March 15, 2021

"What would you say to people who may feel that while you're standing by your friend, it appears you gave validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist, even if you don't agree?"

Said Sheryl Underwood, quoted in "'The Talk' goes on hiatus after Sharon Osbourne defends Piers Morgan/On Wednesday's episode of 'The Talk,' Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne got into a heated exchange" (NBC). 

I hope you have a sense of how convoluted that is. The accusation of racism against Piers Morgan is already flimsy, but Sharon Osbourne is getting intimidated for saying something supportive about her friend — as if the new rule is that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target. Not only is the first person (Morgan) denied a fair hearing, but the second person (Osbourne) — the one who tries to slow things and ask to look carefully at the accusation — is deemed an accomplice. 

We saw that term "cancel adjacent" the other day. Osbourne is caught on camera experiencing the terror of being cancel adjacent.

Osbourne said: "I feel like I'm about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend who many people think is racist, so that makes me a racist."

From the NBC article:

Osbourne said she didn't believe Morgan's rejection of Meghan's admission of mental health struggles was racist. Osbourne then pivoted, claiming she was being unfairly called a racist.

While trying to go to break, Underwood became tongue-tied. As she said, "Well we'll be right back," Osbourne shot back at Underwood. "Well what?" she asked. "Well what?"

Osbourne continued to press Underwood once the show returned from break. "I will ask you again Sheryl. I've been asking you during the break. I'm asking you again. And don't try and cry because if anyone should be crying, it should be me," she said. "This is the situation. You tell me where you have heard him say ... educate me, tell me when you have heard me say racist things! Educate me, tell me!"

Underwood's response contains no basis for the accusation of racism:

Underwood explained.... "To not want to address that because she is a Black woman, and to try to dismiss it or to make it seem less than what it is, that's what makes it racist"...

Ironically, Underwood's reliance on her own intuition — Morgan seemed racist to her — is the same approach to coming up with an opinion that Morgan used — Markle seemed like a liar to him.

ADDED: To put things back in proportion:

175 comments:

exhelodrvr1 said...

Should read "If you are white what would you say to people who may feel that while you're standing by your white friend, it appears you gave validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that some people incorrectly claim is racist, even if you don't agree with what he said."



JRoberts said...

Welcome to Joe Biden's America.

It's starting to look like North Korea where the last person to stop applauding Dear Leader gets to stay alive.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Typo in the last paragraph. Should be "Underwood's reliance".

rhhardin said...

Apparently there's a competition going on but I don't understand it.

If you just blurt out literally racist things (American blacks have an average IQ of 86) then you avoid the accusation entirely.

The problem seems to be with figuratively racist things.

Shouting Thomas said...

If you’re standing next to me and you do that shit, you’ll get a big surprise.

Yancey Ward said...

I am reminded of the cowardly behavior of Roseanne Barr's fellow actors on her show. A deep contrast to Sharon Osbourne, at least for the moment.

Todd said...

I pretty much think that I know what does and does not sound "racist" and if I didn't speak up it was because I didn't think it was. Don't like it, don't "hang out" with me and my friends. Free world and all that. Sod off "Karen"...

Humperdink said...

We are witnessing malignant cancer. It will only get worse before it gets much worse.

Owen said...

"What would [I] say to people who feel..."? I would gladly tell you what I would say to them, but it would get me banned here. So I will limit my reply to "F****** Moron."

tim maguire said...

That zoom teacher who had the temerity to say that blacks are over-represented among her worst students--the person she said it to is under investigation. Where does it stop? It doesn't. It will have to be stopped.

gilbar said...

the new rule IS that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target.

There are only TWO types of people... Those denouncing Witches... And WITCHES!!!
If Sharon Osbourne Isn't a witch, WHY did we dress her like that, and put this nose on her??
Death to Witches!!

tim maguire said...

Yancey Ward said...I am reminded of the cowardly behavior of Roseanne Barr's fellow actors on her show. A deep contrast to Sharon Osbourne, at least for the moment.

Or the cowardice and ingratitude of the actors J.K. Rowling made famous (as surely as Rosanne made Sara Gilbert famous). There's no room for character or loyalty in Wokeland.

Quayle said...

The bitter fruit of unchecked personal pride, rampant in the western world today.

We could return to Christian teachings to cast the beam out of your own eye before you decry the sliver in your neighbor's eye. And realize that we're all social sinners in some form, so cut each other some slack. it isn't as though we don't know the principals that will get us out of this nasty time.

We have the teachings that will solve the situations, if we'll just decide to be humble and follow them.

Scott said...

My friend (perhaps a former one) sent me an email asking why I wasn't picking up her calls. I emailed back:

I do not subscribe to Critical Race Theory. And when anyone, friend or not, implies that I am a racist as evident by what I say coming from "a place of white privilege," then I have to decide whether I am in the mood to pick up the next call.

All three of my major relationships have been with men who are not racially or culturally white. I still get calls from my first partner's family and he's been dead for 26 years. Yet CRT would hold that I am racist because I am white. I emphatically reject CRT's effective trivialization of race and of human experience. And I will not engage in a conversation with anyone who assumes that because I am white, I am a priori a racist. Not unless I'm up for it anyway. Lately that hasn't been the case.


She replied, in part,

My understanding is that we are all prone to culturally influenced bias of one kind or another and the more we are aware of the possibility of its presence the better we can respond to its probable influence on decisions and actions.

I responded,

How did the benign and uncontroversial concept of "culturally influenced bias" get pinned to the nasty rhetorical trope "white privilege?" There are so many instances in history where bland words have justified brutality, because the "common knowledge" was that people X are incipiently Y. That thinking always denies humans their humanity, even when applied to the dominant race or (such as it is) culture. And that is wrong, even if it's popular. I'm not racist in any meaningful sense, and I won't brook any suggestion that what I say or do is a characteristic of my race. Would you?

(She's Jewish. I regret crossing that line if I did. I should apologize to her and should probably not write emails when I'm ticked.)


Gahrie said...

if the new rule is that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target.

New? Someone hasn't been paying attention to history. This is how it always ends up, and many of us have been warning you.

The tumbrels will be rolling soon.

gilbar said...

as the saying goes....
Never let a moral panic go to waste!

alanc709 said...

Aren't you glad you supported the boring Presidential option? Opposing wokeism would be tiring, right? So, let's just look the other way at the destruction of our culture. Should lead to a perfectly boring life, once every nuance of individualism is cancelled.

Sebastian said...

"The accusation of racism against Piers Morgan is already flimsy,"

Sorry, Althouse. This is beside the point. Flimsiness has nothing to do with it. Progs need no evidence or reasons. They zero in on the target, fabricate the charge, and let loose. Until the nice women of America and of the UK say no, this will continue.

"as if the new rule is that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target."

The rule is a tool. Even if you follow it, you are not safe. No one is safe. Progs can do anything to anyone for any reason.

"Not only is the first person (Morgan) denied a fair hearing, but the second person (Osbourne) — the one who tries to slow things and ask to look carefully at the accusation — is deemed an accomplice."

Right. But the unfairness and flimsiness of the procedure that bother nice liberals like Althouse are part of the point: we are progs, we are in charge, submit or else.

Yancey Ward said...

"Where does it stop? It doesn't. It will have to be stopped."

This. It isn't enough to silently agree with people like Osbourne. People have to start publicly saying so, and repeating it when attacked- don't back down, don't become silent again. The woke won't stop on their own initiative, and they can't be reasoned with either. However, they can be mocked and they can be stopped, but it takes some small amount of courage to do so.

The Crack Emcee said...

The accusation of racism against Piers Morgan is already flimsy, but Sharon Osbourne is getting intimidated for saying something supportive about her friend — as if the new rule is that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target. Not only is the first person (Morgan) denied a fair hearing, but the second person (Osbourne) — the one who tries to slow things and ask to look carefully at the accusation — is deemed an accomplice. "

After I got canceled by the left and right (here) I have little sympathy for others caught in the net now. There's no victims, remember?

That said, all Morgan and Osbourne can do is what I've done: stand on the facts and wait for the world to come back to it's senses.

gilbar said...

Scott said...
I do not subscribe to Critical Race Theory


So, you ADMIT, that You are a WITCH!!!!

walter said...

Even worse, she's pissed off The Alliance for the Electrocuted.

The Crack Emcee said...

Bill Clinton's still walking around freely after four rapes, BTW - I add it so your complaints have racial context.

Powerful white men who rape multiple women - nothing.

Woke shit - post after post after post after post after post,...

Yancey Ward said...

The woke are like teenagers that never grew up, and will never grow up apparently. All of this behavior is familiar to me, but seeing it so wide spread in people over the age of 20 is something completely new.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

as if the new rule is that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target.

as if?

That IS THE RULE.

All will be cancelled by corrupt leftists - you will be forced to comply or you will be destroyed by the fascist left.

Gahrie said...

"Where does it stop? It doesn't. It will have to be stopped."

One way to stop it is to VOTE AGAINST the people who support it.

Lucid-Ideas said...

@Yancey Ward

"The woke are like teenagers that never grew up, and will never grow up apparently. All of this behavior is familiar to me, but seeing it so wide spread in people over the age of 20 is something completely new."

Fast Times at WokeRidge High.

The Crack Emcee said...

Yancey Ward said...
The woke are like teenagers that never grew up, and will never grow up apparently.

But Bill Clinton and his rapes are mature, so forget about them.

narciso said...

Indeed


https://mobile.twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1371485778455506947

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

We live in frightening times. The left have a choke-hold on speech.

Fuck the left.

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...
"Where does it stop? It doesn't. It will have to be stopped."

One way to stop it is to VOTE AGAINST the people who support it.

No, y'all love Oprah too much to stop her.

Like you do Bill Clinton, apparently.

Browndog said...

This whole ordeal is what happens when critical race theory (Megan Markle) is introduced into an unsuspecting organization (Buckingham Palace).

The Crack Emcee said...

BidenFamilyTaxPayerFundedCrackPipe said...
We live in frightening times. The left have a choke-hold on speech.

Fuck the left.

A choke hold - like when Bill Clinton was raping those women?

Sprezzatura said...

You can’t be electrocuted to death for supporting someone re that person’s racist shenanigans.

BTW, it seems like fussing about other folks over-hyping stuff should be the sorta fussing that avoids its own over-hyping.

Also, it’s a free market of ideas, and racist shenanigans are becoming less popular now. Still, there’s plenty of mojo on the other side, and there is a lot of whining that it’s less easy to do racist shenanigans w/o blowback. Lots of threads here are dedicated to that stuff.

Openidname said...

You don't even mention the most sinister part of this -- that the show is now on "hiatus" so CBS can conduct "an internal review."

Review of whom? Review of what? Review of an event that happened in public and was captured on video? Why?

The Crack Emcee said...

alanc709 said...

"let's just look the other way at the destruction of our culture."

Like when Bill Clinton was raping women and y'all didn't do anything but attack blacks.

gspencer said...

" — as if the new rule is that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target"

Isn't that what happened to the other prof in that conversation b/w two Georgetown Law professors when one of them talked about the poor academic records of the school's AA admits?

tim maguire said...

The Crack Emcee said...After I got canceled by the left and right (here) I have little sympathy for others caught in the net now.

You're holding Piers Morgan responsible for you not being properly appreciated in the Althouse comment section?

The Crack Emcee said...

Openidname said...
You don't even mention the most sinister part of this -- that the show is now on "hiatus" so CBS can conduct "an internal review."

Review of whom? Review of what? Review of an event that happened in public and was captured on video? Why?

All the evidence against Bill Clinton has been vetted - by MSNBC even - so anytime y'all want to press the case,...

Gahrie said...

Like when Bill Clinton was raping women and y'all didn't do anything but attack blacks.

Yeah, it's not like one political party and half the nation spent years trying to punish him for that, and eventually attempt to impeach him.

Bob Smith said...

All you “nice” liberals who left the room when the fight started? You’re next.

The Crack Emcee said...

tim maguire said...
The Crack Emcee said...After I got canceled by the left and right (here) I have little sympathy for others caught in the net now.

You're holding Piers Morgan responsible for you not being properly appreciated in the Althouse comment section?

You guys make the wrongest assumptions I've ever seen. Repeatedly.

It's like you can't read.

bleh said...

Every day I feel more and more alienated from pop culture. What happened to escapism? Entertainment? Why does this culture war nonsense have to infect everything? I've heard it called a moral panic, and I think that's apt. The modern Left is Puritanical in its desire to purify and remake American society.

When I was a kid, the Right was where most of the scolding asshole energy was. America had lost its way and stopped following God. Americans were doing drugs in record numbers and teenagers were getting pregnant, all because of rap lyrics and video games and people not going to church. Satanists were under every rock and sacrificing animals and young children. I really, really hated that shit.

Now it's all swung in the other direction. To the Left, even the slightest resistance to their plans is evidence of lingering, malignant white supremacist resentment. There's a fascist Nazi under every rock. Because this is Amerikkka. You must renounce our nation's rotten past if you want to be a part of its future. Deconstruct everything. Everything is racist. Be a good white ally and admit your privilege and kneel down before the new order.

We live in an extremely prosperous country where nearly all long-term socioeconomic trends have been positive. We have problems and we always will. But things are generally pretty good. Be happy to live in a free and prosperous society. Be thankful. I don't get all the paranoia. The Right's paranoia was directed at certain trends and beliefs that the Right feared were ascendant and would destroy America. The Left's paranoia is directed at everyone and everything (both past and present) that does not comply absolutely with the Left's absolute sense of morality.

Rosalyn C. said...

Fortunately neither Morgan nor Osborne are willing to be victimized.

Gahrie said...

You're holding Piers Morgan responsible for you not being properly appreciated in the Althouse comment section?

No, he's saying "fuck you, you're on your own because people have been mean to me and I'm butthurt and going to take it out on everybody".

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...
Like when Bill Clinton was raping women and y'all didn't do anything but attack blacks.

Yeah, it's not like one political party and half the nation spent years trying to punish him for that, and eventually attempt to impeach him.

He's got four rape accusers still - Trump brought them all out in 2016 - what's happened since?

walter said...

Oh how I wish Laslo's Lamar was here to set folks straight.

The Crack Emcee said...

The Crack Emcee said...

He's got four rape accusers still - Trump brought them all out in 2016 - what's happened since?

You guys decided blacks were an easier target.

Browndog said...

You're going to do this shit again, aren't you dickhead?

What the fuck is wrong with you??

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...
You're holding Piers Morgan responsible for you not being properly appreciated in the Althouse comment section?

No, he's saying "fuck you, you said there are no victims - so did Piers - so kiss my ass for letting me fall but rallying around the white guys.

Like Bill Clinton.

gilbar said...

When When they came for his Mandalorian co-star Gina Carano, Bill Burr stayed quiet as a mouse. They Crucified her, and he didn't say a word
Remember; you are REQUIRED TO COMMEND ALL WITCHES!!!

so now, Bill Burr made fun of woke feminists at the Grammys & and now the cancel mob is outraged.
BURN HIM!!! HE'S A WITCH!

The Crack Emcee said...

Browndog said...
You're going to do this shit again, aren't you dickhead?

Nope - you guys are - you think blacks are doing something wrong while four women are waiting for you to notice something's been wrong for 30 years.

You're like Democrats who want to blame Trump for everything but you like dark meat.

pacwest said...

to do racist shenanigans

"racist shenanigans" LOL. Care to define that? But I'm sure you know a shenanigan when you see one.

The Crack Emcee said...

THERE ARE NO VICTIMS - SO WHAT ARE YOU ASSHOLES COMPLAINING ABOUT?

The Crack Emcee said...

bleh said...
Every day I feel more and more alienated from pop culture.

That's because you assholes let it get away by not being bright enough to deal with it because you're inadequate to it.

Yancey Ward said...

Narciso,

Of course, Cotton is asking the right question. Gupta would want to say that she isn't really an American, or that people like her can't be racist, but her self-awareness that a reply like that would be damaging prevents it.

The Crack Emcee said...

OH, help poor Piers - Mr. There Are No Victims is being VICTIMIZED BY BLACKS.

DavidUW said...

My understanding is that we are all prone to culturally influenced bias of one kind or another and the more we are aware of the possibility of its presence the better we can respond to its probable influence on decisions and actions.
>>
When a wokester pulls that, the correct response, is "who are you racist against? "

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Bill Clinton was the "first black president" - Crack.
Some on, man. We must worship all democraticals. They are above the law.

Enter... Cuomo and Biden family criminals.

Joe Biden's family are wealthy based solely on their corrupt international money laundering.

What's a little rape on the side? Bonus - these same corrupt creeps have their brownshirts out monitoring the halls for "correct speech"

Ann Althouse said...

"You don't even mention the most sinister part of this -- that the show is now on "hiatus" so CBS can conduct "an internal review.""

I considered that to be covered by the article title, which I do quote. I had written that out but then deleted it as redundant.

The Crack Emcee said...

DavidUW said...
My understanding is that we are all prone to culturally influenced bias of one kind or another and the more we are aware of the possibility of its presence the better we can respond to its probable influence on decisions and actions."

Yeah, but whites don't see that, being racist. They hated Gene Tunny (the boxer who defeated Doesey) for reading, but will crucify blacks for saying reading's white.

It's just racism, all the way down.

The Crack Emcee said...

"You don't even mention the most sinister part of this -- that the show is now on "hiatus" so CBS can conduct "an internal review.""

Oooh, an internal review - that sounds scary.

Not as scary as HAVING YOUR LIFE RUINED AS ALL OF YOU SAID THERE ARE NO VICTIMS - but scary.

Scott said...

When all white people are racist,
then no white people are racist.

The Crack Emcee said...

I think it's funny how you guys take extreme positions - like there are NO victims - and then think they're going to be able to hold.

You shoot yourselves in the foot with your own mouths.

Gahrie said...

Does anybody know why the bitter, crazy old man is ranting about "denying there are victims"?

He doesn't seem to understand, we're all victims, most of us don't spend our lives whining about it.

The Crack Emcee said...

Scott said...
When all white people are racist,
then no white people are racist.

When anyone here claims all whites are racist, you can whip that po0ne out, but - in the meantime - it's just an expression of your stupidity and inability to grasp a conversation.

Ann and Meade haven't accused me of hating whites - just you racists. Just like not all white guuys are arrogant, insufferable assholes, like you guys. Louis CK and Bill Burr come to mind.

It's just you assholes.

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...
Does anybody know why the bitter, crazy old man is ranting about "denying there are victims"?

He doesn't seem to understand, we're all victims, most of us don't spend our lives whining about it.

Now he's changing the strategy midstream - there ARE victims now - IT'S ALL OF US.

Man, you guys will lie at the drop of a hat - even about things that are in print.

The Crack Emcee said...

I couldn't function if I could lie as easily as you guys. I'd be a wreck.

It's just not how I was raised.

Gahrie said...

It's just not how I was raised.

I thought you were raised in a series of fucked up foster homes by serial abusers?

The Crack Emcee said...

I think expecting you guys to tell the truth - always - is too much of a challenge for you.

Your culture prohibits it.

CWJ said...

Chris Harrison is another example of cancel adjacent. Carefully inoffensive while often put in the center of the shows' many interpersonal controversies. He was denounced and brought down by some of the very people that he helped make into celebreties.

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...
It's just not how I was raised.

I thought you were raised in a series of fucked up foster homes by serial abusers?

Yep - all authority figures who didn't allow for the sort of nonsense you guys engage in as normal behavior - like recreational lying.

Gahrie said...

Man, you guys will lie at the drop of a hat - even about things that are in print.

Cite once where I said that victims don't exist. To answer your current obsession I have called for Clinton to be impeached and jailed for sexual assault numerous times on this very blog.

I just deny that you are a victim of anything more than life. Life sucks, but it's better than the alternative.

walter said...

Actually, the electrocution reference might be pretty apt for this.
Consider the effect of reaching out to someone already being electrified.

I'm not sure what that pic of Sharon says, other than she's likely had a bit O' work done.
Is there a term for that picture pose women seem to love?
You know, the dude in full, yet obscured adoration while the gal looks straight at the camera.

Gahrie said...

I apologize to the Althouse community. I'll stop.

The Crack Emcee said...

When your "parents" are all teachers, cops, counselors, foster parents, etc., you're raised more strict than normal kids - so you guys act like wild animals, ethically, compared to me.

Jupiter said...

Mightn't it be simpler to just admit that there are genetic differences between the races and we are all cognizant of them? The Left uses accusations of "racism" precisely because they ca nnever be disproved. In fact, they are true. It's like accusing you of having hair on your head. "No, no! I'm bald as a cueball! I swear it's so! Ask my hairdresser, she'll tell you how bald I am!"

Keep that hat pulled down over your ears.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Piers offered an opinion about an interview where we could ALL see on perfect display what a creep Meghan Merckle is.

Now Merckle Markle whatever the hell her name is - she wants to be our first black democratic overlord el presidente. Is she black? What the hell does she know? I guess she's one drop black - and that makes us all racists even more. I hope she can layer on more princess victim. We cannot get enough princess victim. On top of corrupt sack of potatoes Potemkin President - we definitely need some princess victim.
It's good to be a victim princess. Doncha think? Perhaps Meghan can attend AOC's school of fake chain link fence photo ops.

Feel the joy!

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...

"Cite once where I said that victims don't exist."

Oh no, you don't know that conservative dogma - not Gahrie - he's HONEST.

Hilarious.

R C Belaire said...

Race to the bottom, baby, race to the bottom. It's baked into prog DNA.

Rt41Rebel said...

My college friend owned a copy of "Blizzard of Ozz." If I wasn't retired, I'd be sweating bullets.

Shouting Thomas said...

It’s just you assholes.

“And don’t forget to visit my website and listen to my music!”

Gahrie said...

Certain people need to fuck off and die, it would make the world a better place.

The Crack Emcee said...

R C Belaire said...

Race to the bottom, baby, race to the bottom. It's baked into prog DNA.

I like how you guys pick an enemy, from now, knowing Thomas Jefferson said this was coming whites don't act just.

You guys can't wrap your heads around the acting just part. You already needed a Civil War - proof it's hard for you.

Shouting Thomas said...

Crack has devised this incredibly perverse idea that because he calls himself a conservation and he’s black that all white conservatives are required to kiss his ass.

The Crack Emcee said...

Gahrie said...
Certain people need to fuck off and die, it would make the world a better place.

Those who allow the "there are no victims" meme to flourish - until white guys get canceled - and then decide WE'RE ALL VICTIMS.

Those guys can commit suicide right now.

walter said...

Let's call that pose "He may be King, but I'm the Fucking Queen, bitches"

Shouting Thomas said...

Shove it up your ass crack, Crack.

The Crack Emcee said...

I was always pretty sure there were victims, as you guys insisted there weren't, just as Quakers and Mennonites were sure slavery was wrong while the rest of you were undecided.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

"the Talk"
Who watches that crap?
The only thing worse is "The View"
The View is unwatchable Democrat party porn. Joy Behar is so breath-taking dumb it is painful. Turn it off.

I clicked on Crack's music - I rather liked one of his re-mixes. The good looking shirt one. Nice job. But - yeah - we are all asshole.

Shouting Thomas said...

Shove it up your ass, Crack.

Shouting Thomas said...

As usual, Crack’s chief concern is that it has to be all about him.

He’s essentially just a player.

The Crack Emcee said...

BidenFamilyTaxPayerFundedCrackPipe said...

"I clicked on Crack's music - I rather liked one of his re-mixes. The good looking shirt one. Nice job. But - yeah - we are all asshole."

Thank, Bud - and yes, we are.

Jupiter said...

Blogger The Crack Emcee said...
"I think expecting you guys to tell the truth - always - is too much of a challenge for you.
Your culture prohibits it."

Yeah, that's what this thread is about, Crack. About the social prohibition on stating the obvious, or even admitting you are aware of it.

chickelit said...

Be critical of any race theory because it likely is racist.

Leland said...

I wonder what it says about CBS that their portrayal of the first female black Captain in the Star Trek series as vengeful genocidal leader?

If that question seems off the mark; I watched a YouTube review regarding Star Wars The Force Awakens. The reviewer noted how Disney intentionally cast a black actor to play a Storm Trooper, suggested that Storm Troopers might have been enslaved by the First Order (an organization that pretty much everyone agrees was meant to represent a space version of White Nationalist NAZIs), that they made the character a former janitor for no rational reason beyond an insignificant plot point, and that the character had no problem killing other Storm Troopers (fellow slaves pressed into service by the First Order). The reviewer was scorned across YouTube as a racist and his videos demonetized by YouTube for racists content. Years later, when all the filming was complete; the actor, John Boyega, came out and publicly denounced the writers and directors for mishandling his character and making his role more minor than was suggested to him when he took the role.

As for Piers Morgan; he is not the first on air personality doing what he was hired to do and then fired as a declared racist. Just to provide another example, look up Rush Limbaugh being fired by ESPN. The networks hired these personalities knowing their background and knowing that others would tune in to see their opinions. They provided their opinions, which were not deemed very controversial when made, at least no more than normal debate fodder. And it was the sharing of opinions and debate that was supposedly the intent of the show.

As for Sharon Osbourne; she should be allowed whatever opinion she wishes. I think her opinion is very much nuanced by knowing Piers Morgan better than the casual viewer. I also think she values her freedom of opinion more than those calling her out as racist for saying nothing. However, if Osbourne or Morgan want to protect that freedom; they need to call out the network as Boyega and Limbaugh did. Otherwise, it seems they just wanted the money and now the money is gone.

The Crack Emcee said...

BTW - I repeat:

If I were Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan I'd stand tall, and defy them all, because they're wrong.

The rest of the bullshit is just that: bullshit.

Shouting Thomas said...

You know what I saw when I watched the video of Officer Chauvin and George Floyd?

I saw a scene played out over and over in my old neighborhood of Ft. Greene Park in Brooklyn during the crack epidemic. This was in the neighborhood featured in “Do The Right Thing.”

The cops would try to arrest some black guy, and a bunch of derelict black guys would gather round to jeer at the cop and threaten him. The guy getting arrested would start jiving at the mob, trying to get them to go after the cops.

Floyd was a player. Big time. He was playing to the mob, hoping to get them to attack Officer Chauvin.

Openidname said...

"Ann Althouse said...

"I considered that to be covered by the article title, which I do quote."

The sinister part is not that the show went on hiatus. That could be to let everybody cool down. It's that it went on hiatus to subject everyone involved to a vague and looming investigation.

The Crack Emcee said...

Jupiter said...

"Yeah, that's what this thread is about, Crack. About the social prohibition on stating the obvious, or even admitting you are aware of it."

Look at ST and repeat that.

chickelit said...

gilbar said...
the new rule IS that you have to proactively denounce people, or you yourself will become the target.

This is essentially snitch culture.

Shouting Thomas said...

Yes, the next couple of months will be 100% the great Emperor of Wakanda, Crack, representing all black people, telling us we’re fucking racists, and “come on over to my website.”

Crack is on a non-stop PR campaign.

walter said...

https://www.change.org/p/knight-mr-john-michael-ozzy-osbourne-for-services-to-music-and-charity

daskol said...

I hope CBS fucks around with Sharon Osbourne, because she can take it, and because she will give back tenfold. Not a woman to be trifled with.

Todd said...

tim maguire said...

You're holding Piers Morgan responsible for you not being properly appreciated in the Althouse comment section?

3/15/21, 11:35 AM


It is worse than that. He is holding the commenters here responsible for not accepting him in spite of his racism (hence my blocking of his comments). He believes he deserves a "pass" for reasons.

The Crack Emcee said...

chickelit said...
Be critical of any race theory because it likely is racist.

You guys have NEVER heard me advance a race theory or belief system of any kind - I stand by the community that raised me and nothing more - while you're all Christians, and Catholics, and NewAgers, and Democrats and Republicans and conservatives, and progressives and more. I'm even critical of my community's excesses, when y'all will shut-up from being racist, long enough to listen.

I'm just a black guy from South Central who's looking at all this with the freshest eyes I can.

You ALL want to force someone into something like Jesus commanded you to spread the Gospel.

Shouting Thomas said...

You’ve been deluded all your life, Crack, that people hate you because you’re black.

I suspect they hate you because you’re a player and an asshole.

walter said...

She needs Ozzy to step up and sort this out, live.
Oh..that would be awesome.

n.n said...

Allegation of diversity [dogma] (i.e. class bigotry), a witch hunt (e.g. trial by press), a warlock judgment (e.g. social justice), protests (e.g. social progress), and summary execution a la wicked solution.

Old and slow said...

Hey Crack, did you score a great big bag of meth or something? You have become the most boring one trick pony on this site, and that's saying something...

The Crack Emcee said...

Todd said...

"He is holding the commenters here responsible for not accepting him in spite of his racism (hence my blocking of his comments)."

ST did a post the other day where he called me a "black _________" over and over again - who said anything? Who? You? No. Nobody gave a shit - because you're a mob of racists. If we were out, offline, and you were with me and my friends started ion on you, you'd expect me to speak up, right? I'VE BEEN HERE TEN YEARS. Hasn't happened yet.

"He believes he deserves a "pass" for reasons."

Yeah, the reason is you're a pack of racists who see what you want to see, and jump on me every time I come here. It can be amusing.

Thank goodness the Professor and Meade are smarter than you are.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

You are either on the Nazi watchdog anti-free speech left - or your are a freedom loving normal person.

pick.

The Crack Emcee said...

Old and slow said...
Hey Crack, did you score a great big bag of meth or something? You have become the most boring one trick pony on this site, and that's saying something...

As one of the first people to attack me upon my return to commenting - thus someone who got my dander up - is this really the road you want to go down with me., old man?

Rick said...

The Inquisition, the Inquisition...

...is back.

Shouting Thomas said...

Yes, Crack, this is the road I want to go down with you.

I’m fed up with asshole players like you.

Old and slow said...

Perhaps you would get a warmer reception if you didn't simply repeat the same BS over and over again. Yes, we all agree about Bill Clinton being a rapist. Successful Democrats get a free pass from the media (the media which is widely reviled by most here), we've noticed this also.

mezzrow said...

Are you a witch or a witch denouncer?

We're burning witches, you know. Answer now. NOW. NOW!

...cue "oh what a day for an auto-da-fe" from Candide.

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Quayle said...

Solzhenitsyn wrote of communist party local chapter meetings at the factory where you were expected to clap at all the right times and places in the speeches, and the first person who stopped clapping was hauled out in front of everyone else and disappeared. The clapping would reach fever level as each person attempted to save his life and livelihood by not being deemed the under enthusiastic, short clapping deadman.

Rick said...

The Crack Emcee said...
After I got canceled by the left and right (here)


If there's one inevitable fact of the universe it's that people will always portray their own failures (including racism) as someone else's failure.

The Crack Emcee said...

Rick said...

"If there's one inevitable fact of the universe it's that people will always portray their own failures (including racism) as someone else's failure."

It's funny how being in favor of reparations - and being attacked over and over for it for a decade - makes me a racist.

It's also funny how I spoke of my being canceled - here, in real time - and that's when these lovely people first informed me there are NO VICTIMS, so you can see how their current concern for themselves rings hollow, can't you? Didn't Churchill say something about a crocodile once, that so-0called "conservatives" used to repeat often?

Well, they don't remember it when blacks are attacked, let me tell you.

Kevin said...

"What would you say to people who may feel that while you're standing by your friend, it appears you gave validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist, even if you don't agree?"

This is tracking what my daughter is being taught in the public schools.

Last week the lesson on racism was what to do when your friend says something "racist". My daughter thoughtfully responded that as a friend you know this person and presumably wouldn't be hanging out with people whose values were very far from your own. So she would ask them to explain, to see if there was some form of miscommunication, or to see if they could rephrase their statement in a way that removed the "racist" elements from it, as a help to her friend.

No, she was told, those answers aren't correct. The only correct answer is to immediately and completely sever all ties.

Critical Race Theory is a cult. It is only in a cult where you must cut off all contact with nonbelievers, and where the professed believers must be closely watched for any signs of non-belief, lest they infect the others.

That's what this is - a cult - and we should immediately begin treating it as such.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

"The Talk" is going on a brief hiatus after Sharon Osbourne last week lashed out at critics and defended embattled British TV personality Piers Morgan, who is under fire for his attacks on Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

Oh dear! Violent rhetoric or just purple prose?

Sharon Osbourne lashed out... With a whip? Whip > slave > Negro slave > Negro. RACIST!!!!!!!

...and defended embattled TV Personality Piers Morgan... Hmmm. Battle implies more than just a skirmish. Is Morgan in a fortified position? Under siege? Is Osbourne outside whipping the attackers? Inside desperately fighting back-to-back with Morgan?

...who is under fire... Oh! More than just fists, whips, and clubs. Small arm at least - possibly mortars, maybe artillery.

...for his attacks on Meghan....

Ah! Morgan started the present flare-up with attacks on Meghan. Fists and knives? Something more? Likely the whip. We understand all Meghan's forbearers were slaves, and Meghan herself only recently escaped enslavement.

Jim at said...

I eagerly look forward to the day they pull this shit on the wrong person.

Scott said...

Critical Race Theory holds that all white people are nascent racists. Well then,

If all white people are racists,
Then no white people are racists. CRT has rendered the concept of white racism meaningless.

And if saying this reduces you to name calling, then I won.

The Crack Emcee said...

Scott said...
Critical Race Theory holds that all white people are nascent racists. Well then,

If all white people are racists,
Then no white people are racists. CRT has rendered the concept of white racism meaningless.

And if saying this reduces you to name calling, then I won.

History? What's that? Nobody knows. It's just this thing they claim exists when they want it to.

Rick said...

The Crack Emcee said...
It's funny how being in favor of reparations - and being attacked over and over for it for a decade - makes me a racist.


You proved yourself a racist when you claimed it's racist for whites to cite facts which contradict your narrative. Having racist standards makes one a racist.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

"What would you say to people who may feel that while you're standing by your friend, it appears you gave validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist, even if you don't agree?"

To the "people:" racist is as racist feels.

To Sheryl Underwood: diagram that sentence.

Big O's Meanings Dictionary said...

hypocrisy : definition

The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense..

example :

I'm just a black guy from South Central who's looking at all this with the freshest eyes I can.


Just pay me and shut up.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...

Reparations! Christ, I'm still waiting for reparations from the Danes for those attacks on my East Anglian ancestors back in the 800's.

Static Ping said...

"Boring"

Oh well.

Francisco D said...

Shouting Thomas said... Crack is on a non-stop PR campaign.

So why do you feed into his need for attention?

daskol said...

I eagerly look forward to the day they pull this shit on the wrong person.

Yeah, I think Sharon Osbourne is the wrong person to try to pull this crap on. I hope she gives them hell.

J Severs said...

Soviet law Section 58-10: failure to inform. 10 years.

Amadeus 48 said...

Donald Trump doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, but many of his critics judge people, for good or ill, by the color of their skin.

Discuss.

Narr said...

What would I say? Sooner of later, I'll say, "Go fuck yourself, bitch."

And the day may not be far off.

Here's an idea, for all us bad people: let's pick a day and spread the word--when someone says something woke, laugh at them and ridicule their honesty and intelligence.

April 2?

Narr
Who's in?

Greg The Class Traitor said...

Shorter Underwood:

If you disagree with a "black" then you are "racist"

Dear Underwood: GFY

Greg The Class Traitor said...

Sprezzatura said...
Also, it’s a free market of ideas,

No, it's not

There's no censorship in a free market, and no cancel culture.

In a free market, everyone is allowed to compete

Which is what you racist scumbag leftists free.

Since your ideas are garbage, just like you are garbage. The only way you can get ahead is with bullying, threats, and destruction

Balfegor said...

At some point, as claims of racism grow ever more tenuous, the people in power will have to stop reacting as though racism is the very worst thing ever.

n.n said...
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n.n said...

She needs Ozzy to step up and sort this out, live.

I don't think she's a kneeler. She can stand on her own merits. Ozzy is an old dog. Is he still barking at the moon?

Gravel said...

You're a boring little bitch, Crack. Just boring.

walter said...

Ozzy mumbling his way through this would be far more entertaining.

Greg The Class Traitor said...

Hey Crack:

Clinton is walking around free because of Democrats. If you have a problem with Clinton walking around free, go attack the Democrats

Which is to say, go attack the people supporting CRT, and cancel culture

The Crack Emcee said...

Rick said...

"You proved yourself a racist when you claimed it's racist for whites to cite facts which contradict your narrative."

Cite not, link to it, something, or it didn't happen and you lie.

The Crack Emcee said...

Big O's Meanings Dictionary said...
hypocrisy : definition

I'm just a black guy from South Central who's looking at all this with the freshest eyes I can.

Just pay me and shut up.

My fresh eyes say America's guilty - where's the hypocrisy?

The Crack Emcee said...

Francisco D said...
Shouting Thomas said... Crack is on a non-stop PR campaign.

So why do you feed into his need for attention?

He needs attention because he knows I'm not reading him. He's writing me for you guys.

Shouting Thomas said...

You’re just a fucking piece of shit, Crack.

Go fuck yourself.

If you want money, get off your lazy ass and get a job at MacDonald’s.

The Crack Emcee said...

New profile who dis? said...
You're a boring little bitch, Crack. Just boring.

And your angry vanilla ass is the epitome of spicy entertainment.

The Crack Emcee said...

Greg The Class Traitor said...
Hey Crack:

Clinton is walking around free because of Democrats.

Oh, I forgot it's their job to defeat themselves. That explains it.

Rick said...

he Crack Emcee said...

Cite not, link to it, something, or it didn't happen and you lie.


This demand is revealing since you never provide links. It that yet more black privilege?

But we both know you did it thus your dishonestly drops your character yet another level.

The Crack Emcee said...

Rick

Cite not, link to it, something, or it didn't happen and you lie.

Rick said...

The Crack Emcee said...
Cite not, link to it, something, or it didn't happen and you lie.


It's interesting you think people's lies are determined by what happens afterward rather than whether they lied.

You'll say anything to maintain your fantasy.

rcocean said...

Its coffee talk. Lets talk about all the talk about the talk.

No big whoop.

Its hard to care about a show you didn't know existed until now. Oh, and its women. Just talking. And calling each other racist.

No big whoop.

The Crack Emcee said...

Rick said...

Cite not, link to it, something, or it didn't happen and you lie.

This demand is revealing since you never provide links. It that yet more black privilege?

Here is the first post I did today - it has a link in it - so you are a liar.

Here is the second post I did today - it has a link in it - so you are a liar twice.

This is the same way I identified ST as a liar a few days ago, and Inga a few months back. I tell the truth and wait for you liars to forget that.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this Rick person is a liar and not to be trusted. He will say anything in an attempt to gain advantage in debate. I strongly suggest taking what he says with a grai9n of sand. I will taker a screen shot of this post as a reminder, should he decide to stick is nose up my ass again.

The Crack Emcee said...

Screenshots of assholes lying are TIGHT.

Shouting Thomas said...

You’re fucking stupid, Crack.

You have no idea what constitutes proof of an idea.

A link to your blog is bullshit. You’re just trying to get traffic because you have none of your own.

You’re a fucking black racist psychotic thug.

Shouting Thomas said...

I know all your player tactics, black racist thug.

The trash talking, the white guilting...

I know it all.

You can’t play me, thug.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

If I were Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan I'd stand tall, and defy them all, because they're wrong. The rest of the bullshit is just that: bullshit

This is the statement I agree with. I think these two people will stand tall against the wokey-dokey dumbshit attackers. But it looks like NBC is going to punish the production crew with unpaid leave to try and leverage Sharon. Assholes.

Rick said...

The Crack Emcee said...
I tell the truth and wait for you liars to forget that.


You're a liar and a racist and no amount of bluster can change those facts.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...
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Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Schlichter:

Sharon Osborne apologized for the crime of not simping for the mouthy American twit and her ridiculous in-bred Brit beau. Metal Yoko slept with a dude who ate bat heads and now she cares that dorks on Twitter say she’s mean?

Stacy Dash did it too. She recently gave some interview where she pleaded that she’s now sorry for being a black conservative. And the left welcomed her with open nothings. Dash started trending on social media after the left, like prissy little piranhas, went into a feeding frenzy. If you want to see systemic racism, just look at liberal Twitter.

For those of you who have not been paying attention, it’s not about “racism” or “sexism” or whatever -ism or -phobia these tools are pretending to be upset about this week. The left actively supports racism and sexism – leftists are affirmatively in favor of those things, so it’s not like their performative pouting is a good faith critique of their victim’s words.

It’s about power, the power to force others to comply by guaranteeing a tsunami of hate toward anyone deviating from the ordained narrative.

You have to understand that you can’t obtain their forgiveness, though you shouldn’t want it in the first place. They already know you did nothing wrong. Right and wrong is irrelevant. Your life is a human sacrifice to Lib Moloch, the demon demigod of the left, and they wish to feast upon your soul. Saying “sorry” won’t save you. Keep your dignity and don’t try."


Do NOT ever cave to the asshole left. You tell them to FOAD.

rcocean said...

SHouting Thomas - Just shut the fuck up and stop spamming every thread with "Crack, Crack". I hope you're donating money to althouse since you're fucking up every comment thread. what a goddamn bore.

Greg The Class Traitor said...

The Crack Emcee said...
Greg The Class Traitor said...
Hey Crack:

Clinton is walking around free because of Democrats.

Oh, I forgot it's their job to defeat themselves. That explains it.


Moral people flush the trash from their Party. Which is why Bob Packwood and Mark Foley got flushed.

But apparently Crack thinks it's too much to expect Democrats to be decent human beings, and therefore he's going to scream at Republicans because we didn't beat Clinton.

Your "brain" is really addled, isn't it

iowan2 said...

I know its been quoted here before, by me,and a few others

Bob Hope joke.

"California just legalized homosexual sex."


"I'm moving out before they make it mandatory."

Now its not what you say. Its about what you are forced to say.

Scotty, beam me up... said...

The “woke elites” in our country are evolving into “The Committee of Public Safety” with a “Reign of Terror” with their “If you aren’t with me, you’re against me” attitude. If a person doesn’t denounce their family and friends for even the slightest transgression, they need to de denounced, doxxed, declared persona non-grata, and be shunned permanently. These people better be careful as history will repeat itself as eventually, Robespierre, despite being the lead terrorist of The Committee of Public Safety, was denounced and taken out.

Known Unknown said...

I wonder if Piers and Sharon could basically create their own show. The issue is finding producers and a network/source to broadcast it. I suppose they could do it themselves.

chickelit said...

Scotty, beam me up... said...The “woke elites” in our country are evolving into “The Committee of Public Safety” with a “Reign of Terror” with their “If you aren’t with me, you’re against me” attitude. If a person doesn’t denounce their family and friends for even the slightest transgression, they need to de denounced, doxxed, declared persona non-grata, and be shunned permanently. These people better be careful as history will repeat itself as eventually, Robespierre, despite being the lead terrorist of The Committee of Public Safety, was denounced and taken out.

After that comes the Napoleon phase or the return of Trump.

The Crack Emcee said...

Rick said...
The Crack Emcee said...
I tell the truth and wait for you liars to forget that.

You're a liar and a racist and no amount of bluster can change those facts.

Somebody wants to see his screenshot.

The Crack Emcee said...

rcocean said...

"SHouting Thomas - Just shut the fuck up and stop spamming every thread with "Crack, Crack". I hope you're donating money to althouse since you're fucking up every comment thread. what a goddamn bore."

Thank you. You're the first one since it started, which is a sad statement on American conservatism.

The Crack Emcee said...

Greg The Class Traitor said...

"Apparently Crack thinks it's too much to expect Democrats to be decent human beings, and therefore he's going to scream at Republicans because we didn't beat Clinton."

Well, also, Republicans are supposed to want to WIN - and allowing the people who are cleaning your clock to get away with claiming the moral high ground, too - as you scream you're not racists but attack the niggers - doesn't make much political sense.

Kirk Parker said...

Gahrie,

"Yeah, it's not like one political party and half the nation spent years trying to punish him for that, and eventually attempt to impeach him."

Have you got that angle covered?

Perfect! Then I can devote my attention to trying to figure out when the heck I ever "attacked blacks" at any time during the Clinton presidency.

Sam L. said...

I am reminded of the Looney Tunes cartoon in which Elmer Fudd is singing, "Kill the Wabbit, KILL THE WABBIT".

Texan99 said...

"What would [I] say to people who feel..."?

I respect the reality of your feelings. I reserve the right to judge your behavior.