So why did not Jindal legally change his first name to Bobby?

[thewiseguy]

I mean if it is absolutely necessary for everyone to call him Bobby then he could have simply changed his first name.

I see nothing wrong with Piyush. It is simple and fairly easy to pronounce.

Calling someone by their foreign name does not equate racism. When the freepers were shouting Barack Hussein Obama, that was not racism. Do some of you do even know what racism means? Perhaps I am not aware of the presence of a secret Muslim race. :shrug:

In my opinion it is fairly ridiculous to assume that by calling Jindal (Notice the foreign last name), Piyush we somehow try to stress the fact that he is a foreigner. :rofl:

[tavalon]

1. Did it seem racist or xenophobic to you when freepers called

President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama or even just Hussein Obama. Clearly they didn't mean that in any racist or xenophobic way, huh?

Oh, wait, yes they did!

In the last 12 hours, there have been so many threads about Gov. Jindal's name that I had to check which website I was on.

This is no different from what they tried to do to President Obama and pretending it isn't is disingenuous at best and lying at worst.

[thewiseguy]

3. Did you even read my OP?

Do you even know what racism means? Do you think Muslims do make a race of their own?

[atreides1]

4. Maybe You're the Problem

Do you call racist everyone who uses the Governor's given name or just people here? You've been all over the place today, the OP was just expressing an opinion but that opinion makes him a racist and disingenuous.

I feel safe knowing that there are people like you who can determine a persons intent just by what they post here, maybe you can tell us what numbers are going to win the powerball?

[Marrah_G]

7. Hey can you guess this person's intent?

5. Yeah...I think I've spoken to his brother "Billy" at Dell tech support
I can't understand him either.

I can ! I don't need any spiffy glasses to figure it out either !

[tavalon]

11. I'm not the only one trying to stamp out this behavior

We're trying to be louder than you so you might take a second and think about it and then maybe, just maybe, STFU about Gov Jindal's name. Why don't you read the thread Skinner started about it. You do know who Skinner is, right?

[roguevalley]

25. why should he change his name? there is nothing wrong with his name. what is

wrong is inside his head.

[tularetom]

2. No but the racist xenophobes who support repubs would be reluctant to support Piyush.

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. The man introduced himself to the fucking world last night as "BOBBY".

What part of that do you not get? It's his preference. Knowing that, and calling him ANYTHING else, is thinly disguised bigotry at best, racism at worst.

[Common Sense Party]

26. It's only racist when it's directed at progressives.

Conservatives are fair game.

[Marrah_G]

6. It's pretty common for those with difficult to pronounce names.

Especially at the age where they are going to start school.

Especially at the age where they were starting school 33 years ago.

All the excuses in the world don't change the fact that these are the same excuses made in freeperville about Obama's middle name.

Calling him that was not done with kind intentions.

It was done in a nasty, snarky sort of way and was accompanied by a number of other slurs within those threads.

[KamaAina]

18. That's not why Jindal did it

or at least, not why he chose "Bobby", when, say, "Pete" would have been closer to his given name.

He picked "Bobby" at the tender age of 4, after his favorite TV character -- Bobby Brady!

edit: punctuation

[alfredo]

8. Bobby is easier to pronounce.

[mitchum]

10. Pshawwww!

It is not :)

[alfredo]

12. Yeah, Vulcans consider the word "Bobby" to be profanity. It's never uttered

in polite society.

[laylah]

9. Who cares?!

If that is what he chooses to be called, so be it, FFS!

[specimenfred1984]

13. Why's everyone so upset over yogurt, lemon juice and nutmeg?

Piyush actually tastes OK. I think Jindal should have chosen the nickname Budweiser, that would have gone over better in the South.

[EFerrari]

14. If you want to disown this behavior, you need lessons from Lou Dobbs.

He's a master. Might as well do it right.

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/4/fact_checking_dobbs_cnn_anchor_lou

[Seeking Serenity]

15. So your point is really about the rather elastic definition of the term "racist."

Point taken.

It is, however, intending to appeal to people's baser, and ugly, instincts, done purely to point out the "otherness."

Bad, sport. Real bad.

[waiting for hope]

16. Honey - he's in Louisiana ..

Bobby Bouche ... ;)

[Marrah_G]

17. There is no need to change it legally.

[pnutbutr]

19. It's a nickname he started calling himself

at age 4. He wanted to be Bobby Brady apparently. Well, at least that's what wiki says. His political views are pretty f'd also. Bordering on the I'm crossing the street so I don't have to walk past you cause your freekin crazy.

[11 Bravo]

20. Because Piyush Jindal is an anagram for "up in sly jihad"?

[treestar]

21. We should find out if he is offended

at some point. Most of these threads are about an imaginary offense.

[nichomachus]

23. That's not important

What's important is whether the lefty political correctness nannies are offended. They are the only ones who matter.

[Karenina]

22. Just another wilfully ignorant YWM...

;-) Tante K. is OLD, very TIRED and at a loss where to start, as THIS is the same SHIT from 50 YEARS AGO!

Since we've been down the rabbit hole SO LONG, many will miss your "Love Train."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvsAqkOhI48

[Chovexani]

28. You always make me smile

Now let's see if I can get BINGO again after this thread.

I've already won five times today! (I think I need to draw up a card)

[newtothegame]

24. What it is, is that we're experts at political correctness...

and ending people's arguments by calling them racist, sexist, etc...that is until it no longer serves our purposes, or will bite US in the ass.

[Behind the Aegis]

27. Trying to be sarcastic or do you really just miss the point?

[Number23]

29. According to this auspicious source, his real name is Bobby and Piyush is actually his nickname!

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/541707/bobby_piyush_jidal_lousianas_new_governor.html

And it's JIDAL, not Jindal!

:crazy:

[TorchTheWitch]

30. who gives a shit

Seriously. He wants to be addressed by a name different from the one he was given. Woopdie fucking doo. People have a right to be called by any name they want to be called for whatever reason they want. The guy's a nutjob however he wants to be addressed.

This whole name thing is a red herring and stupid as it gets. Why is anyone focusing on this idiocy? I can't understand why anyone gives a single fart in the wind if he wants to be called Bobby or Spanky or Mary or Lucious Devine or anything else and whether or not it was legally changed. It's simple curtesy to address someone by whatever name they want to be addressed by for no other reason than that's what they want. Apparently, there are a lot of people here who can't fathom such a simple curtesy and are easily sidetracked by non-issues.

[orleans]

31. "When the freepers were shouting Barack Hussein Obama, that was not racism"

yes it was. absolutely it was racism.