I try to live by an ideal of "don't ascribe to malevolence what can be more readily explained by stupidity." Contrary to Gary's post here, I don't think the particular phrase, "white life" is in routine use even among the most racist conservatives. I think she "honestly" stumbled over the words "right to life," which IS a roll-off-the-tongue thing in conservative circles. She wasn't being RACIST, she was just (predictably) being STUPID. I still gleefully watch her roast for it. :)
For example, I have to be careful about the "r"-word, for persons of lower cognitive ability. And while I would never use it in regard to someone with an actual cognitive impairment, I am constantly on the verge of letting it slip out wrt willfully stupid, infantile ideologues (of which the world has so very many.)
The only way you have that kind of slip up in public is if you regularly say it in private. Verbal slip ups only occur with words and phrases the mind is all ready primed to use.
PS - my ex-wife had some speech difficulties, and she would have said, "right to life" as "white to wife." That might've been even WORSE in context, but it would be through no fault of her own.
I try to live by an ideal of "don't ascribe to malevolence what can be more readily explained by stupidity." Contrary to Gary's post here, I don't think the particular phrase, "white life" is in routine use even among the most racist conservatives. I think she "honestly" stumbled over the words "right to life," which IS a roll-off-the-tongue thing in conservative circles. She wasn't being RACIST, she was just (predictably) being STUPID. I still gleefully watch her roast for it. :)
For example, I have to be careful about the "r"-word, for persons of lower cognitive ability. And while I would never use it in regard to someone with an actual cognitive impairment, I am constantly on the verge of letting it slip out wrt willfully stupid, infantile ideologues (of which the world has so very many.)
The only way you have that kind of slip up in public is if you regularly say it in private. Verbal slip ups only occur with words and phrases the mind is all ready primed to use.
PS - my ex-wife had some speech difficulties, and she would have said, "right to life" as "white to wife." That might've been even WORSE in context, but it would be through no fault of her own.