The funny thing about “stereotypes” is that they come into being because they are true a large enough percentage of the time to warrant it. Funny how stereotypes aren’t always negative either…i.e. that asians typically move on to management/professional jobs.

I’ve got another one for you….”liberals like to resort to personal attacks on people that they cannot match up with on an intelectual level”

On the first part, you are sort of correct. The human brain (and most brains in general), is wired in such a way as to make associations and generalizations. We literally couldn’t function without the tendency to stereotype things. However, many stereotypes are not formed by the individual. The stereotype that Asians are more likely to move on to “management/professional jobs [sic].”

As for the second part, it’s unclear as to whether or not it is yours. If it is, it’s an inherently hypocritical comment.

You are right; I stand corrected. $19 mil isn’t nearly enough. Obviously, the monetary resources needed are vast. Luckily, the monetary resources available to the world are virtually infinite.

But I do believe she is correct that appointing somebody who has made such inflammatory comments to such an important post has too many predictably problematic situations, whether or not some believe she was right.

Wow valient…more personal attacks…pathetic as ever

have to love those articulate liberals..

The funny thing about “stereotypes” is that they come into being because they are true a large enough percentage of the time to warrant it. Funny how stereotypes aren’t always negative either…i.e. that asians typically move on to management/professional jobs.

I’ve got another one for you….”liberals like to resort to personal attacks on people that they cannot match up with on an intelectual level”

First paragraph, possibly.
Second paragraph, some truth there.
Third paragraph, huge error. $19 billion not $19 million and still very questionable.
http://www.borgenproject.org/

We have no idea what the speech was about, or why she felt the need to mention that hispanics were the lazziest people working for her and black people prefered to make more money selling drugs, but if thats how it was, then thats how it was.

Sterotypes exist because at one point in time, they were true. It just so happends, she is talking about her experiences.

I hate bush, but this was a pathetic attempt at pulling words out of context to push an agenda. The article dosn’t mean anything and for all we know she might do a good job.

Get a grip people.

I mean, you have the right making up bullshit to make the left look bad, then you have the left making up bullshit to make the right look bad, both sides are just as retarted and if a person on the right is going to do a better job then someone on the left, then fuck the guy on the left.

If your going to bash someone, at least has something to bash them about.

Valiant Venus, #63

Pssst…Amanda….while you’re busy working in the archives, be a dear and look up Hillary Clinton’s Wellesley speech that she made certain was locked tighter than her chastity belt.
Time for a speech.

Valiant Venus, #63

Pssst…Amanda….while you’re busy working in the archives, be a dear and look up Hillary Clinton’s Wellesley speech that she made certain was locked tighter than her chastity belt.

Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_controversies

Rodham’s former professor and thesis adviser Alan Schechter told MSNBC.com that “‘There Is Only The Fight…’” was a good thesis, and that its suppression by the Clinton White House “was a stupid political decision, obviously, at the time.”[2] Nuff said there.

Andrea, #94, dead on.

Valiant Venus, #101, Trying to talk to the people you don’t like is not “hiding under the covers.” Attacking, verbally and militarily, anyone that you disagree with or has done you wrong is just reckless and anti-productive. I’m not a big sci-fi geek, but one of the wisest things I ever heard was uttered by Yoda: “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.” Proof of that is all over the Middle East.

I used to be a so called “centrist,” but then I started to actually fact check the more interesting allegations that people made, such as this one about Hillary’s suppressed thesis. A check of Holsman’s record does show that she has repeatedly made irrational, inflammatory, innappropriate and highly dubious comments. If it’s wrong for me to say something that’s so “politically correct,” then baby I don’t want right.

The majority of the time, the truth comes out on the progressive side. I frequently encourage people to just do thorough fact checking instead of accepting allegations on there face, and more often than not they will find that reality lies on the left (which is actually the center). There can be multiple perspectives, but only one reality. Progressive views are grounded in pragmatism. Conservative views are usually rooted in ideals. Irrational insulting and hyperbole are anyone’s game.

Anymore allegations? Send them my way and I’ll fact check them.

While the comments may appear racist, have any of you even begun to do the research to find out if what she said 20 years ago was true? Perhaps everything she said was true where she worked just as a she said. She spoke about her experience while working there. Did any of you work there so that you can refute what she saw?

She did not generalize and say all blacks everywhere or all mexicans everywhere, etc. She spoke about her experiences where she worked at the time.

Look I know its connected to Bush but put your venomous fangs away for a while and actually think before you just give your typical knee jerk ‘Bush bad’ response. Damn sheeple.

I think Ted Kennedy should be gone and never should have been elected.

Barney Frank should be gone.

Marion Berry never should have been reelected

Shelia Jackson Leigh

K. Kilpatrick, gone

I love to go on these libs sites just to prove to myself again how humorless and vindictive and hateful they are. To know that they never listen to another side of anything and how they continue to spew the constant mantra of what is fed into their brain day after day in 5 minute bites all day long.
Most people learn by rote and the Soros people know it. Inindate the mainstream. Better system then Hitler had.

Leveraging your understanding of diversity makes us strong, not all people are identical and robotic. You need to understand that people are different in order to make them their best…in order to listen to them clearly… in order to progress in a multicultural world.

Yeah, Shane and KRank are awful aren’t they, Karim? ;)

She didn’t say it was a fault, she said it made it hard to keep factory employees.

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Conservatives do not provide links or substantiation.
Comment by gummitch — May 9, 2007 @ 3:29 pm

Only because when they do, you then start whining about copy and paste. You aren’t interested in any proof that doesn’t support your position. By the way, the Aunt Jemima reference can be found here if that is what started the cry for links.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6530925/
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I like the part about how they make more money selling drugs than the jobs she appears to want them to do for her. must be a hell of a job, hmm?
Comment by oldtree — May 9, 2007 @ 3:31 pm

Are you just playing dumb or are you actually the only person in the world who doesn’t know that drug dealers make a lot of money? Why do you suppose they do it, for the prestige, the adoring fans? No factory can pay as much as a dealer makes and stay in business.
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Where was YOUR outrage when the right wingers compared Fmr. Sen. Coleman with Saddam and Usama bin Laden?
Oh, I forget, you don’t care about all the outrageous comments from the right, only the few you hear from the left.
How. . . . convenient.
Comment by Democrat Soldier — May 9, 2007 @ 3:31 pm

That had nothig to do with race and everything to do with him being a pinko liberal. ;)
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Also, she said that Italians always smelled of garlic and Eskimos were a safety risk because they insisted on carrying their damn harpoons with them everywhere.
Comment by KRank — May 9, 2007 @ 3:02 pm

Then she said the Irish are always drunk and Jews haggling over wages and ghe Germans have no sense of humor. Funny she didn’t mention how Asian men have small, uh, never mind.
Comment by Shane — May 9, 2007 @ 4:05 pm

Gettin a little carried away with yourselves there, fellas? Kind of enjoying that ? And to think it’s perfectly ok because you can claim it’s sarcasm. Gotcha! ;)

Liverpool is gonna win. No doubt. In these days, only lousy teams win trophies. Defensive ones. Italy is the world champion…I mean, come on.

It’s 19 BILLION, not million, and it’s highly unlikely.
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And for contrast, the Borgen Project tosses in Department of Defense figures on appropriations and weapons programs totaling $416 billion. In addition, their web site is littered with quotes from American military figures claiming how money spent on war could have already solved the world’s problems.

The implication is obvious.

Out of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent each year on Defense, $19 billion is chump change compared to ending world hunger and other pressing global issues.

And the inference is equally obvious. The United States must be a selfish country because world problems such as nuclear disarmament can easily be wiped out with the stroke of a pen if only there was the impetus to do so.
http://www.nationalsummary.com/Articles/International/international__starvation.htm

Stupid or just sociopath.

Actually most people that support the efforts are ignorant and delusional. You’re *nasty* – st*pid c*nt.

Funny, with a few exceptions, I don’t think the majority of Progs here are “nasty” – I DO think they would rather hide under the covers and hope they can “make nice” with our enemies. Comment by valiant venus — May 9, 2007 @ 8:11 pm

And this proves my point. You call “progs” cowards, and enablers – that’s *nasty* and incorrect – you st*pid, st*pid c*nt.

You would claimed to be half-Irish, correct? Aren’t you happy that Tony Blair didn’t listen to all of the people that said he shouldn’t “make nice” with the *enemy* – the IRA? Why are you so afraid of peace, think it might make you *weak* – st*pid c*nt? You know it doesn’t hurt to talk – but unless you do, you never *hear* what’s making others angry, nor do you *think* of ways to resolve that. That doesn’t require you to drop your defenses – but it does require you to *use-your-brain* – something you’ve shown a complete incapacity for doing. St*pid c*nt.

Oh and east something Anorexia girl – you’re more st*pid, nasty and hateful than usual.

Comment by Daryll — May 9, 2007 @ 5:25 pm

HOLD ME!