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.
Annie – “Jim anyone who uses the pejorative “libtards” probably shouldn’t be taken seriously anyway, lol.”
Coming from the queen of Faux news.
“Jim22
1, October 28, 2015 at 2:19 pm
T. Hall – “Jim: Please, the grownups are talking.”
Oops! By your comments, I would never have guessed. Please let me know when you are done blessing us with your intelligence.”
…says the guy (Jim22, to be clear) calling people “libtards.”
And then there’s the guy who loves to cry “ad hominem attack”…
She’s a cute gal. Too bad she’s a quack.
T. Hall – “Jim: Please, the grownups are talking.”
Oops! By your comments, I would never have guessed. Please let me know when you are done blessing us with your intelligence.
T. Hall
1, October 28, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Annie: I’ll be watching the World Series. The Republican comedy club isn’t all that entertaining, it’s the responses here and throughout the media that I love.
THall, I find them hilarious and enjoy a good laugh. I’ll be eating my popcorn with kernels flying every which way!
Jim anyone who uses the pejorative “libtards” probably shouldn’t be taken seriously anyway, lol.
Harris made an incredibly stupid comparison.
However, Ryan does not work hard.
The House works four day weeks.
The Congress get off the whole month of August and some of September.
The Congress gets Columbus Day breaks, Thanksgiving Day breaks, Christmas breaks, Presidents Day breaks, and on, and on, and on.
They work about 170 days a year. Much less in election years. All that fundraising you know.
Jim22
Interesting reading. I do believe that history will repeat itself. I don’t mean exactly repeat but that it does follow patterns. One of the main reasons that we inevitably repeat and fail to see the pattern is that future generations either will not learn from the past or the past becomes blurry and seems to be remote and not important to the immediacy of today.. The things that our great grandparents have learned are not been passed down or are treated as if they are not applicable. Old fashioned ideas and they can be dismissed….or so they think. This is common in all generations but especially so in our current fast moving society.
Our schools do not teach history as impartial facts, but rather attempt to further distance the youth from the lessons of the past by denigrating and judging and even lying and twisting the facts.
History is important, unfortunately, society continues to ignore it.
Annie,
Well, since this thread had turned to second grade tactics like Faux news and this statement from T. Hall:
T. Hall – “Why do you people hate Americans so much?”
I figured I would play along. T. Hall must obviously be a libtard, thus he must love killing unborn babies since you all love to pretend it is the right of a mother to kill her unborn child. So honestly Annie, don’t blow a gasket at what I have written when you pass by other idiots telling a group that others hate Americans. Got it?
T. Hall
1, October 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm
I never said anything about confiscating any weapons,
You supported local jurisdictions confiscating guns. I’m not sure why you think playing word games is compelling but it’s surely amusing you think others are required to play along.
Jim: Please, the grownups are talking.
DBQ, Have you ever read any of James Quinn’s articles? He has some pretty interesting thoughts about the cycles of history. Here’s one about the 4th American Revolution.
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/james-quinn/the-fourth-american-revolution
Rick, I understand you’re reading impaired, but I never said anything about confiscating any weapons, that’s just a figment of your delusional imagination.
Last Friday, you said the Supreme Court had always recognized an individuals right to possess firearms and I proved you wrong. Now your attempts to put words in my mouth are as comical as Olly’s attempts to deny that he said was afraid of the government.
No doubt you saw how that worked out for him. About as well as it’s working for you now.
No wonder you’d rather nitpick over typos.
T. Hall
1, October 28, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Any time you want to quit playing trivial pursuit and refute the devastating response I laid on your Second Amendment debate, go ahead.
The debate where you admitted your desire for confiscation and failed to show any benefit from thus violating our constitutional rights? You keep telling yourself that was devastating, I’ll keep laughing all the way to the voting booth.
Annie: I’ll be watching the World Series. The Republican comedy club isn’t all that entertaining, it’s the responses here and throughout the media that I love.
For all you sports fans, Ben Carson is the Republican party’s intellectual version of Charles Hailey.
Annie
1, October 28, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Thank you Rick. Mind reading is Spinelli’s purview, not yours, but nice try.
When we read books and consider what the perspective in the author’s story says about broader society are we reading minds?
Why don’t you explain why you asked me that particular question.
Wow, Rick, you really have trouble with reading comprehension and logic. I laud your efforts to struggle through with these disabilities.
Any time you want to quit playing trivial pursuit and refute the devastating response I laid on your Second Amendment debate, go ahead.
Otherwise, your crickets signal defeat.
Who is watching the Republican debate tonight? I think the audience and moderators should wear plastic sheets and raincoats, I suspect it will be a regular food fight. Trump is going to be especially grumpy.
T. Hall
1, October 28, 2015 at 12:38 pmThe fact that you and Rick have tried to make an issue out of it reflects the superficial nature of your querulousness.
Your repeated efforts to mislead others into thinking this is accurate rather than a summary of your own statements is pretty amusing but it will only convince Annie. I mean the choir.
Annie,
I haven’t thought about it at all. Now that you point it out I suspect he’s trying to find something as hateful to say to the leftists as he deems their statements are to those on the right. Plus I’m noticing you’re pleased because it gives you the opportunity to smear by asserting an association.