I have a hard time believing Mayor Annise Parker really tweeted such an ignorant statement... (terrorists, examples)

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by TheMoreYouKnow

I left the city of Houston years ago because of people like you and Annise Parker, I grew tired of paying your bills and for your mistakes.

You're welcome.

"People like me" as in college graduates and single persons with a household income more than twice the city average? Not a cent out of your filthy pocket has built anything in this house, sir. Your assumptions about me are a shining illustration of your ignorance and bigotry.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Jaymax

To put this in context, she was interviewed by telephone by a Texax GLBT news source:

Houston Mayor Annise Parker calls Phil Robertson a 'redneck wingnut' whose views are 'completely irrelevant' | Lone Star Q

"Naturally, I couldn’t resist asking Parker — the nation’s first openly gay big-city mayor — what she thinks about the Phil Robertson “Duck Dynasty” controversy."

“I have never watched ‘Duck Dynasty,’ so I don’t think about it much at all,” Parker responded. “I’ve been a gay community activist since the mid-70s.
It was a very different time. We were fighting to keep people out of jails and mental hospitals. What some redneck wingnut has to say about the GLBT community is completely irrelevant.”

Thank you for the context. The high moralizing about her bring held to a higher standard is just deflecting from Robertson's comments. Its a pathetic attempt to equate the two when there is no equivalence.

People defending Robertson but denouncing Parker just live off this double standards when they're called out. Her using the word redneck as derogatory makes no difference. It was always used as derogatory slang to ppl who espouse backward and hateful ignorant stuff.

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

"People like me" as in college graduates and single persons with a household income more than twice the city average? Not a cent out of your filthy pocket has built anything in the house, sir. Your assumptions about me are a shining illustration of your ignorance and bigotry.

The only thing more pathetic than your apparent lies are your opinions.

[Ceist]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

Its not the same thing! There is no moral equivalence. That is just absurd.

Saying that some one is an irrelevant ignorant fool for saying hateful racist and homophobic comments is not in the same field as the person who said the hateful stuff. Good lord, some of you are so transparent.

Look just stick to your guns instead of tossing in the "civility" card and thinking cons are getting prejudice for their backwards views. Being racist and homophobic is not some ticket to be a rebellious fool. It's not cool and ppl will call you out on it, but it's not the same "hate".

Seriously, using the argument of some of these people:

The KKK just has 'different views" about blacks. Hitler just had "different views" about Jews

And we should respect their 'different views"

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by TheMoreYouKnow

The only thing more pathetic than your apparent lies are your opinions.

Well, let's see some proof that these are lies. They're "apparent", so it shouldn't take you that long to find it.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

"People like me" as in college graduates and single persons with a household income more than twice the city average? Not a cent out of your filthy pocket has built anything in this house, sir. Your assumptions about me are a shining illustration of your ignorance and bigotry.

These relics think they're the gatekeepers of the American social order so they espouse high morals which are more than just empty platitudes. They think they're being "rebels" when they just look foolish.

They didn't build Houston.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by radiolibre99

These relics think they're the gatekeepers of the American social order so they espouse high morals which are more than just empty platitudes. They think they're being "rebels" when they just look foolish.

They didn't build Houston.

...all behind the safety of a keyboard.

Oh, don't get me wrong. Once in a while, they may find the balls to tell some kid to pull his pants up, but even he knows better than to pay them any mind.

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Jaymax

Seriously, using the argument of some of these people:

The KKK just has 'different views" about blacks. Hitler just had "different views" about Jews

And we should respect their 'different views"

Exactly! I guess we are being hateful because we call their comments ignorant too?

Good Lord, I wish these ppl would just own up to being racist or homophobic or xenophobic instead of hiding behind the civility canard or telling others who call them out that they're being intolerant of their views and therefore "hateful".

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

Well, let's see some proof that these are lies. They're "apparent", so it shouldn't take you that long to find it.

You mean aside from your 7,700+ posts, most of which clearly came from someone who has never seen the inside of a college classroom except to empty the trash cans?

[radiolibre99]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

...all behind the safety of a keyboard.

Oh, don't get me wrong. Once in a while, they may find the balls to tell some kid to pull his pants up, but even he knows better than to pay them any mind.

They'll say it behind a keyboard because they know they'll get called out in public.