Playing the Victim "Waitress Says She Was Fired For Tea Party Bracelet"

Originally posted by negativenihil
reply to post by Wrabbit2000

 

There is a clear trend among the tea party loyal and the leadership to ALWAYS resort to the victim card when they've been found doing something wrong.

Look, I know it stings to read anti-right wing stuff here on ATS, or heck anything liberal here on ATS - but it's high time the right wing got use to it going in both directions.

(Also - Thanks for digging through my post history - i always love when people do that!

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First, you're absolutely right that some people on the right side of politics are throwing their values and traditional notions of personal responsibility to play the victim card. It's happening, an I'll call them down as hard or HARDER than the traditional victim card players on the left. it's fair to say that at least the left have always played themselves off as "depraved on account of they were deprived" so it's that much worse to see people on the right do it.

Second, it doesn't sting to see anti-right wing things posted. I've posted quite a few myself. Bush and Obama are both corrupt, rotten bastards. Right...Left...doesn't much matter at the national political level and where it gets into extremes, it carries almost the same level among the citizens. Flip sides of the same vile coin.

Your welcome on reading your thread history. That's a new thing I've recently started doing...but after finding an honest to goodness OWS organizer that way, I've come to at least do a glance past originating threads by anyone I strongly disagree with before posting my own note. It's amazing at how much the topics one chooses to originate for a thread can say about them. Not always...but in some cases, it's better than a formal Psychological Profile.

reply to post by jibeho


Wait wait wait.

...She's a tea partier...

but...

She wants her unemployment benefits.

reply to post by kozmo


You obviously missed my post up thread with just that!

reply to post by negativenihil


Um, been here a long time and I have no idea what the hell a "post up thread" even is???

reply to post by kozmo


Oh ok, you want to play dumb.

See my 2nd post in this thread - first page, 3rd one down.

Actually, let me make it even easier for you www.abovetopsecret.com...

(ps- make sure you check out my ATS registration date )

Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by jibeho

 

Wait wait wait.

...She's a tea partier...

but...

She wants her unemployment benefits.

I believe you are referring to the GOP's opposition to an Unemployment benefit extension last year. Right?

The House voted it down and so did the Senate last year. Apparently there was opposition on both sides of the aisle. That bill failed due to the last minute partisan games played by both sides. Don't blame the tea party.

I have been a Tea Party supporter, which I wanted to get out there first.

Even as a tea party supporter, I support Outback for firing her for wearing that bracelet. I'm sure they have a dress code, and I'm sure that you can't openly support political ideals (on the job) that could be contraversial.

So, perhaps she WAS fired for wearing a Tea Party bracelet. That makes her a "victim" of not following the dress code. It's her own fault. She is NOT a victim here, of anything but her own bad decisions.

I'm not sure why this counts as playing the "victim card"....

Meh - sometimes a brush that paints too wide paints too wide regardless of what side of the fence its painting.

What I mean is there is sometimes the tendency of individuals of one group to paint everyone of an opposing view in the most negative light possible because of the actions of a few.

Here's an example... Take an article like this one. OWS Protesters Calling For ‘Day Of Action’ Following Loss Of Camp In Zuccotti Park where an OWS protester says...

In a video posted on YouTube after protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park, a demonstrator in the crowd says “On the 17th, we’re going to burn New York City to the ground.”
Later in the video, he then goes on to say “No more talking. They’ve got guns, we’ve got bottles. They’ve got bricks, we’ve got rocks…in a few days you’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s.”

Someone might try to take that video and use it to attempt to paint all OWS protestors as advocating violence. In fact, there is a thread on it on ATS right now!! Go figure... Of course, one yahoo flapping his gums in a youtube video doesn't make all OWS protestors violent anymore than.....

If for another example, a slacker waitress got fired from Outback and attempted to say was fired because of a tea party bracelet. Someone might might try to paint all members of the Tea Party as constantly playing the victim card. Wait!! That's happening in this very thread!!! Go figure!

Of course, it isn't true. Not all OWS protestors are violent. Not all Tea Party members play the victim card. When done by either side stuff like this is usually just an attempt to paint the other side in the most negative light possible.

reply to post by negativenihil


Well one is Mary Matalin - NOT Michele Bachman. And the other is completely out of context. And if 2 examples equals a trend in your [narrow] mind, then you would have to admit that the liberals take the cake on playing "victim". Anything less is either disingenuous or signs of an illness.

Originally posted by jibeho

I believe you are referring to the GOP's opposition to an Unemployment benefit extension last year. Right?

I'm thinking more along the lines of Unemployment being somewhat... SOCIALIST.

Isn't that what the tea party rages against? Socialism? Isn't it rather hypocritical for a tea party loyalist to seek Unemployment benefits?

(Oh wait... this fits in with the tea party "it's not socialism when *I* mooch off the government" mentality)

reply to post by kozmo


Two examples would be enough for volumes of right wing/tea party drivel.

You and I both know that.

reply to post by negativenihil


Is your name walking fox too?

The tea party is not opposed to unemployment benefits in their pure form. They were opposed to the multibillion dollar extension of benefits last year which was not paid for.

Keep trying.