My new hero; the Lyft driver who told “Feminist” tyrant (and supremely annoying “human”) Annaliese Nielsen where to stuff her virtue-signalling:
Why is it so vital to resist the Wahhabi Social Justice Warrior?
Because they kill people.
UPDATE: Commenter Seflores notes something that I’d missed the first time about Ms. Nielsen:
Coincidence? I think not.
And of course, being a “social justice warrior” in today’s academic and media society involves little more actual thought than…
I mean, why not?
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This video demonstrates why it’s vitally important to scrutinize your ride BEFORE you get in. Lyft, Uber or Checker Cab, the same rules apply.
To have a stress-free ride, check the vehicle for offensive items. Is there a Hula Girl glued to the dash or perhaps a Packers bobble-head? Is the driver wearing an offensive shirt, or perhaps strong after-shave (a scent-free ride is a fundamental human right)? Are there offensive bumper stickers or contents, perhaps a Bible laying on the seat? Be aware of labels – the vehicle itself may be offensive, an import instead of domestic, or a particularly vile shade of aggressively masculine red.
Consumer Beware! Accepting a ride and then criticizing the driver is likely to get you dumped in the middle of nowhere. Better to carefully examine the ride before you get in, even if it means passing up dozens of unsuitable rides and arriving at your destination hours late. People will wait for you. You are important. Your time and your preferences are more valuable than anybody else’s.
Ah of course. The radical right HATES social justice and opposes it whenever you can. I agree that the driver was being civil, and that this woman overstepped the line of civility when she started using foul language to express being offended. For that reason he was more than justified in no longer continuing to drive her during a commercial transaction.
But she is correct that this item is offensive to some people, and properly so.
This post has all the tone deafness that doesn’t understand why the Redskins is offensive to Native Americans, or why it is not equally acceptable for everyone to use the n word. It has the same tone deafness that doesn’t understand why someone would object to a demeaning figure of a black person, like some of the images that we’ve seen from MN GOP politicos that they have to subsequently take down from social media.
This is emphasizing style over substance. Given the abusive language your commenters frequently engage in, without challenge, it is also hypocritical as hell.
Oh poor poor aggrieved bigots. Again. Every time you push this meme, the right loses ground, sometimes slowly, sometimes more rapidly.
Dog Gone,
Until I see some sign that you are willing to discuss your many condescending, factually vacant, rhetorically abusive claims, or even see some evidence that you read the discussion after you dump your bloated comments, I’m going to leave your comments in moderation.
Just a simple “Hey, I read this” will fix the whooole thing. But I don’t think you do.
Or email me. I won’t email you. The burden is on you – this blog is my property, not yours.
It’s in your court. There will be no compromise.
I cannot believe the driver’s patience and how he kept his cool throughout the whole thing. Mega kudos!
I don’t know how anyone (of a certain age) can listen to this interaction without thinking of this…
https://vimeo.com/125996775
‘grody’
Yes, I read this. I read the comments. [Note from MB: Clearly, very very rarely]
Here is what I have in response. The right demands to be allowed to offend people, without criticism. They approve and give permission for bigotry.
In the first video, the driver who was acting in a commercial capacity, had an item in his vehicle that was offensive, and which should not have been on display — WHILE HE WAS DRIVING FOR PROFIT. Likewise the passenger should have adhered to a different set of rules while a passenger, and should have directed her complaint to the entity for which the driver was operating, not spoken inappropriately to the driver. She was however correct in being offended.
Here is an example of the right approving and endorsing bigotry, and racism, while having a moan and a wail about being criticized for it.
Apparently the GOP former chair in question is willfully ignorant that there is no such thing as race, it is an artificial construct, and that racism is entirely about demeaning people from a particular place, either region or country, while identifying them by appearance as to their origin.
In condoning demeaning groups of people on the basis of their origin, particularly through stereotypes, the RIGHT is engaging in racism and bigotry.
The RIGHT in turn feels aggrieved, when they are the ones in the wrong.
You appear to have missed the larger point, this is why the GOP and the Tea Party are doomed to fail and doomed to disappear as they currently exist. Numbers and social justice aka the arc of history are not in your favor.
It might make your readers feel good to be patted on the head for siding with the offensive driver, but it is ultimately self-destructive to the right. What I read on SitD systematically, day in and day out, is not only demeaning and offensive but based on bad sources.
In case you want to agree with the former MO GOP chair in the link, you might first want to read this:
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Roughly speaking, the Mexican population was calculated to be 65% indigenous, and 35% non-indigenous (European, African, Asian.)
Of course, there is great regional variety as well. According to the Mexican Genome Project, the population of the northern state of Sonora is 58% European. The population of the Pacific state of Guerrero is 22% African origin.”
http://www.banderasnews.com/0707/eded-racesofmexico.htm
Those two links formed the basis of what I wrote today. It goes to the larger ongoing point that the right is racist. Not every ‘rightie’ in every circumstance, but overall, in who it puts in positions of authority and in policies and speeches, the right is generally racist. This is in part because it fails properly to understand the difference between race, ethnicity and heritage. And because it has a fondness for demeaning stereotypes – which includes the hula bobble head.
DG,
Work calls – but I’ll let this comment through on a probationary basis.
The sad thing is that even 20 years back, her type was endemic in places like Boulder, and the system there protects them and even promotes them. And I’d have pointed out that Gawker is dead, too–“don’t read the papers, do ya, blondie?”
Had an experience a few days ago where after a young boy said he was born in Africa, I asked whether it might be Somalia, and got accused of being a racist out of the deal. Got worse when they cornered me to see who I was voting for this fall, and I revealed that I was not in favor of the candidate who advocates the killing of 100,000 black babies per year with taxpayer support.
The really scary thing is that the response was a reflex–evidently someone, probably at the schools, is training young kids to automatically assume benign comments are racist–in other words, they’re being trained to be bigots, ironically.
Yes, a hula bobble head is racist….which is why if you go to Hawaii, there are tons of places where people of native Hawaiian ancestry will dance the hula for tourists. Often for free. I’m sure they’re highly offended that a taxi driver on the continent would stereotype them as beautiful and graceful, and that he’d so a little bit of free advertising for their art in his car.
Seriously, DG? If you can’t see the difference between this and the old Uncle Tom revues and the like, I’m going to have to suggest you’re hitting the Mad Dog harder than I would have guessed.
But she is correct that this item is offensive to some people, and properly so.
Pretty much everything is going to be offensive to someone. And, it’s a hula girl. What makes it offensive? Is it because it is a stereotypical representation of Hawaiians? Newsflash: Stereotypes often are based on FACT(e.g. There’s more Hawaiian hula dancers than Norwegian ones). Stereotypes can have positive or negative connotations. In this case, I’d bet money you and others who view this as a negative stereotype are in the minority.
This post has all the tone deafness that doesn’t understand why the Redskins is offensive to Native Americans,
Did you miss the WaPo poll and subsequent head-scratching that couldn’t figure out why “Native Americans” overwhelmingly support Washington’s NFL team being called the Redskins? Again, judging from the poll, a large majority see the name as positive or neutral stereotype.
or why it is not equally acceptable for everyone to use the n word.
We agree here. It should be considered offensive regardless of the speaker’s skin tone. The double-standard that allows blacks to say it while vilifying white speakers is itself a racist standard.
This is emphasizing style over substance. Given the abusive language your commenters frequently engage in, without challenge, it is also hypocritical as hell.
Pot, meet kettle. By the way, I hope you meant to say some commenters, because I would otherwise challenge you to find an example where I ever used abusive language in the comments on this blog. Some of us have exercised restraint in our responses to you.
Oh, and in case it still hasn’t sunk in, it’s Mitch’s blog.
Oh poor poor aggrieved bigots.
You just complained about abusive language, and then label us bigots? Are you mixing medications or something?
Every time you push this meme, the right loses ground, sometimes slowly, sometimes more rapidly.
Every time you tell us how we’re “losing”, I wonder if you’re trying to convince us, or yourself.
Is the “radical right” a vaguely defined, ever changing group of people that Dog Gone can pop in and out of at leisure? Sounds like it. Using labels like that always make me think the person writing them is communicating “… and now I’ll be painting with a monstrously broad brush …”.
Most thinking people disapprove of “social justice” because actual and real “justice” is just fine by itself. “Social Justice” may have more in common with “Twitter Justice” or “Facebook Justice” than the real thing.
What I read on SitD systematically, day in and day out, is not only demeaning and offensive but based on bad sources.
Then why are you here? Did you appoint yourself the arbiter of morality, justice, “truth”, and thinking the “correct” way?
Sounds EXACTLY like the SJW in the video. And what they have in common is an incredibly large deficiency in introspection.
DG said: “In the first video, the driver who was acting in a commercial capacity, had an item in his vehicle that was offensive, and which should not have been on display — WHILE HE WAS DRIVING FOR PROFIT.”
What law or rule or moral code says that a person engaged in commercial activity must never offend anybody? If you’re offended, don’t ride in my car, wait for a sparkly unicorn to come along.
It’s a different story when the government gives someone an enforceable monopoly, such as Muslim taxi drivers refusing to carry blind passengers because seeing-eye dogs are “unclean.” There, as a virtual agent of the government, you ought to be held to a standard of non-discrimination. But even Muslim taxi drivers are allowed to have a copy of the Koran on the dash even though it offends me. “Offensive” is not the same as “discriminatory.”
A Lyft driver? How can any of that possibly apply to them?
I see DG has cross-posted most of a post from her site into the comments here( 11:47am)
This post has all the tone deafness that doesn’t understand why the Redskins is offensive to Native Americans…
Sorry, Dog Bone. A recent poll shows 9 in 10 Native Americans are NOT offended by the term “Redskins.”
Might wanna re-state your premise.
In DG’s view, they would be offended if they only knew better.
Might wanna re-state your premise.
Dude! And I was so enjoying the respite from inanity.
There is a point, as I demonstrated above, where allegations of insensitivity become a parody.
And that point is ably demonstrated by DG. Let’s be real here; people like hula bobbleheads not to mock Hawaii, but to dream about a vacation or living there. Beauty and grace are good things. In the same way, teams like native american names because it connotes courage and tenacity. Those are good things.
To take offense because someone calls you beautiful, courageous, or tenacious? Just plain silly. We can reform things like Chief Wahoo without losing the main point.
If I decide on behalf of my dog that the pseudonym “Dog Gone” is offensive (encouraging genocide of canines!) can I berate and belittle the host of this blog until he forces you to write under your own name?
PS: Raw Story as a source. Heh!
The Lyft driver waited about five minutes too long to invite AN to get out of his car. Valley girls (or butch cut Macalester coeds) are not the arbiters of cultural offensiveness. I don’t think anybody can play that role. If he’s a breaking a law, then turn him in. Otherwise, STFU. That goes for you too, doggie.
Ian,
I used to have a bipolar friend who would engage in lengthy written rants that echo much of DG’s writing. Difference was he wrote these long screeds in really tiny print on his apartment walls, which he would insist that anyone foolish enough to visit him had to read before he would talk to them. This was before AlGore invented the Internet. Whenever he went back on his meds he would repaint his apartment ( always Eggshell White) so there would be room for his next break.
Except for his pathological fear of bats and nuns(which he saw as 2 forms of the same creature) my friend made as little sense as DG does about pretty much the same subjects.
DG-“Here is an example of the right endorsing racism…it is not racist to hate Mexicans..” No matter what Huff and Puff or whoever says, Mexicans aren’t a race. And by the way, neither are Muslims.
I’d like to lock Annalise and dog woman in a closet, with a cat box for a week and record the exchange for Gawker.
I’m excited!
I work with 2 “native americans” who prefer to be called Indians despite the fact that it’s confusing since we have quite a number of Indians from India in our office (ah, the joys of working in the chip business — I actually work with a number of folks from around the world). As they point out, we were both born in the US — we’re both “natives”.
The radical right HATES social justice and opposes it whenever you can.
I’m curious, DG. Exactly what do you think is “social justice”? Is it treating folks different from you with respect and civility? Because you certainly don’t value diversity of thought and you certainly aren’t accepting of differences.
The right demands to be allowed to offend people, without criticism.
Hardly. That’s the left, and you in particular. You certainly don’t tolerate criticism on your blog, nor do you allow others to offend you in any situation you can control. That’s fascist behavior, and the fascists are firmly in the Left’s camp as far as beliefs.
The right demands that people be free to speak and disagree. If flag-burning is “speech”, then why would a hula dancer doll from the “continent” of Hawaii not be speech? For real freedom you need to allow even offensive speech, but you must be willing to counter offensive speech. But it’s the left that’s the force that’s trying to regulate thought (“hate” crimes?) and speech (“speech codes” anyone?). I fully support your right to disagree with the driver. But I also fully support the idea that the driver is justified to kick you out if you can’t be civil or tolerant towards his beliefs. Similarly, I have no problem with you deciding not to sell a puppy to someone because their ideas of how the dog should be treated from yours. A free people need not approve of everyone else and need not patronize each other.
For anyone who ever wondered what kind of person would staff the Spanish Inquisition one need look no further that DGs scribblings to get their answer.
You know, in my more than half century of life, no one ever assured me that I was entitled to a life without being offended.
When my son was born, no one was there to tell him life would be fair, or that no one would ever offend him.
If you are deeply offended by a hula bobble on the dash you need to “Lighten Up, Francis!” (Movie reference for Penigma’s Chihuahua so she can fact check it)
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