tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post2123763642687261119..comments2024-03-28T16:46:51.467-05:00Comments on Althouse: "The prevalence of specifically racial offenses shouldn’t blind us to a kind of bigotry jiu-jitsu that often follows in the wake of these incidents..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30888583335066030762014-01-08T20:33:54.960-06:002014-01-08T20:33:54.960-06:00Fun Fact: You can't get medical care under Med...Fun Fact: You can't get medical care under Medicare or Medicaid unless you have a picture ID issued by the government - a regulation passed by Obama. So if you can't get the ID you need to vote you also can't get medical care yet you never hear of any minority being turned away from their doctor due to this regulation. Why is that? (That question is a flower of rhetoric embellishing a fact which is specifically blurred in the almost hallucinated clarity otherwise of race-injustice-consciousness-lines of at-this-time progressives but for public intellectuals Obama can do no wrong and hence he has not.)wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90256518194207062652014-01-08T20:22:19.328-06:002014-01-08T20:22:19.328-06:00"to be contrasted with pervasive disparities ..."to be contrasted with pervasive disparities that can be perceived or understood to have a racial aspect, like incarceration or poverty or inadequate education."<br /><br />Anything can be "perceived" to be racist, all it takes is someone eager to play the race card.<br /><br />"Untouched is the higher standard for those confronting real grievances, the kinds rooted in systemic, empirical inequalities, not the imaginings of the angry entitled."<br /><br />Translation: he's a racist pig, who thinks that it's only "racism" when it isn't directed at "white" people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51818785129393187582014-01-08T18:03:20.435-06:002014-01-08T18:03:20.435-06:00I guarantee that voter ID laws will be the rule of...I guarantee that voter ID laws will be the rule of the land just as soon as all illegal immigrants have been given the right to obtain drivers licenses. Just wait...Forbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08397667344368400622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21385014755421921712014-01-08T17:12:38.858-06:002014-01-08T17:12:38.858-06:00In the Venn diagram of victim and oppressor, will ...In the Venn diagram of victim and oppressor, will the Romney grandchild be given victim or oppressor status? DeBlasio 's kids are clearly entitled to victim status, but he's a liberal Democrat. Can the progeny of Republicans truly claim to be black? Is it ok to make fun of the other Romney children? So many questions yet to answer.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51137471712890263952014-01-08T16:59:58.694-06:002014-01-08T16:59:58.694-06:00As long as there's an Irishman alive the "...<i>As long as there's an Irishman alive the "wake" will live on! </i><br /><br />If Troop were a wake he'd say that's not racist. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21529789045675273172014-01-08T15:56:09.083-06:002014-01-08T15:56:09.083-06:00As long as there's an Irishman alive the "...As long as there's an Irishman alive the "wake" will live on!Valentine Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02712713907032190400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30517450260097010032014-01-08T15:53:54.441-06:002014-01-08T15:53:54.441-06:00Lydia just beat me to this:
"Lydia said...
J...Lydia just beat me to this:<br /><br />"Lydia said...<br />Jelani's got nothing on the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates, who says Melissa Harris-Perry is 'America's most foremost public intellectual' and that there is no one better equipped to deal with the 'weighty subtext' involved in the situation of 'a black child being reared by a family whose essential beliefs were directly shaped by white supremacy, whose patriarch sought to lead a movement which derives most its energy from white supremacy.' <br /><br />"Good to know. She wasn't just laughing her ass off, she was dealing with that weighty subtext."<br /><br />This is today's starkest skirmish in the culture war. Basically because Melissa Harris-Perry was called to task for something that SHE felt obliged to apologize for, she earns the sobriquet, "America's foremost public intellectual." Since I am doubting that Ta-Nehisi Coates (did I spell that correctly?) had been working up a Melissa Harris-Perry column for a month, the entitlement stems directly from the latest MH-P media fight; her having been (along with her panelists, it bears repeating) the source of a basically anti-white racial provocation. No word from Mr. Ta-Nehisi Coates on whether he thinks that MH-P's choked-up television apology, or her silly prior Twitter apology enhanced, or detracted from, her status as "foremost public intellectual."Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07676108366725199186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17274781726131122502014-01-08T15:20:35.670-06:002014-01-08T15:20:35.670-06:00Lydia said...
*America's foremost public ...Lydia said...<br /><br /> <i> *America's foremost public intellectual*</i><br /><br />I thought Noam Chomsky had that title.ErnieGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02633051842003605102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67227815507743523182014-01-08T15:02:46.734-06:002014-01-08T15:02:46.734-06:00They have a narrow, almost insular, understanding ...They have a narrow, almost insular, understanding of reality. Everyone looks for the most effective leverage which is most easily acquired. Most people are not so greedy that they would denigrate individual dignity or devalue human life. The social exploitation industry has found an extremely profitable niche.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81748897325442805722014-01-08T14:29:50.914-06:002014-01-08T14:29:50.914-06:00You mentioned the other day 'things that we ar...You mentioned the other day 'things that we are tired of hearing about.'I think this is no. 1. It's not that the argument can't be made, systemic etc. It's that, as TNC at the Atlantic illustrated yesterday, an apology can't be made and we move on. No! Romney is a class enemy and, not to paraphrase 'Lord of the Flies, the chant 'Kill the Pig' must continue in our hearts. Meanwhile the pigs relatives keep arming themselves.a psychiatrist who learned from veteranshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00347313804041291393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4959066594499122262014-01-08T14:13:23.810-06:002014-01-08T14:13:23.810-06:00And this week in Rolling Stone, they really gave i...And this week in Rolling Stone, they really gave it to <i>the man</i>, man.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76652714164903917432014-01-08T13:29:59.544-06:002014-01-08T13:29:59.544-06:00Man, whoda guessed that a state-run Democrat magaz...Man, whoda guessed that a state-run Democrat magazine would print leftist propaganda?<br /><br />I'm flummoxed.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38984359891151052452014-01-08T13:14:55.998-06:002014-01-08T13:14:55.998-06:00*America's foremost public intellectual**America's foremost public intellectual*Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380908751421386368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67156371645424770432014-01-08T13:11:18.670-06:002014-01-08T13:11:18.670-06:00Surfed: Great story. In 1966 I waltzed into the ...Surfed: Great story. In 1966 I waltzed into the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's office in Memphis Tennessee and asked to join up. Was told membership was not available to whites. I walked down the hall and joined the NAACP. Irony theretofore was but a concept.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69279855560743402452014-01-08T13:08:43.539-06:002014-01-08T13:08:43.539-06:00Jelani's got nothing on the Atlantic's Ta-...Jelani's got nothing on the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates, who says Melissa Harris-Perry is <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-smartest-nerd-in-the-room/282836/" rel="nofollow">"America's most foremost public intellectual"</a> and that there is no one better equipped to deal with the "weighty subtext" involved in the situation of "a black child being reared by a family whose essential beliefs were directly shaped by white supremacy, whose patriarch sought to lead a movement which derives most its energy from white supremacy." <br /><br />Good to know. She wasn't just laughing her ass off, she was dealing with that weighty subtext.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380908751421386368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17690701246062467742014-01-08T12:40:33.185-06:002014-01-08T12:40:33.185-06:00(the other kev)
Never read Cobb before. Obviousl...(the other kev)<br /><br />Never read Cobb before. Obviously wasn't missing anything. Won't make that mistake again.Kevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12713742157612017197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72527504041215189912014-01-08T12:38:50.107-06:002014-01-08T12:38:50.107-06:00Or, it's an example of democrats objecting to ...Or, it's an example of democrats objecting to a totally non racial proosal that makes sense, and crying racism because they don't want the policy to go into place because they think it will hurt their ability to get elected.jr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79559521474081771292014-01-08T12:31:05.209-06:002014-01-08T12:31:05.209-06:00"But it is also possible to look with admirat..."But it is also possible to look with admiration at the image of Romney beaming with grandfatherly pride and simultaneously feel unsettled by his role as the standard-bearer for a party that has devoted great energy to making it more difficult for people who look like his grandson to vote."<br /><br> <br />This is the default liberal talking point, but of course it's complete garbage and projection.<br />IF we are talking about the civil rights movement and the south, then that was the dems doing that.<br />If we are talking modern times then they must mean trying to get people to have ID's to vote to prevent fraud.<br />Unless you want every vote to count including fraudulent ones(including dead people and fictitious people and people voting multiple times) and which ensure democrat victories then you hate black people. <br />But how is requiring an ID somehow a preventative to blacks voting? Would whites not have to prevent ID's too? Are republicans preventing blacks from getting ID's? If anything it's democrats making the process difficult.<br />They are suggeseting that it's some impossible task. Meanwhile, if you don't have such an ID you are most likely disadvantaged in society. So, in truth its dems trying to keep people in a disadvantaged state so as to get a higher vote count through fraud. And if you don't support that then you are racist.<br />I would say if we recognize that a lot of blacks don't have ID's and its not a priority for you to facilitate getting those ID's then it's YOU that is the racist.<br />Democrats, as per usual, are the racists.<br />This whole talking point is just the dems doing their usual. proposing policies that benefit them. Then when you say those policies are stupid calling you a racist for opposing their policy. jr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67566327048224174722014-01-08T12:13:09.445-06:002014-01-08T12:13:09.445-06:00"it is what preyed on Gatsby; what foul dust ..."it is what preyed on Gatsby; what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams"<br /><br />mcculloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03168402889404727565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45491346935955695752014-01-08T12:11:02.011-06:002014-01-08T12:11:02.011-06:00I smell fear in the young black TV personalities t...I smell fear in the young black TV personalities that their schitik is near becoming a dead metaphor. <br /><br />What happens when the Hispanics become the go to favored bloc vote?<br /><br />And whites born after 1980 are not into that delusion that blacks are persecuted. The delusion only works when 1950 era Southern whites are postulated as the haters.traditionalguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706120413005530014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57945570579930189452014-01-08T12:01:05.053-06:002014-01-08T12:01:05.053-06:00They are easier to discern, but harder to blame on...They are easier to discern, but harder to blame on Republicans.Ignorance is Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338942311894099159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84984621558057437962014-01-08T11:58:09.747-06:002014-01-08T11:58:09.747-06:00Surfed's story is an excellent illustration of...Surfed's story is an excellent illustration of the race card in action: You cannot criticize my choices because you are white (or male or whatever) and I am (fill in the blank.)<br /><br />It works in many circles, but what does it do to the group who use the excuse to escape responsibility? The group stays infantile, dependent, and hopelessly mired in the bad choices that the race card prevents them from having to accept. To point out that process is also, of course, racist.<br /><br />Any group that is beyond criticism becomes Kim Jong Un.<br /><br />TreyTMinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09332611409866112824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27543450124406842852014-01-08T11:52:36.592-06:002014-01-08T11:52:36.592-06:00Harris-Perry apologized for her specific racial of...<i>Harris-Perry apologized for her specific racial offense, but there are also the "real grievances," things that are more important, but harder to discern. The real grievances are the "systemic, empirical inequalities,"...</i><br /><br />Uh, help me out here - wouldn't "empirical inequalities" be <i>easier</i> to discern? What codswallop.Rocketeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05277758566013062712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34932458857059121372014-01-08T11:30:14.831-06:002014-01-08T11:30:14.831-06:00It's not a positive good to write in cliches, ...It's not a positive good to write in cliches, which dead metaphors mostly are, but it's not risible either.<br /><br />A galvanic response is risible, a distraction on that account, and so a positive bad.<br /><br />Cliches, not quite. Barthelme makes an art of it, writing on cliches :<br /><br />You know, Klipshorn was right I think when he spoke of the `blanketing' effect of ordinary language, referring, as I recall, to the part that sort of, you know, `fills in' between the other parts. That part, the `filling' you might say, of which the expression `you might say' is a good example, is to me the most interesting part, and of course it might also be called the `stuffing' I suppose, and there is probably also, in addition, some other word that would do as well, to describe it, or maybe a number of them. But the quality this `stuffing' has, that the other parts of verbality do not have, is two-parted, perhaps: (1) and `endless' quality and (2) a `sludge' quality. Of course that is possibly two qualities but I prefer to think of them as different aspects of a single quality, if you can think that way. The `endless' aspect of `stuffing' is that it goes on and on, in many different forms, and in fact our exchanges are in large measure composed of it, in larger measure even, perhaps, than they are composed of that which is not `stuffing.' The `sludge' quality is the *heaviness* that this `stuff' has, similar to the heavier motor oils, a kind of downward pull but still fluid, if you follow me, and I can't help thinking that this downwardness is valuable, although it's hard to say how, right at the moment. So, summing up, there is a relation between what I have been saying and what we're doing here at the plant with these plastic buffalo humps. Now you're probably familiar with the fact that the per-capita production of trash in this country is up from 2.75 pounds per day in 1920 to 4.5 pounds per day in 1965, the last year for which we have figures, and is increasing at the rate of about four percent per year. Now that rate will probably go up, because it's *been* going up, and I hazard that we may very well soon reach a point where it's 100 percent, right? And there can no longer be any question of `disposing' of it, because it's all there is, and we will simply have to learn how to `dig' it--that's slang, but peculiarly appropriate here. So that's why we're in humps, right now, more really from a philosophical point of view than because we find them a great moneymaker. They are `trash,' and what in fact could be more useless and trashlike? It's that we want to be on the leading edge of this trash phenomenon, the everted sphere of the future, and that's why we pay particular attention, too, to those aspects of language that may be seen as a model of the trash phenomenon. And it's certainly been a pleasure showing you around the plant this afternoon, and meeting you, and talking to you about these things, which are really more important, I believe, than people tend to think. Would you like a cold Coke from the Coke machine now, before you go?<br /><br />-Snow White p.96<br /><br />cited because DSL is down and searches are too expensive to find online.<br /><br />rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33320458133626275222014-01-08T11:08:34.952-06:002014-01-08T11:08:34.952-06:00Re metaphors, mixed and otherwise: Back in the ...Re metaphors, mixed and otherwise: Back in the '70s the editor of FLYING magazine issued an edict forbidding the use of then-common cliches and metaphors, such as "beautiful downtown Burbank" (popularized by Laugh-In).<br />In response, Gordon Baxter wrote back<br />"I congratulate you for having the courage of a lion to set foot in those shark-infested waters where the hand of man has never trod before."Fred Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01619653106362906811noreply@blogger.com