[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The Angry White Man (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/13/2008 8:15:57 PM EDT
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I got this emailed to me the other day: ---------------------------------------------- www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324 In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man Gary Hubbell February 9, 2008 There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard. His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard. The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding. He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives. The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him. The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter. His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American. He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch. Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.” He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner. He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English. Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement. He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves. There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush. He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum. |
Pretty much. 
Hey, we just found another one------> 
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I pay my taxes, I obey the law, I don't owe much money to anyone... I just want to be left alone, see my money spent wisely, and my country kept safe from outside forces (and inside criminal forces). Help Africa? No, help the homeless vets and the kids who do well in school and want to go further. Improve the roads, improve the security. |
No kidding, fix the shitty VA hospitals too. |
Kind of ironic, no? After all, the whole post can be summed up with, "Help, I am the poor white man being oppressed. I feel that I have been marginalized in society, and have no voice." |
Except the fact that he says they'll decide the election kind of negates that  .
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I hope he's right in that regard - and is why I left out the "disenfranchised" from my analysis. Interestingly, many of the angry white male victims of oppression on this very board have said they WILL vote for Clinton, or anyone but McCain. Those are the people crying the loudest lately about being victims - and they who would also take offense to the NRA comment, as they feel the NRA is victimizing them as well. So again - I hope he's right. |
Bingo. I know somebody who didnt score too well on the reading comprehension portion of their SAT. |
So we're Angry White Men...WITH GUNS!  
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Simply lodging a complaint doesnt make you a victim. Complaining that you are a victim makes you a victim. |
Somehow, I get the feeling I scored much better than you. I suppose I am victimizing you, now? |
Дела Хорошо Heh, I'm not going beyond that, I'm trying to learn the language and I know very very little of it and it's grammar. I'm assuming trudno is the neuter of difficult, and I know po russki is "in Russian", but I'm not sure about the rest.
I wonder what the party breakdown of how white women who vote would be. I'm assuming most of it goes to democrats. |
+1 more AWM here. I hope to God he is right about deciding the election. Question is, will there are enough Union members, and old timers that are willing to break from tradition, just out of pure disgust for Hil-Obama, and vote Republican. I pray that McCain has the stones to say "I will build a wall, and I will enforce the laws" Again and again. |
Yes, but most of these bitter childless women are going to wither away in an old folks home, with no kids or friends to visit them. I wonder how many will regret putting their careers ahead of raising a family. Sitting there, old, weak, helpless, frightened, and alone - watching the nice old lady down the hall being visited by her children and grand children, while she's got nothing to show for he life, except a bunch of empty and hollow career accomplishments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxyJLxV0_-8 Unofficial feminist anthem. |
. Why can't these people be more sensitive of my heritage and shit?
Yep. Most single Mothers bring it on themselves. Your job is to keep your mouth closed and hand over 20% of your income or go to jail with absolutely no say in how your kid is raised while she is poisoning your child against you. They may have their free ride now, but we aren't the 60's generation. All men I know in their 30's loathes and despises feminism and have traditional wives. These women will truly rot and be alone and they will deserve it. There is no equal rights. Women still cannot do it on their own, and he has one thing wrong. I hate Hillary for many reasons but the number one reason I don't want her to be President is because she is woman. My Wife is either crying or laughing depending on what day of the month it is and that time of month determines how logical the decisions she makes are. Hillary is past that time in her life, but still an Estrogen bomb. Funny thing is that my Wife and ALL her female friends are voting against Hillary for the SAME reason. |
+1 My Wife is one of them too. Many Women feel the same way we do but are a threat to Feminism so they are silenced by the Estrogen Machine. |
You are absolutely correct. There is an entirely new generation of conservative women that don't dig the 60's feminist types. These younger women have actually had to work for what they have unlike Babyboomer Women who have been given a free ride. |
My wife can't wait to be sworn in as a citizen so she can vote for lower taxes. It won't be this election though. |
Congradulations!!! V-day is a good time to find out. |
