roachboy

aside. on the "marie antoinette" business.

first off it's obviously idiotic but in a funny way.

one of the things that drove alot of 18th century parisian (mostly) people who weren't about louis 16 kinda mad about marie antoinette was that she was austrian. foreign. "not really french"...


it's interesting now to see this same invective surfacing from the tea partiers, a movement that flirts so much with racism.

first there's all that birther stuff. alot of more vile things attached to it.
the unifying feature? the claim that barack obama is not a "real american."

and now michelle obama is not a real american either.

so now they're both ëquivalent insofar as they are both "foreign"
foreign with respect to what?
why "real americans" of course.

it's hard not to see that "real american" in teabagger discourse is code for white.

and the whole of that "real american"/Other business as a displacement.

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