It's so odd that you no longer participate in this board because of the rampant racism, but you come back in here to point out that PP doesn't actually live in the UK.
As if that makes the situation any different.
Or adds anything to the conversation at hand.
I wasn't pointing out that she didn't live in the UK. I was pointing out that YOU were misinformed about the geography of that region. It makes a difference to your geography knowledge, and that was my aim.
Listen, this is just nuts!
All I know about Irish is that she's a shitty ass friend who was talking shit about a really rough situation, and asking for advice about what she could do (MYOBx1million). Then she came around here insisting that she be distanced from all of the REAL RACIST white people, because THANK GOD she's a non-American and where she lives there is no racism.
I put about a half second of thought into where she might be from, because it matters not. She is either a lying racist, or a delusional one, because such a place does not exist. Posters before me mentioned the UK, and since she only said "not the US" I went with that. But again, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. I have no preconceived notions regarding the type of racists that might come from Ireland, or the UK, or anywhere else.
Also, I do know that Ireland is not part of the UK. But either way, it doesn't matter in this discussion. What is important is that what Irish said is offensive, ignorant, and part of the problem. Where she is from, and whether anyone thinks that Ireland is part of the UK, is so so so so so far from the point. It's unfortunate that this ridiculous discussion took 10 pages of attention away from the real issue.
Your collective faux horror and kowtowing on the issues of race as they present themselves on this board is the most transparent bullshit.
And on a serious note, there was an actual civil war in Ireland only a century ago, and decades of subsequent terrorism on the issue you are currently deriding me for, so you may laugh and say you don't give a fuck about the inaccuracy I pointed out, but if you can think of your own ignorance on a scale, this is part of it.
You will never not be ignorant to cultural and racial sensitivities if you don't get the Ireland thing. It's pretty straightforward and since half of you white Americans claim Irish ancestry, you really should do better.
100% not pandering - I guarantee it was still sexy.
Me now, I'm not sure I could switch my hips like that. I wanna try, but DH might end up asphyxiated from laughing at me.
It's actually not that difficult, you focus on hipbone to floor. Not that I can do it right now thanks to my belly but in my former life I performed similar moves. Doubt it looked the same but still probably 100 times better than it would now with my 30 something year old rear. Pours one out for my college dance major body.
100% not pandering - I guarantee it was still sexy.
Me now, I'm not sure I could switch my hips like that. I wanna try, but DH might end up asphyxiated from laughing at me.
It's actually not that difficult, you focus on hipbone to floor. Not that I can do it right now thanks to my belly but in my former life I performed similar moves. Doubt it looked the same but still probably 100 times better than it would now with my 30 something year old rear. Pours one out for my college dance major body.
How the hell do I find my hipbone floor?
I just tried it, and I could do it, but there was some unsexy grunting going on.
I feel like if I attempted this the whole 2nd level of my house would shake. Or H downstairs in the living room would ask if we were having another earthquake.
I spent the last few hours on and off catching up on this thread. While these long racial discussions tend to be wrought with cringe-worthy sad sack white whining, I have always gotten a lot out of them and they leave me very thoughtful. I am a huge offender of the "I-can't-be-a-racist-I'm-an-educated-open-minded-liberal" mindset. And part way through this thread, I started to get uncomfortable and fatigued of the topic and my impulse was to minimize the window and take a break. Then I realized that that impulse was the epitome of my white privilege. And I want to be better than that. I NEVER thought of myself as someone with racist tendencies who commits microaggressions, but guess what? I fucking catch myself daily now.
So. Eyes open. Mind open. Mouth closed. These difficult conversations are so, so necessary.
(maude - I'm sorry I haven't addressed your super valid and relevant concerns in this thread; I am still struggling to embrace my German privilege. But thoughts and prayers to you and your globe!)
It's actually not that difficult, you focus on hipbone to floor. Not that I can do it right now thanks to my belly but in my former life I performed similar moves. Doubt it looked the same but still probably 100 times better than it would now with my 30 something year old rear. Pours one out for my college dance major body.
How the hell do I find my hipbone floor?
I just tried it, and I could do it, but there was some unsexy grunting going on.
Lol. Laying flat on the ground, lift your hips. Now tilt your hips so your right hipbone hits the floor. Lift back up and do it with the left. Keep switching back and forth, right to floor, left to floor. It's easier to think of it this way and use the floor as your focus vs only focusing on alternating your hips. If I were near you, I'd come over and coach you in person, lol.
chilerellanos, visualize where your hipbones would be if you could find them? lol
I just tried it, and I could do it, but there was some unsexy grunting going on.
Lol. Laying flat on the ground, lift your hips. Now tilt your hips so your right hipbone hits the floor. Lift back up and do it with the left. Keep switching back and forth, right to floor, left to floor. It's easier to think of it this way and use the floor as your focus vs only focusing on alternating your hips. If I were near you, I'd come over and coach you in person, lol.
chilerellanos, visualize where your hipbones would be if you could find them? lol
DD and I are laying in bed in our stomachs watching tv. So I read you instructions and attempted this.
If you ever wondered if an 8 year old could throw shade with their cute little eyes.....the answer is yes.
Hey can we talk about the Irish again? Because I have been sitting on a comment for like two hours until I read to the end and I finally made it!
Maud bringing Northern Ireland into this mess was more relevant than she thought. (#drunkhistory ahead) That whole conflict started in the 1600s when a bunch of English Protestants moved to Scotland and then Northern Ireland. Eventually they couldn't take living with those damn Catholics anymore and fled to the Colonies where they became known as the Scots Irish. They bred like rabbits and became prominent slave owners and klansmen and hillbillies and spread their hatred and racism far and wide until they imposed their narrowminded attitudes on generations of Anericans. The ones who stayed behind continue to spread hate and bigotry and waged a war on those damn Catholics that seethes to this day. Northern Ireland was the birthplace of a good portion of the bigotry we still see today (the article rugbywife posted - Northern Ireland: the capital of ‘race hate’? - is pretty spot on.). So it's especially rich when people try to claim the Irish were treated just as badly as POC. But I doubt that was the point she was trying make. #historyandgeographylessons. #CEP4LYFE.
This is going to drive me crazy, because I remember this poster from the nest but nothing else!
It's bugging me too, becuase there have only been a handful of sane people who erred on the side of conservative, on Brides Decide, E'08, P&CE, and CEP. I believe (but don't quote me) they were @katieaggie, y4m , IIOY , teflepi , and myself. Help me out if I'm forgetting someone.
So, if @this , was as conservative as she claimed in her "OMG, I voted for George W. Bush twice because my dad said to. I'm so embarrassed! Teeheehe" or someshit, the views she shared on the politics board must have been, um, interesting before she left, or got run off. I mean, look at the insane amount of sloppiness now that she's so Liberal and enlightened. I can only imagine.
I feel like LucilleBluth was pretty liberal, though. I found some old posts on the next, but it's weird, because they seem to have been scrubbed and now show a username of LXLX. I don't remember her being a con though... and the other ones I remember (caden, Publius, and some others with screen names I'm blanking on) definitely aren't her because I still know most of the ones I remember and am facebook friends with them.