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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan someone please explain Ann Coulter's latest comment?
She apparently said yesterday that:
"Perhaps, someday, blacks will win the right to be treated like volitional human beings. But not yet."
I simply don't understand what she is saying. I'd like to consider myself relatively intelligent, with a decent vocabulary. I understand the meaning of all the individual words used. I just don't understand the meaning of the comment? Can someone please explain it to me?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)onenote
(42,759 posts)she is trying in her usual asshat fashion to claim that white liberals (and subservient blacks doing white liberals bidding) are using laws (such as affirmative action etc) to keep blacks from rising and falling on their own merits. Sort of a high falutin way of making the same point that crazy Ted Nugent made recently.
trumad
(41,692 posts)That's because you have a soul.
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)vo·li·tion (v-lshn)
n.
1. The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision.
2. A conscious choice or decision.
3. The power or faculty of choosing; the will.
[French, from Medieval Latin voliti, volitin-, from Latin velle, vol-, to wish; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
vo·lition·al adj.
vo·lition·al·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)... given that she occupies a separate but parallel universe all her own.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,838 posts)and should be ignored.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Oh, and she's a not-so-subtle racist, too.
She's also a proud member of the American Taliban to boot.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I think she's saying that Trayvon Martin is responsible for his own actions and deserved to be killed. And that the not guilty verdict has nothing to do with racial bias.
It might even be a statement that there is no racial bias at all and black people are disproportionately poor and incarcerated by their own actions.
It's definitely along these lines.
ClarkJonathanKent
(91 posts)My guess was very close to your second guess, but then I couldn't figure out why she said "win the right..."
I understand that she is hateful and makes a living being inflammatory and involving herself in contrived controversies....That being said, I also think the statement literally does not make sense. I just wanted to see if I was simply confused or having a brain fart. The more people that take a guess at her literal meaning, I personally felt like it would be helpful.
petronius
(26,603 posts)are generally full-blown racists themselves, will be impressed by the big word "volitional", which she just learned from her Word-of-the-Day calendar...
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)The George W. Bush edition, no doubt.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)is a reactionary and enjoys angering people
she says, "a disproportionate number of criminals are young black males" and are responsible for the injustice
ananda
(28,876 posts)Oh God, that something like this heartless statement could be on
the air, it just sickens me.
underpants
(182,879 posts)1. The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision.
2. A conscious choice or decision.
3. The power or faculty of choosing; the will.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/volitional
She basically is calling the stupid
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Main Entry: volitional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: willing
Synonyms: free, unforced, voluntary
http://thesaurus.com/browse/volitional
Warpy
(111,339 posts)robots with no decision making powers of their own.
Her readers are gonna tell her to stop usin them big words. None of them will understand what she said.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)It will make you sick.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)beyond what is posted here. I pay good money for my food and don't want to waste it.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I couldn't bring myself to expound on what she said, really. Much less link or quote. OMG.
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NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)AllINeedIsCoffee
(772 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts).
byeya
(2,842 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)feelings in some way. Read it in that context.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)When the Mother ship dumped her on Earth, even THEY couldn't understand her. They figured she was just defective, so they abandoned her here to wreak havoc on the silly Earthlings.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)and this
http://psychologicalkeys.blogspot.com/2011/05/59-understanting-human-beings-as.html
and remember it`s coulter who made the statement
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)A few cards short of a deck, not all there, missing some parts, off her rocker.. shit like that..
Johonny
(20,888 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Limbaugh does it too. It's profitable for them.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Coulter's dating past and present, Bob Guccione Jr, Andrew Stein, Bill Maher, Dinesh D'Souza, Jimmie Walker of All in the Family fame.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)So they have lots in common.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)The woman is just full of hate. Ignore her.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)But I refuse to link. If you want to, all you have to do is out the quote in your search and you'll find the disgusting piece.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)That's all the explanation you need.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Every month it's the same: she opens the package, throws away the paper telling you not to smoke the whole pound in one sitting, does it, then writes all her columns in one night.
GoldenOldie
(1,540 posts)Although Annie has an Ivy League education, she chose the lowest road for her profession. She discovered she didn't have to work very hard to be a grifter and she could rake in the money with very little effort. She used her long lanky body, blonde flowing hair to seduce men in power. She speaks and writes to the ignorant and lazy who use her hateful spewing as the reasons why they cannot be happy, productive individuals......it's always someone else's fault. They buy her horrid, poorly written books, pay to attend her appearances and the political right use her to gather in the rubes. She spouts outrageous crap that has no meaning other than to stir up the mobs. She is a well paid GRIFTER, who is slowly losing her looks, her body has become more gaunt, her arms appear to dangle a little closer to her knees, and her hands a little larger and bonier.
Annie is nothing more than a Grifter.
R B Garr
(16,976 posts)You described her very well.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)It also works as an explanation for Nugent's verbal diarrhea.
spanone
(135,874 posts)Conium
(119 posts)(I came up with this a few years ago. If the feeling comes back in my hands, I will try to work some more images)
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)over here ... look at me! I'm still here! That crazy Palin isn't the only one who says stupid, outrageous shit!"