Evidence of this Corruption? Convictions at trial? Reports of misuse of funds? Kind of hard for out-of-power Americans to be corrupt. One of the elements of corruption is that you must wield power in order to engage in it. The irony being of course, that you don't even understand what the main issue was for the tea-partiers - less government spending as a whole, less waste in goverment spending that is spent. What you mean is, they are ideologically opposed to you, so you hate them, thus you feel you can level any charge you like without evidence. That is OK, since most of them are mean, nasty Republicans that live in flyover country and don't care what is said on NPR. That makes them fair game for any and all accusations.
Classical definition? Racial and ethnic stereotypes are repugnant bigotry. Trying to find some narrow definition that makes it acceptable is right up there.
Sure, after the inherent racist nature of your original wording was pointed out for all to see, you decided it was a good idea to replace the intentionally inflammatory and racist word "redneck" and substituted the generic word "people". But of course it was too late, your inherent, (and I am quite sure) unintentional bigotry had slipped out anyway.
You are so right. Doubleplus ungood for his thoughtcrime!
I grew up in the 1990s in a "redneck" (mostly white) suburb of Salt Lake City called Magna.
Maybe No boycotts over that, but they’re not new. What’s good is social media and our interconnected world has given marginalized communities more power to push back. To expose the racism, the bigotry, the misogyny and cruelty. Communities that kept quiet or went along out of fear of reprisals can band together to effect change.
I wondered about that. Her name isn't familiar to me, but I am not in LA so I wasn't sure if she was widely known or not. I kind of figured there is likely more history between Conway and Jacobs that led up to the bit. The truth is Jacobs was probably the target of the bit more than Sakamoto, especially if she isn't a public figure. Otherwise, what is the point at goofing on some unknown person? I think jumping to claims of "sexism" or "misogyny" here doesn't really fit the facts of this story and is not particularly helpful. The bit was performed by a woman pretending to be another woman after all!
Ah - so you listened to Jon and Dan. Awesome!!!! You know what would be even more awesome? If we could get back to talking about radio here.
Sorry. I felt it was an apt comparison to the Conway situation.
Let's remember that Rush Limbaugh did the same thing toward what some would call "rednecks". Both locally when a KFBK host and nationally, he picked on Rio Linda---for the same reasons you outline for Magna, Henry.
