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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 12:30 PM

coalition_unwilling (14,180 posts)

25. To quote the late, great North Carolinian Republican Senator Jesse Helms, "If

English was good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough for the rest of us."

OK, I've been told that Jesse Helms never actually said that. But he may as well have

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110 replies	Author	Time	Post
I Wouldn't Have Believed Things Like This Do Happen...Until I Witnessed It Myself. [View all]	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	OP
Beautiful! nt	MrScorpio	Nov 2012	#1
Excellent! A lot of Americans are so stupid that they think	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#2
Kathy teaches English as a private tutor in Spain.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#3
How offensive! It's Un-American to learn non-English languages.	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#7
How wonderful	femrap	Nov 2012	#21
Wow, that's so cool....archaic Greek?!? Toooo cool!	BlancheSplanchnik	Nov 2012	#51
Pepe wrote his philosophy doctoral thesis in Koine Greek.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#58
Wow!!!!	BlancheSplanchnik	Nov 2012	#62
I once saw Americans referred to as	SheilaT	Nov 2012	#26
It's unnecessary to learn other languages, or even English,	TahitiNut	Nov 2012	#81
"...they think no American can speak any other language than poor English."	Spitfire of ATJ	Nov 2012	#89
My crazy RW cousin thinks that all billboards and	vlyons	Nov 2012	#103
Gees, wonder how that woman...	dballance	Nov 2012	#4
She should come to St. Paul, MN.	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#37
That's kinda cool the place is so diverse and you elected a Hmong immigrant	dballance	Nov 2012	#110
That woman must have been caught shoplifting at WalMart	JohnnyRingo	Nov 2012	#5
+10	RC	Nov 2012	#15
I love this	Carolina	Nov 2012	#6
Might as well talk about her because she probably thought you were anyway.	alfredo	Nov 2012	#54
or talk about her in English, as if she isn't standing right there	eShirl	Nov 2012	#67
it is kinda odd	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#8
Wait, what?	Aristus	Nov 2012	#9
Thank you, kind sir. You stated my views on this matter exactly.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#12
US citizenship could expire, in the same way that British citizenship does	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#43
British citizenship expires?	Mariana	Nov 2012	#53
see replies 17 amd 18 below	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#55
Or maybe you have no idea what you're talking about. nt.	Mariana	Nov 2012	#73
This message was self-deleted by its author	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#75
Immigration lawyer here	The Hitman	Nov 2012	#98
I'm kinda thinking the same thing...	LanternWaste	Nov 2012	#76
'Skin in the game'.	Aristus	Nov 2012	#64
Thanks Aristus! "Shielded from your vote".. as if!	Cha	Nov 2012	#65
Your post makes you sound like a jingoist	lunatica	Nov 2012	#11
Oh, you....	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Nov 2012	#13
The US of A is the only country I know...	mwooldri	Nov 2012	#17
I am in the reverse situation...I am a Brit living in the US..	truebrit71	Nov 2012	#18
Skipped all your Civics classes, did you?	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#34
Apparently, you know little or nothing about US citizenship law.	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#41
I could give half a shit about US citizenship law	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#48
"I don't need to know anything about the law to have an opinion on it."	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#50
actually, I know what I said	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#52
...!	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#56
what is a stereotypical liberal?	datasuspect	Nov 2012	#60
no, but thinking you do and that nobody else does - is a sign	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#69
You got a right to your opinion	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#72
do I have a right to my own cliches?	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#74
Read on people who ave lost national allegiance	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#78
Interesting....	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Nov 2012	#96
actually I have done that a long time ago	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#108
"I don't need to know anything about the law to have an opinion on it."	The Hitman	Nov 2012	#101
yeah, welcome to DU	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#109
Scratches head	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#71
my mum lived in America over 30 years and voted in Brit elections	Skittles	Nov 2012	#80
deduction fail X 2	lunasun	Nov 2012	#95
I find an extra measure of satisfaction in knowing that the woman was shopping in a store	beac	Nov 2012	#10
Precisely, beac! Wonder if she knew That! COSTCO IS A BLUE STORE~ nm	Cha	Nov 2012	#66
And, you have the last laugh.	MsPithy	Nov 2012	#14
Racism is an ugly thing. Being Cherokee when I darken up in the summer I often get, what are you?	sarcasmo	Nov 2012	#16
Where was there racism in this story?	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#20
It	heaven05	Nov 2012	#27
If you were on the receiving end of the	lalalu	Nov 2012	#30
I would be annoyed by their ignorance	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#33
The ignorance usually comes from the same source.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#39
Except this post	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#44
That's one rosy way of looking at it.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#47
You'd be annoyed by their ignorance for the first three dozen times it would happen...	JHB	Nov 2012	#40
If it were based on race, you are likely right.	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#46
One can see in my brother-in-law his Moorish heritage, he could easily pass as an Algerian.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#32
Thanks	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#35
come on ....	uponit7771	Nov 2012	#94
You get the what are you or where are you from too?	lalalu	Nov 2012	#29
I've gotten that question, and I'm white as Caspar,	closeupready	Nov 2012	#57
Great Story...thx	femrap	Nov 2012	#19
Makes you...	DirtyDawg	Nov 2012	#22
Im sure when that woman got home	MissNostalgia	Nov 2012	#23
typical	heaven05	Nov 2012	#24
To quote the late, great North Carolinian Republican Senator Jesse Helms, "If	coalition_unwilling	Nov 2012	#25
I've been told that Jesse Helms never actually said that.	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#45
Have you ever seen an electrical explosion?	geomon666	Nov 2012	#28
That's a great story. Thanks!	mnhtnbb	Nov 2012	#31
I love it when some fascist pig gets it right in their face.	santamargarita	Nov 2012	#36
Perfect. Fuck the morons (well, not in the technical manner).	HopeHoops	Nov 2012	#38
I would have played her....	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#42
Voter Demographics 2012:	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2012	#49
It's vital to remember that as ugly as the woman's words were,	burnsei sensei	Nov 2012	#59
Nope. Not most white people. Obama got a large white vote & many non-racists voted for Romney.	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2012	#83
K&R nt	ProudProgressiveNow	Nov 2012	#61
We would be a better country if we spoke another language. My Italian cousins	southernyankeebelle	Nov 2012	#63
I (heart) this story	libodem	Nov 2012	#68
Been on the receiving end	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#70
Interesting that someone in the line understood Catalan	DFW	Nov 2012	#77
Maybe she just wants her country back. (sarcasm) nt	morningglory	Nov 2012	#82
Don't think she understood Catalan, just knew it wasn't English	bigbrother05	Nov 2012	#85
I don't think she knew what language it was at all, she only heard my nephew speak about	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#88
Grocery line steriotyping is amazing.....	ReRe	Nov 2012	#79
My friend, it's no good until you end the conversation with "So Fuck Off !"	RagAss	Nov 2012	#84
Stuff like this happens all the time.	The Doctor.	Nov 2012	#86
re:I Wouldn't Have Believed Things Like This Do Happen...Until I Witnessed It Myself.	allan01	Nov 2012	#87
In which state does she vote?	lumberjack_jeff	Nov 2012	#90
The expansive world of the Teabagger.	AAO	Nov 2012	#91
Something similar happened to a Spanish conversation class.	knitter4democracy	Nov 2012	#92
I am really getting sick of the tiny box Americans put themselves in and then get mad when no one	Heather MC	Nov 2012	#93
I love this!	LittleGirl	Nov 2012	#97
Nice but...	The Hitman	Nov 2012	#99
The citizens native to Valencia speak Catalan, but it is called Valencian.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#104
Kicky.....love the story.	yourout	Nov 2012	#100
Ignorance abounds in this country; thank God, intelligence is, mostly, its superior.	juajen	Nov 2012	#102
Proving once again, how uneducated some Americans are	sinkingfeeling	Nov 2012	#105
Simply Excellent!	Plucketeer	Nov 2012	#106
She asked for it!	reformist2	Nov 2012	#107

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