The problem with the primary season ending – how quickly I forget! – is that the general election begins. A preview:
I am sick to death of black people as a group. The truth. That is part of the conversation Obama is asking for, isn’t it?I live in an eastern state almost exactly on the fabled Mason-Dixon line. Every day I see young black males wearing tee shirts down to their knees — and jeans belted just above their knees. I’m an old guy. I want to smack them. All of them. They are egregious stereotypes. It’s impossible not to think the unthinkable N-Word when they roll up beside you at a stoplight in their trashed old Hondas with 19-inch spinner wheels and rap recordings that shake the foundations of the buildings. . . .
Here’s the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to. There ARE niggers. Black people know it. White people know it. And only black people are allowed to notice and pronounce the truth of it. Which would be fine. Except that black people are not a community but a political party. They can squabble with each other in caucus but they absolutely refuse to speak the truth in public. And this is the single biggest obstacle to healing the racial divide in this country.
I’m not proposing the generalized use of the term, just trying to be clear for once, in the wake of Obama’s call for us to have a dialogue about race. However much they may scream and protest, black people will know what I mean when I demand they concede that the following people are niggers:
- Jeremiah Wright
- O.J. Simpson
- Marion Barry
- Alan Iverson
- William Jefferson
- Louis Farrakhan
- Mike Tyson . . .
You see, you’ve just given life to the suspicion that black people in America are, and have long been, a fifth column — unanimously hating the very country that has afforded the highest standard of living ever achieved by black people in human history. We’re teetering at the edge of believing that you’re a secret society, a massive collection of sleeper cells just waiting for your chance to do serious harm to the rest of us. You’ve made it possible for us to believe that. Because you’re never outraged by what the worst black people do. Because you continue to make excuses for what should be inexcusable to everyone.
Via. The lesson I’m learning this Easter is that if you should happen to get crucified to death, STAY DOWN. It will spare you considerable aggravation in the long run. For the rest of us, there’s always this.
… And you have to read the crazy blog comments. Yeah, I know – but you have to anyway. Jesus died on the cross for your sins. It’s payback time.
March 23, 2008 at 12:02 pm
If this is how the Republicans run, they lose. And it is how they will run. They’ll try to keep it under the radar, but this is how they will run.
March 23, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Wow. I never knew that black people engineered slavery just so they could become sleeper cells in America. Just when you think there has to be a limit to stupid…..
March 23, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I hope you’re right. Judging by the ‘there, I said it!” catharsis and self-congratulation over there, there’s probably no way this sort of thing will be quiet at all. My worry is that Chris Matthews and Tim Russert will find it excitingly white working class down at the working-man’s bar and authentic, and end up asking Obama to denounce all of Allen Iverson’s tattoos, one at a time, in order to prove that, deep down, they aren’t metrosexual liberal English majors who wear make-up and put on shows, but are quite butch men of the people.
March 23, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Isn’t Reynolds’ defense pathetic? He’s regularly promotes a blog that features disgusting racist remarks but says, well it’s a group blog, so I’m not responsible.
Just unreal.
March 23, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Oh, I actually hadn’t checked what Reynolds – I have my limits. But it isn’t really fair to say he was promoting this explicitly. Although he’s apparently comfortable enough in their company.
March 23, 2008 at 1:21 pm
[...] least their racism is out in the open now. I am sick to death of black people as a [...]
March 23, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Tell me what company you keep and I’ll tell you what you are. — Miguel de Cervantes
March 23, 2008 at 1:59 pm
if you should happen to get crucified to death, STAY DOWN.
And if the South secedes, LET IT.
March 23, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Gee: when I wrote “Barack Obama as Nat Turner” I didn’t expect that the drooling klanscritters of the reich would go so far out of their way to provide a sterling example of everything I was talking about…
In spades.
(No pun intended.)
March 23, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Silly The Editors — it’s *always* the wrong week to stop injecting hard liquor into your penis.
March 23, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Presumably because there was no swarm of black people defending Wright?
And what’s with `swarm,’ anyway? I am reminded of the rats in The Eternal Jew.
Anyways. I hear Obama is a-nearer.
March 23, 2008 at 5:52 pm
i don’t understand why the left blogosphere is giving this dude so much traffic… i mean, maybe it’s a good thing to expose this piece of shit, but really, why the fuck should we care? atrios, greenwald, sadly no, teh editors, et al, have all linked him today… we all know they’re racist pricks; this guy just happened to have more balls than reynolds and company and actually explicitly said it, rather than using the usual right-wing code language.
i mean… read the fucking comments: the harshest criticism from his wingnut readers is “well, i don’t agree with the use of the n-word, and maybe you could have said things a little more eloquently, but you’re right on, man.”
they’re all so pathetic, it’s sad.
March 23, 2008 at 6:06 pm
i don’t understand why the left blogosphere is giving this dude so much traffic…
Because in six months or so, we’ll be hearing people say, “Racist? Nah. Where are you getting those ideas?”
And then we can say, “Right here, you racist losers.”
March 23, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Obama says we should talk about homosexuality. He thinks that will help him. It won’t. Most of us have spent a lifetime absorbing the lesson that seeing what we see automatically makes us queer-haters. Do you want to talk about it? Do you? Really?
There are a few areas where, by virtue of age and experience, I think I can speak for the overwhelming majority of Americans. We want to get past sexual problems. We recognize that sodomy is not a sin and that we have a moral obligation to see to it that our institutions and our own behavior are fair to everyone. We share a yearning so fierce that it amounts to an ache for a sex-blind society in which all may prosper on the basis of abilities, not sexual orientation. It is this intense emotion which facilitated the honeymoon period of Obama’s campaign for the presidency.
But the sex-blind society has not been achieved. What’s more, we are constantly told — lectured, hectored, propagandized — that this state of affairs is our fault. We tend to accept the charge because the truth is we don’t spend all our time thinking about homosexuality, and so we defer to those who think about nothing else because, well, we almost never get up in the morning thinking about how privileged we are to be straight, which we’ve come to accept as yet another of our endless insensitivities about homosexuality.
We’ve come to accept a lot of things, in fact. Although no one alive in America has ever burned homosexuals at the stake, we accept that we are all somehow guilty for gay discrimination in the American past. We accept that in our lifetimes sexual discrimination has become a routine official practice against those of us whose remote ancestors were not queer. We accept that there are doctors and lawyers and police officers and firefighters whose credentials may not be completely up to snuff because of the top-secret compromises associated with gay affirmative action. We accept the popular — and tiresomely repeated stereotypes — that queer people are more gifted at acting and dancing and music and sexuality, although there is no other arena in which it is fair to say that straight or yellow people are better than queer people. We accept the premise that there exists some kind of super queer man who is a naturally better lover, friend, empirical philosopher, and leader of men than 5,000 years of civilization has produced in other cultures through education, discipline, and morality. We accept that any fear we feel of young queer men on the sidewalk is more a reflection of our own prejudice than the cold statistics of buttrape. We accept that it’s improper for us to object to obscene Gay Club recordings, flamboyant stars, flagrantly naughty politicians, and hypocritical Republicans if any of these happen to be queer people. We accept that the first major inroads against the hallowed First Amendment began with a political correctness about matters of homosexuality that have since ballooned to a distortion of all human interactions. We accept that everything we disapprove of in queer behavior is derived from our own lack of understanding about what they’ve been through.
But Obama has invited us to talk about homosexuality.
Okay. I’m accepting the invitation. He can regret it at his leisure.
I don’t hate queer people. I can’t pretend to be sex-blind because absolutely nothing in my culture will allow me to be. I admire Cary Grant, Billie Jean King, Rupert Everett, Ian McKellen, Freddy Mercury, Peter Allen, Boy George, Gore Vidal, and Pete Townshend. There are many others but that’s a sampling of the famous folks whose courage, genius, character, and achievements I would be proud if I could get anywhere in the vicinity of. The bald truth of the matter is that they’re better than I am, and it doesn’t arouse a flicker of sexual feeling in me to acknowledge it. They have enriched and elevated my own experience of life.
On the other hand, I am sick to death of queer people as a group. The truth. That is part of the conversation Obama is asking for, isn’t it? I live in an eastern state almost exactly on the fabled Sondheim-Weber line. Every day I see young queer males wearing tee shirts down to their belly button — and jean shorts cut off at the thigh. I’m an old guy. I want to smack them. All of them. They are egregious stereotypes. It’s impossible not to think the unthinkable F-Word when they roll up beside you at a stoplight in their bright shining new Hondas with 19-inch tastefully colored spinner wheels and Broadway recordings that shake the foundations of the buildings. It’s like a broadcast dare: Go ahead! Call me a faggot! And then I’ll cap your ass (in more ways than one).
Here’s the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to. There ARE faggots. Queer people know it. Straight people know it. And only queer people are allowed to notice and pronounce the truth of it. Which would be fine. Except that queer people are not a community but a political party. They can squabble with each other in caucus but they absolutely refuse to speak the truth in public. And this is the single biggest obstacle to healing the sexual divide in this country. The dammed-up flood of good will in this nation for queer people who want to work for their own American Dream is absolutely enormous. The biggest impediment is the doubt created in each and every non-queer American by the clannish, tribalist, irrational defense of every low act committed by any queer person. If you’re offended when Republicans defend Richard Nixon or when Democrats defend Chuck Schumer, imagine what it’s like when queer people swarm the streets to defend Judy Garland.
I’m not proposing the generalized use of the term, just trying to be clear for once, in the wake of Obama’s call for us to have a dialogue about homosexuality. However much they may scream and protest, queer people will know what I mean when I demand they concede that the following people are faggots:
- Andrew Sullivan
- Gleen Greenwald
- Gerry Studds
- Tanya Domi
- Bishop Gene Robinson
- David Bowie
- Morrissey
You know what I mean. They hold you back. They’re effeminate, waspish, and will cut you down with a dry quip if you look wrong at them. They make you look bad, and you foul yourselves by defending them, by reelecting them to office, by admiring them in spite of all their awful behavior.
We can have this conversation now — should have this conversation now — because Gay Americans are on the verge of the greatest setback they’ve experienced since the election of William Clinton. You see, you’ve just given life to the suspicion that queer people in America are, and have long been, a fifth column — unanimously hating the very country that has afforded the highest standard of living ever achieved by queer people in human history. We’re teetering at the edge of believing that you’re a secret society, a massive collection of sleeper cells just waiting for your chance to do serious harm to the rest of us. You’ve made it possible for us to believe that. Because you’re never outraged by what the worst queer people do. Because you continue to make excuses for what should be inexcusable to everyone.
The path to equality is counter-intuitive. Admit and decry the failings of your community. Concede that a generation of not having children for your mothers has been a disaster. Let go of the fantasy that Judy Garland is some kind of infallible force of nature. Demand that your children spend more time reading and doing sums than farting around on the stage. Only about twenty thousand people in the whole country make a living by playacting. The rest have to get real jobs. Do whatever it takes to make your preachers emphasize the value of being a good son instead of ranting from the pulpit about how all of life’s woes are the fault of your abusive father. Tip your straight waitress. Have a beer and watch sports with the guys now and then. Allow your kids to find somebody to admire and emulate who isn’t queer. (My two best friends in high school — straight guys — fought like dogs about their conflicting candidates for the most handsome man on Broadway: Matthew Broderick or Hugh Jackman.) Would it kill you if your kid fixated on Sandy Koufax, Mozart, or Shakespeare rather than Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, and Smithers from The Simpsons? Does being queer really have to be a full-time job?
Here’s the biggest thing we “gay haters” notice. Every single immigrant group that ever came to America — including the queer French actors who came to Hollywood — has risen out of poverty and want to prosperity and respect. The Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the Jews, the Koreans, the Vietnamese. Every group but you. And you’re the only group for which we created an entire culture of camp.
Sorry to break it to you, but Obama won’t be elected president. We were ready, but you clearly aren’t. Time to think about getting ready.
Now, let the abuse descend. I’m ready.
UPDATE 3/23. Well, well, well. First things first. Glenn Reynolds did not link to this post, so leave him alone. Second, all you Nazis and queer supremacists can go straight to hell; you can’t read any better than Glenn Greenwald. Third, Althouse was right (I won’t sully her rep by linking her) when she speculated that I’m too old to care what people think of me. As for the rest of the pious bloggerites of the left and right who have been so quick to label this a “anti-queer rant,” my only retort to you is laughter. You are determined to build for yourselves a nonsense world made out of delusions that will continually frustrate and defeat you because you are incapable of being honest about matters which are truly complex and in which no one on any of the innumerable “sides” is free of guilt, wrongdoing, and responsibility. Your feverish individual attempts to prove that you are personally blameless in whatever directions blame is presently flying are ridiculous. This post is ugly, is it? Not half so ugly as all the witless, self-serving comments, posts, and buffoonish non-links ostentatiously steering a wide berth around it.
Behold the fatuous sexual circus of Post-Sexual America. I’m an old man who dared use a word known to all to refer to what all know it means. Most of the rest of you who have made any reference to this post have proven you never read the post in the first place. Defeating anti-homosexuality is more compliicated than banning the F-Word. And eliminating the doubts and suspicions of those who have watched the gay rights movement spinning its wheels in a backward slide for a quarter century is more complicated than damning as anti-queer all who dare mention those doubts and suspicions. I know we live in an age that is losing the ability to comprehend content more ambiguous than a bumper sticker or longer than a cellular text message, but that is why I don’t fear you. I’ll be dead soon enough, but you’ll have to struggle on and on with a problem you won’t be able to chew to a resolution with a single tooth. Sooner or later you’ll snap the tooth off or bury it in your own empty opposing gum. The blood you shed will ultimately be your own.
All the distance you’ve been working so hard to put between the honest statements above and yourselves is the measure of just how far away you are from having the courage to — how do you put it? — “have an honest discussion about homosexuality in America.” Whatever names you choose to call me, you — all of you — are a joke. Enlightened? Liberal? Progressive? Multicultural? Politically correct? Merely tactful in an Old-World sort of way (you otherwise foul-mouthed buggers)? You’re cowards. Not because you fear and condemn a single word. But because you feel that condemnation, all by itself, constitutes some kind of winning argument. Every one of you who plants his standard in that well-worn posthole is nothing but a homosexuality whore of the 21st century kind.
I pity you. Because you’re the ones who will have to live with the consequences of your own deep personal dishonesty, your transparent projections, and your fearful sycophancy. Not me. So leave me out of it too, and see if you can have that discussion you think you want among yourselves. Good luck with that.
March 23, 2008 at 7:35 pm
God, but you guys are a bunch of unethical lying pieces of shit. Reynolds did not Link to the disgusting post as Greenwald claims. He linked to a separate item having to do with Easter. Greenwald knows that, but as is too often his custom, he slyly mixes facts with non facts so as to create the nasty point of view that he wishes to push. It’s easy to see why he no longer can find work as a practicing attorney.
March 23, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Very well, Mr. Wingnut, let’s examine Greenwalds exact words very slowly, shall we?
“Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds today linked to what he called “EASTER THOUGHTS” from one of his favorite right-wing blogs gers, his namesake, “Instapunk.” .…Immediately beneath that righteous celebration of Easter is a somewhat less charitable post purporting to take up Barack Obama’s invitation to speak about race.”
So who is the unethical lying piece of shit?
Well, that’d be you.
March 23, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Hmmm.
Let’s see if Mac A. is right. Doot dee doot…
Immediately beneath that righteous celebration of Easter is a somewhat less charitable post
….
It looks like that’s a no.
March 23, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Great minds think alike, Andrew A. Gill, SLS, but please answer this multiple choice question if you can:
Wingnuts misrepresent basic, checkable facts because wingnuts are:
a) stupid
b) liars
c) stupid liars
d) lying stupidos
March 23, 2008 at 8:40 pm
C’mon, “have to” read a crazy blog’s comments? Who died and made you King of Categorical Imperatives? And the answer isn’t that guy swathed in blankets in the park that told you that you had to hook him up with some change. He’s the Crown Prince.
March 23, 2008 at 9:30 pm
please answer this multiple choice question if you can
I prefer not to make accusations, but rather to make statements that make those accusations unavoidable for those paying attention.
So, for example, I’d say that answer D is incorrect, answer A is possibly wrong, and answer B is not the best possible answer.
See what I did there?
Also, we miss you, norbizness.
March 23, 2008 at 11:54 pm
This is bon holiday thread. You work it.
March 24, 2008 at 5:12 am
We have to admit that there ARE crackers.
March 24, 2008 at 5:32 am
I agree with norbizness. Most of your readers already know who Republicans are. I respect your need to educate, but you should just say read this unless you have already spent time around republicans.
March 24, 2008 at 7:24 am
“They can squabble with each other in caucus but they absolutely refuse to speak the truth in public. And this is the single biggest obstacle to healing the racial divide in this country.”
Bill Cosby has said it, Jesse Jackson has said it, Chris Rock has said it using the”n-word” itself. The Black Community has acknowledged many times before and in many ways that they have a problem. This douchebag just seems that he is not going to be happy about it until there is and actual civil war in the black community.
March 24, 2008 at 7:29 am
First things first. Norbizness, your avatar looks like Pikachu is about to pinch a ginormous buttlog. He’s concentrating really hard on the epic shit he’s about to take.
Second. Do not ever read this blog or its comments with a full cup of coffee to mouth. You know how people always say they spit coffee on the monitor but really they’re just paying you a compliment, metaphorically? My keyboard is now sticky because I’ve recently switched from artificial sweetener backt to good old American working class sugar. I’m just saying.
A.
March 24, 2008 at 8:03 am
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f02d0b8cca
That ought to have been posted below with the VFW footage, but I think it is still germane, no?
March 24, 2008 at 9:31 am
Once again the quoted statement would be a lot funnier if it were spoken by a dinosaur (cuz it is like superannuated, ante-diluvian eh, eh, get it?) with a really laid back style.
Ahhhh, if only such a thing were possible.
March 24, 2008 at 10:40 am
Secondharmonic may be confused about the Labor Theory of Value, but (s)he has an admirably clear idea of the value of dinosaur videos.
March 24, 2008 at 11:08 am
This is true.
March 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Shorter “Old Guy” – “Unless you’re willing to purge your community of all fringe elements, then trim the new fringe, then trim it again and again until you’ve eradicated everything that makes you at all different from us good white folks or in any way contentious or uppity or anything but roll-over-and-take-it Uncle Toms, we’re not going to take you seriously. If you do, we still won’t, but then we won’t have to, will we?”
March 24, 2008 at 12:26 pm
OK, the newer gravatar is more fierce, and or recently un-constipated.
March 24, 2008 at 12:52 pm
We have to admit that there ARE crackers.
I can admit that.
March 24, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Here’s the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to. Liberals ARE fascists.
Conservatives are feudalists.
March 24, 2008 at 4:45 pm
“Finally. Someone to put into words what the rest of us that are not skinheads or tree huggers know is the truth.”
Where do I fit in? I feel so isolated. We platypus-lickers are treated like niggars.
March 24, 2008 at 6:52 pm
sweet! i never knew i was part of a political party, i really should get to those meetings and pick up a copy of ‘where the white women at?’ (i think it’s the party gazette)
March 25, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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March 25, 2008 at 6:42 pm
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/03/how-the-game-is.html
March 25, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Because you’re never outraged by what the worst black people do. Because you continue to make excuses for what should be inexcusable to everyone.
Substitute ‘Republican’ for ‘black’ and you just described Reynolds himself.
April 1, 2008 at 6:06 pm
This man is right. I do not hate any man as a result of his race witch is uncontrollable, rather I hate a man that thinks that he has the right to an advantage because of his skin color. In this day and time people are equal, and as a result an man should be accountable for his actions and beliefs. I will stop there…
September 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm
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