T-Baggers warned against the Danger of DC Metro ! HILARIOUS

[kpete]

According to TPM, Tea Party activist Bruce Majors warned his fellows t-baggers against the danger of Washington D.C.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/tea-party-primer-on-dc-dangerous-scary-and-full-of-arabs.php?ref=fpb
In fact, on his blog, Bruce Majors wrote :
http://paintmainered.ning.com/profiles/blogs/so-you-are-coming-to-the-828

Safety and Mores
DC's population includes refugees from every country, as the families of embassy staffs of third world countries tend to stay in DC whenever a revolution in their homeland means that anyone in their family would be in danger if they went back. Most taxi drivers and many waiters/waitresses (especially in local coffee shops like the Bread and Chocolate chain) are immigrants, frequently from east Africa or Arab countries. As a rule, African immigrants do not like for you to assume they are African Americans and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country (e.g. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) with whom they may have political or military tensions. It's rare to meet anyone who gets really offended, but you can still be aware of the issue.

Many parts of DC are safe beyond the areas I will list here, but why chance it if you don't know where you are?

If you are on the subway stay on the Red line between Union Station and Shady Grove, Maryland. If you are on the Blue or Orange line do not go past Eastern Market (Capitol Hill) toward the Potomac Avenue stop and beyond; stay in NW DC and points in Virginia. Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line. These rules are even more important at night. There is of course nothing wrong with many other areas; but you don't know where you are, so you should not explore them.

If on foot or in a cab or bus, stay in Bethesda, Arlington (preferably north Arlington), Crystal City, Falls Church, Annandale, or Alexandria, or in DC only in northwest DC west (i.e. larger street numbers) of 14th or 16th streets, or if on Capitol Hill only in SE Capitol Hill (zip 20003) between 1st and 8th Streets, not farther out than 8th (e.g. 9th, 10th etc). (Or stay on the Mall and at the various monuments.) Again there are many other lovely places, from the Catholic University of America to Silver Spring, Maryland. But you don't know where you are so you cannot go, especially at night, unless you take me with you.

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/24/895809/-T-Baggers-who-will-attend-Glenn-Becks-Rally-are-warned-against-the-Danger-of-DC-Metro-!-HILARIOUS

[Radical Activist]

1. I knew conservatives didn't like mass transit because

they're afraid of being around black people. It's rare to see that admitted so blatantly.

[Contrary1]

2. Boo!

That dark person following you closely all day may be your shadow. Make sure before you shoot.

Idiots.

[luvspeas]

3. I guess this is so great it had to be posted on here 3 different times now!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9001098

[flakey_foont]

4. I would like to contribute my caveat as well

Don't put a $5 bill in the machine at the Dunn Loring station!!! You won't get a ticket and it will keep your money!!!!


Always trying to be helpful!

[TBF]

5. lol... nt

[piratefish08]

6. underneath all the hate and bullshit they are truly cowards at their core.

[BrklynLiberal]

15. I think that hate, bullshit and cowardice are always tied together

[Bitwit1234]

7. I'd love to see a lot of those used up tea bags

being surrounded by people of ethnic orientation. I'd laugh my butt off if I was there.

[liberal N proud]

8. I was thinking of the same thing

It would be a laugh if there were an organized effort to filtrate among them.

[Recursion]

26. Back in the bar I practically lived in in Columbia Heights...

...we had some real winners come in -- guys from Georgetown who just smelled of trust fund money and couldn't stop pissing everybody off. Around 1am they asked the bouncer if there was a strip club around there, and he said, "Sure, just go that way to Georgia Avenue and turn left. It's only a couple of blocks."

People who know the Columbia Heights/Petworth area of DC will get how hilarious those directions are.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. In other words, stay in one oozy blob surrounded by your paranoid fellow teabaggers.

[WolverineDG]

10. How come they're using the socialist metro system anyway? nt

[BrklynLiberal]

16. GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED! no less!!!!

[SOS]

11. All those "rugged individualists" afraid to ride a subway.

:rofl:

[NeedleCast]

12. As far as crime and cleanliness go, it's hard to beat the D.C. Metro

However, if these keeps the Teajadists off my metro, then I'm all for it

[BattyDem]

13. "As a rule, African immigrants do not like for you to assume ..."

"... they are African Americans and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country (e.g. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) with whom they may have political or military tensions."



Who walks up to a stranger and tries to guess what country they're from? :wtf: :rofl:

[jberryhill]

17. The Arizona Police, Apparently. /nt

[Kalyke]

19. Embarrassed.... I do.

I love accents, though - it has little to do with looks.

:blush:

[BattyDem]

20. I love accents, too.

:-)

I'm not talking about making small talk with a stranger, hearing an interesting voice and saying, "I love your accent. Do you mind if I ask where you're from?" That's based on genuine interest and curiosity. I've done that, too.

But let's face it ... the guide is not talking about the rules of etiquette when getting acquainted with strangers. What it's really doing is telling people to be "careful" around the brown people they run into because they offend easily if you say the wrong thing. It also implies that any person who has a certain look (or color) is from a Middle Eastern or African country because, as we all know, brown people don't come from anywhere else. :sarcasm:

[Recursion]

25. Well, I've said "tadiyas" to a Somalian and been griped at

Though somehow I doubt that's what this guy tried.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Rachel and Eugene Robinson did a FANTASTIC segment on this last night!!

The T-baggers are trying to usurp MLKs day of celebration, but they are terrified of having to deal with B-L-A-C-K people!
It would be a lot funnier if it were not so pathetically hypocritical and downright disgusting.


Video of her coverage is at the DailyKos link.

[BattyDem]

21. I laughed when Gene said ...

they've put together a guide on how to avoid parts of the city "where you would be more likely to encounter black people." :rofl:

[superduperfarleft]

22. I about died when the random camera guy in the background busted out laughing.

These teabagger idiots remind me of the old biddies in my mom's neighborhood who regularly go to Europe, but don't even get off the tour bus. Why would you want to go to a city like DC and not explore a bit?

[BattyDem]

23. I LOVE it when the crew laughs at Rachel's presentations!

:rofl:

[pinboy3niner]

30. Wouldn't want to run into any black people on the anniversary...

...of MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Unbelievable!

Rachel and Gene were great at calling out the racism.

[uncommon]

18. Ooga booga, beware the brown people!!!

[Recursion]

24. "Do not use the Green Line or the Yellow Line"?

You mean, the lines that take you from the touristy downtown to the touristy hotel in Alexandria you're staying in or the baseball stadium?

:eyes:

There was a site called "Late Night Shots" that was basically a Facebook for Georgetown douchebags that had comments like that. "Don't go to Adams Morgan unless you're ready to fight", etc. But, hey, if it keeps the jackasses out of the cool neighborhoods, let the ignorance continue...

[amandabeech]

31. You can take the long way on the Blue Line to get to the hotels, actually.

I'm not a baseball fan, so I'm not commenting on getting to the baseball stadium.

[Recursion]

34. I had to do that once when the Yellow Line was down

It turned a 15-minute ride to a 90-minute ride. Nice view of Arlington Cemetary, though.

[amandabeech]

27. Out of towners may want to stay off the Red Line altogether.

There is always a problem on the Red Line and it seems to be under perpetual construction between Medical Center and Grosvener. At least when it's not going off the tracks and ramming the first car in the train with the second.

[Recursion]

29. It also has a tendency to fly off the track

or collide with the train in front of it.

[amandabeech]

32. That's what I intended to imply in my second sentence.

Thanks for making it absolutely clear.

[HughBeaumont]

36. I got no choice.

Silver Spring, and all. I can get off at Ft Totten and just take the Yellow to the Navy station.

Delays are becoming more commonplace on that line. Accidents are relatively rare, though.

[amandabeech]

37. I go Shady Grove to either Farragut North or Metro Center.

I've got no choice until I move, but that may be to your end of the Red Line.

The accidents are not rare enough, as far as I'm concerned.

[Recursion]

38. I remember when they finally started running the yellow line that far up

It used to stop at Mt. Vernon Square, so it really was basically a "white people on the yellow train, black people on the green train" situation. Then again, when I first moved to Columbia Heights there wasn't even a metro station yet, just a big hole in the earth that had been there for 20 years. This sounds crazy now, but I had a ridiculously cheap apartment on 14th & Harvard that was advertised "metro-accessible: just a few blocks from DuPont Circle"

[HughBeaumont]

28. Great. WALK, fuckers!

And when I go October 2nd, just keep your sheeted asses on the pavement and not pollute the socialist "Tax-a-crat" Metro with your slimedripper presence. Dicks.

[Canuckistanian]

33. And this "guide" is for T-baggers coming to attend the "MLK rally"?

Do they even realize that MLK was black himself?

[Recursion]

35. Ooh... we should convince them it's on MLK Boulevard

That would be fun.

There's even an intersection of MLK and Malcolm X. That would probably tip them off, though.

[butterfly77]

39. Black people need to show up //

ON THE RED LINES...

[tkmorris]

40. They should boogie on over to Benning Road

They love tea over there. Really.

[Scurrilous]

41. LOL

:thumbsup:

[WolverineDG]

42. He gives them directions to a place that serves Middle Eastern food?

I would pay for a pic of one of these idiots with a "No Mosque at Ground Zero" sign chowing down on doner kebab.

dg

[Initech]

43. The xenophobia is strong with this one.