Attitudes and the media

[redbird]

[I was going to post about this anyhow, and it just turned into a comment to ozarque]

Monday afternoon, adrian_turtle and I walked out of a second-hand clothing shop Monday, most of the way through browsing (she's found blouses and such there before), because all of a sudden the owner was playing nasty right-wing talk radio, attacking Sen. Clinton and gays in a way that seemed equally nasty to both, and out of the blue. (Out of the blue in the sense that she hadn't done anything in particular in the last day or two, it was just part of their background agenda; it wasn't clear whether the goal was more "see how horrible these gay people are, they support Clinton" or "see how horrible Clinton is, she takes money from gay people.") It was some comfort, two blocks later, to see the headline in a newspaper box "Mitt vs Mass": yes, the state governor was attacking same-sex marriage again, but the paper wasn't using it to snipe at us or saying he was right, but saying that he was attacking his home state in order to pander to the national GOP. Small victories.

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[ckd]

And that headline was in the Herald, which tends to be noticably more right-wing than the so-called-liberal-media Globe.

With luck, Romney's going to keep dragging Healey down; she's already desperate enough to be running almost 100% attack ads.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adore that icon!

MKK

[redbird]

Thanks. I snagged it from someone elsewhere on LJ. Help yourself.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

adopted home state. Fucking carpet-bagger. I'll be so glad to see the back of him.

[redbird]

He is a fscking carpet-bagger, but I'm perfectly used to the idea of people moving places and staying. (My partner Adrian wasn't raised in Massachusetts either.)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Nor was I. (I've now lived in the greater Camberville area for 9 years..)

I see carpet-bagging as moving someplace purely for personal gain at the expense of the place you move. I haven't looked up historical uses in a while and don't remember if I'm alone in this usage...

(Someday I hope to actually meet Adrian. :)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The only way to effectively fight that sort of thing is to explain why you're walking out of the store, and then do so. Money talks.

B

[redbird]

True. And if we'd actually found something we wanted to buy, we might have. As was, we just fled, and yes, I know that's not ideal. (I don't know whether Adrian plans to go back there, nor how much attention the storeowner was paying to the hate radio.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"And if we'd actually found something we wanted to buy, we might have."

You're not thinking this through. If you found something you wanted to buy, it would have been an actual choice: buy or make a statement. If you didn't find something you wanted to buy, it's much easier: select a large number of expensive items, walk to the register, notice what's on the radio, say something about not forcing people to listen to hate speech, and walk out with their register counter piled high with un-purchased merchandise.

B

[redbird]

All true, except that we'd have had to listen to the hate speech long enough to make that at least slightly convincing. Maybe sometime. (It's probably easier if the hate isn't directed directly at me.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"It's probably easier if the hate isn't directed directly at me."

And more important if it is.

But yes, I know that it's hard to make a stink in public.

B

[daystreet.livejournal.com]

I certainly agree with this strategy and think it's useful, but people should be prepared for a response that seems to indicate that money doesn't always talk. In my experience, a lot of these clowns would let themselves slide into poverty, move from an apartment into a refrigerator box, etc., rather than admit they might have been smarter voting for the Democrats.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

B