Watermelons from the Past

I’m sure most of you remember the story about a Bellevue, Washington Community College instructor using ‘Condoleeza Rice drops a watermelon off a roof’ as part of a mathmatics question from a couple months back. I didn’t comment on it because everyone else was, until I saw the most ignorant ‘Letter to the Editor’ on the subject in the Seattle Times and posted about it.

Well, the person who wrote that ‘Letter’ found that post. Don’t ask me how, because I don’t know how to manipulate my logs to show me, but I assume he was Googling his name.

Anyway, this is the comment he left on the post:

As the author of the above letter to the editor, I feel more than justified in responding to your attack. Overt bigotry, my ass! You are the one who needs to pull their head out of their ass. Perhaps then you might catch a clue that this was really just a mistake. Hey, you might also see that our President is an incompetant bafoon who never learned from his father what makes a “Great President.” If only we could dump the son and give the father a second chance.

Scott Amsden

As often as I hope for eloquence and honesty, I am once again disappointed in the quality of moonbats I seem to attract. Feel free to have a go at Scotty in this comment section or the one on the old post.

As for my response, you’ll find it both below the fold here and at the old post.

Enjoy!

Scott,

First of all, if the comment you left is your best “response” to me calling you an idiot, then, dare I say, you should have left your fingers off the keyboard instead of giving evidence of my claim.

Secondly, calling you an idiot for having an idiotic opinion is not an “attack”. It is simply me expressing my opinion about you and your opinion. An attack would have been me demanding you be beaten severely about the head and shoulders for your opinion, which I did not do. Just because someone responds to your opinion with their own that may include calling you a name you don’t appreciate doesn’t mean you’re being attacked. You need to stop being such an overly sensitive individual. You really should think about seeking counseling. Either way, it is not my problem, it is yours. 

Third, if I were an instructor and had made the same joke, except with Coretta Scott-King as the watermelon thrower, I have no doubt in my mind that everyone who made excuses for that instructor would have been up in arms and asking for my resignation, which is what makes your ‘Letter’ and opinion so idiotic.

And lastly, stop Googling yourself; you’ll go blind.

Have a good week,
AK