What holiday season would be complete without a racist right-wing "parody" of a Christmas song?
I think we've all noticed the increasing tendency of right-wing pundits to openly indulge in racist stereotyping these days as somehow an acceptable form of discourse -- because, you know, they're just jokes! C'mon, dontcha have a sense of humor that includes hating on people different than you? It's all for the sake of ratings, you know. Jeez, don't be such a stiff!
Andrea Nill over at ThinkProgress' WonkRoom came across this one:
This weekend, Human Events posted an offensive parody of the famous Christmas song, “Feliz Navidad,” entitled “Illegal Aliens In My Yard.” Besides repeatedly referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegals,” a term that’s considered pejorative and offensive by immigrants rights organizations, the song primarily focuses on spreading false and hateful stereotypes about Latinos who are portrayed as bug-carrying invalids:
Illegals in my yard.
Illegals in my yard.
Illegals in my yard.
Sixteen arrive in a stolen car[...]
They’re getting free organ transplants this Christmas.
They’re going to have anchor babies this Christmas.
They’re going to scream “sí, se puede” this Christmas.
Those illegals in my yard[...]
They’re going to spread bubonic plague this Christmas.
They’re going to bring me lots of bed bugs this Christmas.
They’re going to pass tuberculosis this Christmas.
Those illegals in my yard.
Bad enough that they reflexively dehumanize immigrants by calling them "illegals". But the plague? Bed bugs? Tuberculosis?
That's Lou Dobbs territory and beyond. Disease carriers and criminals, that's what Latino immigrants are.
No wonder the Republican Party keeps shrinking into itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksOCE5S_Bec
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghQsUKNgq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghQsUKNgq0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC3sZB-v7Q&fe...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGnYw-OuCnI&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHVtaS0jHo
Eight minutes and only
threefour links? Where's your holiday spirit? :)Corruption favors the wealthy.
I have to go back to watching A Southpark Christmas.
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Don't know why that one went twice, I meant for one of them to be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4
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out of the holidays (for everyone else, anyway).
I'm sure their children/grandchildren/nephews/nieces, etc. will be thrilled, just thrilled to have Christmas supper with them and sit through the racist verbal diarrhea.
I'll say it again, if Lou Dobbs were my father and I had kids of my own, as a mixed-race Latina, I'd ensure ol Lou would not be invited to Christmas dinner, and would see very little of the grandkids.
I've never seen change without a fire
but just what the fuck are you doing reprinting this garbage?
Sure, report on it happening, but by reprinting that piece of shit you're just giving it more legs. Have you guys lost your minds?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
people the dehumanizing and eliminationist rhetoric in Human Events' little song. I am ok with it in this case, because it means I won't have to go hunting for that piece of crap, and further more, Neiwert didn't link to Human Events itself. Sort of how the ADL won't link to racist websites but will post screenshots of them to educate people.
I've never seen change without a fire
what can you do? the right continues to spew gold from their collective asses.
for all the vitrol of the right (or is that white) angry males....they sure haven't been able to get a handle on this "immigration" problem.
probably because their factories, car washes, clothing manufacturers, mill shops, auto repair shops, produce picking, pig and chicken farms (list goes on and on)businesses would shut down without them.
then the WASP middle class would have to pay full price for their goods and services.
and we cant have that can we????
about this is Jose Feliciano, the writer and performer of the song, is Puerto Rican, and thus a natural-born American citizen. But the people at Human Events are probably too stupid to realize that.
I've never seen change without a fire
Just for reference, here's Jose Feliciano's interpretation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o
RW "comedy" is never clever nor funny?
I mean, it's just mean-spirited and not witty at all.
or sharp, or witty at all.
I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSX4J6hlSdA
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and Merry Mex-mas on iTunes, cos I don't have any hard copies of El Vez's albums anymore... ;)
I've never seen change without a fire
It's even harder on the album A Punk Rock Christmas.
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F**k Christmas when in a Bah Humbug mood. :)
I've never seen change without a fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwNCfb4xp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwNCfb4xp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwNCfb4xp0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATMHIlXTUU4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWGBeADI_8E
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...the earthbound equivalent of a Black Hole.
S&M you better get your finger out from wherever it is and en garde:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Spiqpvpuas
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David, at this rate, you'll have enough fodder for eighteen books.
And I love how they heap scorn on 'si, se puede' but probably think George W. Bush's 'together we can' slogan was just absolutely top-notch.
that it was being used as a political slogan long before the Obama campaign used the English translation as theirs...
I've never seen change without a fire
so now i know what lou dobbs does when he's not racist ranting on the radio...
What are the illegals doing in that guy's yard? I mean they are not doing all that work for free. The guy is paying the so-called illegals to do work which is ILLEGAL because we all know he sure as hell is not paying taxes for them doing that work.
I assumed that reich-wing fish wrapper would have gone under by now.
BID
your threatening violence for a simple non-violent display of the 1st amendment? I thought the right wing was the violent ones?
Although I do have this song on my mp3 player now and am planning on driving around with it blasting on my car stereo. Along with this one
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34737
i just found out that the small-dicked pasty right-winger "friend" of my in-laws, who is always screeching about teh illegals, has his house cleaned by an undocumented latina. the fucking hypocrisy of these fuckers is just too much.
The hypocrisy is stunning, isn't it?
I'm betting that these are "God-fearing Christian folk" too.
All of these right-wingers just like to spout "they're breaking the law" and never stop to think "why do they come up here illegally" in the first place. More and more, it's become apparent that you have to suspend critical thinking if you follow the conservative philosophy. It's actually very sad because there certainly are aspects of true conservatism that are good ideas.
That was pretty disgusting, and I only listened to about one minute at the most. The right wingers have such disdain for undocumented immigrants, but sure don't mind paying them a pittance to do their scut work. No doubt this is the same kind of mentality that justified slavery. Right wingers are quite good at dehumanizing any group of people who doesn't look, act, or believe like them.
I understand that this song is on "El Rushbo's" playlist for Christmas Eve.
What is most annoying to us is that my wife is a recent immigrant from Venezuela, and is perfectly LEGAL, but she gets really angry and depressed because she is constantly treated like an illegal Mexican. (South Americans are quite "classist" and for the most part really look down on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans...go figure)...Everybody gets tarred with the same brush.
But they love the benefits of the cheap labor, of course.
Racist assholes.
Another rip-roaring thigh-slapper from Conservative comedians.
And here I thought it was a pair of turtlenecks.
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Wow! Talent coming out of their ears! I wonder how long it took the songwriter to think up this sophisticated gem! It's sure to become a popular addition to the Xmas music library.
I don't think anything needs to be done regarding comments on this song...it's just so stupid and badly written that it shoots itself in the head.
Joan of Oak
First of all the song is racist and offensive.
Illegal immigrants aren't just Latino. In Massachusetts we see Asian, Russian, and Irish illegal immigrants as well as Latino.
The PC thought police are now trying to hide the truth with sanitized language. Illegal immigrants are here ILLEGALLY. They broke the law when they illegally entered this country. Renaming them to "undocumented immigrants" does not change this fact.
I have no problem with legal immigrants, no matter what race or nationality. I do have a problem with illegal ones, no matter what race or nationality.
I'll take a pair o' dese:
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Sick! Sick! Sick!!!
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
One of the reasons that health care should not exclude anybody who lives in this country based on citizenship status, is precisely that some diseases are communicable, and we all suffer if anyone is not treated.
Yes, TB is somewhat more prevalent in Mexico than it is currently in the US. But that is not at all because Mexicans are inherently a higher risk, and entirely because we have historically done a better job of making sure that this public health threat was treated in all members of the public. TB is less prevalent in Mexico than it used to be in the US because Mexico now does a better job of controlling it than we did many decades ago. But all of this historical difference is becoming moot as, under pressure from racist pinheads, we progressively fail to treat segments of the population because of their immigration status, or simply because of inability to afford insurance. We're catching up with Mexico in TB prevalence, an inevitable result of surpassing them in racist pinheadedness and free-market fundamentalism. We go far enough down that path and people will start trying to avoid the US as a dangerously unhealthy place to live. So maybe these jerks actually do have a viable plan for reducing immigration to this country...
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