Proof that "Elitist" Is a Racial Slur?

Yesterday we were informed by learned Professor Fuzzy McBrushwhiskers that the word "elitist," as applied to Barack Obama (and no one else, apparently) was in fact a racial codeword for "uppity n*gger."

We chuckled at how the left attempts to shut down any criticism of Barack Obama by playing the race card, but it turns out we were wrong. Myself included.

Indeed the term "elitist" has been used in the past as just such a racial codeword. A Hollywood friend of mine just passed me the original script for True Romance, written before they decided they could actually get away with flagrant and repeated use of the n-word.

Here is how Tarrantino's script read, originally.

Vincent Coccott [Christopher Walken]i: You know who I am, Mr. Worley?

Clifford Worley [Dennis Hopper]: I got no idea.

Coccotti: I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincent Coccotti. I work as counsel for Mr. Blue Lou Boyle, the man your son stole from. I hear you were once a cop so I can assume you've heard of us before. Am I correct?

Clifford Worley: I heard of Blue Lou Boyle.

Coccotti: I'm glad. Hopefully it means we can cut out the part of the conversation where you're wondering how full of shit I am.

Clifford Worley: You're Sicilian, huh?

Coccotti: Yeah, Sicilian.

Clifford Worley: Ya know, I read a lot. Especially about things... about history. I find that shit fascinating. Here's a fact I don't know whether you know or not. Sicilians were spawned by elitists.

Coccotti: Come again?

Clifford Worley: It's a fact. Yeah. You see, uh, Sicilians have, uh, Eastern Liberal Establishment blood pumpin' through their hearts. Hey, no, if eh, if eh, if you don't believe me, uh, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, uh, you see, uh, Martha's Vinyard residents conquered Sicily. And Martha Vinyard's residents are elitists.

Coccotti: Yes...

Clifford Worley: So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blue collars and red necks, but, uh, well, then the Martha's Vinyarders moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blue collars and red necks became white shoes and pink zinfandel. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that elitist gene. Now this...

[Coccotti busts out laughing]

Clifford Worley: No, I'm, no, I'm quoting... history. It's written. It's a fact, it's written.

Coccotti: [Laughing] I love this guy.

Clifford Worley: Your ancestors are elitists. Uh-huh.

[Starts laughing, too]

Clifford Worley: Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a elitist, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-elitists kid, and a few of them went to Phillips Andover or Deerfield Academy... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part arugula.

PS: Please don't continue riffing on this joke. It's not an especially clever one and the point is made well enough with this snippet. I don't want the overkill effect to happen.

posted by Ace at 02:12 PM

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