About this column, another hysterical Sarah-Palin-basher by Canadian-tax-payer-salaried Heather Malick, I have only two things to say:
One — her coy “is it racism? I wouldn’t know, as my pure and innocent mind is incapable of recognizing that awful thing!”* statement speculating why so many Americans are choosing McCain/Palin over Obama/What’sisname; does she know that Sarah Palin’s husband is a Yup’ik Indian Eskimo**? That’s it, folks — the word “racism” officially died today as a term meaning anything.
Two — what the hell is “violently rich”? Does she think that being wealthy is a state of being, like being ill — it just sort of happens? (She’s got a master’s degree in English and works for a government institution, so she probably does think that.) Or does she imagine that after garnering over a certain set amount of money people go insane and become psychotic killers? Gee, I know Bill Gates doesn’t have the greatest reputation in the world but I was unaware until now of his mad rampages through the midnight streets of Redmond with a bloody axe.
Via many people, but the latest was The Anchoress so she gets the link.
*OK, I paraphrased, but not that much.
**Eskimo? Indian? Indian? Eskimo? Whatever — all I know is I refuse to use jawbreaking, carpal-tunnel-inducing PC terms like “Native American.”
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September 9th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I still prefer ‘Esquimaux’.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Andrea, you don’t expect these people to make sense, do you? They’re far too busy patting themselves on the back and manufacturing cute turns of the phrase for that. And I, too, prefer esquimaux.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Actually, in Alaska they’re called “Alaska Natives,” of which Eskimos and Aleuts are the only ones who aren’t also Indians or “Native Americans.”
I’m not sure why the distinction, it’s just one I noticed fairly quickly when I lived in Fairbanks. There, the local AN’s are Athabascans (Indians) of, IIRC, the Tanaina tribe.