Deanna TaylorSave Me From My Senator - Boot Buttars From Office!
A new site has popped up in the Blogosphere:
Save Me From My Senator - Chris Buttars Scares Me.
It was started as a result of dire frustration by a constituent of his. It’s chock full of really useful information, including
101 Reasons to Get Rid of Chris Buttars, Tools for Citizens to use in the Fight, news and blog articles, and lots more.
I live just outside of District 10, so I can’t help vote him out, but I sure can do all I can to get others in his district to do just that.
Chris Buttars Scares Me
August 6th, 2008 at 9:30 am
When Buttars saw this video, he picked up the phone to order one. He said he would use it to protect his family from darkies and fags.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Those are racist epithets, is anyone in charge of this blog?
August 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your comment. A number of us have moderation rights over this blog.
I used darkies and fags cynically. Perhaps I should have said (in quotes), “darkies and gays.”
I believe (hope) our frequent readers know well my disposition on race and same sex gender preference and as such, took my use of those epitaphs as cynical.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am
And you see, Mr. McCrae, that since Cliff is “fighting the good fight” and only trying to “protect us from ourselves”, that no linguistic blasphemy is out of bounds.
He’s RIGHTEOUS.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Whatever your dispensation, such comments are inappropriate in my opinion, and have no place in any discussion, serious or otherwise.
I assume that you have moderation rights, I would advise using them.
How old are you? I have the suspicion I have stumbled on to a teen blog.
Epitaphs you put on a grave stone, epithets are what you used, “darkie” is included in that. Now I’m sure I’m dealing with a high school sophomore.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Thank you Mr. McCrae for your concern. I have read back through YOUR comments and found you rhetoric much more dignified than mine to say the least.
But JD is right, I am “fighting the good fight” which requires a bit more aggressiveness. I mean to be provocative, not unlike your glib suggestion that this is a “teen blog” (in contrast to the fact that you have been engaged in conversations here which you would never be able to have with the average teenager).
But I also believe, I subscribe to a different handbook than you because I am on a different team than you. In our play book, the use of once common, now out-dated racist vernacular serves to mock old, conservative bigots (shhh. don’t tell, but they are everywhere).
And I doubt very much if the average high school sophomore (in Utah) would even understand the historical reference and therefore the personification of the one being mocked.
Chris Buttars may not have used that exact term publicly, but knowing his type as well as I do (I make it MY business), I can well imagine him using it without reservation.
Have a listen and see for yourself.
Even if you sympathize with his position, I think you will agree.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
What ever the attempt to marginalize the behavior, it is revealing, I suggest covering up, it is a bit embarrassing.
Though these topics are somewhat elevated, they would be no trouble to an erudite high student 30 odd years ago.
I don’t much discern orientation in people, and a bigot, is a bigot, and jest is just a cover only to the user of such.