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Re: I am declaring a linguistic jihad on #LATism

nezua — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:17:54 -0000

I've been mocking that term since I read it. Ugh. "Lay-Tizzum" is how I hear it. Like a skin disease that rubber gives you from too much contact. Hate it. AND hate that Walmart is a big backer. Yeah, this Walmart:http://www.racewire.org/archives/2009/11/_this_isnt_a_joke.html

Re: It’s Official: Walmart is Trying Too Hard to Win Latinos. Lady de Guadalupe coffins, anyone? | RaceWire

nezua — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:01:21 -0000

????????? How about they stop trying to bust up unions. That would win them a lot more Latinos than gruesome crap like this.

Re: Ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

OldAtlantic — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:30:02 -0000

Obama is partly going along with the same stuff. He too doesn't care. If we had someone who cared like Tancredo, Virgil Goode, Nick Griffin, then they would stop Muslim immigration and stop the torture too.

Re: Ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

donofcali — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:46:32 -0000

What was paranoid and insane about the poster's comment?

Re: Ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

nezua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:38:11 -0000

YES. If by "good," you mean "paranoid and insane." I TOTALLY concur.

Re: Ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

nezua — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:37:06 -0000

Wow, you're just a tad crazy, eh? Nice.

Re: John Lewis and Segregationist Who Beat Him Accept Common Ground Award

cardix — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:48:11 -0000

Approved

Re: John Lewis and Segregationist Who Beat Him Accept Common Ground Award

nezua — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:04:16 -0000

Yup. But the Jailer's gettin' paid.

Re: Police Investigating Shot Fired at Lou Dobbs' Home - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

nezua — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:13:57 -0000

Live by the sword, Lou.

Re: All About Race Back for Good

nezua — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:34 -0000

I dunno...should I feel surprised at that? Sadly, I do not. I advocated kicking his ass to the curb a long time ago.

Re: All About Race Back for Good

cardix — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:16:23 -0000

Thanks a lot Nezua. It feels really good to be back and working it out in the new digs you designed. Apropos of nothing, can you believe Lieberman? Joining the GOP filibuster? Just wow.

Re: All About Race Back for Good

nezua — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:49:11 -0000

Yay! You're back! :D Looking forward to what goes down. You are always a good, provocative, intelligent, no-nonsense host.

Re: Arpaio Calls Undocumented Immigrants “Diseased” and “Dirty” | RaceWire

nezua — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:54:56 -0000

Well, the more the pressure builds on him, the more he'll slip and reveal his heart and its intention and what motivates him and so on. He's not used to pressure or scrutiny. I'm sure he doesn't even see what might possibly be WRONG with racism, in truth.

Keep on, RaceWire! Love your stuff.

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

nezua — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:29:29 -0000

Stigma is in the high. And the popular banter over the years. People dont need to be assuaged over their anti-Mexican tendencies/impulses! Most of the people are behind the decrim of MARIJUANA.

And hey, I'd rather uplift and educate people past their fears. Not cater to them by divorcing myself from Mexican things. Peace.

http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/200...

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

Savantster — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:24:44 -0000

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the stigma is in the trigger caused by the name, not just the plant. why do you think some people took to calling it "dope"? they said it makes you dumb, another word for dope as in "you're such a dope".

it has so many names because so many people have crusaded against it for so long that the culture has to keep shifting what it's called so they can discuss it in public without scorn. Pretty sad.

As far as Latin goes, most of our scientific (commonly held) names are latin. It's what we use in the English language to describe something's "technical name".

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

Savantster — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:21:40 -0000

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The right-wing has successfully taken over this country by playing games with words and framing.

Ask people if they think marajuana should be illegal and many will say yes.

Ask people if cannabis should be illegal and many people won't know what you're asking them; they won't have their "framed" and "preconceived" thoughts in their head about what "it" is.

We spend too much time in this country trying to play word games and it's destructive to the fabric of society. Words have meaning, and we should strive to be accurate in our selection of words because they matter.

Another common framing used to emotionally charge a debate but isn't rooted in reality..? "pro-abortion" instead of "pro-choice", and the opposite of "pro-life" which is only actually "anti-choice" seeing as how pro-war, pro-death penalty, anti-feeding the poor, et. al. is not "pro-life".. It's all about the framing.

Let's frame cannabis back to a non-offensive term so the masses can think about it without their conditioned biases. That's all he's saying. There's not much else in your life that you use some other language to describe, so why should the topic of cannabis be any different?

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

rsteeb — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:40:35 -0000

My copy of edition XI United States Pharmacopoeia lists "Cannabis" on page 104. It was "marihuana" that was "taxed" into illegality in 1937.
It was "Indian Hemp" that George Washington instructed his gardener to proliferate, and that Sir WB O'Shaughnessy brought to Western pharmacology from India.
(where it was "Gunja;)

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

nezua — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:38:37 -0000

'We're not speaking Mexican Spanish, we're speaking English, so I'd appreciate it if people used it's English name: cannabis.'

Well, you are free to call it what you want. And appreciate whatever you want. Or not.

And by "English," I think you mean "Latin." :) "Cannabis Sativa," was named by Carl Linnaeus as part of his Genus/Species name scheme. Latin.

PS, who is "we"? And what is "Mexican Spanish"?

Just calling it by a Latin or "less-Mexican" sounding name won't remove the stigma against weed. That stigma is not there because of Mexico, now. It has its very own stigma. :)

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

nezua — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:32:47 -0000

"We're not speaking Mexican Spanish, we're speaking English,"

Who is this "we"?

I just think its very entertaining that you imagine it is of importance to anyone else what you prefer this plant called! That's just funny. I mean, you're serious, too, aren't you? And it's Latin, my friend, not "English." As 'Cannabis Sativa' was cooked up as part of Carl Linnaeus' Genus/Species scheme.

Peace!

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

nezua — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:00:39 -0000

Absolutely. Marijuana was "Mexican Opium." Coming only a few years after sale of Opium was outlawed in Oregon to push back against the "Heathen Chinee" as they put it then. It was sold by Anslinger as devil weed that made the "darkies think they were as good as white men" and the nation followed suit, first in the states where Mexican immigrants were most prevalent.

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

philedrifter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:38:38 -0000

And so what was the genesis for the early state marijuana laws in the Rocky Mountain and southwestern areas of this country? It wasn't hostility to the drug, it was hostility to the newly arrived Mexican community that used it.

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

philedrifter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:37:37 -0000

Anslinger used the Mexican Spanish word for it to incite 'fear of the unknown' in congress. Had they been told it was the same crop that carried this nation since before it was it's own nation, they never would have outlawed it. Using the wrod 'marijuana' brings with it the stigma Uncle Sam has spent 70+ years creating.

We're not speaking Mexican Spanish, we're speaking English, so I'd appreciate it if people used it's English name: cannabis.

Read tinyurl.com/1mn (20 minute read) and (much longer) tinyurl.com/potconviction (TOC to the research conducted by Profs Whitebread and Bonnie, two UVa law professors who then later published 'The Marijuana Conviction' in 1974). (I have a copy of this book, bought in 2005 after I searched for it on a whim at half.com)

I do have a jpg somewhere, black background and hundreds of terms used to describe the plant, which together form a cannabis leaf.

Re: Revealed: Two California airports allow passengers to fly with pot

nezua — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:25:20 -0000

Well, why? Cannabis, Marijuana, Marihuana, Ganja...what does it matter what s/he calls it? Why not use the Assyrian "Qunubu" if you want a "true" word for it. That came before "Cannabis." One of the things I love about Mota is how many names there are for it!

Re: Latino groups target CNN’s ‘hypocrisy’ over Lou Dobbs

nezua — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:35:48 -0000

Go home, hater.

Re: Latino groups target CNN’s ‘hypocrisy’ over Lou Dobbs

nezua — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:35:28 -0000

Your day is fading. Shout all you want. It's rather embarrassing.