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Mar. 30th, 2012 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alas_a_llamaTrigger warning for discussion of racial slurs while desperately trying to contrive ways not to write the racial slur in question.
So, Rick Santorum, presidential candidate in the GOP race in America, has actually let himself slip and started using a racial slur against President Obama, before catching himself halfway through.
Don't believe me?
Now, a lot of apologists are saying that he was saying 'negotiator'. But since when does negotiator start with a 'nig' sound (from a linguistics standpoint, it starts with a similar sound, but not close enough to be confused), makes sense in the sentence "The anti-war, government negotiator,", or be cause to stop abruptly and sheepishly halfway through, stumble, and then continue without finishing the word?
No. I'm calling bull on that one. We all know what he was saying. As a fun game, I actually looked up other words beginning with 'nig' and the only one I found was 'niggard' (it means a pinchpenny). And 'Nigorl', whom I believe was a villain from a Sentai series a few years back.
Just. You guys. What the hell has the world come to when a politician breaks into a racial slur on - oh, oh wait. Why am I even surprised, it's the GOP. The worst part, too? He says it so nonchalantly and naturally that it sounds like it's something he says all the time. Seriously, a little experiment, if you're alone, try saying some kind of awful slur now - even though nobody can see you, I'll warrant that either you can't bring yourself to do it, or if you can it's an almost physical strain. Now, imagine doing that again, except now there's a massive audience watching you and you're on television.
Yep. Didn't think so. But it seems like Santorum doesn't even think about it until he's halfway through the word. It's like when I'm suddenly around a child and go "Oh, fuc ... fuccorian, the mystical species from the planet Fuccor! Y-yeah."
Just. Gah. Dear lord. Just, here's an unimpressed looking gif with a cat.
EDIT: Rick Santorum's office has responded. They are outraged! Outraged they say! So very, very outraged that they won't even give an explanation to why Mr. Santorum started to say what can really only be a racial slur or an obscure term for a miser (or a Sentai villain, yes).
I refer you back to the cat.
That article also mentions the incident a little while ago where Santorum remarked that he didn't "want to make black people's lives better" and then later claimed that he had said 'blah people' instead - and if you'll believe that, then I question your motivations and want to know who, in the history of the universe, has ever said the sentence "I don't want to make blah people's lives better."
Cat. Just. The cat.
So, Rick Santorum, presidential candidate in the GOP race in America, has actually let himself slip and started using a racial slur against President Obama, before catching himself halfway through.
Don't believe me?
Now, a lot of apologists are saying that he was saying 'negotiator'. But since when does negotiator start with a 'nig' sound (from a linguistics standpoint, it starts with a similar sound, but not close enough to be confused), makes sense in the sentence "The anti-war, government negotiator,", or be cause to stop abruptly and sheepishly halfway through, stumble, and then continue without finishing the word?
No. I'm calling bull on that one. We all know what he was saying. As a fun game, I actually looked up other words beginning with 'nig' and the only one I found was 'niggard' (it means a pinchpenny). And 'Nigorl', whom I believe was a villain from a Sentai series a few years back.
Just. You guys. What the hell has the world come to when a politician breaks into a racial slur on - oh, oh wait. Why am I even surprised, it's the GOP. The worst part, too? He says it so nonchalantly and naturally that it sounds like it's something he says all the time. Seriously, a little experiment, if you're alone, try saying some kind of awful slur now - even though nobody can see you, I'll warrant that either you can't bring yourself to do it, or if you can it's an almost physical strain. Now, imagine doing that again, except now there's a massive audience watching you and you're on television.
Yep. Didn't think so. But it seems like Santorum doesn't even think about it until he's halfway through the word. It's like when I'm suddenly around a child and go "Oh, fuc ... fuccorian, the mystical species from the planet Fuccor! Y-yeah."
Just. Gah. Dear lord. Just, here's an unimpressed looking gif with a cat.
EDIT: Rick Santorum's office has responded. They are outraged! Outraged they say! So very, very outraged that they won't even give an explanation to why Mr. Santorum started to say what can really only be a racial slur or an obscure term for a miser (or a Sentai villain, yes).
I refer you back to the cat.
That article also mentions the incident a little while ago where Santorum remarked that he didn't "want to make black people's lives better" and then later claimed that he had said 'blah people' instead - and if you'll believe that, then I question your motivations and want to know who, in the history of the universe, has ever said the sentence "I don't want to make blah people's lives better."
Cat. Just. The cat.
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Date: 2012-03-30 09:45 am (UTC)I can't even. Just. What.
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Date: 2012-03-30 09:48 am (UTC)D:
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Date: 2012-03-30 01:04 pm (UTC)