Monday, May 20, 2013
Sherman: Mets’ roster of rubbish makes it impossible to evaluate Collins
(www.nypost.com)
Roster of Rubbish? I know some people were down on who joined Armisen on stage…but this is ridiculous!
Read More...And Collins’ team isn’t winning. So you should understand why he might be losing it. He turns 64 later this month. He was run out of Houston and Anaheim. There is no next managing job. This is more than his last best chance. It is just plain his last chance to prove he is a good major league manager.
...For if you know whether Collins is a good manager or bad manager based on his Mets ...
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< 1 2 3 >Well a pretty easy place to start would be with any terms that demonstrate hatred toward a group of people based on things like race, religion, or sexual orientation. That would seem to pretty clearly cover our case here.
As to terms like "midget", if a group wants to be called something else, I don't see why we can't placate them in the vast majority of cases. How would you feel if we came up with a term for people who put zero thought into caring for their fellow man that you didn't happen to like?
ust last a moron congressman was forced to apologize for using the word midget
Forced...at gunpoint?
*GASP*
But yes, generally speaking I have contempt for people who sling epithets based on your listed criteria.
Buy this 383 page book and enjoy the ride. It's got everything from a "Portagee lawnmower"** to "Moustache Pete"***. You can insult every nationality in scores of different languages, and at only $1.18 even a "Brooklyn Indian" can afford it.
**a goat used by Portuguese immigrants to cut the grass
***an early 20th century Italian immigrant
Spoken like a damn, dirty Norwegian.
Or, you could just watch this.
Great, finally the media can give the Papists and their Jesus-freak brethren the open contempt they deserve.
I believe you mean the Papists and their Jesus-freak breeding brethren."
Help?
That's what Twitter is for. Idiots self-immolate in the most public forum available, when before they kept their stupid sh!t to themselves or their close friends.
off the top of my head I thought midget would be more insulting...
...and doubtless, a Norwegian discovered by your international scout playing in Aruba...
Can't we just stick with "Asians"?
Can we get a ruling on 'Mexicans'? I used it in casual conversation today and felt like a got a couple of looks. Not that it would stop me from using it, but it would be pretty remarkable if that term were somehow on the other side of this ridiculous line. Somehow Mexico is out of control that simply describing someone as Mexican is racist. And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.
I believe the currently-approved term is "wee folk".
No, no, wait, it's "twerps" isn't it?
Guilty of ridiculous footware.
And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.
I think this is why you might have raised some eyebrows. Mexican as a descriptive term for people from Mexico is obviously fine. If someone makes an honest mistake it's not a big deal.
Michael: Um, let me ask you, is there a term besides Mexican that you prefer? Something less offensive?
Oscar: Mexican isn't offensive.
Michael: Well, it has certain connotations.
My wife tends to refer to all brown-skinned Hispanics as "Mexicans"; she doesn't check passports either. Her father was the same way, so it must be a family thing.
In the future you could go with "people."
If you didn't know if they were Mexican or Guatemalan or something else then it probably wasn't important to the story.
From the movie of "Little Big Man," I assume: the Hoffman character's wife asks him very nicely if he will have sex with her three widowed sisters so that they might bear children; he accomplishes the feat in one long night.
Or, maybe that should read,
Work, work, work, work.
The word "midget" is considered insulting these days, I think, because it was formerly used as a reference to little people with so-called normal proportions. The word "dwarf" was generally used for those with relatively short or otherwise misshapen limbs, while "midget" was reserved for people who looked more like miniature versions of typical taller folk. Distinguishing (very unscientifically) between two types of little people in an attempt to subtly declare one group as better seems to be what led to the disfavor.
For reals.
You don't call retarded people retards. It's in bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.
Let's not forget the Mets have also had can't miss prospects like yusmeiro petit and lastings milledge. They clearly haven't figured out how this works.
No, it makes you awesome.
But not "you people".
Both terms are infinitely preferable to "David Samson," I gather.
It went like this: "The last time I was on a jury, it was for a couple of Mexican guys breaking and entering". I guess, technically, the Mexican part isn't critical, but it fills out the story. It just as easily could have been "a couple of douche-bag frat boys for public indecency". It paints a picture.
Do you not see how your inability to distinguish Mexicans from Guatemalans might not be an issue?
Not really. If I were traveling abroad and a local referred to me as 'that Canadian', I think we would move right past it. Somehow 'Mexican' has become a charged word.
Edit: Really, douche-bag with no hyphen gets nannied. This is what we've become?
Consider this an opportunity for dialogue and education
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