MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry has drawn fire after objecting to a seemingly innocuous reference by a guest to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) as a “hard worker.” Harris-Perry suggested that the use of this term for someone like Ryan is insulting to people who once picked cotton or mothers without health care.
Harris-Perry offered her correction with the guest Alfonso Aguilar, Executive Director of the American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership, after Aguilar said If there’s somebody who is a hard worker when he goes to Washington, it’s Paul Ryan.”
Harris-Perry warned “[I] want us to be super careful when we use the language ‘hard worker’ . . . Because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like.” She then continued by noting that “in the context of relative privilege, I just want to point out, that when you talk about work-life balance and being a hard worker, the moms who don’t have health care who are working, we don’t call them hard workers. We call them failures, people who are sucking off the system. Really, y’all do! That’s really what you do!”
Aguilar objected to the point and said “This is very unfair. I feel that we cannot generalize about the Republican Party.”
I am not clear about how many people actually call working mothers “failures” but it is not clear why we cannot recognize hard-working people in different facets of life, including Republican leaders.
GMAB
“People like this tv commentator need to be challenged, mocked, and browbeaten into submission while we still have the freedom of speech left to do so.”
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So beat up people who say things you disagree with because…
… FreeDUMB of speech?
Interesting how this thread quickly devolved into a racist themed thread based on MHP race and cultural background…
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Poster gal for retroactive abortions. Does her mom have any kids that lived?
Stuck and stones may break my bones, but words are now a form of violence.
This is the same detailed train of thought that gives us speech codes on campuses. That thinks administrative hearings can replace court trials. Where trigger warnings should be mandatory.
People like this tv commentator need to be challenged, mocked, and browbeaten into submission while we still have the freedom of speech left to do so. And before it’s too late.
I wish Cotton was a monkey. Who said that? The Little….. Come on old folks. Who said that?
Next, she’ll monetize her complaints by demanding reparations.
Will Americans never learn?
Listen to Olde Honest Abe:
“If all earthly power were given me,” said Lincoln in a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, “I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.” “…he asked whether freed blacks should be made “politically and socially our equals?” “My own feelings will not admit of this,” he said, “and [even] if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not … We can not, then, make them equals.”
Ah, there we go – I was beginning to worry. Already 14 minutes in and no one had yet tried to twist this into a Paul Ryan thread. Thank goodness you’ve planted the Red Herring sir!
> I am not clear about how many people actually call working mothers “failures”
I read a similar article today about removing gender barriers from halloween costumes, according to the article apparently there are families out there that won’t let their daughters dress up as superman.
Paul Ryan and his alleged policy chops and hard working status are both media fantasies. He is an empty suit.
This is the woman who mocked the black grandchild of Romney. She is an Untouchable.
And I don’t mean just cotton fields.
Modern, She’s just following the lead of her colleague, and racial pimp, Al Sharpton. Taxes are racist!
Healthcare for poor working mothers and their kids is usually Medicaid. And yes there is a stigma placed on those on Medicaid. We’ve heard the negative comments right here on RIL in the comments sections. As for people working hard in their fields, give credit where credit is due.
Ms. Harris-Perry has removed any doubt about her political beliefs.
Unfortunately in doing so, she raised doubts about her sanity.
She’s also not paying her taxes. Maybe if she paid her tax bill, Paul Ryan could work harder.
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/irs-files-k-tax-lien-against-harris-perry-husband/article_7e39a096-e3c9-11e4-9c3a-2feeea1356be.html
“Quickly” I’m watching the Series.
It won’t last long, but someone has made some creative edits to her wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Harris-Perry
Just in case you’re not quick enough, here’s an excerpt from the “edited” version: “Melissa Victoria Harris-Pigslut-Perry (born October 2, 1973; formerly known as Melissa Victoria Harris-Pigslut-Lacewell) is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. Harris-Pigslut-Perry hosts the Melissa Harris-Pigslut-Perry weekend news and opinion television show on MSNBC. She is also a regular fill-in host on The Rachel Pigslut Maddow Show as well as a professor of politics and international ”
I can’t make this stuff up folks.
This is what liberalism has become. I was a liberal as a young man. Some of my views are still liberal. But, how the hell can anyone w/ more than a 5th grade education buy this absolute horseshit.
The Midnight Warriors are still commenting so this thread should devolve QUCIKLY!
These people will go to any lengths to keep the racial embers glowing. The most she knows about cotton is her underwear.