I want to talk about some common stereotypes. I see people as individuals except for Utopians who by definition are mental midgets. Most of us are grouded in reality and stereotypes are for people who lack the skills to see people as individuals.
Lets look at the common gay stereotypes. Gays railing against religion and loathing team sports while spending all their time in art museums listening to Broadyway musicals. Rob and Justin are Christians with another view point of Christs message. Both follow team sports and enjoy watching them just like the rest of us. The last two are perplexing because I do enjoy Broadway and Art museums. This often comes as a shock to far left types who think that they own culture.
Christians are portrayed as ignorant and homophobic. Many of the objections of Christians to homosexuality are based in their interpretation of scripture. Do note that none of the conservatives supported the gay bashing assault in NYC. A surprising number of the posters here including myself favor civil unions. Most recognize the insanity of theological law would make us as insane as the people we fight in Iraq. The concept of Civil law and individual rights protects us. I am not a fan of tolerance as it implies inferiority. Respect is due each and every person until they prove otherwise.
The notion that Christians are uneducated is wishful thinking. The posters of this blog are well read in a myriad of subjects. I could go down the list but it would be endless. Even the Ducks views on films drew some amazing critique from Felis.
The notion that blacks are savages and prone to anti social behavior is also a myth.
This description does describe Uptown who is more Red then black. This description does not fit the black coworkers and friends of all walks of life. They have the same concerns as most of us jobs, family and making ends meet. Yet unlike Uptown I do not disparage low wage earners of any race. My friend Jerome works two full time jobs and his wife works nearly sixty hours. No thinking person disparages those who try and do their best each and every day. There are black entrepenuers and professionals but few sit around blaming Jews and righties. These people like professionals of all stripes take advantage of opportunities.
People are individuals but it is the far left that turns them into cartoons. Native Americans according to John Brown should all think x. Blacks according to Brown and Uptown should all think Y. Here is a creative concept for the far left think for yourselves.
People are not stereotypes but we do have stooges that visit this site. Ducky plays the Moe Role as the cerebral apologist for genocidal Marxism. Brown does not have the apptitude for stupidity and plays the curly role. Then there is Uptown who is todays curly stupid and lazy. Some of Uptowns mistakes are comedy but it is from geting his ideas in snippets on the web rather then reading books.
Let us all remember that people are individuals.
34 comments:
Beaker- The problem is, except for Ducky(and he is problematic as well) they are too stupid to be funny except by accident! There is ignorant, which is cured by education. There is stupid, which occassionally is genetic, but then there is foolish, which is willful blindness! jobro and uppity are foolish!
tmw
All your comments have been posted duck
I do not hold stereotypes... Most people will prove themselves one way or another very quickly, so it seems to me to be a waste of time to pre-judge.
Stereotypes have some validity in them--some moreso than others. But I agree with Brooke in holding judgement on somebody until I actually know them better.
Uptown is a clown who believes any black that doesn't tote his radicalist ideals is a "boot-licker".
Sterotypes are pretty lame, obvisouly in every group, there are different people, with different beleifs, but they all come together under one goal or one beleif, or they have that one thing in common that links them together, but to say all people in a certain group are this or that is pretty lame.
Excellent Post Beak.
For the record, name the time and place, via email or whatever it might be, and we can do that 3 way interview you wanted to do.
For the record according to the popular stereotypes I am more likely to be gay then you or Justin. I lived in Union Squre NYC and like Broadway musicals and art galleries. There are gay people who fit those descriptions and many
who do not.
Well beak, i happen to like Broadway and Musicals, but i also like sports, and i'm very passionate about Football, especally Michigan Wolverine football, i havent missed a game since i was 15, i even worked as a teenager at Michigan Stadium concessions, just to see them play.
I try to treat people as individuals. Sometimes I fail. It's been my experience that on both the right and the left that there are some who try and label or lump people into groups because then they can be marginalized or called extreme. However because I am a Chrisitian I believe one's value is given or endowed as the Constitution by the Creator and not by the opinions or judgements of other people.
yeah, yeah, yeah - i like burly guys in kilts!
Rob
Many of our likes and dislikes are shaped by our environment. Would Ducky be functional if he grew up in a normal state. I doubt I would enjoy the arts or Broadway if I were not a NYC native.
Kilts are skirts! and a man in a skirt is just wrong, and yeah i'm scottish, i just think its weird.
Speaking of trolls. I just aborted Uptown Steve once and for all at my blog. He crossed the line with his last pointless rant.
rowbear - kilts are NOT skirts! until you've seen a couple thousand different men in them at once, you don't know what you're talking about!
my husband said he'd even wear one if wrangler would start making them out of denim and he's about as masculine as a man gets - of course, he's also the man who says only men comfortable with their masculinity can get away with wearing pink! take it back!
John Brown
Your days of posting here are over. You will never post a single letter. The choice was made before your stupid parody.
I may reconsider Uptown on a limited basis but you are out of here. Actions have consequences and when you spam a blog with vulgar repeatative posts you force a couter reaction. Place as many parodies as you like because nobody reads your site.
Florian,
Speaking of trolls. I just aborted Uptown Steve once and for all at my blog.
I haven't been up to most of my blog rounds today, so I didn't see the rant. Ah, well. Same old, same old, I'm sure.
Your site, your rules. Never forget that.
Kilts? My husband had to wear a kilt at a private school he attended. PE at times consisted of Scottish dancing. The students at that school were so good that they got to compete at the Hemisfair in San Antonio.
To this day, my husband isn't too fond of bagpipes, especially if they are used for reveille (sp).
Beak, speaking of JB he left 2 comments expressing a desire to molest my children today. The man is demented.
Brown is well on his way to a blogger complaint. The site is still owned by Blogger and there are limits.
EB,
speaking of JB he left 2 comments expressing a desire to molest my children today.
That is crossing the line! Even further crossing the line, I mean.
The man is becoming more and more unhinged! What is he thinking, no, never mind, I do not want a peek inside that mess!
tmw
if people do not wish to be stereotyped they should not be soooooooo stereotypical. i'm sure beamish would even agree with me.
Its that time people!
Here is the link to complain.
http://help.blogger.com/?page=help
Read the blogger TOS, (terms of service). and only complain about things which violate it. Complaints about stalking will probably earn you a "go tell a lawyer" Email from blogger.
Be specific, attach posts or Emails.
brownie is sick and needs to be treated as such. here on the farm we put a shovel up against sick animal's head - postehaste!
I can't believe how demented this Brown guy is. A blog devoted to pretending to be you just so he can rant? No joke, he should be put in a sanitarium.
fern just banished the browneye! hip-hip for our fern!
Jeff Bargholz,
Not to dig up an old bone, but Pat Buchanan is a national socialist, and therefore not "right-wing." He's made 3 hard right turns in his life and wound up on the far left and is barely distinguishable from Arianna Huffington (the difference is A.H. has people who think she's politically relevant behind her)
My favorite is "liberal." People who claim "liberal philosphy" are frequently the most intolerant of all who aren't pc according to their liberal ideology.
beak - tell me you're not posting as any other than "beakerkin" on longrange - check your e-mail. brownie is trying to infiltrate - get with warren for details.
Batya- That is soooooo true! Liberal used to mean open handed and hearted! Willing to listen, give the benefit of the doubt, now we are seeing the demonization of our language! It has been hijacked by the most intolerant, lockstep, closeminded and unhinged people around! I don't want to be associated with them!
Good morning and G*D bless in spite of the circumstances!
tmw
Nanc- It is so obviously NOT Beaker's style, he is not deranged or a spluttering nitwit!
tmw
Jeff,
One of the great ironies of life is that Buchanan's stint on CNN's Crossfire with Michael Kinsley epitomized the domination leftists once had on political discussion / news analysis shows.
Look at Buchanan's economic proposals as a Presidential candidate. Tell me the difference between them and slogans on an window-smashing "anarchist" anti-globalization creme puff's protest sign.
Beamish have you picked a VP yet? If not you and Jeff would make a great ticket.
Jeff and I don't see eye to eye on a few things that would get in the way of effective policy execution. (i.e. he'd warn foreign diplomats to get out of the UN building before the airstrike hit)
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