Cute quote. Completely pointless and out of touch in this day and age. You are directing calls to civility to the wrong people.
Demanding ineffectual and counter productive responses to what have been essentially assaults on our democratic institutions, participation, notions of governance and in many situations civil liberties.
People who align themselves with white supremacists and literally put children in concentration camps don’t deserve nor respect civility.
Thanks for clarifying what you think the costs to Rep Tlaib will be. I see even more clearly now that they’re complete horseshit, e.g.:
It might be “baggage,” in the sense that all involved will be aware of it, but it won’t be negative baggage. If anything – and especially give that she’s a Muslim and a woman, and thus likely to be less respected from the get-go by the other side – it’ll make all involved take her more seriously. As someone who’s determined, and as someone who’s not about to put up with the usual condescending, disrespectful, take-it-or-leave-it bullshit.
Yes, I’m sure that the GOP and conservative media will see the light from that quote, and treat an openly bisexual atheist feminist the same way.
There are plenty of reasons that Sinema might be considered a hero. That statement earns her a Toll House cookie at best.
Civility has its limits. Once war is already declared and being fought, its too late to be expecting a handshake.
In this case we have had repeated unilateral assaults on our democratic institutions, have turned constant and malicious lying into “differences of opinion” and have turned lame excuses for incompetence and corruption into grand conspiracy theories.
If you are not fighting mad about what is going on and willing to show anger over it, you are the problem.
If you want to see good reasons to kick Trump out of the White House on his behind, here are a couple which come to mind.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/382319-gop-tax-law-will-add-19-trillion-to-debt-cbo
100% complete? Because the world is binary?
Good / evil. Works / fails. Tasty rainbow unicorn poo / horseshit.
Oh, and: civil = loser. So much learning today!
See, now that’s some world-class sealioning, right there. You seemed unclear on the concept earlier.
We’re just about into gish gallop territory, methinks.
Wow. I was trying to be respectful by being responsive. But now I’m guilty of something else. Nice.
No, playing by the rules of a more powerful group that perpetuates them in bad faith = loser. Every.single.time. As @LurksNoMore pointed out, the rules that the GOP perpetuate are those of forced, one-sided, and (given their behaviour behind closed doors) superficial public civility.
Ok, cool, new rules then. Let the motherfucking Congressional swearing match begin! Popcorn.
False:
In the Western, English-speaking world, people from every race, class and level of education swear. In America, 72 percent of men and 58 percent of women swear in public.
For that to happen some of the points being made have to land rather than flying over his head.
They fucking THREW ASHES on the white house lawn… At one point, didn’t they bring a casket to the WH protests?
ACT-UP was amazing…
True and fine. However, I was implying “most politicians speaking in public”.
No, not new rules. Rules that are followed in good faith by all parties. You seem to be under the quaint impression that Republicans are criticising Tlaib out of a genuine respect for mutual civility.
And again, in times of divisiveness and turmoil we’ve seen things like this on the Senate floor:
But a brown lady saying a naughty word, now there’s incivility!
By the way, if you think that anti-abolitionist attitude is long gone, think again.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/va-secretary-confederate-president/index.html
