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Nobody Ever Actually Wanted to Talk to You, Frankly

Shorter Jonah Goldberg:

If the nation is to have to have an honest conversation about race, we first need to Solemnly Celebrate dimwit racists.

Phenomenal Stunt-Kids

Did you know who are the most racist racists in the racist history of racist racism? That would be you, redsnouts.

Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday blasted his critics for heat he’s taken recently over controversial remarks on gay marriage, calling his white liberal detractors “the most racist out there.”

“They want to shut us up completely, and that’s why the attacks against me have been so vicious,” Carson said on the Mark Levin radio show. “I represent an existential threat to them. They need to shut me up, they need to get rid of me, they can’t find anything else to delegitimize me, so they take my words, misinterpret them, and try to make it seem that I’m a bigot.”

Because when you say something bigoted, it's dirty pool to quote it?

Levin said Carson was being targeted for his race.

“You’re attacked also in many respects because of your race,” Levin said. “You’re not supposed to talk like this, and a lot of white liberals just don’t like it, do they?”

“They’re the most racist people there are because they put you in a little category, a box,” Carson responded. “How could you dare come off the plantation?”

The manner in which Dr. Carson is an "existential threat" to anyone is Shrouded in Mystery. In politics, to be effective you need a constituency. Carson's constituency is people like Mark Levin who are angry that people of Carson's skin pigmentation don't want to get rid of Medicare.

We here on the Left realize that Alan West, that pizza guy who was in the primaries, Keyes, and the other total non-tokens squawking in the Townhall Columnist Rubble, have totally been swaying elections for you forever, world without end, amen.

Indeed, I quite respect Dr. Carson for what he has done in his field, and I rather hope for his sake someone close to him can intervene and make him stop talking to people like Mark Levin, because he's making an ass of himself.

Because if the Civil Rights struggle winds down to "yelling about gay marriage and NAMBLA," really? Really?

I don't think so.

MAS. Gah, others disagree. Dr. Carson will continue to shout in public about NAMBLA, and if History is kind, it will note that after he retired, "he said things that were beneath him."

I, of course, will call him a "fuckface," but in certain regards, I am not History.

 

"Consent"? Whatever Could That Be? What a Puzzle!

Proving yet again that (1) nobody can whine at quite the earsplitting volume as our friends on the Right, and that (2) nothing foxes them quite so profoundly as the concept of "consent," comes this remarkable, pig-snivelling, resentful oink from John Nolte over at Big Dead Bloatbart:

No Media Outrage After Sotomayor 'Compares' Homosexuality to Incest

If you want proof of how vicious the mainstream media is when it comes to punishing black conservatives for daring to be black and conservative, look no further than the media's coordinated attack against the openly conservative Dr. Ben Carson for making the exact same kind of argument about same-sex marriage as Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor did on the exact same day.

You see, Doctor Carson said this:

Marriage is between a man and a woman. It is a well-established fundamental pillar of society, and no group -- be they gays, be they NAMBLA [North American Man/Boy Love Association], be they people who believe in bestiality -- no matter what they are, they don't get to change the definition. So it's not something that's against gays; it's against anybody who wants to come along and change the fundamental definition of pillars of society.  It has significant ramifications.

And then noted Plantation Overseers Wolf Blitzer and Andrea Mitchell asked him about it on the teevee --  which was exactly as bad Jim Crow-level discrimination all over again. Though Nolte, bless his charred little heart, invokes a Key Knucklehead Kodicil:

Mitchell and Blitzer are not racists, but they do need to take a step back and realize that, in their zeal to aid and abet the left, they are wielding the same kind of double standards and show-trials of humiliation we saw in the segregated South.

The "not racist" exemption is there because, as is known, the cruelest form or racism that has ever existed occurs when a white person is called a racist. And a civil-rights expert of Nolte's class would never stoop so low, as he is a Gentleman of Honor, suh, and thus precisely as sensitive to such insults as, I don't know, Preston S. Brooks.

But anyhow Nolte says he has PROOF! that the Liberal Mainstream Media are the Real Racists, even if none of the whilte people in it are racists themselves, and Nolte jim-crows this PROOF! to the mountaintops! PREACH IT!

If you want proof that what NBC News and CNN engaged in yesterday was nothing more than an ideological witch hunt against a racial apostate, where was the outrage from this very same media on Tuesday after Justice Sotomayor raised the exact same kind of slippery-slope argument Carson did, herself citing illegal and immoral examples?

Because Sotomayor said:

Mr. Olson, the bottom line that you're being asked -- and -- and it is one that I'm interested in the answer: If you say that marriage is a fundamental right, what State restrictions could ever exist? Meaning, what State restrictions with respect to the number of people, with respect to -- that could get married -- the incest laws, the mother and the child, assuming they are of age -- I can -- I can accept that the State has probably an overbearing interest on -- on protecting the a child until they're of age to marry, but what's left?

According to Nolte,

I do not believe Sotomayor compared homosexuality to anything. What she did is what Dr. Carson did: she played devil's advocate about the slippery-slope of what might come next if we open the Pandora's box of changing the definition of marriage. And to make that argument, like Dr. Carson, she used illegal and immoral relationships (not homosexuality) as slippery slope concerns should the definition of marriage be held to include gay marriage.

... which is stupid.

Whether or not Nolte is being wilfully stupid or just plain stupid is immaterial.

Because, you know, consent is a thing, as Sotomayor stresses, with the "assuming they are of age" phrase. Children, as in NAMBLA, are not of age, and beasts, as in beastiality, cannot agree to sex with a person.

This is not a difficult distinction, and so no, Carson and Sotomayor were not saying the same thing. Even "the horror of incest" (Nolte's phrase) between, as specified, among consenting adults does not compare to child rape or squirrel molesting.

Further "proof" that Nolte's post is dog-whistling to rabid curs may be found in his comments section, as well as the approving links from the usual snotnoses he has received.

Also, too, if you have no moral problem with a particular group of people, you are unlikely to suggest that granting them equal legal rights will lead to unrestricted sex with children. No, really.

Meet the New Boss, Gay as the Gay Boss

So apparently the Evil Gay Jihad as predicted by Erick Erick Prophetson has come to pass.

Because this.

Ben Carson, the noted pediatric neurosurgeon, has become the target of a petition by Johns Hopkins students who want him removed as the medical school’s commencement speaker this spring.

Dr. Carson became a media sensation in January when he questioned Obamacare and progressive taxation in a speech to the National Prayer Breakfast as President Obama sat just a few feet away from him.

With his new prominence, Carson has apparently also riled some liberals, including these Johns Hopkins students. Last Tuesday, he told Sean Hannity of Fox News that “marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are, they don’t get to change the definition.”

So he's very good at surgery, but otherwise he's a hateful, pig-ignorant nitwit.

The New Conservative Wonderland

I don't suppose it's possible to perform a post-mortem on CPAC; you can't technically conduct an autopsy on a zombie, can you? It's already dead. The question is not what killed it, but what keeps it groaning, ambulatory, and desperate to eat the brains it no longer possesses. As it clearly is desperate to do.

You can develop new analytic tools, I guess, such as the identification of the "Palindrone," which may be defined as the same goofy shite spelt backwards today the way it was spelt forwards in 2008.

Or else, if you have a lot of lube, credulity, and advanced yoga training, you can comport yourself as Patterico does, and reassure yourself through Internet Forensics and sticking your head up your ass that the Deep Reason blacks didn't vote for Romney was the Democrats' habit of "blaming the white people." Coordinated efforts to suppress the black vote were irrelevant; and also too, huckster panels where books are hawked promoting the idea that once black people realize that Jim Crow was a Democrat idea, and so Senator Bilbo = Barack Obama, aren't a symptom of some wider malignant idiocy.

And then there is this always comical mangy cur scavenging 'round for scraps at the Free-Market offal-pits: among other miseries, he yips that "Contrary to what the New York Times would have you believe, conservatives occasionally take time out from their usual business — hate, greed, and war — to laugh, sing, and dance."

Oh, gross. I bet Paul Ryan is the first one to knock back a few Bud Lite Platinums, stick a feather in his ass, and belt out a falsetto rendition of "Hello Dolly."

Beyond that, Robert Stacy McCain is as universally desired in a social setting as is Grima Wormtongue on a bad day for his halitosis.

Anyway, the real reason the Conservative Movement is floundering? It contains conservatives.

Oh Good, The American Right Discusses Race; This Always Ends Happily

Oh what fun. At CPAC there was a Race Panel about how Liberals Are the Real Racists, and gosh was it ever a Great Big Hit.

Others have discussed the immediate awfulness; it falls thus to this blog to examine the Pushback, which is... special.

Jim Hoft, who is a remarkably stupid person, explains that there was no racism at this panel because the people who were selling books about how conservatives aren't racists at CPAC don't think even the most clownishly obvious racists at CPAC are racists. 

OK.

I don't go in much for nutpicking, but this is Jim Hoft. So, click that link up there, go to the first comment, and... there you go:

So where's the beef? Blacks ARE grateful for the clothing, shelter and food provided by their slave masters so much so that they vote for them every election cycle.

In this person's defense, the second comment is far, far worse.

Not shitting you. Holy toboggans.

But do you want to enjoy the joke, utterly, full circle?

Sure you do! So let us visit Rick Moran, a Thoughtful Conservative, who is as it happens kind of an idiot but is also someone who vaguely senses that Racism Is Bad and thus hectors the obvious CPAC racists for letting down the side --

-- this is, by the way, FUCKING AWESOME, Rick Moran really says this:

Blacks don’t hear talk of the GOP being the opportunity party, or the party that fights for inner city parents who support the idea of vouchers to send their kids to a school of their choice. They tune out the call to end dependence and substitute dignity and self reliance. Nor do they hear about Republican focus on faith and family as the rock upon which communities survive.

The reason "blacks don't hear talk of the GOP being the opportunity party" is because that is bullshit.

AMOS: You knows, Andy, dat dem dere GOP is de Oppa-tuna-titty party.

ANDY: I is be sorry, Amos, but I is a-gonna interrupt yo' fiscal-policy cakewalk wit my Foghorn Leghorn impression, I do declare.

Gah.

Also, "blacks" may be irked at the assumption that they all live in inner cities. Or that they are all dependent, undignified lampreys who yet can sing soulful gospel numbers.

For the love of fuck.

But you know who sums this all up pithily? This Jim Hoft commenter.

Very much has been said about the bias media. But one thing for sure is, the reporting that has been done by the bias media has lead us down a slippery slop.

Indood.

Hello, Black People! Here Are Some Excellent Options for You to Consider as Regards Your Leaders! Signed, Chirpy Townhall Idiots

Are you a black person? Have you ever considered becoming a black person? Here is some great advice about how to be a good black person!

Here is some good advice about being a good black person from this person at Townhall Dot Com!

Who is this person? This Person!

HOLY SHIT!

This person will tell you about how to be a good black person!

Three brilliant black leaders are tuning out Obama and the black community needs to tune into these leaders.

Yes black people! Listen! You need to do this!

I’m surfing between the major news networks on a recent evening and I catch FOX News Channel’s Sean Hannity in the middle of an amazing interview with a guest named Harry Alford, the CEO and co-founder of the Black Chamber of Commerce.

Black people don't know who their leaders ought to be because they never watch Sean Hannity's cable television program! What an oversight on their part!

My jaw drops as Alford essentially calls Obama an anti-business tyrant who is hurting the African American community; he says he voted for Obama in 2008 but now has buyer’s remorse.

I get to thinking: Given the choice between Alford and Obama, why do many blacks still choose Obama? Why does Obama have an 88 percent approval rating among African Americans while his overall approval sits at 47 percent? After all, what has Obama done to help African Americans?

I am concerned and puzzled because the black community seems to be ignoring the wisdom of successful black leaders in business, medicine and journalism.

It is a concern and a puzzle!

Why is the black community so fucking stupid! WHY DOESN'T SEAN HANNITY GET TO PICK YOUR LEADERS, BLACK COMMUNITY? WHY DO YOU HATE DEMOCRACY?

 

For the LOVE of fuck...

Ah shite. Do Whatchalike.

Point: Proved

Ta Nahesi-Coates, in the NYT, says that it is a fucking pain in the ass that if you're black, you'll get racist shit poked in your eye no matter what the fuck you do.

Read the whole thing to get why he concludes thus:

The other day I walked past this particular deli. I believe its owners to be good people. I felt ashamed at withholding business for something far beyond the merchant's reach. I mentioned this to my wife. My wife is not like me. When she was 6, a little white boy called her cousin a nigger, and it has been war ever since. "What if they did that to your son?" she asked.

And right then I knew that I was tired of good people, that I had had all the good people I could take.

Professional asshole Steve Sailer responds with... I mean Holy Shit.

A friend in New York identifies the Deli of Discrimination where, according to an NYT column by Ta-Nehisi Coates ("The Good, Racist People"), white racism caused actor Forrest Whitaker to be suspected of shoplifting:

Oferrcrissakes.

Coates never mentions the name of the place. I had to find that out somewhere else. 

It's the Milano Market. Too pricey for me. Everyone who works there is either Hispanic, or Muslim - or perhaps, African. But that's true of ALL the small markets in all of Manhattan, not just the UWS.

There are no white deli help, cashiers, stockers, etc.* 

If he was stopped, it was not by a white person.  But of course, it's all whitey's fault.  The comments are sickening. Sometimes the Times actually has perceptive or dissenting comments, but apparently not this time.

HOLY SHIT.

It's not racism if the white owners of a business pay their nonwhite employees to do their racism for them... ?

FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK THIS IS SO FUCKING RACIST, THIS STEVE SAILER SHIT IS.

"All whitey's fault..."?

Oh drop dead you racist fucking racist relic and let Ken Burns make a fucking documentary about you already you fucking fucknosed racist fuck.

I'm Not Sure If This Has Ever Yet Been Mentioned -- Jonah Goldberg Is Kind Of an Idiot

The current incarnation of the Supreme Court of the United States has perhaps decided that it has the sacred duty to remind the nation that all things politely considered, Jefferson Davis had a fair point reasonably expressed, after all. And even if he did not, it is all Water under the Bridge and Laffs now ha ha ha, nobody would ever do anything so gauche as to make it hard for black people to vote, if you ignore many of the major policy and law initiatives of the Republican Party, anyway. (Note: last link totally fucking QED to the fucking QED.)

Bluntness.

The Republican Party does not want black people to vote.

This is just fucking obviously true. It is utterly obviously true. THE GOP DOES NOT WANT BLACK PEOPLE TO VOTE.

Everybody knows this. Dogs know this.

However, you can't just come out and say stupid shit like this.

No, what you need is a colossally naive halfwit to at least attempt to prove that horseshit can equate to a whitewash, as opposed to a brown chunk-shower...

Meaning the Selected Dope has to have to pretend that there are High Moral Principles involved in making it hard for black people to vote.

Hello, Jonah Goldberg.

I can only hope that the scourge of racism is finally purged from Stewartstown and Pinkham's Grant. These are two of 10 New Hampshire towns covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires local officials to get permission, or "preclearance," on any changes to their election laws.

Stewartstown has just over a thousand souls in it and is 99 percent white. In 1970, when it was put under the authority of Section 5, the census listed two blacks out of its 1,008 residents. Pinkham's Grant boasts nine residents, and it must also beg Washington for permission to make any changes to how it votes.

In 1970, New Hampshire required all of its citizens to pass a literacy test to register to vote. But Pinkham's Grant, Stewartstown and the other eight towns also had low voter-participation rates. These two factors -- a test of any kind for voting and participation rates under 50 percent -- met the criteria for oversight under Section 5.

But after years of onerous preparation, the state filed for a "bailout" from the oversight provisions of Section 5 in November. And although the Justice Department hasn't taken a whole state off its watch list since the early 1980s (back when that hotbed of Jim Crow, Maine, was taken off the list), New Hampshire will probably be let off the hook.

If we are being extremely charitable and granting Goldberg a point here, that point is utterly opaque, or else asinine.

First, it is not goofy at all that we have a federal law that looks out for that one person in that one strange place who wants to do that one most basic American thing: vote.

"Literacy Tests" are anti-democratic. You don't have to be able to read to be able to vote. You just have to have be an American.

That apparently means less to our right wing friends than it means to me.

Those two people Jonah sneers at in that small place? Fuck him, I'm proud the federal government is there for them. That's my United States.

You know? Goldberg's piece continues as to being stupid, but I will rest here.

YES. The MOST appropriate use of federal power is to ensure that every single American gets a fair chance to vote and to have that vote counted.

I swear to fucking Christ, they want to fight the Civil War all over again. Goldberg is too stupid to know it, but that's kind of what it is, no? They want a National Reboot, only Done Right. Far Right.

"God doesn't flip-flop"

Good grief.

A veteran New York Assemblyman on Monday stood by his decision to wear blackface makeup, an Afro wig and a basketball jersey to a costume party in the face of criticism he called “political correctness to the absurd.”

Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind wrote on his blog Monday that he doesn’t understand the criticism swirling around Albany and doesn’t know why anyone would be offended by the costume he wore to a party he recently held at his home in Brooklyn to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Hikind hired a makeup artist and wore an orange basketball jersey, sunglasses and an Afro at the celebration that traditionally includes costumes....

And there is more.

Earlier this month, Hikind criticized the fashion designer John Galliano, who was recently photographed in New York City dressing as a Hasid with a long jacket and curly sidelocks. Two years ago, Galliano was fired from Christian Dior after his anti-Semitic rant was caught on video.

Hikind demanded an explanation from Galliano for his costume.

“If it was just anyone else, I wouldn’t know what to say. But considering who this guy is, considering his background and what he’s said in the past, let him explain it to all of us: Are you mocking us?” Hikind told the New York Post.

And still more.

In Albany, Hikind has championed some conservative and religion-based issues. In 2009, he opposed an early vote to legalize same-sex marriage“It is about what I believe God wants,” Hikind said then. “God doesn’t flip-flop on an issue.”

And, of course, there is a punchline:

Hikind reiterated to WCBS reporter Alex Silverman that it "never crossed my mind for a second" that blackface is off-limits. "If I was black," Hikind said, "on Purim I would have made my face white."

And indeed, exactly that has happened at nearly every Purim party thrown by African-Americans throughout history.