68 Replies to “The Urban Bigot”

  1. Accurate, but I would say there is one type of person worse than this. That is the person who grew up in a blue-collar household/area, went to college to get smartified and now looks down on their parents/friends/hometown with a bitter disgust (usually stemming from their embarrassment at coming from such “low” station in life). These ones are truly venomous towards regular people and will do amazingly vicious things to show their allegiance to their new associates.

    1. When I grew up we were rich. We had a two holer. I never forgot my past and am proud of. I love sharing gems like at 40 below no-one is constipated.

  2. His profile says his job “is to tell the truth”
    I didn’t know “journalist” is the same as BSer.

  3. Maybe I should sign in as hillbilly wannabe.
    But on second thought I think I’ll just stick with my name spelt backwards.
    Any way.

    and your point is?

  4. Hislop is the ultimate grifter. He peddled his “news for hire” to all and sundry in the oil and gas sector in Calgary for years a decade and more ago. Claimed he had CAPP dollars supporting his energy focused news sites. When the money dried up, mainly because he was completely ineffective influentially with his target “soccer mom” urban audiences, he pivoted to Team Green and became a Justin Journo. He’s just another wannabe pseudo intellectual plying words on screen trying to be relevant to a rapidly declining audience in the same vain as Max Fawcett and Charles Adler. The grift is up. Not worth wasting your time reading their trope. They all try to appeal from some magical place of authority derived only from their own self importance. And you can bet your last buck that they’ve all seen money from the same sources that work to undermine our oil and gas industry.

  5. Personally, I prefer to be called a rural hick because we have so few hills to spoil the view in this rural municipality. Perhaps even call me a redneck because I spend half the year outdoors in the clean, unpolluted environment and tend to get sunburned quite often.

    What’s so great about big cities anyway? High crime, homelessness, open drug use, aggressive panhandling, unaffordable housing and rent, traffic cameras/tickets, huge lineups, poor transportation (traffic congestion and inadequate pubic transport services), crowds, protests and rules, rules and more rules.

    I don’t need a cottage to escape to on weekends and holidays…I can just step outside my door and enjoy nature anytime l want or enjoy it by sitting on my couch and looking out the windows.

    1. This morning, while doing first chores, the crackel flock went through. A choreography in the sky of thousands of birds moving in a cloud. Can’t buy that type of thrill in a city. But then I’m a ‘diesel swilling hick’ to borrow a phrase someone wrote in the Toronto city magazine when Harper was first elected.

      1. Late Autumn here is both pretty and musical. At night the Canadian geese and snow geese honk and chatter in the fields behind us, cranes add their voices from the river island, coyotes howling somewhere out in the darkness and often the hoot of owls that occasionally perch on the fence posts. Loud and off key but somehow soothing. And who doesn’t like waking up to the unobstructed sunrise the bedroom windows every morning or watching the sunset on the front deck? Spring and summer sounds and sights are just as nice.

        People who haven’t lived in the country, farm or a small town don’t know what they’re missing. Or, maybe they do and that’s why they’re so grumpy and impolite.

        1. We had several hundred Bohemian Wax wings come thru Saturday morning. Descended on the Cotoneasters and Evans Cherry trees, Cleaned off all the old berries are were gone in an hour.

      2. I think you mean grackle. Lived in Toronto for 30 years. Moved there in the 80’s and it was all about how much your black leather coat costs and whether you’re driving a BMW or a Mercedes. Naval-gazing, sanctimonious twits – the whole lot. I’ll take country folk over city folk every time.

        1. Yeah, most people don’t really care about keeping up with the Jones’s around here. Living in the small city of Estevan was a different story, people were vey preoccupied with economic status symbols. The high school parking lot looked like a new car dealership. Being in debt up to your eyeballs to impress the neighbours was never my thing. Urban bigotry seems to go hand in hand with conspicuous consumption.

          Although, l must admit that l do like my leather jackets and boots.

          Grackle is a good word. I’m stealing it.

          2. I thought grackle was referring to the loud sounds that a flock of a few hundred migrating geese make while gobbling up food on grain fields before continuing south. Too funny.

          3. Grackles are dicks.
            Always stealing food from smaller birds.

            Fun to throw small bluegill to when fishing though.

          4. Never heard of grackles before. I might try to get away with the word grackler in scrabble if I get the right letters. Sounds plausible.

          5. Grackles are annoying birds, like their cousins the blackbirds, especially if yu have bird feeders. But they are striking, in their way, with their bluish-teal head and neck (then a brown body). / By the way,_re: your previous post: it’s Canada geese, not Canadian geese (Canada being its name, not an adjective describing geese). Your view and environment sounds amazing.

        3. Wrote this poem a few years ago…..
          Haulin’ Bales

          Us country folk drive pickups, the city crowd sport utilities.
          We enjoy a pleasant drive, they buzz around like angry bees.
          My trip is free of worry as at eighty plus they pass,
          An sneer at me with fury from behind the tinted glass
          At the bales stacked four high in the box of my old Ford,
          I know my trip purpose, it’s nutrition for our herd.
          I guess if I was haulin’ air, with an expense account for gas.
          For all the world I wouldn’t care if I drove like as ass.

      1. True. Oceans, seas and lakes also have beautiful views. You’ll notice I didn’t include the winter season in my post. Open water and a beach beat a prairie winter by a country mile.

      2. There are these things called “Islands”….

        See also “waves”. (REALLY big ones).

        But, I take your point. Also, apart from Straits like Singapore, Hormuz or Sunda, not much traffic, either.

        Just make sure your radar reflector can be picked up by the super-tankers and container ships., especially at night.

    3. “… What’s so great about big cities anyway? …”
      They hold all those people who would otherwise be cluttering up rural areas and wilderness.

  6. I live in a medium sized city, grew up in a tiny farming town, still waiting to meet anyone as smart as the farmers back home. The urban clowns here can’t change a tire, build a birdhouse, or do anything with their hands I can mention that won’t get me moderated.

    On the plus side, they are heavily vaccinated, and completely unarmed.

  7. I thought this was going to lead to a HillnBilly Clinton . Ah djid not havvve sex with thaat woman , meaning Hillary of course

  9. Closely tied to this is “regional bigot”. There are some in central Canada and the lower mainland who are convincecd that Albertans are intolerant bible-thumping rednecks who are this close to being Klansmen.

    2. Guess that’s why they are still flocking to Alberta from all over the world, including eastern Canada.

    3. You do know that the KKK were the Democratic Party in bedsheets. The Antifa of their day. Before you slander someone get your facts in order.

  10. In this way I feel the Brits are more up-front about their class differences than Americans… except that they then fall into the same “lower class = racist” pattern that most Western societies use, without evidence. The truth about racism in the USA North/South is essentially the inverse of what is stated. South is integrated and North is not.

  11. And here in my “semi-rural” suburban oasis East of the urban Hellholes of Oakland and San Fransicko … I know the Urban Bigots well. They have now taken over my own formerly conservative town. Why? Because they all fled to the safety of suburbia … “semi-rural” suburbia … after their experiment in multi-culti open borders blew up in their faces. So now … they have become that which they hate – suburbanites.

    The irony is delicious … but they’ve wrecked the place with drag queen shows for children at our local library, and fly the rainbow/blm/indigenous flag over City Hall

  12. What is Mark’s actual job now? I lost track of him in the ’90s soon after he got his MA in History/PoliSci and was sucking up for employment with the local EnnDeePee types when they were last in power.

    1. I notice that Mark’s Linked-In profile only mentions a BA from UofS. Funny that…

  13. Acktually, you have to be from the Appalachian region to be able to claim the much sought-after status of Hillbilly. You prairie oysters will never rise above your station of rednecks. Know your place!

  14. Markham Hislop
    @politicalham
    Journalist …… My job is to be accurate and to tell the truth. Full stop.

    Heh, the guy obviously does not know the meaning of his words.

  15. Urban bigots don’t like deplorables; they support the environment but never venture into it. They are the scribes and priests of the Modern-day Pharaohs.

    1. Ban all airports between Philadelphia and Sacramento, keep those planes flyiong over.

    1. You bet, that’s why I bought a rusty pick up and I keep it on blocks in the front yard.

      1. Uh huh.
        Neighbour: Do you have guns?
        Me: Yes
        Neighbour: Do you hunt?
        Me: Nope
        *Awkward silence*

  19. I watched “Old Dads” the other night about the plight of a redneck in Wokistan. Except for the sappy ending, I could identify with Bill Burr’s Jack.

    1. I too have watched dumb shows, and identified with one of the characters.
      The Professor was my favorite, after him, Skipper.
      Ginger was more beautiful than Mary-Ann.

          1. “Cant agree there, Ginger was seriously hot.”

            True, but Mary Ann was more relatable to me. Same with WKRP: Loni Anderson was hot, but the other one (I forget the name of her character) was my favorite.

  20. I’d much rather be surrounded by rednecks than junkies, cops and pseudo-intellectuals.

  21. I have notice the bewildered glazed expression an urban bigot gets when going for a ride in a million dollar combine being run by what he perceives as a country hick.

  22. I hope that any “hillbilly” tradesmen that do any work for this guy remember to tack on the 50% “liberal” surcharge.

    Hat tip: Best Damn Roofer

    2. JohnBoy:

      Rates –
      $80/hr.
      $110/hr. if you try to tell me how to do it
      $140/hr. if you insist on helping

      Liberals will mostly go for option two because they just “know they are smarter than you.” They will often go with option three; “Here, let me show you how to do it right” even though they have never done it in their life. Not only are they smarter than you, but they figure “How hard can it be if this idiot can do it?”

  24. Kate the hillbilly whisper? I’ll always think of her as that Canuk biker chick even if she did roll rice burners. 😉

  25. The urban bigots are getting their comeuppance these days. All the social justice issues they support have come back to kick their ass. Palestine is one they hold near and dear. Beheading babies, raping woman those are the things they support.

    So go ahead, make yourself feel good Mr Urban Bigot, call me a hillbilly or a cowboy. I don’t mind. I know what what you are.

  26. Something I read once………..

    I ONCE WAS A NORMAL PERSON:

    I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person, but I was born white, into a two-parent household which now, whether I like it or not, makes me privileged, a racist and responsible for slavery.

    I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today’s standards, makes me a fascist because I plan, budget and support myself.

    I went to school for 19 years and have always held a job. But I now find out that I am not here because I earned it, but because I was “advantaged”.

    I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a homophobic.

    I am not a Muslim, which now labels me as an infidel.

    I am older than 55, making me a useless dinosaur who doesn’t understand Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat.

    I think, and I reason, and I doubt most of what the ‘mainstream’ media tells me, which makes me a Right-Wing conspiracy nut.

    I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive culture, making me a xenophobe.

    I believe in hard work, fair play and fair reward according to each individual’s merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

    I believe our system guarantees freedom of effort not freedom of outcome or subsidies which must make me a borderline sociopath.

    I believe in the defense and protection of my nation for and by all citizens, now making me a militant.

    I am proud of our flag, what it stands for and the many who died to let it fly, so I STAND during our National Anthem – so I must be a radical.

    Funny – it all took place over the last decade!

    GOD BLESS ALL OF US NORMAL PEOPLE!!!

    1. Paul: “I am older than 55, making me a useless dinosaur who doesn’t understand Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat.”

      Ha! I’m 70 and I suspect that you, like me, understands Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and any other “free” social networking programs/aps all too well.

      We’re not on any of those because we understand them too well.

      Now, do you also have, like me, a flip phone that’s talk and text only, no internet?

      It’s not paranoia when they really are out to get you.

      1. LOL – yes all true, although I have a couple of decades to go to catch up to your wisdom.

        I do indeed have a Motorola Razor flip phone in like new condition in a drawer because they discontinued the analog service for it, as I remember. I bought my first and only iPhone in 2013, it takes calls & texts, occasionally checks stocks & weather, I have no other use for it otherwise.

      2. “Now, do you also have, like me, a flip phone that’s talk and text only, no internet?”

        Yup. Armored, waterproof and shockproof as well (perfect for tradesmen or contractors). I use my computer for accessing the internet at home, tablet when I’m travelling. Never had a ‘social media’ account, and never will.

  27. As an urban redneck, the bigots always get my slap hand all tingly.

    People know I have a wood stove, a generator, at least a cord of wood, at least 80 liters of gas, a chainsaw, a full freezer, water…and a pellet gun for rat hunting.
    They don’t know there are 6 licensed weapons and a couple thousand rounds of ammo.

    Its always strategically important to let the bigots think they’ve got the high ground.

  28. Shrug. I regret that this comment contributes in an inestimably small way to the attention this useless putz so desperately seeks.

  30. After reading some of his tweets, I take it that Markham Hislop seems to consider himself the smartest person in the room. Well, it appears to me he at least gets his own vote for that title.

    Color me underwhelmed. I’ll just quote one of the all-time greatest of thinkers and philosophers:

    “What a maroon!”

    ~Bugs Bunny [*munching a carrot*]

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