I'm fucking sick of this.
So I missed the original call, but apparently, some brilliant person called the Hamilton Journal and declared that it's very telling that Oxford, an educated community, went 56% to Kerry, while the uneducated rest of the county (including Hamilton) went overwhelmingly for Bush. Today's community voice had to have been 60% comments on this lovely piece of opinion-ing. (Amusingly, only one person wanted to know what the hell is up with this guy calling Hamilton uneducated and Oxford educated. Everyone else just either wanted to bash on those dumb redneck Republicans who didn't know any better than to vote for Bush, or, alternately, bash on that godawful liberal institution Miami University that's brainwashing our children and erasing our common sense.)
I'm a Miami student. I voted for Bush. Despite my sociology book's best efforts. (The book, incidentally, is not even trying anymore. The last chapter I read was going on about 'no war for oil' and 'Bush stole the election' as if these are solid, indisputable facts.) I would really appreciate it if people would FUCKING STOP painting all Miami students as sheeple following the will of their eeeevil ex-hippie professors.
I want an ex-hippie as a professor.
And on that note...
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU LIBERALS?! Not all of you, I know plenty of intelligent liberals capable of rational thought. Well... three or four anyway. I'm talking to the elitist snots bitching about those st00pid redneck bigots down South who cost Kerry his rightful place as President. I'm talking about the sorry bastards who sneeringly claim Bush won on 'moral values' because those damn st00pid redneck bigots down South don't care about anything but guns, God, and gays.
Dude, if all they want to care about is guns, God, and gays, LET THEM FUCKING WORRY ABOUT GUNS, GOD, AND GAYS! They probably think all you care about is France, Germany, and how many dinner parties with the Rich and Famous and Elite you get invited to, and judging from some of you lot (like most of Hollywood) they may not be so far off. What is it that makes worrying about guns, God, and gays such a fucking crime? I mean, the gay marriage ban is utterly stupid as far as I'm concerned, I've never made a big secret about that. But...
IF SOMEONE IS OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS, YOU HAVE NO FUCKING RIGHT TO SNEER ABOUT THEIR LACK OF SOPHISTICATION AND BIGOTRY!
Honestly I have a whole lot of respect for anyone who CAN believe that strongly about something. Do I think gays should be able to get married? Absofuckinglutely. But if some farmer in Tennessee votes for gay marriage to be banned, I'm not gonna go "Stupid redneck!" and bitch about how the South is uneducated. I'm gonna give him a high-five and compliment him on sticking to his beliefs.
Those progressives over at the NY Times, on the other hand, are just going to throw another hissy fit about the religious types being st00pid bigoted rednecks. After all, the liberal elites believe in free speech. As long as you agree with them. If you don't, you're probably a st00pid bigoted redneck too.
Incidentally, getting off the subject of st00pid bigoted rednecks for a minute... I'd like to say I'm not st00pid, I mean, I passed my second semester of Precalc with a C despite not doing a single piece of homework, I must've been doing SOMETHING right. (I said I'm not st00pid, I never said anything about not being a lazy bum.) And I know that during Roman times, people ate peacock brains. And I know the difference between magma and lava and how to tell whether it's mafic, intermediate, or felsic. And I can write my name in katakana and say 'I did not study at all' in Japanese. I call all that education, not intelligence, but since Moron from the Hamilton Journal assumes Oxford is the only intelligent community in Butler County just because we have a college, it's clearly education that matters to these types.
I'd also like to say I'm not bigoted... Oxford isn't exactly the most racially diverse place on the planet (read: lily-white), yet I've still managed a black friend, some Asian friends, and a Native American friend during my travels through the Talawacky school system. Oh... lets not forget a few gay friends. Damn that bigotry.
As for redneck? ...Mom never ceases to remind me that I've got a lot of Kentucky heritage, but we studied Appalachian-Americans in minority studies last year so I can say with great confidence that I'm not a redneck. ^_^ (Nor do I live in a trailer, watch NASCAR, or get drunk all the time, all of which play rather large parts in the typical redneck stereotype. And I've got all my teeth!)
So I'm not a st00pid bigoted redneck. But I voted for Bush. Where do I fit in? I mean, I'm only a freshman in college, maybe I'm not educated ENOUGH yet?
Maybe I'm from a very Republican family who'd already brainwashed me--wait, I've never heard my grandad say a good word about Bush, and my mom's just altogether not political, she doesn't know Howard Dean from Jimmy Dean. (Grandma couldn't stand Kerry, but she was plenty impressed with Dean--Howard, not Jimmy--when he came to speak at Miami, and I never did hear what she thought of Bush.) Okay, the Republican family brainwashing is out.
Maybe I'm one of those weirdass pro-lifers who thinks abortion is a blight upon the face of the earth and must end, so I came out and voted Bush because I want him to get rid of this abomination once and for all, despite the mess he's made of the rest of the world. Well, if I had any real position on abortion that might work. But you know, it's kind of hard for me to be a single-issue voter on an issue that quite frankly I do not CARE about. (I'm on record as thinking freedom of choice should mean freedom to choose not to sleep around, but hey, if you wanna sleep around and then go through the vaunted emotional struggles of abortion, what's it to me?)
Maybe I've been scared to death by that fearmongering Bush administration into believing there'll be nukes raining on Cincinnati the instant Kerry takes the oath of office. I find this possibility especially amusing as, if I'm gonna buy all the fearmongering, you'd think I would buy the fearmongering from the Dem side about how Bush is gonna start a nuclear war with North Korea and blow up the world, too... hmm.
Maybe I'm an evangelical Christian! ... ... ...*busts out laughing*
Maybe I'm an eeeevil sadist and I want Bush in power to turn this country into a fascist dictatorship and then the Bush administration can eat everybody's babies. Now this one has merit. Sadist I'm not, but if they wanna eat babies they can go right ahead, the gene pool needs cleansing dammit.
...All this speculation is fun, but y'know, it's not getting me anywhere. Pity the elitist snots can't accept that intelligent, reasonable people MIGHT JUST think the Bush can do a better job than Kerry would? (And really, as much as I rather like the guy... other than that godawful gay marriage ban... by the end of this whole mess, I wasn't voting for Bush. I was voting against Kerry.)
Nah. It can't be that people capable of intelligent thought might think differently than the Hollywood elites. But if they want to talk about 'uneducated', here's some food for thought... WHICH side was giving ramen and underwear to college students and had a 'slacker uprising tour' to get them to vote?
If these slackers had turned out in droves and tossed the election to Kerry, would the liberal elite be bitching about the uneducated vote?
I thought so. Now STFU.
**Aqua out**
I'm a Miami student. I voted for Bush. Despite my sociology book's best efforts. (The book, incidentally, is not even trying anymore. The last chapter I read was going on about 'no war for oil' and 'Bush stole the election' as if these are solid, indisputable facts.) I would really appreciate it if people would FUCKING STOP painting all Miami students as sheeple following the will of their eeeevil ex-hippie professors.
I want an ex-hippie as a professor.
And on that note...
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU LIBERALS?! Not all of you, I know plenty of intelligent liberals capable of rational thought. Well... three or four anyway. I'm talking to the elitist snots bitching about those st00pid redneck bigots down South who cost Kerry his rightful place as President. I'm talking about the sorry bastards who sneeringly claim Bush won on 'moral values' because those damn st00pid redneck bigots down South don't care about anything but guns, God, and gays.
Dude, if all they want to care about is guns, God, and gays, LET THEM FUCKING WORRY ABOUT GUNS, GOD, AND GAYS! They probably think all you care about is France, Germany, and how many dinner parties with the Rich and Famous and Elite you get invited to, and judging from some of you lot (like most of Hollywood) they may not be so far off. What is it that makes worrying about guns, God, and gays such a fucking crime? I mean, the gay marriage ban is utterly stupid as far as I'm concerned, I've never made a big secret about that. But...
IF SOMEONE IS OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS, YOU HAVE NO FUCKING RIGHT TO SNEER ABOUT THEIR LACK OF SOPHISTICATION AND BIGOTRY!
Honestly I have a whole lot of respect for anyone who CAN believe that strongly about something. Do I think gays should be able to get married? Absofuckinglutely. But if some farmer in Tennessee votes for gay marriage to be banned, I'm not gonna go "Stupid redneck!" and bitch about how the South is uneducated. I'm gonna give him a high-five and compliment him on sticking to his beliefs.
Those progressives over at the NY Times, on the other hand, are just going to throw another hissy fit about the religious types being st00pid bigoted rednecks. After all, the liberal elites believe in free speech. As long as you agree with them. If you don't, you're probably a st00pid bigoted redneck too.
Incidentally, getting off the subject of st00pid bigoted rednecks for a minute... I'd like to say I'm not st00pid, I mean, I passed my second semester of Precalc with a C despite not doing a single piece of homework, I must've been doing SOMETHING right. (I said I'm not st00pid, I never said anything about not being a lazy bum.) And I know that during Roman times, people ate peacock brains. And I know the difference between magma and lava and how to tell whether it's mafic, intermediate, or felsic. And I can write my name in katakana and say 'I did not study at all' in Japanese. I call all that education, not intelligence, but since Moron from the Hamilton Journal assumes Oxford is the only intelligent community in Butler County just because we have a college, it's clearly education that matters to these types.
I'd also like to say I'm not bigoted... Oxford isn't exactly the most racially diverse place on the planet (read: lily-white), yet I've still managed a black friend, some Asian friends, and a Native American friend during my travels through the Talawacky school system. Oh... lets not forget a few gay friends. Damn that bigotry.
As for redneck? ...Mom never ceases to remind me that I've got a lot of Kentucky heritage, but we studied Appalachian-Americans in minority studies last year so I can say with great confidence that I'm not a redneck. ^_^ (Nor do I live in a trailer, watch NASCAR, or get drunk all the time, all of which play rather large parts in the typical redneck stereotype. And I've got all my teeth!)
So I'm not a st00pid bigoted redneck. But I voted for Bush. Where do I fit in? I mean, I'm only a freshman in college, maybe I'm not educated ENOUGH yet?
Maybe I'm from a very Republican family who'd already brainwashed me--wait, I've never heard my grandad say a good word about Bush, and my mom's just altogether not political, she doesn't know Howard Dean from Jimmy Dean. (Grandma couldn't stand Kerry, but she was plenty impressed with Dean--Howard, not Jimmy--when he came to speak at Miami, and I never did hear what she thought of Bush.) Okay, the Republican family brainwashing is out.
Maybe I'm one of those weirdass pro-lifers who thinks abortion is a blight upon the face of the earth and must end, so I came out and voted Bush because I want him to get rid of this abomination once and for all, despite the mess he's made of the rest of the world. Well, if I had any real position on abortion that might work. But you know, it's kind of hard for me to be a single-issue voter on an issue that quite frankly I do not CARE about. (I'm on record as thinking freedom of choice should mean freedom to choose not to sleep around, but hey, if you wanna sleep around and then go through the vaunted emotional struggles of abortion, what's it to me?)
Maybe I've been scared to death by that fearmongering Bush administration into believing there'll be nukes raining on Cincinnati the instant Kerry takes the oath of office. I find this possibility especially amusing as, if I'm gonna buy all the fearmongering, you'd think I would buy the fearmongering from the Dem side about how Bush is gonna start a nuclear war with North Korea and blow up the world, too... hmm.
Maybe I'm an evangelical Christian! ... ... ...*busts out laughing*
Maybe I'm an eeeevil sadist and I want Bush in power to turn this country into a fascist dictatorship and then the Bush administration can eat everybody's babies. Now this one has merit. Sadist I'm not, but if they wanna eat babies they can go right ahead, the gene pool needs cleansing dammit.
...All this speculation is fun, but y'know, it's not getting me anywhere. Pity the elitist snots can't accept that intelligent, reasonable people MIGHT JUST think the Bush can do a better job than Kerry would? (And really, as much as I rather like the guy... other than that godawful gay marriage ban... by the end of this whole mess, I wasn't voting for Bush. I was voting against Kerry.)
Nah. It can't be that people capable of intelligent thought might think differently than the Hollywood elites. But if they want to talk about 'uneducated', here's some food for thought... WHICH side was giving ramen and underwear to college students and had a 'slacker uprising tour' to get them to vote?
If these slackers had turned out in droves and tossed the election to Kerry, would the liberal elite be bitching about the uneducated vote?
I thought so. Now STFU.
**Aqua out**