where is Condoleezza Rice

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Harke the Boeotarch,

Whether you were joking or not, how are you going to compare her to Mammy Two Shoes, an unbelievably racist depiction of black women? I wasn't a supporter of Rice, nor do I like pulling the race card, but what you wrote was very offensive.

Mammy Two Shoes has been a popular character since 1940's Puss Gets the Boot, and has influenced the popular conscience for almost seventy years.
Billions of people know her.

Condoleezza Two Zees has been in the public eye since 2001. Will anybody even know who she was in 2070?

Am I being unbelievably tasteless or am I exalting Condoleezza by comparing her to someone whose Two Shoes she will never fit?

 

[bounder]

Mammy Two Shoes has been a popular character since 1940's Puss Gets the Boot, and has influenced the popular conscience for almost seventy years.
Billions of people know her.

Condoleezza Two Zees has been in the public eye since 2001. Will anybody even know who she was in 2070?

Am I being unbelievably tasteless or am I exalting Condoleezza by comparing her to someone whose Two Shoes she will never fit?

"Unbelievably tasteless" isn't exactly what I would call it. Interesting how your entire post is irrelevant to what I brought up.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Yeah well, there are many people who don't appreciate it very much when any distinguished woman of color is compared to a Mammy.

You mean "Americans".

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

"Unbelievably tasteless" isn't exactly what I would call it. Interesting how your entire post is irrelevant to what I brought up.

Only if you believe that everbody is obliged to share your opinion on Mammy Two Shoes.
Otherwise, I'd say it was pretty relevant.

 

[bounder]

Only if you believe that everbody is obliged to share your opinion on Mammy Two Shoes.
Otherwise, I'd say it was pretty relevant.

What do you think my opinion of her is that you apparently don't share?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

What do you think my opinion of her is that you apparently don't share?

It's what you posted here.

Harke the Boeotarch,

Whether you were joking or not, how are you going to compare her to Mammy Two Shoes, an unbelievably racist depiction of black women? I wasn't a supporter of Rice, nor do I like pulling the race card, but what you wrote was very offensive.

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I suppose so, everywhere that this Mammy person isn't held up to this high order of esteem that you claim she is.

But neither was she meant to give as much offense as some seem to take.

Here in America, most of us place characters like her in the same category as a racial epithet.

I really really hate the politically correct current trend for retroactively deciding whether an old work of fiction is appropriate or not.

Ladies and gentlemen, we call that Communism.

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And that's all I have to say about that subject.

Now let's go bash Condi.

 

[bounder]

Harke, I'm interested to hear why you disagree with my opinion.

But neither was she meant to give as much offense as some seem to take.

Oh, so you meant to just kind of offend people?

I really really hate the politically correct current trend for retroactively deciding whether an old work of fiction is appropriate or not.

Maybe it was never appropriate? Ever consider that?