If old white men feel maligned, they should take their own advice to minorities.

[freshwest]

141. Everyone knew that wasn't about all white men. If the shoe doesn't fit, why insist on wearing it?

Moore was not writing about himself but criticizing a segment of society that refuses to give others equal chances in this world. When Franken published this:



He wasn't talking about heavy people. And Moore is well known as a heavy person, too:



Both books are really about heartlessness, not heavy-ness, white-ness, or male-ness. And they were written by white men calling out their alleged kin.

Haven't writers such as Moore used the same designation and not been accused of racism or sexism but been acclaimed as speaking truth to power and calling out conservatives?

Why is it so uncomfortable to listen to others who are not white males, who want to join into the same conversation on reactionaries?

Why are they not respected as allies, as they seek to express their oppression, to teach those who say they're against oppression?

Some seek to find an offense any criticism of what they consider their exterior qualities, when it's not about that at all. It's like identifying with a team. Just as I am of a certain physical type in race and gender, but not heart and mindset to this person:



There are critical differences between this person and myself, though some would say she might be my 'kin.' I barely regard her as a member of homo sapiens in good standing, we're so far apart:

First, I wouldn't dress with a cheesy patriotic fabric. Teabaggers think they're making a political statement and looking patriotic. Bullshit, there's nothing patriotic about hate.

Second, I never, make such a hateful, hostile face, particularly with that open mouthed yelling. Just imagine the coarseness you'd expect to issue out of that mouth. Hate is not interesting, nor is any help, and that is a hate group.

Third, I can spell and don't wave around signs. Might as well have a Fox News icon tatooed on their foreheads. They hav no original thoughts, just stupid, repeated slogans.

Fourth, I am aware of the issue of making all people talk and act and look the same, and don't approve. We don't have a national language because it isn't needed. The language of most of business, science and other enterprises at this time on Planet Earth is English. It's not endangered. Quit the hysteria.

Fifth, I have better uses of my time than to prate about things that mean nothing. These are simply th arguments of egotism. The baggers have the luxury of first amendent rights and the right to protest in public but this is what they do with their rights, hate on others instead of anything positive.

So I'm not offended. Why should others be?

I'm also older than some who post here. I feel more fortunate than the current generation, having lived through the sixties and seventies and seeing and hearing JFK, MLK, RFK and others as they changed the world for me and others. I lived in a time of brave and noble people, not the grifters I see today running amuck and trying to destroy the lives of so many who never did them any harm.

I grew up in a time when unions and workers and doing the right thing by others in general but certainly not all was a given, not subjct to debate, nor was protecting the environment or personal freedoms an issue.

It was the right thing to do. A lot was done in that era, that's since been lost in a tsunami of right wing propaganda working to erase every good idea ever fought and died for to create peace within us.

Those ideals are the shared legacy of my generation of Democrats, not other parties. I'm here to remind those who have not lived in those days, there's a better way to live than what Reagan era spin tells us there is, better than the reality the Koch's are determined to force on us and the generations to come.

So I am and have been blessed, despite hardships and things I do not bring here, never internalizing criticisms of the worst of all, as some do. I don't understand why they would identify with the worst human specimens, because that's who is being called out, and not them, and if they valued what is right, there'd be no fighting.

JMHO.