How to be an idiot

[apocalypsos]

“GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE.”
– U.S. Army recruiter Sgt. Marcia Ramode, using her military email address to respond to Jersey City resident Corey Andrew, after Ramode learned Andrew was gay.

Wow. WOW. I mean ... WOW. It's not even the ridiculously rampant racism and homophobia that's amazing me, it's the abject stupidity of sending that sort of tirade repeatedly from a government address.

Comments

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

*blinks* dude... that's just... huh.

Only part that's funny is the fact the Tango came from the slums of Argentina and has nothing to do with Africa. The man credited with creating the dance? Yeah, white. *shakes head* Thank heavens she's a recuiter and not military intelligence....

[affectingly.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's just... really special. Yeah, that's the descriptor I'm going with. *sigh*

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

.... But Voodoo is from Haiti.

I... just... I have no words.

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

Why does that surprise me more coming from a woman?
Its terrible regardless, but still.

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

That is so unbelievable and gross and horrid... and also? Pandagon totally rocks.

[sweill.livejournal.com]

PLEASE let that be some big friggin' JOKE 'cause otherwise? Too damn scary.

[fyrdrakken]

_eric_m_ linked to that piece bewailing the misquoting of Ted Nugent lyrics. Because that's apparently what is specifically being referred to.

[fyrdrakken]

No, wait, here it is, and she was quoting less of the song than I thought. Because I'm not well-versed in The Nuge.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sort of hateful, willfully ignorant racist that currently populates the armed forces (because the government has driven off all the nice, intelligent people with their treatment of veterans and intolerance towards minority groups.)

[cavalaxis]

Points at icon.

I don't what scares me more. That we have people in the military stupid enough that they think this way. Or that we have people in the military stupid enough to do this IN EMAIL.

Because you know dude was all, "Hmm. ::click:: Dear Editor, New York Times."

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Points at icon

Which is, hands down, the COOLEST THING I HAVE SEEN ALL DAY.

(Largely because I'm a hopeless linguistics dork. But still.)

[cavalaxis]

Not mine, unfortunately. It came from this thread.

[apetslife.livejournal.com]

I, just....that...holy shit. I shouldn't be laughing, but it's so freaking ABSURD that I AM. *BOGGLE*

[magdalyna.livejournal.com]

I ... ok, I thought I had words but no.

I have no words.

(On a much happier note, I've been reading your fic and other posts and was wondering if I could friend you.)

[callie-chan.livejournal.com]

I am having a dilemma here. On the one hand, I want to click the link. On the other hand, it is entirely possible that if I do, my muscles will revolt against my brain and make me bash said brains out on the nearest hard surface just to get rid of the horrible burden of unwanted knowledge that brain would then contain.

It's kind of like having the chance to get a close-up look at Satan's rectum. There is absolutely nothing there that you could conceivably want to see, and yet you're tempted to look just so that you can tell people about it at parties.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

"YOU WERE BROUGHT HERE BEING YOUR WILLPOWER"

*blink*

*blink*

*blink*

I think I've got it. They've run out of human recruiters. There is no Marcia Ramode. She's just a malfunctioning spambot they let loose on Monster.

Right? Right? O_o