Rep. Lamborn: Working With Obama Is like 'Touching a Tar Baby' (Miami, education)

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

Originally Posted by Wayland Woman

Seriously? I didn't know that and the urban dictionary doesn't list it as such. Must not be a term used universally, yet, in the manner you say.

"Just becase you're not familiar with it, doesn't mean it's not a racist term..."

[ChocLot]

Originally Posted by buddy5

You are catching on. At least, not in front of me. Do you really think he used it as a slur?

Wow....no wonder you don't get it.

[enemy country]

Originally Posted by jwm1964

To slander those you don't like or disagree with as racist is despicable behavior.

To be a racist is far worse behavior

[buddy5]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Whether some posters have never heard this term or not is irrelevant. It's out there. Lamborn had obviously heard of it.

And how do you know that?

Do you really believe this man purposely insulted the most powerful man in the world with a racial slur on national TV?

[GregW]

"Touching a Tar Baby" has the connotation of leaving the toucher as permanently stained as if the "touched" a black person. Calling someone a tar baby is not a term of endearment.

[ChocLot]

Originally Posted by ButterBrownBiscuit

This is the crux of the issue for me - you can debate the connotation in which Lamborn used the term all you want, but to flatly deny there is any racial/racist connotation just makes them seem disingenious.

~ButterBrownBiscuit~

Agreed. Though I will give Lamborn the benefit of the doubt (), some of these posters are just being willfully ignorant.

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

Originally Posted by buddy5

And how do you know that?

Do you really believe this man purposely insulted the most powerful man in the world with a racial slur on national TV?

It's called projection. It's when one (often incorrectly) "projects" their own beliefs or biases onto someone else.

[buddy5]

Originally Posted by ChocLot

Agreed. Though I will give Lamborn the benefit of the doubt (), some of these posters are just being willfully ignorant.

Cute oxymoron

How does that work?

I don't know something on purpose?

[AeroGuyDC]

I belive Liberals on this thread are guilty of willfully spinning an insensitive comment into a racist comment. I find it deplorable, and completely representative of Liberal Ideology as whole. You folks simply know no bounds as to how low you will stoop.

This guy is guilty of insensitivity, not racism.

I believe each and every one of you know how ignorant you sound, but yet it stops none of you. Disgusting.

[buddy5]

Originally Posted by Toyman at Jewel Lake

It's called projection. It's when one (often incorrectly) "projects" their own beliefs or biases onto someone else.

'SPLAIN' that to me.

So, I am projecting my belief (or bias) onto you, that I don't really know I have, at you?

Kinda like unconscious insulting?