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which refers, of course, to slavery, one of the right wing's pet phenomena. "Off the plantation" is actually borrowed from the Black Liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when it meant "too uppity for white folk." In the 1990s, it began to be used by African-American reactionaries like Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams to refer to themselves in relation to the Democratic Party and mainstream African-American thought (i.e., "the plantation"). Soon the lilliest of lily white freepers were using the expression to show how down they were with their winger-brethren Sowell, Thomas and Williams.
Just wanted to get that off my chest.
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