Friend of mine sends political humor emails from a right-wing perspective. Typically I ignore them. This one offends me, though.
Jeff Foxworthy on Muslims:
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor. ... You may be a Muslim
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes. ... You may be a Muslim
3. You have more wives than teeth. ... You may be a Muslim
4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean. ... You may be a Muslim
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide. ... You may be a Muslim
6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against. ... You may be a Muslim
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your underwear. ... You may be a Muslim
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs. ... You may be a Muslim
9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four. ... You may be a Muslim
10. Your cousin is president of the United States. ... You may be a Muslim
11. You find this offensive or racist and don't forward it. ... You may be a Muslim
Yeah, I know, Foxworthy does the same thing with rednecks. But rednecks hoot and holler when he goes on about them. Ain't no Muslims going to find this shit funny. I don't either. Does this count as forwarding? If not, I may be a Muslim.
p.s. - And yeah, you may wonder why I share it if it offends me. Well, because I need to react. I'm not going to do the politically correct thing and tell the guy. Fuck that. He can do his own thing. But I need to react so here it is. And let's admit: If delivered by Jeff Foxworthy, there may be a chuckle or two, especially if one is channeling his mid-country market where Muslims are the scariest of all Others. But by and large I consider generic Muslims as neighbors and colleagues, and this shit would insult them, and so it offends me, and any chuckles would fade quickly in embarrassment.
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The fear and shortsighted ignorance on display here is epic. Not sure if the country is going backwards, though I think it is, but it sure isn't going forward.
I don't think it's stupid to be scared of religious fanatics, but I wouldn't limit my fear to Muslims. Obviously they are at the moment the ones to watch for airplane bombery, but longer-term the nutjob anti-science Christians are pretty scary wrt to this country as a whole.
The first question to ask is whether Jeff Foxworthy ever said any of this, since I've seen crap in e-mail forwardforwardforwards that Bill Cosby or Andy Rooney or even George Carlin were supposed to have said but which none of them ever did or remotely would. Snopes.com is your friend, and when I catch someone circulating things like this that Snopes credibly debunks as having nothing to do with the purported originator, I'm inclined to reply to that effect.
And in fact:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/foxworthy.asp
I wondered about that but got lazy. The original Taliban one is actually more funny and less offensive.
(LOL Ai)
Nasty material.
Yeah, but he's not really. We traveled to both Chinas together a few years ago -- I loved it, he hated it -- but other'n that have mostly been polite. Indeed I think my disrespectful comments about Bachmann, lack of Christian belief, and *gasp* attendance at Burning Man have pretty much inspired him to back all the way off. But I'm still on the list, and I don't ask to be removed because then I'd be a weenie.
I have never felt like a weenie when asking to be spared bigoted or thoughtless rants that someone felt moved to circulate, suspecting that they took lack of dispute as evidence that their attitudes were warranted.
I made friends with a guy on a chat board in the year 2000 or so and had reason to consider him a confidant and soul brother for many moons. And then he started sending me Hillary hate spam. And Obama Birther spam. He went from someone of Libertarian leanings to a hissing, accusatory Ron Paul goon, roughly in parallel to a spiralling food addiction that his wife lamented in private e-mails to me. I finally asked him to spare me the birther crap and I have never heard from him again. I don't miss the spam, I miss the person I knew for a while.
Had the same experience with my first real boy friend, who turned out to be transgender, who turned out to have internalized enough self loathing to browbeat me about how I "sickened" him by finding the Fox News-Rush Limbaugh- Rupert Murdoch end of the media, in my word, appalling when he chose to regard them as the "true alternative media."
It hurt to be discounted that way, but I don't miss the crap at all, at all.
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