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[mcroft]

• 15:41 Picking up my jaw: xrl.us/oqaet They're not even bothering with code anymore?

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[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

"Uppity".

Frak. That's not even trying to hide it, that's just naked racism.

[drangelo.livejournal.com]

You know, you liberals will jump at just about any old thing a person says, and just take it totally out of context. I'd argue this out with you more, but I refuse to get tangled up in this particular tar baby.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

*smacks you upside the head*

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Hey, he's just calling a spade a spade. It's the kind of refreshing honesty we haven't seen in this country in a coon's age.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, if I weren't in China I'd...shake my fist at you from a closer location!

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

As it turns out, you're right. The context is that Rep. Westmoreland hasn't actually participated in American culture in his entire life: "I've never heard that term used in a racially derogatory sense.".