Althouse: "Erika Righter raises her tattooed forearm to her face, in despair of all of the racism she’s witnessed as a social worker, then laments how a white friend always ends phone calls with 'Love you long time.'"

February 4, 2020

"Erika Righter raises her tattooed forearm to her face, in despair of all of the racism she’s witnessed as a social worker, then laments how a white friend always ends phone calls with 'Love you long time.'"

"'And what is your racism, Erika?' Rao interrupts, refusing to let her off the hook. The mood becomes tense. Another woman adds: 'I don’t know you, Erika. But you strike me as being really in your head. Everything I’m hearing is from the neck up.' Righter, a single mother, retreats before defending herself: 'I haven’t read all the books. I’m new to this.'"

From "Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist" by Poppy Noor in The Guardia).

77 comments:

Gahrie said...: Repeal the 19th.; 2/4/20, 9:33 AM
mccullough said...: Tattoos. Single mom.

Squandering your White Privilege.; 2/4/20, 9:35 AM
robother said...: Shouldn't that be "The Giaridia"?; 2/4/20, 9:36 AM
mccullough said...: The solution for these women is suicide. Save the $2,500 and the years of agonizing. Just do it; 2/4/20, 9:39 AM
Nonapod said...: “If you did this in a conference room, they’d leave,” Rao says. “But wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table.”

This is pretty creepy. Being a human being I can understand self loathing to some extent, but I would never choose to indulge it in such a way. A little self examination good, but self humiliation is not.; 2/4/20, 9:41 AM
Jaq said...: I think about that Gary Larson cartoon where a couple lions are eating around a fire and one of them complains he snorted a wildebeest bone up his nose laughing at a cheetah joke.; 2/4/20, 9:44 AM
Kevin said...: Maybe the West really does deserve to die. I guess die it will anyway, whether it deserves it or not.; 2/4/20, 9:46 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Fools are easily parted from their money by hucksters.; 2/4/20, 9:46 AM
gilbar said...: Why it is So Hard, for White People to Talk, About Racism

umm,, 'cause they charge us $2,500?; 2/4/20, 9:47 AM
Ice Nine said...: The psychopathology fairly gushes out of that incredible article.; 2/4/20, 9:48 AM
tds said...: why do they even go to such a workshop when they could get a few hours of quality S&M play for those $2500. It seems humiliation is what they need like that prosecutor from 'Billions'; 2/4/20, 9:48 AM
gilbar said...: Do you get the impression;
That most of these ladies' problems would go away, if their husbands would spank them more?; 2/4/20, 9:49 AM
jaydub said...: The Republican party should buy a year's subscription to The Guardian for every household in the US as a service to the country. There is no better example of leftist ideological rot than the drivel that daily graces the pages of that commie rag, and it could provide the public a daily window into the minds of the Democrat leadership. It's enough to even make Chuck puke. Okay, maybe not Chuck, but probably Inga.; 2/4/20, 9:50 AM
gilbar said...: tds beats me to it !; 2/4/20, 9:50 AM
Temujin said...: I don't know about all wealthy white women and their habits. But I know a few, and the few I know would not put up with this bullshit. They got wealthy, not on the backs of husbands, but on their own guts, guile, determination, and ability to see through BS and call it when presented.

This is nothing more than today's socially approved bigotry being played out. It's the mindset our schools, K-12 and university level have been cranking out for years now. It's now fully embedded and showing up as a 'must do' event in the finest communities.

The Left loves self-flaggelation.; 2/4/20, 9:51 AM
Hunter said...: Monks used to accomplish the same thing much more cheaply by whipping themselves.; 2/4/20, 9:51 AM
Bob Boyd said...: It's a Hoola Hoop for the head.; 2/4/20, 9:51 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: Why are white liberal Democrat women so racist?; 2/4/20, 9:53 AM
traditionalguy said...: Re-education Camps for the white guilty rich. Great idea for spending some money and you get virtue signalling off the charts. The rich folks are safe. They will never have to face black racism. So why not brainwash yourself for fun.; 2/4/20, 9:54 AM
Clyde said...: This masochistic baloney sounds like the new Fifty Shades of White Privilege. Sounds like Erika has advanced to Ecru level.; 2/4/20, 9:54 AM
Wince said...: It seems unlikely anyone would voluntarily go to a dinner party in which they’d be asked, one by one, “What was a racist thing you did recently?” by two women of color, before appetizers are served.

It's not hard to identify the bigots and grifters in that room.; 2/4/20, 9:56 AM
Birkel said...: Fools and their money...
Sucker born every minute...
Scam artists gonna scam...; 2/4/20, 9:57 AM
clint said...: Just remember that the Left has replaced religion with their politics, and it all makes sense.

The wealthy are publicly competing to demonstrate how virtuous and humble they are. Same as it ever was.; 2/4/20, 9:57 AM
traditionalguy said...: Seriously, the whole activity assumes that if the whites repent, the blacks will forgive them. Hint: they won't unless they are Christians in which case you just need to show them respect.They already have forgiven you.; 2/4/20, 9:57 AM
Iman said...: I always knew Linda Ronstadt was racist with her “love you for long, long time”...; 2/4/20, 10:00 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: Why is that Indian-American Caucasian occupying an American-Indian graveyard and making money from racism?; 2/4/20, 10:00 AM
Lurker21 said...: This is the sort of thing Christian "Stuff White People Like" Lander would have had a field day with ten years ago. He would also have appreciated Woke Mayor Pete.

Is it troubling that an Asian/Indian woman is co-running the show? Wealthy White women being lectured at by Wealthy Asian women who think they aren't susceptible to the same prejudices? Is there something a little amusing about that?

I understand: they had the British Empire. But take that up with the English, not us.; 2/4/20, 10:03 AM
Lurker21 said...: Saira Rao, a lawyer married to a money manager, ran for Congress in Colorado, lost, and wrote an op-ed, "Should I Give Up On White People? Short and long answer: YES."; 2/4/20, 10:09 AM
tim maguire said...: Woke has always been the plaything of wealthy white liberals. This just makes it more transparent.; 2/4/20, 10:09 AM
Swede said...: Humans were built for hardship and struggle.
We are literally built for it.
However, when we get to the point where we no longer wonder where our next meal, bed, or fuck is coming from, we get all wonky.
And have to come up with shit like this.; 2/4/20, 10:11 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Yeah, but can she suck the chrome off a trailer hitch?; 2/4/20, 10:11 AM
wendybar said...: You wonder WHY Trump keeps winning???; 2/4/20, 10:15 AM
h said...: "White men are never going to change anything." I don't see how anyone could argue with this, unless he was very very racist.; 2/4/20, 10:19 AM
John henry said...: Yancy, Or a golf ball througha garden hose?

Last time I heard that "Love you long time" was 50 years ago in Naples up in the alleys.

Hey Joe,
Gimme fi' dollah.
Love you long time.

Somebody please tell me that is not the context here.

Please.

John Henry; 2/4/20, 10:21 AM
whitney said...: $2,500! That is a great business. I do it too if I were black.; 2/4/20, 10:23 AM
Yancey Ward said...: John Henry,

It is a reference to "Full Metal Jacket".; 2/4/20, 10:25 AM
Anonymous said...: What can you say but, what the fuck is wrong with these women? The white women, that is. The colored ladies, er, ladies Of Color are also fucked-up broken human beings, but they're explicable as low-life hustlers. They have an exploitative racket going catering to lost souls with more money than brains and mental stability. It's what they do, like any of the other remunerative niches that low-lifes with a bullying streak end up in.

But how does anybody who isn't straight-up mentally retarded, or maybe severely psychologically damaged by a traumatic childhood, gets themselves to the place those white bints are in? One can only guess at some weird toxic combination of extreme gullibility and moral vanity/pathological narcissism, all primed by the shabbiest level of brainwashing "education" available today. Marinated with a maternal instinct severely perverted and disordered by the preceding conditions. Who knows.; 2/4/20, 10:26 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I just referred to a second scene later in the movie.; 2/4/20, 10:27 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: Saira Rao probably imagines that the only reason people wouldn't vote for her is gender or ethnicity. The fact that she hates most of the electorate doesn't figure into it.; 2/4/20, 10:32 AM
Biff said...: I wonder how often the women who attend these dinners ask themselves why their husbands spend so much time at work.; 2/4/20, 10:33 AM
hawkeyedjb said...: Angel-Dyne, that's a Class A rant. I enjoyed it.; 2/4/20, 10:35 AM
Jupiter said...: If that story weren't true, some person of color would have to make it up.; 2/4/20, 10:38 AM
Howard said...: And FMJ the second prostitute scene contained a stereotype twofer:
"No soul brother, too beaucoup"; 2/4/20, 10:41 AM
Yancey Ward said...: How tall is Howard with his Afro?; 2/4/20, 10:43 AM
Unknown said...: This is like the Monty Python skit where the guy pays to have an argument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ; 2/4/20, 10:45 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "This is like the Monty Python skit where the guy pays to have an argument."

No it isn't.; 2/4/20, 10:46 AM
Seeing Red said...: Don’t complain about the poor or your underfunded schools or you can’t save for retirement.

Cripes, go work in a soup kitchen. Donate that money to that soup kitchen.; 2/4/20, 10:49 AM
JAORE said...: Do the instructors wear leather?

What happens if I forget my safe word?; 2/4/20, 10:50 AM
Jupiter said...: Do you really need a POC to detect racism? It seems like it should be possible to automate that function. Like smoke detectors. They'd be a lot cheaper. You could have one in every room.; 2/4/20, 10:56 AM
Deevs said...: The word of the day is indulgences.; 2/4/20, 11:06 AM
Real American said...: the Democrats and their media will call them a bigot for free. idiots.; 2/4/20, 11:09 AM
Krumhorn said...: We represent a young rapper who has a terrific work ethic, thinks clearly about what he does, and is a great client. He is married to a WOC who is a professor of racist studies at a top, prestigious, university who has written the most hateful and racist leftie crap imaginable. She must be Rao's twin sister.

The client and I never talk about his wife since he would certainly have grounds to leave the firm 3 minutes into the conversation.

Another client has been approached by a couple of women at University of Wisconsin-Madison who go around to medical schools with a program of workshops called Bias Reduction in Internal Medicine to browbeat physicians into facing their "unconscious bias" and put them through a process of fixing themselves. It's horrifying to imagine what those workshops must be like for the doctors. My legal advice has been to send them back to Madison.

As someone who worked in the civil rights movement in 66 in the Mississippi Delta, I own my biases and have no intention of changing them. When I watch Live PD, I am often heard yelling at the tv: "Hit him/her with your stick!! Do it!!"

- Krumhorn; 2/4/20, 11:10 AM
PM said...: It's all reparations.; 2/4/20, 11:13 AM
John henry said...: Yancey,

Now you've put snakes in my brain.

Thanks a lot, fella.

John Henry; 2/4/20, 11:13 AM
Yancey Ward said...: John Henry,

Just make the check for $2000 (you get the friends and family discount) payable to Yancey Ward Inc. It is tax deductible.; 2/4/20, 11:15 AM
John henry said...: Howard,

It's been many years since I've seen the movie but my recollection is that the guy actually shows the hooker his "Alabama black snake"

Is she sees it then says it is too big, how is that a stereotype?

I would agree with you if she said it without seeing it.

But as I say it has been a while so I am not certain of the scene details. I do rem it as being funny.

John Henry; 2/4/20, 11:19 AM
Seeing Red said...: Where do those names come from? Poppy Noor

Last name Righter.; 2/4/20, 11:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Lurker21: Saira Rao, a lawyer married to a money manager, ran for Congress in Colorado, lost, and wrote an op-ed, "Should I Give Up On White People? Short and long answer: YES."

gilbar: Do you get the impression;
That most of these ladies' problems would go away, if their husbands would spank them more?

While we're on the topic of psycho-sexual disorders...these ever more "provocative" (i.e., dumber and crazier) I Hate Whitey tirades from Angry Colored Women really reek of "Pay Attention to me, white man, PAY ATTENTION TO ME!", don't they? About one part desperate click-bait to two parts psycho-bitch shit test.

Futile shit-tests, because unfortunately the guys whose attention they really want aren't the cringing castrati giving them op-ed space or following them on Woke Twitter.; 2/4/20, 11:25 AM
Anonymous said...: hawkeyedjb @10:35 AM:

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.; 2/4/20, 11:28 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: Seriously, the whole activity assumes that if the whites repent, the blacks will forgive them

It assumes that I have something for which to repent False assumption. I haven't done anything.

And IF I did, I certainly wouldn't pay someone $2500 to berate me about it.; 2/4/20, 11:34 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "Seriously, the whole activity assumes that if the whites repent, the blacks will forgive them"

Well, if you are willing to pay $2500/session, you won't be forgiven immediately.; 2/4/20, 11:43 AM
Meade said...: Now do "brown" "people of color," Saira Rao.; 2/4/20, 11:57 AM
Gunner said...: Rao would be lucky to marry the village poop scooper back home. Send her back!; 2/4/20, 12:14 PM
Francisco D said...: Is anyone reminded of the Leonard Bernstein sponsored parties in which Black Panthers berated wealthy NYC liberals?

plus ca change...; 2/4/20, 1:32 PM
Anonymous said...: $2500 to be "forced" by Ms. Rao and Ms. Jackson to admit I'm racist?Are the women paying so lacking in self-confidence that they pay to be verbally abused by two women who are themselves racist for saying such things without so much as a background conversation. How about I give my response to Jackson and Rao for free. "Fuck you!"; 2/4/20, 1:48 PM
n.n said...: Diversity breeds adversity.; 2/4/20, 1:56 PM
Lurker21 said...: 'And what is your racism, Erika?' Rao interrupts, refusing to let her off the hook.'

Sounds like promo for a new NBC game show: What's My Prejudice?; 2/4/20, 1:56 PM
n.n said...: The Republican party should buy a year's subscription to The Guardian for every household in the US as a service to the country.

I second the motion. Whether it's prophecy or "too many white girls next door in the Olympics", The Guardian serves as an object example of clear and progressive dysfunction.; 2/4/20, 2:01 PM
Dingels said...: If you have to take a class to find out you are "racist", you most likely aren't. Just stupid.; 2/4/20, 2:37 PM
Joanne Jacobs said...: Why is "love you long time" racist? Or even microaggressive? Cheesy, yet, but why racist?; 2/4/20, 3:42 PM
Gahrie said...: Why is "love you long time" racist? Or even microaggressive? Cheesy, yet, but why racist?

Because it is associated with Vietnamese sex workers and is usually said in a faux Vietnamese voice.; 2/4/20, 4:34 PM
Jon Ericson said...: The answer to JJ's question; 2/4/20, 4:37 PM
Ken B said...: "In despair". Ah, how she feels, how she suffers.; 2/4/20, 4:55 PM
Ken B said...: Yancey
Shut your festering gob you tit. Your type really makes me puke.; 2/4/20, 5:00 PM
jeff said...: I detest people like this. “What I went through to be a mother, I didn’t care if they were black,” she says, opening a window for Rao to challenge her: “So, you admit it is stooping low to adopt a black child?” No. That’s not what she’s “admitting”. She even prefaced this with a statement on how friends treat her as “saving” two black kids, but she just wanted to be a mother, race was immaterial. But that nasty women immediately jumps nd twists the statement. $2500 to have 2 A-holes mess with your head. The question has to be asked, why am I not insanely rich if people are just tossing money away like that.; 2/4/20, 5:37 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: You lost me at the "tattooed".

People with such self-loathing, and the narcissism to advertise it, are disgusting.
They deserve to live in self-created misery and obscurity.

I am not amused, intrigued, nor have my "thoughts" been "provoked".

Disgusting. And sad, very sad. How many have died with never a chance to live such an easy life as hers, nor even known that such a life were possible? It happens every day.

Sad.; 2/4/20, 6:12 PM
mikee said...: Sorry, after more than a decade of being told for free that my skin color makes me irredeemably racist, inherently racist, and unconsciously racist, I'm not about to pay money to be told the same thing again. The illogic and obvious self-serving of the idea that skin color makes one racist stopped being hilarious a long time ago, and in the Trump era is now only sad.; 2/5/20, 7:50 AM