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[jsmirman]

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[GP6971]

1. Agree. n/t

[Zax2me]

2. Lily-white? Now now....

There are many lily-white progressives.

[jsmirman]

8. Yeah, I do not think people understand the reference here

people call crowds "lily-white" when they mean to indicate that a crowd is made up of nothing but white people.

It has no bearing on any sort of porcelain-like quality of any individual person's skin.

[cherokeeprogressive]

16. Bullshit. It's a fucking racial epithet just like any other.

Just like any other.

You get that, right?

[jsmirman]

18. You're wrong and you're ignorant

sorry, tonight not interested in playing with people who don't understand the vernacular because of their own ignorance.

It's a long accepted use to describe a monochromatic crowd that pretty much inevitably ends up that way through flat out exclusion of non-whites or anything remotely resembling their interests.

And by "long accepted use," I mean regularly used in the media and accepted by all sides for lord knows how long.

I seriously do not have time for DU's brand of PC idiocy on a night like this.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. If I were you I'd go ahead and self-delete this.

Judging from the replies, you're wrong and this thread will come to no good end.

Just my $.02

[jsmirman]

21. Oh, I'm doing it because I'm right

and I don't have time for this nonsense.

Just because ignorance piles up like a turd curdle in one's colon doesn't make anything other than what it is.

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. LOL. You funny.

[Joe the Revelator]

3. Stupid racist post

Shame.

[jsmirman]

9. Yeah, I think you have no historical reference

you would find this description in a million journalistic descriptions, and never as a "racist" term.

[Skip Intro]

12. Then finding a link to one such journalistic description should be easy.

Got one?

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17. ROFL!!!! Are you kidding?

[deaniac21]

4. that's racist.

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5. Blatantly racist post. Isn't DU better than this?

[jsmirman]

6. What are you talking about???

I mean that the ENTIRE CROWD is white, duh!

That's what makes a crowd "lily-white."

Did you see what the msnbc reporter was surrounded by?

And I happen to be white.

I just also happen to be a white person who would find living in a "lily-white" neighborhood revolting.

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11. I don't care what color your skin is.

If you were describing a crowd of blacks in a similar manner you'd be tombstoned in no time, and rightly so. What makes your racial slur different?

[jsmirman]

13. Because when all white crowds in this country get together

bad shit happens.

A party made up solely of the race that has been in the dominant, oppressing catbird's seat is an ugly, messed up party.

And if that doesn't explain it to you, I think you and reality are infrequent friends.

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15. Wow! Really! All-white crowds are evil, huh?

Tell me more...

[Zanzoobar]

7. I think you misspelled, "Honky Motherfuckers".

[jsmirman]

10. Goodness Gracious. As an INDIVIDUAL, I'm "lily white"

by some people's frame of reference, although I'm a reasonably swarthy motherfucker.

I don't tend to hang around CROWDS that are "lily white," however.

[jsmirman]

22. Here's the OP - Apparently Ignorance is the IN THING tonight

sad.

Some people here are attacking something they simply don't understand.

I'm a former journo using a standard journalistic term. You're uninformed and I'm busy.

OP:

Fuck you and your lily white crowds

I'm not always thrilled with the Dem party, but that voter suppressing, non-white people hating, selfishness worshipping, scumbag ranks closing around party (the Repubs) they SUCK.