2012-03-13 09:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineI don't usually talk back to NPR, but when I do, I prefer not to be saying, "Wow, you people are fucking insane."
Quoting Rude Pundit for a sec here:
Kudos to NPR for at least pointing out the, well... lack of intellectual awareness... these folks espoused. But, Jesus Christ, the everyday people they interviewed terrify me (not merely because of their divoce from reality and adamant desire to see their Invisible Friend run everyone's lives in this country) but because these are the folks who are motivated to vote.
Why am I always so disappointed whenever people live down to the unflattering stereotypes about them?
Quoting Rude Pundit for a sec here:
Yeah, it'd be fine to write about what backwards ass yahoos the Republicans are in Mississippi and Alabama, since a majority either believe Barack Obama is a Muslim or don't know and 2/3 don't believe in evolution, but why? Is it a surprise? Is there a spin to put on it other than "Goddamn, them's some backwards ass motherfuckers"?
Kudos to NPR for at least pointing out the, well... lack of intellectual awareness... these folks espoused. But, Jesus Christ, the everyday people they interviewed terrify me (not merely because of their divoce from reality and adamant desire to see their Invisible Friend run everyone's lives in this country) but because these are the folks who are motivated to vote.
Why am I always so disappointed whenever people live down to the unflattering stereotypes about them?
