Enough Already
we see what you did there and we’re done with it
Let’s look at this statement as a prime embodiment of the whole, currently popular, “raaaaacist” meme.
But Limbaugh has long history of the same insults and race baiting, to the point of declaring he hoped the President of the United States, a black man, fails.
rly?
Your primary evidence to support such sentiments as “bigot,” “anger and offend me,” “insults,” “race-baiting” and “nasty” is that one man so disagrees with the policies of another that he hopes the policy-maker fails to implement those policies. And that you term “raaaaacist?”
Your phrasing [”...declaring he hoped the President of the United States, a black man, fails."] implies that to question or disagree with “a black man” is, in itself, raaaaacist. Skipping right over the notion that policies have nothing to do with the race of the person who originates or supports them, your statement assumes that Obama’s policies spring directly from the black half of his persona and then declare that they must be sacrosanct because of that. rly?
As if “a black man,” in his childlike simplicity, could not manage to support his own policies in a national discussion and would need the paternal protection of *cough*white*cough* pundits like yourself. rly? Did you just say that out loud? In print?
I suggest that is the most disagreeable form of racism. You are suggesting this nation treat someone differently—regardless if it is more harshly or more gently—simply because of his race. But you compound the insult by suggesting that we must treat this person more gently, adding the implication that Obama—because of his race—would be incapable of defending his own freely made choices.
To refuse to give an individual the respect of taking his policies seriously enough to address them directly and to withhold any fact-based/Values oriented criticism simply because of his race is, on my planet, a deadly insult.
But you do what you will.
To suggest that others follow your lead is reprehensible and compounds the insult. To make that suggestion into a meme which has, for significant parts of the “intelligentsia," become a societal norm which they are attempting to impose on an entire nation, is reprehensible. And, I sincerely hope, disingenuous. For, if that is truly your feeeling, I doubt you should be allowed to leave the building. Street traffic would frighten and confuse you and the task of feeding yourself would confound you to the point of tears.
Yet More: I was taking the quote above as representative of a wide range of writers and ‘turfers across the media and directing my remarks at the broader meme. As I clicky over and find out that this particular author is a black man, I believe we are in deeper trouble than I feared.
quote found via Ace
Tangentially, there’s this:
http://p.ly/7ITXT
That is a tweet by CNN’s Rick Sanchez, but I can’t decide if he’s actually offering Rush an olive branch or if he’s merely trying to keep from being sued.
Either way, it doesn’t read like the words of a professional communicator. Rather, it looks like a drunk got access to a keyboard.
And tweeting under the influence seems perfectly in character for this clown.
Posted by on 10/17/09 at 10:08 AM
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