It wouldn’t have been out of order either way; I failed to acknowledge the position of the speaker as an important variable, and therefore created a unilateral standard for interpretation. I did that only because it felt like a huge red herring in context, and I didn’t want to give anyone the chance to jump on it. It wouldn’t have been a good idea were I dealing with something broader than “reclamation.”

Me of course.

They’re capos basically, uncle toms without any qualms about taking the whip to the other slaves.

Okay, I know this is OT, but will you guys please READ Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Uncle Tom is a saintly, jeebus-like figure. It is preposterous that calling someone an “Uncle Tom” is an insult. By no stretch of even an insane man’s imagination, would Uncle Tom whip another slave.

Get your Literary Referents right!! Or suffer the wrath of a 45 year old has-been!

If I knew more about music, I would say the above mash-up was be sung to the tune of Skrewdriver’s “Prisoner of Peace.” References to the Firedoglake quotes being paraphrased above can be found here, here and here. Also,……

(I’m a boy. Which adds a whole ‘nother dimension to the whole c-word thing.)

There’s a whole discussion around how these words should work in discussions about language, and whether off-limits is not as individuated as reclamatory. I just figured I’d do what I normally do and stick with the specific issue I was tackling right then.

And that’s before I get into the fact I’ve never heard any POC in real life use nigger in that sense.

Do you mean that you seemed to be doing that or that I seemed to be doing that?

Since the last couple of months I’m thinking that the intutition I’ve worked on for years to sense when mysoginy is in the air went off and I turned away without giving it a second thought. Glad to know that I’m finally learning to stay out of the goddamned mine field. For me, as a woman, that is exactly how it feels when stumbling upon such offensive trash as that piece on the congresswoman.

I have met a million jerks like T-rek or whatever he calls himself, but Jane Hamsher? When I see a supposedly intelligent woman so drunk with stupidity I am truly stumped.

In any case, you’re right, and it’s about time he take responsibility for his words…

I did a search on his real name (to see if I could quickly verify his age) and was reminded that he had some interesting things to say to Jurassic Pork that didn’t come off too nice…