Yes, please.
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I agree with this in that the Palins are horrible, but it doesn’t mean DV is any less horrible just because it happens to people we love to hate. It’s the flip-side of “just because you like someone’s politics doesn’t mean that they get a free pass on horrible behaviour.”
Also, the note that “white trash” can be seen as racist against black people, because it’s true. There is the implication that they are separate from poor black people (sure, they’re trash, buy at least they are white) and that the rest of white people are good people. I can safely say: we’re not.
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It’s funny 'cos it’s true.
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Especially in Valdosta GA!
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I tried to post SNL’s “Holiday Jewelry” skit, but can’t find an embed that works, if anyone knows a workaround…
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Good point.
There’s also the implication that to be white and poor means there’s something wrong with you, but to be black and poor is just how things are for them.
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Last week in a court in the UK:
Plaintiff’s barrister is trying to prove that the defendant had knowing entered into an oral contract; defendant denies it and says that we was pressured to sign a long written contract referencing it but had not understood it and was not given time to obtain legal advice.
Barrister: So why did you sign the contract if you did not understand it?
Defendant: My wife told me to.
Barrister: Do you really expect me to believe that you take legal advice from your wife?
Judge, interrupting: “Why not, Mr. So-and-so? My husband does.”
(Not quite the famous Lady Chatterley case-losing quote of “Is this a book you would want your wife or servants to read”, but in the same category.)
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Thanks for posting that.
As an aside that is slightly relevant, in the film A Fish Called Wanda the original screenplay had the villain, a white American, killed at the end. To allow distribution in the US, the ending had to be changed so the villain survived.
Hollywood traditionally liked to have British villains or fall guys, starting with Chaplin and Stan Laurel, because white Americans must not be seen to be bad or ridiculous.
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But did anyone leave the theater thinking Otto lived?
Sure he managed to crawl out of the cement after being ran over by the steamroller, but he clearly fell off the wing of the plane as it took off.
I suppose it falls in the “didn’t see the body, so can’t prove he’s dead”
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If they wanted to, they did.
I would love to have been in on the script conference arguments, because I suspect the Hollywood people were trying to find ways to get their way without outright saying “The American can’t die if the Brits survive.”
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I may have to go watch it again.
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FNW and Brazil prove Michael Palin is freaking amazing.
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Went to see the new Star Wars movie. Liked it. Heard there were some sketchy reviews and wasn’t sure why, but I’m not a big Star Wars fan. Went to Rotten Tomatoes. OOOOOhhhhh, I see.
There are women in it.
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Always with the ramming and the throats, those guys.
Such a specific phobia 
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Yeah, you know you’ve reached wingnut territory when freaking Star Wars looks left-wing to you. The whole thing is based on a generational aristocracy.
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