Discussion: New Yorker Magazine Has Second Thoughts About Describing Cruz As 'Uppity'

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I’m sure that they will continue to refer to Obama as ‘uppity’, though.

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“Disturbed loudmouth” on the other hand has no bad racial connotations, but conveys an apt description, he should have said.

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I’m guessing you’re not really familiar with the publication?

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They could use “d**kwad” or “dbagger” or “aggressively ignorant” as just one of many possible replacements.

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Wait… that’s a real, actual apology. How refreshing. Could someone forward that to FOX News so they can see how it’s done?

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Como una persona que tiene una familiaridad con el concepto de “latino”…

Es muy cabron el senor Cruz, y no es un latino. Dejo ese privilegio cuando empezo su carrera en el Senado.

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Boy, do I miss Christopher Hitchens. He wrote what he wanted, and if he offended you, tough shit.

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Because the correct term is ‘Muppety’?

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I don’t like T. Cruzi (you should google that, it’s pretty funny), but the use of the word uppity really stuck in my craw. That apology made up for it, though…as you said, it was a real, actual apology, and quite refreshing.

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Yeah. John Cassidy is the real deal. Very smart. English, though, so I don’t doubt that the non-Webster’s nuance escaped him.

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No, it’s “Puppety.”

Signed,

David & Charles

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Yeah, uppity is a word that should be retired. This is, however, the first time I’ve ever seen it used where it wasn’t immediately followed by the n word.

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Uhhhh, I have never once heard “uppity” used to denigrate Latinos.

I’d personally call call Cruz “estrogeny” because his facial features have a uniquely feminine look in his pictures (pouty lips, etc.) He also looks like he’s going to break out into “We represent the lollipop guild!” when he doesn’t look overly-constipated.

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What?

They can call the POTUS “uppity” because he’s brown?

But, not the Cube-nadian? Sorry New Yorker, you will need to clarify the skin color of the Cuban (i.e. latinos) from South America. Cruz is brown.

So, if you have the nerve to call our President “Uppity” because he is brown. Then the same holds true for cruz!

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My Spanish is improving. I understood everything but the first part of the last sentence.

Agreed, but this is once again a situation in which a Brit used a term that doesn’t have the same hateful history in Europe that it does here. I give the guy a pass, and appreciate his very sincere apology.

I dunno, on my TV he looks about as brown a bag of cotton balls.

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Race is not the perception of looks, but background of heritage.

“…observes that over 70% of the Cubans inside Cuba are of African descent. Both the Cuban government and analysts at the US State Department and the CIA used to agree on a number around 63% are” i.e. brown.

“Racial passing term was used especially in the U.S. to describe a person of mixed-race heritage assimilating into the white majority during times when legal and social conventions of hypodescent classified the person as a minority, subject to racial segregation and discrimination.”

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From the Urban Dictionary

Ted Cruz
1.) A power-hungry dimwit who suffers under the smug delusion that becoming popular with a fringe movement loathed by the vast majority of Americans is going to land him in the Oval Office one day.

2.) Another way of saying the Dunning-Kruger effect. As in, “the Ted Cruz effect”, whereby someone who is utterly incompetent is so profoundly detached from reality that they perceive themselves as being vastly more competent than they actually are, precisely because of how incompetent they are.
Ted Cruz: “Hi, I’m Ted Cruz! I’m running for president and I want to do away with Obamacare, the EPA, and basically all progress made over the last 60 years!”

Everyone else: “Wait… weren’t you born in Canada?”

Ted Cruz: “Well… we’ll let other people sort that out!”

Everyone else: “Uh… No, we won’t. You’re a Tea Tard dumbass who wants to become president, and you can’t legally become president in any case. You will never, ever, sit in the Oval Office.”

Ted Cruz: “Well I think that those Confederate flag-waving old white folks out there might say differently!”

Everyone else: “We’re done here.”
by Could_be_anyone October 17, 2013

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I have, by other latinos.

Having worked with a large group of internationals. I witnessed that first hand. Three of my co-workers considered latinos (to us Americans). All bright, educated and very successful. However, the woman from Puerto Rico and the woman from Honduras both called the Cuban, “uppity”.

When I asked why, they both said that the Cubans think that they are superior to them because of the “wet foot, dry foot” law. That leaves the Cubans feeling superior to all other Islanders and South Americans. Because they can cut to the head of the line on immigration.

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“If I gave any offense…I’'m sorry” == Not an apology
“I’m sorry” == Apology.