Have you ever heard of Ana Marie Cox? She's the lefty blogger who now writes for the Guardian newspaper. In her latest column she is upset at this statement that she calls racist and classist:
"A stable, good-paying job is the best bridge out of poverty."
Consider that for a moment. According to Cox, the above statement is actually meant to convey the thought that black people are lazy. I am not kidding. Cox "translates" this line into a racial caricature that demeans African Americans. To be fair, there is more to the statement that Cox criticizes. The speaker went on to explain that current programs intended to help the poor result in many people never learning the benefits of getting and holding a job. Cox thinks that this too is racist.
Of course, here's the real point: the person who said these "heinous" statements is none other than Paul Ryan. That, in truth, is why Cox calls the statements racist. A discussion of the best way to fight poverty is reduced to name calling and absurd charges of racism. The hope, of course, is that those who believe that the current big government liberal methods which have failed so miserably will run away in the face of charges of racism. Hey, it worked in the past; so the left tries it again and again. The funny thing, though, is that they have now done it so much that it no longer means anything. Indeed, proof that charges of racism are now so common, so ridiculous, and so overdone came when Saturday Night Live did a skit in which everything that got said was then called racist.
The phrase "jumping the shark" comes from an episode from the last season of Happy Days. There was so little left to happen on that show after all the seasons it was on the air, that the writers had Fonzy on water skis jump over a shark in the water. Simply put, jumping the shark means that one has nothing left to say and is simply out of gas. Cox's latest column shows that the left's charges of racism have jumped the shark.
"A stable, good-paying job is the best bridge out of poverty."
Consider that for a moment. According to Cox, the above statement is actually meant to convey the thought that black people are lazy. I am not kidding. Cox "translates" this line into a racial caricature that demeans African Americans. To be fair, there is more to the statement that Cox criticizes. The speaker went on to explain that current programs intended to help the poor result in many people never learning the benefits of getting and holding a job. Cox thinks that this too is racist.
Of course, here's the real point: the person who said these "heinous" statements is none other than Paul Ryan. That, in truth, is why Cox calls the statements racist. A discussion of the best way to fight poverty is reduced to name calling and absurd charges of racism. The hope, of course, is that those who believe that the current big government liberal methods which have failed so miserably will run away in the face of charges of racism. Hey, it worked in the past; so the left tries it again and again. The funny thing, though, is that they have now done it so much that it no longer means anything. Indeed, proof that charges of racism are now so common, so ridiculous, and so overdone came when Saturday Night Live did a skit in which everything that got said was then called racist.
The phrase "jumping the shark" comes from an episode from the last season of Happy Days. There was so little left to happen on that show after all the seasons it was on the air, that the writers had Fonzy on water skis jump over a shark in the water. Simply put, jumping the shark means that one has nothing left to say and is simply out of gas. Cox's latest column shows that the left's charges of racism have jumped the shark.
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