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	<title>Comments on: Limbaugh on Sotomayor: &#8216;Do I want her to fail? Yeah.&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: wounded40</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5665449</link>
		<dc:creator>wounded40</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Don't Be A Jackass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5658633</link>
		<dc:creator>Don't Be A Jackass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will have to disagree with Rush.  He wants Sotomayor to fail, whereas, I hope she never is bestowed the chance to fail.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will have to disagree with Rush.  He wants Sotomayor to fail, whereas, I hope she never is bestowed the chance to fail.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5658633', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Romartin16985</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5658080</link>
		<dc:creator>Romartin16985</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>President Obama&#039;s nominee can&#039;t take an oath to be impartial when deciding cases, and at the same time empathize with one side over the other.  Justice is supposed to be blind and decided only on the facts of the case.

She has been overruled 60% of the time and has another case of hers on appeal  with the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Liberals naturally want to make this about race and gender, knock yourselves out.  I&#039;m not accepting your label and apparently neither is Rush Limbaugh!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Obama&#8217;s nominee can&#8217;t take an oath to be impartial when deciding cases, and at the same time empathize with one side over the other.  Justice is supposed to be blind and decided only on the facts of the case.</p>
<p>She has been overruled 60% of the time and has another case of hers on appeal  with the U.S. Supreme Court.  </p>
<p>Liberals naturally want to make this about race and gender, knock yourselves out.  I&#8217;m not accepting your label and apparently neither is Rush Limbaugh!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5658080', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jeand54</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657830</link>
		<dc:creator>jeand54</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This idiot obviously is part of a progressive plot. Everything he says moves people further to the left. He is the worse thing to happen to conservetives and the best thing to happen to liberals, and the republicans are too stupid to figure that out. So please Rush, keep up the &quot;good&quot; work. And as for you liberal....shhh, keep it down, my plan is working.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This idiot obviously is part of a progressive plot. Everything he says moves people further to the left. He is the worse thing to happen to conservetives and the best thing to happen to liberals, and the republicans are too stupid to figure that out. So please Rush, keep up the &#8220;good&#8221; work. And as for you liberal&#8230;.shhh, keep it down, my plan is working.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657830', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: belaccifer lacca</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657828</link>
		<dc:creator>belaccifer lacca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Wingnuts don&#039;t ask the people actually involved what they think, they just tell them. This sort of attitude is par for the course.&lt;/em&gt;

In what world am I a wingnut, ElBruce?
Isn&#039;t asking the people involved how they identify themselves what I&#039;ve been saying? Read through what I&#039;ve been saying again...
Your misunderstanding me is sort of becoming par for the course...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Wingnuts don&#8217;t ask the people actually involved what they think, they just tell them. This sort of attitude is par for the course.</em></p>
<p>In what world am I a wingnut, ElBruce?<br />
Isn&#8217;t asking the people involved how they identify themselves what I&#8217;ve been saying? Read through what I&#8217;ve been saying again&#8230;<br />
Your misunderstanding me is sort of becoming par for the course&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657828', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Robt</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657685</link>
		<dc:creator>Robt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 06:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Has anyone at this post thought of taking Olberman&#039;s lead and tacking on the Rush logo ?

Where Rush is bouncing around on stage at the GOP&#039;s function?

I think all sites should run the Rush bouncing blubber logo!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has anyone at this post thought of taking Olberman&#8217;s lead and tacking on the Rush logo ?</p>
<p>Where Rush is bouncing around on stage at the GOP&#8217;s function?</p>
<p>I think all sites should run the Rush bouncing blubber logo!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657685', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657679</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 06:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;republicans hate facts Says:

&lt;blockquote&gt;belaccifer lacca Says:
And you do realize ElBruce that groupings like &#039;German&#039; and &#039;Irish&#039; are pretty arbitrary and fluid as well, right?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The GERMAN and IRISH would DISAGREE WITH YOU.&lt;/em&gt;

Wingnuts don&#039;t ask the people actually involved what they think, they just tell them.  This sort of attitude is par for the course.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>republicans hate facts Says:</p>
<blockquote><p>belaccifer lacca Says:<br />
And you do realize ElBruce that groupings like &#8216;German&#8217; and &#8216;Irish&#8217; are pretty arbitrary and fluid as well, right?</p></blockquote>
<p>The GERMAN and IRISH would DISAGREE WITH YOU.</em></p>
<p>Wingnuts don&#8217;t ask the people actually involved what they think, they just tell them.  This sort of attitude is par for the course.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657679', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Snowman</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657662</link>
		<dc:creator>Snowman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe the kidney failure joke wasn&#039;t in such bad taste after all...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe the kidney failure joke wasn&#8217;t in such bad taste after all&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657662', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: belaccifer lacca</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657630</link>
		<dc:creator>belaccifer lacca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RHF- when do you become &#039;German?&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RHF- when do you become &#8216;German?&#8217;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657630', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wolfsinger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-7/#comment-5657629</link>
		<dc:creator>wolfsinger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Besides controlling the master flush-valve for the giant sucking sound that is today&#039;s Christian Values Republican party, Rush serves another purpose as well.  

He stands as a colossal monument to right-wing hypocrisy - over and over again.

What I don&#039;t understand is, why we on the left are still so surprised by the hypocrisy from the right?

How many times do we have to see a play written and performed by the same cast before we realize that we know how it will end?

And why haven&#039;t Democrats figured out how to deal with Rush&#039;s Wurlitzer when he always plays the same tune?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Besides controlling the master flush-valve for the giant sucking sound that is today&#8217;s Christian Values Republican party, Rush serves another purpose as well.  </p>
<p>He stands as a colossal monument to right-wing hypocrisy &#8211; over and over again.</p>
<p>What I don&#8217;t understand is, why we on the left are still so surprised by the hypocrisy from the right?</p>
<p>How many times do we have to see a play written and performed by the same cast before we realize that we know how it will end?</p>
<p>And why haven&#8217;t Democrats figured out how to deal with Rush&#8217;s Wurlitzer when he always plays the same tune?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657629', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: chingebushchigger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-6/#comment-5657574</link>
		<dc:creator>chingebushchigger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t imagine a more disgusting, hateful, sick POS than Rush Limbaugh.  The only purpose he serves is to flush out the sick fcks that listen to him so we can identify them.

As much as they should be quarantined as soon as we identify them, in America even these blackhearted bastards get a chance to live in their &quot;pursuit of unhappiness&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t imagine a more disgusting, hateful, sick POS than Rush Limbaugh.  The only purpose he serves is to flush out the sick fcks that listen to him so we can identify them.</p>
<p>As much as they should be quarantined as soon as we identify them, in America even these blackhearted bastards get a chance to live in their &#8220;pursuit of unhappiness&#8221;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657574', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-6/#comment-5657527</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;belaccifer lacca Says:

if you have no interest in exploring the role racism played in creating &#039;whiteness&#039; and instead do a documentary on the experiences of self-identified &#039;whites&#039; in Modern America, I don&#039;t think that&#039;s racist.&lt;/em&gt;

...unless you trace back why it is they identify themselves that way, when people started to do so and what was going on that moved them to do so... then all of a sudden you&#039;re doing a documentary on the history of racism in America.  It&#039;s a racist social construct.  If you examine the construct, you uncover the racism.  If you want to avoid having your documentary be about racism, then all you can do is skim the surface while intentionally ignoring the causes and context of it - which I maintain would be a racist endeavor.

.

&lt;em&gt;WAYNEBRO Says:

Wanda Sykes was right.&lt;/em&gt;

I&#039;m not sure to what you&#039;re referring, but I completely agree.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>belaccifer lacca Says:</p>
<p>if you have no interest in exploring the role racism played in creating &#8216;whiteness&#8217; and instead do a documentary on the experiences of self-identified &#8216;whites&#8217; in Modern America, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s racist.</em></p>
<p>&#8230;unless you trace back why it is they identify themselves that way, when people started to do so and what was going on that moved them to do so&#8230; then all of a sudden you&#8217;re doing a documentary on the history of racism in America.  It&#8217;s a racist social construct.  If you examine the construct, you uncover the racism.  If you want to avoid having your documentary be about racism, then all you can do is skim the surface while intentionally ignoring the causes and context of it &#8211; which I maintain would be a racist endeavor.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>WAYNEBRO Says:</p>
<p>Wanda Sykes was right.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure to what you&#8217;re referring, but I completely agree.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657527', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Winski</title>
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		<dc:creator>Winski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rush IS failure...that&#039;s all he knows.... in his personal echo chamber that&#039;s all he hears...all he&#039;ll ever be...all he&#039;ll ever know....bouncy-bouncy-bouncy......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rush IS failure&#8230;that&#8217;s all he knows&#8230;. in his personal echo chamber that&#8217;s all he hears&#8230;all he&#8217;ll ever be&#8230;all he&#8217;ll ever know&#8230;.bouncy-bouncy-bouncy&#8230;&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657451', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: flavorino</title>
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		<dc:creator>flavorino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The rantings of a perverted drug addict.
Who cares what this freak says.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The rantings of a perverted drug addict.<br />
Who cares what this freak says.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657449', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wanda Sykes was right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wanda Sykes was right.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657448', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
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		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I continue to be amused at how the dittoheads flock to Lush&#039;s defense every time he opens his foul hole. One would think that the &quot;biggest name in radio&quot; could defend his own bile.

But, I suppose, his fans are like religious fanatics who kill in the name of their gods. They just can&#039;t help themselves. They elevate their own status by elevating what they worship, even when they worship what is low and vile.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I continue to be amused at how the dittoheads flock to Lush&#8217;s defense every time he opens his foul hole. One would think that the &#8220;biggest name in radio&#8221; could defend his own bile.</p>
<p>But, I suppose, his fans are like religious fanatics who kill in the name of their gods. They just can&#8217;t help themselves. They elevate their own status by elevating what they worship, even when they worship what is low and vile.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657435', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kdgamergirl</title>
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		<dc:creator>kdgamergirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I&#039;ve said it before and I&#039;ll say it again. I believe that if Obama succeeds in passing his socialist policies, weakening our national defense and burrying us in debt that even our children and grandchildren will not be able to pay, our Country will fail. I want our country to succeed. Thus, I want Obama to fail.&lt;/em&gt;

Explain how Obama has weakened our national defense? Proof please. In case you haven&#039;t noticed, no one here cares what your think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again. I believe that if Obama succeeds in passing his socialist policies, weakening our national defense and burrying us in debt that even our children and grandchildren will not be able to pay, our Country will fail. I want our country to succeed. Thus, I want Obama to fail.</em></p>
<p>Explain how Obama has weakened our national defense? Proof please. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, no one here cares what your think.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657436', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: belaccifer lacca</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-6/#comment-5657398</link>
		<dc:creator>belaccifer lacca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Any project which purports to claim that skin color constitutes a viable cultural commonality rather than a convenient identifier by which to stratify society - that is, which overlooked the role of racism in creating the cultural construct of &quot;whiteness&quot; - would itself be racist.&lt;/em&gt;

Weeelll. Still don&#039;t know that I agree... if you have no interest in exploring the role racism played in creating &#039;whiteness&#039; and instead do a documentary on the experiences of self-identified &#039;whites&#039; in Modern America, I don&#039;t think that&#039;s racist.

Merely presenting the lives and experiences of &#039;white people&#039; however you or they define themselves is not inherently racist and does not require and an in-depth examination of the history of racist overtones contained in the grouping is not a requirement to avoid a racist label.

In my opinion, that is.

And ethnicities, as you have so ably pointed out, are always about individual identification. It&#039;s not irrelevant... we should explore how and why who we choose to identify with informs and shapes our experiences... saying that &#039;German&#039; is an &#039;acceptable&#039; ethnicity to describe oneself as while &#039;white&#039; or &#039;black&#039; is not seems to me a little overbearing... 

People group themselves in all sorts of weird ways and not all of them are racists...

In general, I agree with you... &#039;White&#039; as a concept is silly, over-used and under-understood. But then I feel the same way about most groupings that people use for shorthand... &quot;Goth&quot; or &quot;American&quot; for example... but I would consider both of those fine subjects for a documentary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Any project which purports to claim that skin color constitutes a viable cultural commonality rather than a convenient identifier by which to stratify society &#8211; that is, which overlooked the role of racism in creating the cultural construct of &#8220;whiteness&#8221; &#8211; would itself be racist.</em></p>
<p>Weeelll. Still don&#8217;t know that I agree&#8230; if you have no interest in exploring the role racism played in creating &#8216;whiteness&#8217; and instead do a documentary on the experiences of self-identified &#8216;whites&#8217; in Modern America, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s racist.</p>
<p>Merely presenting the lives and experiences of &#8216;white people&#8217; however you or they define themselves is not inherently racist and does not require and an in-depth examination of the history of racist overtones contained in the grouping is not a requirement to avoid a racist label.</p>
<p>In my opinion, that is.</p>
<p>And ethnicities, as you have so ably pointed out, are always about individual identification. It&#8217;s not irrelevant&#8230; we should explore how and why who we choose to identify with informs and shapes our experiences&#8230; saying that &#8216;German&#8217; is an &#8216;acceptable&#8217; ethnicity to describe oneself as while &#8216;white&#8217; or &#8216;black&#8217; is not seems to me a little overbearing&#8230; </p>
<p>People group themselves in all sorts of weird ways and not all of them are racists&#8230;</p>
<p>In general, I agree with you&#8230; &#8216;White&#8217; as a concept is silly, over-used and under-understood. But then I feel the same way about most groupings that people use for shorthand&#8230; &#8220;Goth&#8221; or &#8220;American&#8221; for example&#8230; but I would consider both of those fine subjects for a documentary.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657398', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-6/#comment-5657365</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;belaccifer lacca Says:

In fact, you could do a project on being &#039;White in America&#039; that examined the role that ethnicity and race play out in real people&#039;s lives and what exactly they mean... and why disparate ethnic groups have been put together under the banner of &quot;WHITE&quot; in America... that would be an interesting project.

Racist project?&lt;/em&gt;

Not provided that it didn&#039;t ignore the racism inherent in that definition.  All of those &quot;white&quot; ethnicities were grouped together to define the privileged class.  That is, they were grouped not on what they had in common (nothing more than with any other ethnic group), but rather in terms of what they weren&#039;t, aka. &quot;colored.&quot;  Any project which purports to claim that skin color constitutes a viable cultural commonality rather than a convenient identifier by which to stratify society - that is, which overlooked the role of racism in creating the cultural construct of &quot;whiteness&quot; - would itself be racist.  Whereas one which focused on the racist philosophy behind the concept of &quot;whiteness&quot; would be instructive.

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&lt;em&gt;belaccifer lacca Says:

And you do realize ElBruce that groupings like &#039;German&#039; and &#039;Irish&#039; are pretty arbitrary and fluid as well, right?

Certainly we can explore what shared experiences those groupings have but when do you become &quot;German?&quot; &lt;/em&gt;

Hell if I know.  It&#039;s totally fluid when it comes to how an individual identifies with an ethnicity.  I mean, everybody&#039;s Irish on St. Patrick&#039;s day and Mexican on Cinco De Mayo, right?  And most of us American mutts are a genetic salad of all kinds of stuff.

But I was talking about breaking down ethnicities as appropriate subjects for a historical documentary, not individual identification.  So that&#039;s irrelevant anyways.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>belaccifer lacca Says:</p>
<p>In fact, you could do a project on being &#8216;White in America&#8217; that examined the role that ethnicity and race play out in real people&#8217;s lives and what exactly they mean&#8230; and why disparate ethnic groups have been put together under the banner of &#8220;WHITE&#8221; in America&#8230; that would be an interesting project.</p>
<p>Racist project?</em></p>
<p>Not provided that it didn&#8217;t ignore the racism inherent in that definition.  All of those &#8220;white&#8221; ethnicities were grouped together to define the privileged class.  That is, they were grouped not on what they had in common (nothing more than with any other ethnic group), but rather in terms of what they weren&#8217;t, aka. &#8220;colored.&#8221;  Any project which purports to claim that skin color constitutes a viable cultural commonality rather than a convenient identifier by which to stratify society &#8211; that is, which overlooked the role of racism in creating the cultural construct of &#8220;whiteness&#8221; &#8211; would itself be racist.  Whereas one which focused on the racist philosophy behind the concept of &#8220;whiteness&#8221; would be instructive.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><em>belaccifer lacca Says:</p>
<p>And you do realize ElBruce that groupings like &#8216;German&#8217; and &#8216;Irish&#8217; are pretty arbitrary and fluid as well, right?</p>
<p>Certainly we can explore what shared experiences those groupings have but when do you become &#8220;German?&#8221; </em></p>
<p>Hell if I know.  It&#8217;s totally fluid when it comes to how an individual identifies with an ethnicity.  I mean, everybody&#8217;s Irish on St. Patrick&#8217;s day and Mexican on Cinco De Mayo, right?  And most of us American mutts are a genetic salad of all kinds of stuff.</p>
<p>But I was talking about breaking down ethnicities as appropriate subjects for a historical documentary, not individual identification.  So that&#8217;s irrelevant anyways.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657365', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: barfly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/26/limbaugh-sotomayor-fail/comment-page-6/#comment-5657355</link>
		<dc:creator>barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;My position has been and remains very consistent. I was very unhappy with the bailouts that began under the Bush Administration, resulting in the deficit balooning to nearly $400 billion.&lt;/em&gt; 

Poor deluded sap. We don&#039;t know how big Bush&#039;s budgets actually were because of the off-budget spending.  It could be as high as 1.5 trillion, when the off-budget spending is factored in.  That makes your example yet another bit of poorly-conceived conservative nonsense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>My position has been and remains very consistent. I was very unhappy with the bailouts that began under the Bush Administration, resulting in the deficit balooning to nearly $400 billion.</em> </p>
<p>Poor deluded sap. We don&#8217;t know how big Bush&#8217;s budgets actually were because of the off-budget spending.  It could be as high as 1.5 trillion, when the off-budget spending is factored in.  That makes your example yet another bit of poorly-conceived conservative nonsense.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5657355', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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