Mayo 8, 2020

"Racism begins in the crib."

51 komento:

rehajm ayon kay ...

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Saturday...

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

That was pretty funny because it's true, but where's her balcony?

iowan2 ayon kay ...

Very funny!

Howard ayon kay ...

Oh my God thanks for that. That kid is beyond cute and obviously very very well-loved. The world is a beautiful place.

ndspinelli ayon kay ...

I realize that being Italian means using your hands. I grew up out east w/ many Italians. When I moved to the Midwest I noticed people would be transfixed on my hands when I speak.

Olson Johnson is right! ayon kay ...

Hey Althouse:
Hysterically Funny, I would welcome a translation, but its even funnier to imagine what the topic and arguments presented were. Most likely this is a reenactment of recent SCOTUS oral arguments.

Irregardless of the topic, I want this girl on retainer as my attorney.

Dust Bunny Queen ayon kay ...

Adorable. She has all the hand gestures, inflections and attitude down to a T.

West Texas Intermediate Crude ayon kay ...

I'm seeing "Downfall" type parodies.
"When Trump learns that his campaign has been spied on.
"When Biden learns that Tara has accused him."
"When Fauci learns that the virus arrived here from China last September."

gspencer ayon kay ...

MEMRI documents what the Muslims do to utterly poison their children's mind towards "the JEWS." [MEMRI - Middle East Media Research Institute]

Pretty disgusting, but when you see examples of such hatred by Muslims towards Jewish people, all based on the Muslims' Qur'an, you understand why there will never be peace. Because the Muslims refuse to be peaceful.

Fritz ayon kay ...

She talks like my father-in-law did. Fortunately, it did not get passed down.

TJM ayon kay ...

I'm a racist, you're a racist
she's a racist, he's a racist
don't you want to be a racist too?

(sung to the tune of the Dr. Pepper jingle)

mikeski ayon kay ...

As a Jewish guy who was mistaken for a Florentine native 3 times (Other American tourist: "Excuse me, can you tell me where the train station is?" Me: "Nope, but let me know when you find out."), I've often thought that Jews and Italians are from the same union, just different locals.

You've got:

Lotsa gesticulation.
Matriarchy.
"Eat something!"
Guilt.

Lyle ayon kay ...

Her grandparents or one of them must baby sit her. Saw this on twitter too. Just lovely. To me it sounds like she was calling someone a Fredo.

tcrosse ayon kay ...

You've got to be carefully taught.

Jack Klompus ayon kay ...

Someone should report her to the San Antonio city council.

Peachy ayon kay ...

She's literally Hitler.

Wince ayon kay ...

From my experience Italian women have to be in the kitchen to talk and gesticulate like that.

And she is!

Rory ayon kay ...

Okay, that's in four different categories I can't stand, but it's hilarious.

GatorNavy ayon kay ...

Titania McGrath is a treasure

madAsHell ayon kay ...

As a Jewish guy who was mistaken for a Florentine

My brother-in-law is in banking, and mostly Mexican. He is frequently greeted with "Shalom"!

chuck ayon kay ...

That girl is a right handed supremacist.

John Borell ayon kay ...

I think I'm watching what my Italian grandparents looked like as kids.

Those hand gestures. Perfect. Adorable.

Lucien ayon kay ...

Remember that according to “Whiteness Studies” (which do not, at all, promote racial bigotry on college campuses) Irish and Italian immigrants were not originally White. Thank goodness they are no longer marginalized and othered.

tcrosse ayon kay ...

I went to a mainly-Italian NJ elementary school back in the very early 1950's. There I picked up lots of playground Italian, which mystified my Milwaukee-bred parents. Phrases like "Doozy Pots" (Tu sei pazz'). By 4th grade they yanked me out of there and put me in with the Anglos.

KJE ayon kay ...

Tatiana’s head is likely to explode when this little girl learns to make the “OK” sign.

Laughing Fox ayon kay ...

FAntastic, how this child already has a lot of the expressive Italian hand gestures--really, hand signals!

Michael ayon kay ...

Member of CasaPound

Birkel ayon kay ...

"Titania McGrath" does more good with this parody account than all the authors at Slate, the NYT, and The New Yorker combined.

Althouse prefers the bad guys.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

Basta!

Saint Croix ayon kay ...

This is like a Disney version of La Dolce Vita.

Maillard Reactionary ayon kay ...

Love it!

n.n ayon kay ...

Color bias is normal. Diversity (e.g. color prejudice including racism) breeds adversity.

minnesota farm guy ayon kay ...

Wonderful!!! Made my day!

Narr ayon kay ...

Piccolo Mussolini! Basta!

So much better than where I came in this morning. My wife, who is Italian on her mother's sides, talks with her hands. Funny thing is, her mother didn't, particularly.

Narr
Maybe it skips generations

Rana ayon kay ...

I tell my half-Italian daughter that if we tied her hands behind her back, we would render her speechless.

Narr ayon kay ...

Maybe this would be a good time to mention that it's VE Day 75.

I used to tell my students that it represents the victory of the good racists over the bad racists--and that the world was much improved thereby.

Narr
VJ Day, likewise

Etienne ayon kay ...
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Tomcc ayon kay ...

Sooo much better than a cat video, thanks! "Sweet Dreams" is in English...

Sam L. ayon kay ...

The HORROR!! The horror...

eddie willers ayon kay ...

Does anyone know how to pull just the video without it being tied to Twitter? I want to post it to my Italian niece's Facebook page with no accompanying title or comments.

Earnest Prole ayon kay ...

Brattiness -- not that there's anything wrong with that.

WhoKnew ayon kay ...

That's the funniest thing I've seen in days. As good as the little Irish girl arguing to be allowed to go to the pub.

Not Sure ayon kay ...

I'm imagining her riding along with that 5-year-old kid who was driving his parents' car down some highway in Utah, giving him directions. Prendi la prossima uscita, idiota!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM ayon kay ...

when she-a grow oppa:

Rodia Comedy

RigelDog ayon kay ...

According to the Twitter comments, she is complaining about not being able to go outside and play, and not being able to nap in her stroller because of all the noise (siblings?) in the house, and says that the whole thing is giving her a headache. I loved it!

The Godfather ayon kay ...

Unfortunately, my ethnicity is German-Irish-Yankee. I can hardly use my hands at all. Other than liking beer, I don't know what worthwhile traits I've inherited.

Quaestor ayon kay ...

Translation: Tigger and Eryore ratted to the Feds about the honey skim. Pooh says they gotta be whacked and whacked hard as an example to the crew. But then he's not a wartime consigliere.

BUMBLE BEE ayon kay ...

Was Myron Cohen or Totie Fields antisemitic? Gotta make shit up to stay on the bleeding edge lest there be an outrage gap developing.

Bunkypotatohead ayon kay ...

Someone will show her that when she's 16 and she'll be mortified.

Quaestor ayon kay ...
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mikee ayon kay ...

Having been told that I'm inherently, irredeemably, irrevocably, even unconsciously a racist, and having been told that this is true solely because of my skin color, I have come to doubt that the word racist means what some people think it means. One could eliminate 95% of actual racism in the US today if the government and academia stopped all notice of skin color.

And unless the darling girl is speaking vile things about people of different skin colors, her use of stereotypical Italian hand gestures while speaking has less to do with race and racism, than about a close and loving family life from birth.

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