I see the term "useless eater" used freely right here on DU.

[Stinky The Clown]

In the context it is used, it could apply to me and to people close to me whom I love dearly.

Google it up some time. There are some pretty scary websites discussing it.





On edit: some have completely misinterpreted this thread. Everything above this edit is unchanged. My intent was not to suggest any DUer who used the term was using it in reference to me or any group of people. They were citing the term as it was being used by others, generally those on the extreme right. I had never heard the term before and therefore googled it. I was appalled at what I found.

[originalpckelly]

1. No one ever mentions that daddy warbucks is the biggest lazy ass of them all.

Not one damn bit.

[madinmaryland]

2. Since you looked it, could you tell us what that is? Thanks in advance!!

[cali]

3. I don't. I don't think I've ever seen that horrid phrase used here.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Go to DU's advanced (members only) search and enter the term in the slot. Select "Big Forums"

You will get 98 hits.

This thread is at the top of that list, owing to the fact it is the newest.

[rurallib]

4. well, that was an eye opener.

I had never heard the term before.
Is this the next platform for the Repugs?

[TheKentuckian]

21. It is a "classic", seems I first heard it from Simpson maybe when he was in the Senate

This is long what this sort has thought of the American people.

This is what kind of minds we are up against. The struggle is much nastier than many can admit and this is the worldview that invents their policies.
There is no compromising with that kind of disdain, it is time to wake up.

[Rowdyboy]

5. Please enlighten us....I've never heard the phrase anywhere....much less

at DU

[bigwillq]

9. I've never heard of it either (nt)

[CleanGreenFuture]

6. A poster who uses that term is being sarcastic. They're describing how the elite

see us "little people" - as "useless eaters". It's not intended as an aside to average people and the poster/author is just as likely to be including him- or herself in that group.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Did I suggest otherwise?

I *think* you've jumped to a conclusion. I have seen the term used here. I have not seen the term used here by anyone to describe anyone and any group of people.

[CleanGreenFuture]

14. As you can see above, posted for those who may not be familiar with the term.

[Scurrilous]

7. Unrecc.

:thumbsdown:

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Only one "c"

[provis99]

15. hah!

[LaydeeBug]

8. Without having used google, and I haven't, the term seems to apply to our Opposition Party. nt

[bananas]

13. It's an old term.

I heard it long ago.

[REP]

16. I heard it from people who had numbers tattooed on their arms

And what the nuns did to the children who were called that.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. I recall it being attributed to Bush1

and I have indeed used it more than once, in sarcastic pseudoidentification with the mindset of the Overlords.

[bananas]

19. As senator, he was pro-abortion and a member of ZPG (Zero Population Growth)

so it's very possible he came up with the term.

[bananas]

20. Maybe it's what he called his son, George W.

:rofl:

[Shining Jack]

18. K&R

I also see some other ugly terms used freely here on DU. :(