread hypocrisy only serves to further legitimise Brad’s parody.

By: Marq

Marq — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:49:03 +0000

Considering al-Rag’hed’s line, it sounds as though you could rename him “Qu’entin al-Qrisp,” though that’d open a whole, new can o’ worms.

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:02:09 +0000

See- it’s not making a joke about Arabs so much as making a joke about media portrayal of ethnicity.
That’s why it’s funny. I haven’t seen Raghead to be more acceptable in mainstream American society than any other ethnic slur- that the wingnuts use it more often is due to their particular focus. If it had been an Asian group that had been the terrorists, then they would use them.

By: STH

STH — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:09 +0000

My problem with this particular term is that it seems to be viewed by many Americans as much more acceptable than other ethnic slurs. By way of comparison, consider this: if you had been making a joke about African-Americans, would you have named a character in your hypothetical show “Nick N****r”? I doubt that you would consider that funny.

And puh-leeze do not lecture me about the evils of “political correctness”; I’m simply talking about treating people with respect. For the record, I do not believe that Brad intended any disrespect. That’s what I meant when I wrote he was “above that.”