Uppity-Negro.com: In Memoriam

Oooh, I'm destwoyed!

Smooches!

Ok, I don't expect you to say anything worthwhile at your own place. It would shatter years of precedent. But could you at least try to contribute something worthwhile to the discussion here?

Or is name-calling from the safety of your computer all you're good for?

Sorry. Warblogger. Of course that's all you're good for. Carry on, love.

Name calling?

Never mind.

Cunt.

Yea. Only warbloggers do that.

Nigger.

Wow. I can see how name calling from a computer is so gratifying.

Not.

Michele, hardly.

I don't recall anyone making the claim that they were.

I said that was all they were good for, which is hardly the same thing.

And to be honest, they're not terribly good at that, either.

As Mishu just demonstrated so compellingly. Been a while since I've had that one tossed my way. . .

...Wow, it's like I woke up and it's 2002 all over again...

Hey, Jeff. Welcome to the party.

I expect John Hawkins will be along shortly.

So. All y'all mother fuckers against little ol' me.

God damn, I almost feel sorry for you.

Come get some.

Did I say something against you? Man, it's getting to be so that my signature carries with it threatening connotations.

Anyways, I'm looking for blurbs to decorate my site with. Throw some at me and let's see what sticks, eh?

(Or saving that, can you find something for me from your archives? I can't seem to get your search box to work for me.)

All the best,
Jeff

Try the search link; the box on the front page doesn't get along well with IE, for some reason. Entire site's designed around Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/Mozilla, really.

Aaron:

I would suggest changing the name of your blog. How about "Whiny-bitchy-nonsequitur-producing-Negro"?

Hmm, this one might work: "humorless, clueless, funkless, dickless, racist, pretentious, pathetic little shit."

...'fcourse, I may have to widen the margins a bit to fit it all.

Let me know if you come up with something else.

And thanks for the MT-Search link.

Fondly,
Jeff G.

Jeff, no worries. Do those links (where, when, etc.) in the middle column appear at the very bottom of the page for you? The Tina the Troubled Teen graphic is just a wee bit too wide for it to align correctly in 800x600, I've noticed, and since Brunching.com hasn't changed it in months, I'm thinking about removing her again.

Russell, you might want to try that search link yourself; that joke was made in a previous tourist invasion.

If it's any consolation, it wasn't funny then, either.

Yeah, I'm seeing those links, but in the middle column below the monthly archives. My screen res is set at 1440 x 900.

Dear Aaron,

My best buddy's husband came back from Iraq a year ago, and nothing kills him more than the lily livered chicken-shit war bloggers who safely fight for freedom from behind their computer screens. Buy a clue losers, the average soldier hates bush.

To Jeff G, Mishu, Michele, Russell,and Andrea: drown your sorrows and cold hearts in a pint of warm guiness. Maybe then you be able to truly emphathize with your fellow man.

:P

I'm with you, Aaron. At first, I was all like, liberate the Iraqis. Give them a better life, make the world a little better place. Help them get a democracy up and running, so that other Middle Eastern countries could have an example to work from. That would be cool, like.

But then, I realized that it's so chic to be anti-war and stuff. Much easier to say "fuck Bush" and "fuck the war" than to actually think.

Jeff, changed the links to more descriptive titles. You're a pretty sharp guy, and if you couldn't figure out what the cutesy names were supposed to mean, I'm not sure the rest of these folks have any hope at all. 1440 x 900? Damn, what size monitor are you using?

Nikki, thanks, but I think if you put all those folks in a room together they couldn't agree on lunch. Tarring 'em all with the same brush seems a bit counterproductive.

Christian (and where's Edge?), some antiwar/anti-Bush demonstrators shared (some of) those goals you mentioned in your first paragraph, but feel a war wasn't the best way to accomplish them. Suggesting, as you did, that they did not, and that there was no thought involved in their decision-making, is also a wee bit counterproductive.

If you'd like to know why I, personally, was against the war, and ain't none to thrilled with Bush, you could, you know, ask. Or there is that search function. . .

So far the most creative idea you came up with for regime change is saying "cunt". I just thought a quid pro quo was due.

I sure you did the Bush=Hitler thing to. You are so thoughtful.

Actually, Mishu, I haven't. Closest was mentioning the Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion, and that was a more general comparison of Republican policies and those of the Nazis, restricted to those two issues.

As I've mentioned several times, there is a search function, and you can just ask what I believe, rather than tossing accusations.

Michele's written extensively about the freakshows on DU recently. You, my friend, are their right-wing equivalent.

Why don't you and them go somewhere and fight with pointed sticks, and leave the adults alone, eh?

Okay, Aaron, I see. Much clearer now, thanks.

The old laptop died the day after I resumed my site (I don't put much stock in omens, but damn!), so I had to go out and get another computer. After about an hour's thought, I decided on one of these so-called "portable desktops." Amazingly, you can buy a laptop with a 17" widescreen display and DVD-RW these days for under $1500. Bless the free-market, is all I have to say. Oh, and all those underpaid Chinese workers, too.

Nikki --

Two things. One: Do I even know you? Two: what the fuck is "emphathize"?

"Russell, you might want to try that search link yourself; that joke was made in a previous tourist invasion.

If it's any consolation, it wasn't funny then, either."

Aaron,
I don't have to searcg; I'll just take your word for it that someone said the same thing before. I'll even grant you that it wasn't funny. But it was TRUE then, just as it is now.

Nikki,
What color is the sky in the fantasy world you inhabit? The average soldier hates Bush, eh? I wonder why the military overwhelmingly leans Republican.

Oh, forget I said that. I wouldn't want to cause any emotional distress by injecting some reality into your worldview. Run along and play now, kiddo. Back to the fever swamps with ye.

With a name like Uppity-negro, one would expect to find diversity here – instead these pages are marred by slurs. The C word is not just a slur against one womin, it’s a slur against all vagino-Americans.

This site is hopelessly dick-centric. Tolerance is not being perceived at all. This space is not open to diversity or honest questions about sexuality, race, issues of multiple identity, or womminhood. Your perception of herstory is lacking.

Your reactionary aggression and hostility has no place in our Rainbow Community of Left Wing Poseurs. One more utterance of the C word, and you’re out of the club, bitch.

Really?

Been meaning to get to Women and Children First and pick up a copy of Inga Muscio's Cunt.

Your move, asshole.

Russell, could you join Mishu on that trip to the Island of Misfit Toys? Thanks.

Jeff, oy. Don't you love it when the universe gets all subtle like that? And you have to gently point out to it that, actually, the 'b' is silent?

And I know how this sounds coming from me -- completely hypocritical -- but your reply to Nikki seemed just a wee bit needlessly antagonistic. . .

Aaaaugh! You said it again, the C-word, the one word vagino-Americans can’t bear to hear.

The floor is spinning. Everything has taken on the quality of a bad horror film! I vomit in shock.

You just don’t get it. It’s okay for vagino-Americans to use the C-word, but in our patriarchal male-dominated society it is NOT OK for the oppressors to use it. It’s our word, not yours.

It’s a vagino-American thing, you wouldn’t understand. Vagino-humins around the world have been suffering oppression for tens of thousands of years, so we're more vitimized than you are.

So we win. Nyah – nyah.

You are now officially expelled from our wonderful Rainbow Community of Left-Wing Poseurs. Please report to your local RCLWP office (you know, that used bookstore that sells posters of Che) and turn in your badge.

Again, my partisanship may be blinding me to similar behavior on the left, but this is like the 4th or 5th time some right-winger has said to their minions, "Go troll this guy's site."

Might be undercounting there, since it's the second time for Andrea alone. . .

My apologies to Nikki for poisoning the discourse with my vituperative tone.

I would like to address the substance of Andrea Harris's absurd remarks rather than just call her a name. She's wrong. The presidential race was, according to all accounts I have read, going to be a close one. When the tragic terrorist attack occurred, Aznar was quick to call th enewspapers and blame ETA for the attack and quick to reassure the Spanish people that ETA was responsible for the attack. The Socialists found out about that and also abotu the fact that it was, in fact, an al Qaeda-sponsored attack. They threatened to publicize this and so Aznar had to back down. The Spanish people were appalled that the presidnt of their country tried to play politics with this tragedy immediately after it occurred. They were also, and this is all according to numerous accounts and interviews I have read over the past several weeks, apalled that their president had failed to keep the country safe from terrorism. Finally, they were upset enough to begin with that their president had dragged them into the Bush regime's campaign of settling old scores for no good reason with the invasion of Iraq. Those are the facts, and Ms Harris not withstanding, they remain the basis of the election's strong result. The message that the Spanish sent was strong and clear. It was not a message of appeasement, but of extreme disgust with Aznar and his actions and failures. Zapatero made it clear from the moment that he was elected that he was intending to seek a European solution to terrorism, and a strong one at that.

My take on the Spanish election is summed up in that word I used several times: strong. One would have to be a complete idiot to think that the Spanish response was anything but a strong response to the actions of their president and a strong message of their desire to end terrorism and punish the terrorists. In case Ms Harris hasn't been paying attention, Iraq had no connection to terrorism in Europe or the US. A president who bogs his resources down in a pointless war while allowing terrorists to regain their strength elsewhere and launch attacks such as the one in Spain is a bad president and ought to be removed.

I'm not a big fan of that word Aaron used. I know too many women who are horrified by that word and out of respect for their strong feelings I avoid the word and condemn its use. I also don't think the word is well enough defined, in that context, to have much meaning and I am all about being precise writing (a pox on the Deconstructionists). I think "idiot", "moron", "dupe", or "tool of liars" would all have been better words and phrases because they express strong opposition and disapproval as well as greater accuracy.

Aaron,

You are right about painting people with broad brushes. It shouldn't be done, but the nastiness of their comments truly angered me at the time. Ah, next time I will take four deep breathes before typing.

Rusell,

Being a Republican does not equal being a Bush supporter. He will not have the millitary vote this time around.

Jeff G.

Empathize is the verb form of empathy. It roughly means to be able to feel for another person's situation. For example, Girl A empathizes with Boy B's girlfriend troubles, because she understands how it feels to deal with someone who betrays one's trust within a relationship.

All is forgiven ( sarcasm is not a literary device, so I believe that you are being sincere)I am sorry if I may have jumped the gun by lumping you with the more extreme conservatives.

Nikki: Your sample size seems awfully small to be claiming what you're claiming about The Whole Military Vote.

Do you think "the military vote" will go to John F'in Kerry? Seriously? For real?

On the other hand, she actually has a sample size. How many people who served over there do you know personally?

I know, I know, anecdotal evidence counts for little. Does remind us that there are actual human beings involved in "the military," something the chickenhawks tend to forget.

Probably because they don't consider the lower classes and the lesser races human.

I know at least a dozen soldiers that have served overseas in the past two years. Each and every one of them is now a Bush supporter and many of them were not BEFORE they entered the service.

I'll grant the truth of the Sigivald statement on even my sample size. The military is far to large and diverse of an organization to make any generic statements about without solid sampling, which is hard to come by.

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