Has anyone ever called you a "commie" to your face?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

Poll question: Has anyone ever called you a "commie" to your face?

I wonder how many of us have SERIOUSLY, not as a joke, been called "Commie" or "communist" to our face (not on the internet)..

[youngred]

1. yep

and been beaten up and spit on too by the some thugs for my beliefs. but called a commie many many times.


Doesn't help matters that I am and actually say thank you when they say that...the incomprehension and then anger that crosses their face is priceless!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Yes. The guy that comes to my house for pest control

called me a commie for defending Clinton. I decided to show him I was an authoritarian rat fascist bastard by canceling my contract with his company.

[DODI]

3. Generally it is Commie Pinko Liberal

[peekaloo]

33. waiting in line for a Hunter S. Thompson "show"

this crazy bald headed dude drove by, in a big ole Cadillac, and called us all "Commie Pinko Liberals" and told us to go home!

Of course that "crazy" man was HST himself just funnin' with the crowd!

on edit: I worked with a LOT of right wingers in Houston who could not believe I supported any Democratic issue but they never had the cajones to outright call me a Commie to my face......just used that term for the people I supported.

[proud patriot]

4. Yes ...LOL...he was extrememly fun to send into a irrational rage

in front of an entire party full of people .

that's madam Patriot and don't you forget it .

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I have

and oddly enough it was after preaching a sermon on treating women like human beings. I didn't talk economics at all, so the name-calling was really bizarre.

But then, righties have a tendancy to think that anyone who isn't thinking like them must be communist, since that's the only word they know. It's odd, because I'm very capitalist. Even my freeper friends, who earn less than I do, sometimes call me communist when I say things like "I liked Clinton" or "Women are people" or "Native Americans should be treated be like human beings" or "Athiests aren't de facto evil". None of those have anything to do with economics, so I don't know why they use the pejorative "communist" other than that they don't have any what it means.

But there you go.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. Yes, some kid in school with me called me a commie for

opposing the Iraq war. Something in me snapped, and I kinda, well, sorta, pinned him to the wall by grabbing his neck. I was very nice about the whole thing, I did let him back down to the ground to get air when he started to turn purple.
I thought that was damn nice of me, don't you?

[michaelbmoore]

8. Yeah,

some one tried to but I used my "death look" with my "deranged chuckle" and they ran like hell.

Mike Moore
Airborne Rangers for Clark

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. There is just something that aggrivates me about a 28 year-old

who still lives at home and has never been more than 75 miles of where he was born assuming he knows more than me.
It just brought out the Boatswain Mate in me, a beast I thought was long gone.
Guess not.

[blondeatlast]

13. Right charitable of you, Scoot.

[Kanary]

7. fer shur

Me calls me that.

Kanary, the dirtyhippiepinkocommiebum

[xJlM]

9. Only a guy I called fascist first

Really pissed him off, because his parents were German immigrants. I haven't spoken to him in forever, so I don't know what he thinks of the direction his feckless leader is taking us.

[blondeatlast]

11. Yes, indeed; for supporting embryonic stem-cell research

(in fact, I was giving kudos to Orrin Hatch for supporting it) and for supporting UHC.

Pink is a nice color for me--as long as it's muted a bit . . .

[ramapo]

12. Many times

Back in high school (vietnam era) I was very interested in the history of Russia/USSR and what was then "Red" China. That earned me many a "commie" citation.

As a generally skeptical citizen, I have been so complimented many times since.

[SmileyBoy]

14. A former customer of mine called me a "socialist" in an insulting tone.

But he didn't call me a "commie".

But I'm anti-communist to begin with, so I'd take it as an insult, and I'd probably have to retaliate.

Woe be to the man who mistakes being liberal for communist, and calls it to my face. Because he'll be swallowing his teeth when I'm finished with him.

[Wickerman]

15. Yes, I wouldn't be doing my job pissing the freepers off at work if not

[DeathvadeR]

16. Communism is not a Crime!!!!!!!! n/t

[Digger]

17. Yes,

but never by an intelligent person; I've always considered it a compliment.

[durutti]

18. Yes.

Because I am one.

[durutti]

19. Yes. No insult.

Because I am one.

[HEyHEY]

20. Yes I was told "You're such a marxist" by a friend of mine

I'm not one though...we were just arguing about corporate control of....everything.

[KG]

21. several times, and once it was on DU by a DUer.

heh, and they said it like it was a bad thing or something! :)

[stanwyck]

22. I live in the South...

so anyway to the left of Attila the Hun is called a commie. And CNN is not only Clinton News Network but Commie News Network. It doesn't make sense. But there it is. We're all commies if we don't march in lockstep with the Bushies.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Shit, I'm gay and live in Mississippi

OF COURSE they call me a commie-when they're being really nice!

[mitchum]

24. Stalin did...and boy, am I glad!

[mike_c]

25. yes, and they considered it insulting...

...but I didn't.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Bwahahahahaha!

Happy holidays, Mike! Did you cook up a storm?

[Endangered Specie]

27. I believe it was

"Well its the King of Communism", to which I replied "Hello Fuehrer of Fascism"

[Cheswick2.0]

28. one of my teachers in 7th grade

because I refused to stand for the pledge.

[durutti]

29. A favorite saying:

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

[Kanary]

32. Love that quote!

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me
a communist."

Can't remember now who said it?

Kanary

[guitar man]

30. Yup...

Knocked him flat on his ass as soon as he said it.....

[Leftist78]

31. look at my avatar

what do you think? :)