"White Elevators" sign spotted at Republican National Convention

[SpiritDragon]

8 minutes ago, LiterateParakeet said:

Thanks Spirit Dragon, that is really helpful. I understand what JAG was saying now. Not saying I agree with either of you,  but I understand. (I would have to parse it out more to see which parts I agreed with and which I didn't. I suspect there is some common ground here.) 

I also appreciate hearing the perspectives of people from Canada or others who live outside the US.

Happy to share a thought or two and all the more so when it is found useful. I'd certainly still love to hear JAG weigh in - as I said I can't speak for him, and he may have a completely different take than I do.

[Just_A_Guy]

1 hour ago, SpiritDragon said:

 I'd certainly still love to hear JAG weigh in - as I said I can't speak for him . . .

You did so quite eloquently.

[LeSellers]

4 hours ago, LiterateParakeet said:

it must be hard to get a job as a journalist with a major news paper, why risk your career?

You're joking, right?

There is no better way to assure lifelong employment as a journalist than to toe the Progressive line.

Lehi

Edited July 17, 2016 by LeSellers

[Blackmarch]

7 hours ago, LiterateParakeet said:

Okay guys, feedback???  

‘White elevators’ sign spotted at Republican National Convention

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-elevators-sign-spotted-republican-national-convention-article-1.2714148

How dare they save $$$ on using less ink/toner. Shame on them.

[anatess2]

On 7/17/2016 at 9:39 AM, LiterateParakeet said:

This is a good point.  

You have to admit this looks pretty bad though, especially with Trump at the helm . . . honestly if it weren't for Trump I would choose your option B is the most likely choice, but with Trump and all his supporters, Option A is not so hard to believe. 

Smh.

This is just so hilarious.  The left has been painting Republicans as racist sexist bigots for DECADES.  Remember Romney and his binders of women and how he's gonna "bring you back in chains"?  You think it starts and ends in Trump?  Of course not.  You just decided it applies to Trump and not Romney.  That's all.

[Just_A_Guy]

5 minutes ago, anatess2 said:

Smh.

This is just so hilarious.  The left has been painting Republicans as racist sexist bigots for DECADES.  Remember Romney and his binders of women and how he's gonna "bring you back in chains"?  You think it starts and ends in Trump?  Of course not.  You just decided it applies to Trump and not Romney.  That's all.

I agree.  Trump is a lot of things I despise; but the simple truth is that--as I've noted before--every Republican presidential candidate is Hitler:

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Goldwater was Hitler. Nixon was Hitler. Reagan was Hitler. Bush was Hitler. None of the latter three men declared the Fourth Reich, made themselves dictators for life and ran concentration camps. [Eventually progressives concede] that last decade’s Hitler was a decent moderate while the latest Republican Hitler is a terrifying monster. Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan were all resurrected as moderate contrasts to each other and then to Bush. The process of recreating Bush as a moderate has already begun. And so each Republican makes the electoral journey from Hitler to a political moderate whom a latter generation of liberals mourns while complaining that this latest Republican really is Hitler.

 

[Guest MormonGator]

4 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:

I agree.  Trump is a lot of things I despise; but the simple truth is that--as I've noted before--every Republican presidential candidate is Hitler:

 

Oh I second this. I despise Trump, always have always will. So I feel dirty agreeing with him or his supporters. That said, like a stopped clock, they aren't always wrong. Ironically we non-trumpers give them far more credit than they ever would give us! 

[NightSG]

On 7/17/2016 at 8:28 AM, LiterateParakeet said:

I also wondered if there were red and blue elevators but if so then why wouldn't the Republican Party just point that out instead of taking the signs down?  That doesn't seem logical.  

Because they'd be admitting that they're also singling out Native Americans and sad people, while still making everyone else take the stairs.

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

37 minutes ago, NightSG said:

Because they'd be admitting that they're also singling out Native Americans and sad people, while still making everyone else take the stairs.

LOL! 

[Guest]

On 7/17/2016 at 6:36 AM, LiterateParakeet said:

‘White elevators’ sign spotted at Republican National Convention

 

On 7/17/2016 at 7:39 AM, zil said:

Were there also "Red Elevators" and "Blue Elevators"?

I remember when the movie Pleasantville came out a friend described it as "the movie with black-and-white people and colored people."

I was shocked that anyone used the term "Colored" anymore.  After I got over that, I couldn't understand how there were "Black and White people and Colored people".  Then it dawned on me:  black-and-white, not Black and White.  I shook my head and kinda groaned.

[Guest]

On 7/17/2016 at 1:36 PM, LeSellers said:

 to toe the Progressive line.

You know, I've never seen the phrase "toe the line" written down before.  I just assumed that it was "Tow the line".  hmph.  I wonder what caused that etymology.

EDIT:  Here we go.

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Toe the line

The idiom is toe the line, not tow the line. The phrase derives from track-and-field events in which athletes are required to place a foot on a starting line and wait for the signal to go. Race officials used to shout “Toe the line!” where now they shout “On your marks!” Since entering the language, the idiom has developed to mean do what is expected or act according to someone else’s rules or expectations.

 

Edited July 19, 2016 by Guest