Jeez, guy, where's your sense of humor? The great thing about racists is that half of them are so stupid they spell their favorite slur with only one "g." Case in point: anonymous signs in Lewiston, Maine, attacking mayoral candidate Ben Chin with the slogan "Don't Vote For Ho Chi Chin," along with communist imagery and a really bad caricature of Ho Chi Minh. Fer crying out loud, you morons, if you're going to go all out and be racist against an Asian-American candidate, at least get the right ethnic stereotype. Chin is
My father told me when I was just a young girl that 10% of the people in this world have hemorrhoids, and the rest are perfect assholes. I didn't believe him when I was 10 years old, but to paraphrase Mark Twain, as I got older, my father got smarter.
You have all the credibility, of a steaming bag of shit. You must be in on the take to spout shit like that. No one believes you. And, you didn't even mention the racist slurs, as it never your pea sized brain, they were slurs. Whatever town contract you must have, to be such a rabid asshole, will hopefully be gone.
I'd put that one right up there with:-- "Waterboarding isn't torture."-- "George W. Bush wasn't an idiot."-- "Ronald Reagan never raised the debt."-- "I did a great job as CEO of Hewlett Packard"-- "Lowering taxes on the wealthy creates jobs."
Yeeeeeeeah no they're racist. You can do racist things (like create dumb campaign signs) without intentionally being racist.
And I really have to disagree with you on 'managing them well'. If his tenants have complaints because things break, then he fixes them, that's one thing, and that's fine. Again, hundred year old buildings, hundred year old problems. But if they're generating large amounts of code violations that leads me to believe that large amounts of issues are going without repair. And for organizations that own multiple properties, putting them under separate LLCs IS pretty common due to limited liability, so I'll give you that one.
true; I think they are just doing the "irony" thing in which they similarly misattribute an ethnic stereotype to criticize another group's misattribution. It's like in "King of the Hill" in which the only character who recognizes Kang's ethnic identity is the old bitter racist WWII vet Cotton Hill.
Seriously? You know what's offensive? Pretending you're stupid and ignorant when called out that you're a racist asshole due to racist asshole behavior like your post. It's spelled out for the stupid literally LITERAL people in the article itself. Are you a toddler? Were you never taught about the Vietnam war in school? I'm assuming you're too young to have been alive during that time by your pathetic hateful sewage spewing forth. Are you not aware that Vietnam isn't China? No Geography or History classes either? That Vietnamese ≠ Chinese? Trying to imply that being any branch of Asian descent is BAD and COMMUNIST is pretty racist - even if you've been living in a cave. Add to that the fact the racist asshole can't even get Chin's ethnicity and heritage correct (of course, why bother? They're all the same, RIGHT?) Please go back under your bridge.
No it's racist just like sticking Obama's head on a lawn jockey could be called 'juvenile' because there have been black jockeys. What is important here is stereotyping and symbolism just like when Mel Gibson made every Jew in the "Passion of the Christ" out to be hook nosed and filthy whilst making Jesus and his followers look all pretty and non stereotypical. Symbolism matters, so does stereotyping and anyone with half a brain can look at those signs and say "wow, that's racist!"
Nothing says "wrongfully attacked" than immediately going to the racial slurs to show everyone how wrong the person was about you. Hey Joe, did you go to the Donald Trump/Donald Sterling school of management wherein any dispute can immediately be resolved by being a racist or what? Yes, I know you're not somebody who knows "Joe" Dunne or whatever your name is, you're the moron himself.
So you say. But the evidence of that doesn't seem to be more than "I say he is", and some of his tenants seem to think differently about the level of his "help". And if you don't understand why that sign is both racist and wrongheaded, then I doubt very much that you would strip your white-privilege blinders off as a result of anything I would say to you, and see it as everyone else seems to be seeing it. Why do you think there's been such a firestorm if no one perceives this as racist? Also, Mr. Chin does not seem to be either a socialist nor a communist, so equating his policies with that of Ho Chi Minh is, as you well know, extremely inflammatory and potentially slanderous, so that's not exactly smart to do, no matter what his tin ear thinks is a resemblance between Chin and Minh (no, they don't actually rhyme, and you've spelled Minh's name wrong as well). It seems odd that a person described as kind and generous would behave in such a way, regardless. As for my supposition regarding Mr. Chin's alleged bullying of Mr. Dunne's daughter (because it seems rather unlikely that a grown man would drop by an elementary school just to let an 8 year old child know that he thought her father a 'slumlord'), the idea that his refusal to deny this means that he is, in fact, confirming that it happened is a logical fallacy known as "Argumentum ex Silentio". He has already stated his refusal to engage with the people who put up this vile banner, and so his lack of comment and/or denial of Mr. Dunne's accusation is not a confirmation of anything. I understand that this person is your friend and that you wish to defend him as a friend would. But sometimes our friends make mistakes and if he truly isn't as racist as his actions seem, then he needs to apologize for that bit of nastiness, and a true friend would tell him so. As I said, there are other, less disgusting, ways to engage with an opponent without acting like an uncivil jerk.
This is one of those occasions when one might wish onewas filthy rich, so one could send a large donation to Mr. Chin’s campaign.
My father told me when I was just a young girl that 10% of the people in this world have hemorrhoids, and the rest are perfect assholes. I didn't believe him when I was 10 years old, but to paraphrase Mark Twain, as I got older, my father got smarter.
Macdonald defended Dunne in a newspaper column, calling him “a big-hearted landlord.”
My grandmother, born in Ireland, would say that a particularly freezing winter's day in Chicago was "colder than a landlord's heart."
You have all the credibility, of a steaming bag of shit. You must be in on the take to spout shit like that. No one believes you. And, you didn't even mention the racist slurs, as it never your pea sized brain, they were slurs. Whatever town contract you must have, to be such a rabid asshole, will hopefully be gone.
I think I just saw these kids in Times Square.
...there were no racial slurs on the sign.
I'd put that one right up there with:-- "Waterboarding isn't torture."-- "George W. Bush wasn't an idiot."-- "Ronald Reagan never raised the debt."-- "I did a great job as CEO of Hewlett Packard"-- "Lowering taxes on the wealthy creates jobs."
Yeeeeeeeah no they're racist. You can do racist things (like create dumb campaign signs) without intentionally being racist.
And I really have to disagree with you on 'managing them well'. If his tenants have complaints because things break, then he fixes them, that's one thing, and that's fine. Again, hundred year old buildings, hundred year old problems. But if they're generating large amounts of code violations that leads me to believe that large amounts of issues are going without repair. And for organizations that own multiple properties, putting them under separate LLCs IS pretty common due to limited liability, so I'll give you that one.
Yes, you are correct. But it is still Vietnam.
true; I think they are just doing the "irony" thing in which they similarly misattribute an ethnic stereotype to criticize another group's misattribution. It's like in "King of the Hill" in which the only character who recognizes Kang's ethnic identity is the old bitter racist WWII vet Cotton Hill.
I think that is Key West..
LOL. The sign is not only misspelled, has zero to do with the candidates ethnicity, and has a caricature, from WW2. You are the racist dude.
Seriously? You know what's offensive? Pretending you're stupid and ignorant when called out that you're a racist asshole due to racist asshole behavior like your post. It's spelled out for the stupid literally LITERAL people in the article itself. Are you a toddler? Were you never taught about the Vietnam war in school? I'm assuming you're too young to have been alive during that time by your pathetic hateful sewage spewing forth. Are you not aware that Vietnam isn't China? No Geography or History classes either? That Vietnamese ≠ Chinese? Trying to imply that being any branch of Asian descent is BAD and COMMUNIST is pretty racist - even if you've been living in a cave. Add to that the fact the racist asshole can't even get Chin's ethnicity and heritage correct (of course, why bother? They're all the same, RIGHT?) Please go back under your bridge.
Nope. There is no "getting past" hate and racism. Too late.
No it's racist just like sticking Obama's head on a lawn jockey could be called 'juvenile' because there have been black jockeys. What is important here is stereotyping and symbolism just like when Mel Gibson made every Jew in the "Passion of the Christ" out to be hook nosed and filthy whilst making Jesus and his followers look all pretty and non stereotypical. Symbolism matters, so does stereotyping and anyone with half a brain can look at those signs and say "wow, that's racist!"
Nothing says "wrongfully attacked" than immediately going to the racial slurs to show everyone how wrong the person was about you. Hey Joe, did you go to the Donald Trump/Donald Sterling school of management wherein any dispute can immediately be resolved by being a racist or what? Yes, I know you're not somebody who knows "Joe" Dunne or whatever your name is, you're the moron himself.
So you say. But the evidence of that doesn't seem to be more than "I say he is", and some of his tenants seem to think differently about the level of his "help". And if you don't understand why that sign is both racist and wrongheaded, then I doubt very much that you would strip your white-privilege blinders off as a result of anything I would say to you, and see it as everyone else seems to be seeing it. Why do you think there's been such a firestorm if no one perceives this as racist? Also, Mr. Chin does not seem to be either a socialist nor a communist, so equating his policies with that of Ho Chi Minh is, as you well know, extremely inflammatory and potentially slanderous, so that's not exactly smart to do, no matter what his tin ear thinks is a resemblance between Chin and Minh (no, they don't actually rhyme, and you've spelled Minh's name wrong as well). It seems odd that a person described as kind and generous would behave in such a way, regardless. As for my supposition regarding Mr. Chin's alleged bullying of Mr. Dunne's daughter (because it seems rather unlikely that a grown man would drop by an elementary school just to let an 8 year old child know that he thought her father a 'slumlord'), the idea that his refusal to deny this means that he is, in fact, confirming that it happened is a logical fallacy known as "Argumentum ex Silentio". He has already stated his refusal to engage with the people who put up this vile banner, and so his lack of comment and/or denial of Mr. Dunne's accusation is not a confirmation of anything. I understand that this person is your friend and that you wish to defend him as a friend would. But sometimes our friends make mistakes and if he truly isn't as racist as his actions seem, then he needs to apologize for that bit of nastiness, and a true friend would tell him so. As I said, there are other, less disgusting, ways to engage with an opponent without acting like an uncivil jerk.