The word peasants takes on a definitively derogative connotation in the world we live in. There are no true peasants in America and to be called one is certainly an insult.

I think anyone who is deciding these peoples fates who takes such an antagonistic tone towards them is not fit to make a good decision on policy concerning them.

[Edited on April 23, 2008 at 4:56 PM. Reason : ]

4/23/2008 4:55:34 PM

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"There are no true peasants in America"

When did they close the border???

4/23/2008 5:05:37 PM

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"illiterate peasants means somebody is poor and uneducated and works in the fields it has NOTHING AT ALL to do with insulting someones race like you did with your analogy"

It does when it in the context it is applied specifically to one race.

Or, if he didn't mean it specifically to refer to one race, but rather to agricultural laborers in general, then he might not be a racist but he is a dick for insulting every cracker, nigra, chink, and wetback to ever so much as pick a goddamn apple for a living.

4/23/2008 5:27:56 PM

newsflash...if your occupation is to pick apples, you're a fucking peasant...if you stand out in the sun for 10 hours a day picking strawberries, you are a peasant

some of you seem to be acting like 'peasant' is some racist word

4/23/2008 5:31:13 PM

4/23/2008 5:58:32 PM

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"newsflash...if your occupation is to pick apples, you're a fucking peasant...if you stand out in the sun for 10 hours a day picking strawberries, you are a peasant"

Well it's somehow even clearer now exactly where you stand.

Christ, I almost hope Marxism takes off in this country so someone will give you a blindfold and a cigarette.

Well, actually just a blindfold, because you can re-use that. I'll go ahead and take the cigarette. I hear those things will kill you.

4/24/2008 6:46:54 AM

HOW DARE YOU OFFEND POOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS BY CALLING THEM PEASANTS, THAT REALLY MAKES ME MAD

4/24/2008 9:48:02 AM