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Perhaps you are puzzled, even troubled, by the issue of Race in America.

Well, here is fucking Victor David Hanson to explain, shut it, you, RACE IN AMERICA IS FINE. IT IS FINE. THERE IS NO TROUBLE WITH RACE IN AMERICA.

Headline/subhed:

The Tangled Web of Race

The racial binaries of the civil-rights era no longer apply in America.

Gosh. What a relief. At long last, Lord, at long last, The National Review has discovered that America has finally entered a post-civil rights era.

Yeah.

Anyway, to the substance, such as it is. Take it away, VDH!

A number of commentators have openly sympathized with multi-murderer Christopher Dorner, who shot seven innocent people, killing four of them. Apparently the late Dorner was a voice in the wilderness crying out against the racist injustice of the “system.”

Well, I see, but... wait, what?

A number of commentators have openly sympathized with multi-murderer Christopher Dorner --

WHAT! Who? What? How?

His brief killing career, in the reprehensible words of Fox News commentator Marc Lamont Hill, was “exciting” for many people – almost like “watching Django Unchained in real life.”

Shriek!

That movie’s star, Jamie Foxx, had joked of his stint as a Quentin Tarantino big-screen hero gunman, “I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?”

All right, let's pause.

The "number of commentators" who have said that what Christopher Dorner has done in shooting people is cool & swell is one person talking at Fox News (!), and then this by association includes Jamie Foxx speaking fondly of having gratifying fantasies of shooting slaveowners.

So what the fuck is Hanson's point?

In print, and on radio and television, we are presented with bizarre themes like “Understanding Chris Dorner,” and comparisons with “Superman” in Dorner’s effect upon his admirers. Dorner, a leftist doppelgänger of Timothy McVeigh, did not just go on the attack against his hated southern-California law-enforcement community, but he also wrote a rambling, narcissistic, and self-serving diatribe that the Left gleefully elevated with the Marxian sobriquet “manifesto.” But in truth, the scribbling was no more than a pathetic rant that mentioned everything except why a police board, an internal appeals board, and the courts all independently found him culpable of lying as charged, and thus upheld his firing for baselessly smearing a female superior.

Well, OK. Dorner was nuts. The "crazy shooting people" thing established that to my satisfaction.

But Hanson kind of does not remotely establish that The Left is all about Dorner:

Nonetheless, some on the left have done their best to make the cowardly (is not coolly gunning down an unarmed woman and her fiancé the work of a coward?) Dorner into a modern Nat Turner. But that is a stretch --

Oh fuck you. "Some on the right" fuck tadpoles.

Hanson, you are making shit up.

Why?

Who cares? But it is interesting to note that while Dorner is an obviously out-of-control loon, the Los Angeles Police Department could not help themeselves in going bugshit out of control themselves.

I mean Holy Crap.

I will now speak for the Entire Left.

Nobody I know defends Dorner. But we do note that his case proves that even when they are dealing with a psycho, the LAPD can't help but act like like psychos themselves.

And there is nothing worse than a psycho with a badge.

The LAPD, when confronted with Dorner, behaved like Dorner.

They shot innocent people!

Which leads us, balefully, to the rest of Victor David Hanson's ideas:

The other great racial cause célèbre of the past year was, of course, the Trayvon Martin case.

I'm too bored to get into the weeds here, so let's get to the bone: if, in the Martin case, the police had not rushed to the exoneration of the alive person and glossed over the issue of who shot the dead person, this would not have become a national explosion.

As we have seen with Elizabeth Warren and Ward Churchill, race is becoming a construct frequently used by elites for purposes other than their concern for the general welfare.

Oh fuck you.

So, according to the National Review, freedom consists of ignoring bigotry when it comes to the police, and then of squalling about wicked minorities in made-up controversies, as regards the Warren nonsense.

Booga!

So. Cal. Police Terror Report

Amazing that a "tear gas" canister that won't make the structure it's fired into explode in flames hasn't been developed in the almost 40 yrs. since most of the Symbionese Liberation Army were killeddied in a fire set by the LAPD's magic tear gas canisters.

A cynical America-hater (me) might think it awfully convenient for certain organizations dedicated to service (to the powerful) & protection (of their property from the less-powerful) that Christopher Dorner will never be placed on trial, let alone have a chance to air his grievances in a public forum.

It's almost as if there are no such things as tear gas canisters at all, but only explosive devices that happen to have a little tear gas in them.

I'd also like to hear less whining about dead police ossifers (You live by the gun, you die by the gun. Can't be simpler than that, so stop whining.) & more concern for the mother & daughter newspaper carriers & guy who didn't fit the description of Dorner (but were driving pick-up trucks not at all similar to Dorner's) & were all three nearly murdered by the gang that can't shoot straight, the police. (You know, the "good guys" w/ guns who'll stop bad guys w/ guns. My ass.)

Almoost finished, but here's a late update: Thanks to Typepad reading what I typed & providing related links & posts (Which is more than a little frightening, by the way.) I see the L.A.Times has reported this:

Related articles

Dorner manhunt: Incendiary tear gas reportedly used on cabin

Try the link in that dumb-ass box ("Powered by Zemanta™," whatever that is.) but few who don't pay an inflated price can access that fish-wrapper, even from links. Nonetheless, before it was hidden I saw the phrase "hot gas." Turns out this is a thing. A works-out-great-for-the-coppers thing.

And how could I have imagined what the hoped for result was w/o knowing that tear-gas canisters are deliberately designed to be incendiary? It's as if I'm psychic or something!

— M. Bouffant

Rifle Games for 7-Year-Olds, What a Drag

A woman in Georgia used a revolver to shoot an intruder, much to the delight of the internet's great big fans of the bang-bang-stick. Glenn Reynolds, however, laments that the woman lacked a bang-bang-stick of sufficient heft to satisfy his love of great big bang-bang-sticks.

See, this is where one of those “assault weapons” might have come in handy.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “When some politician starts pontificating that no one needs more than a 10 round clip capacity (or 5, or 3) this is the story that should be shoved in their faces. She fired 6 shots, put 5 in the attacker and he was still kicking. What if there had been multiple attackers. Then that 30 round clip suddenly seems appropriate.”

Well, since she could have purchased one those great big bang-bang-sticks, and didn't, relying on a measly little .38, she was just basically asking for whatever the crowbar-carrying attacker had in mind for her, I suppose.

But why stop at quote-unquote "assault rifles"? After all, as another of Reynolds' inestimable correspondents points out,

I also read on another blog the comments by a western rancher who explained that he always carries a .223 semi-auto rifle when working his own property. Why? Because of wolves. Six charged him one day and it took far more than 10 rounds from his “assault” rifle to drop two of them, after which the other four fled.

What if this woman had not simply faced one intruder with a crowbar, but multiple attackers who were armed with wolves?

Well, her tiny little puny toy bang-bang-stick would have done her about as much good as a tuna-fish sandwich! Stupid "politicians." You can barely hurt anyone with a .38. Even a .40 wouldn't hurt a fly, even at close range, which is why thoughtful gun owners keep lots more weapons lying around the house for emergencies.

Clearly, though, following Reynolds' logic and that of his freedom-loving audience, in a more ideal, paradisical society, this woman would have had the following:

• 14 handguns;
• 43 semi-automatic weapons;
• 9 bazookas;
• Two or three Handy Home Howitzers;
• 15 armed guards on the porch;
• An electrified fence around her property;
• A moat filled with alligators, each equipped with a flamethrower;
• 5 grizzly bears with hand grenades (to repel the wolves).

More responsible "politicians" would subsidize each of these thoroughly necessary items of domestic defense, instead of leaving the suburban-propertied-classes helpless before the wolf-lugging hordes. Likewise, the Airforce needs to be privatized, so that for a nominal annual fee, in a pinch, homeowners can at least call in a drone strike.

Then the Reynoldsian vision for America will at last come to fruition. (Also we will all be immortal robots. The proper sort of "we," anyhow.)

And if anecdotal evidence such as that he cites here proves insufficient to prove his case that all homeowners truly ought to possess firepower of the sort capable of efficiently shooting up elementary schools, the free market provides a solution. People like Reynolds should be permitted to rent out invaders of the variety referenced in the news story above (and I know you know what I mean), so they might finally live out what is obviously their most devoutly-wished personal fantasy.

At a minimum they ought to be able to blow up farm-raised wolves with rocket launchers. I mean, do we or do we not live in a civilized, 21st century nation?

 

 

True Stories of the Right Wing Truth

One is predisposed to admire talking dogs. The capacity for intelligible speech, as most scientific observers agree, is a skill few canines attain.

Hence when one encounters a puppy capable of burping intelligbly the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner," one is understandably impressed.

The final line for me to cross in complete alienation from the right was my recognition that Obama is not a leftist. In fact, he’s barely a liberal—and only because the political spectrum has moved so far to the right that moderate Republicans from the past are now considered hardcore leftists by right-wing standards today. Viewed in historical context, I see Obama as actually being on the center-right.

Woof woof!

However.

Before we all go merrily on together, munching the kibbles (or drawing "final lines"):

The best way to get Republicans to read a book about reaching out for the black vote, I thought, was to detail the Democratic Party’s long history of maltreatment of blacks. After all, the party was based in the South for 100 years after the war, and all of the ugly racism we associate with that region was enacted and enforced by Democratic politicians. I was surprised that such a book didn’t already exist.

This is appallingly stupid.

I thought knowing the Democratic Party’s pre-1964 history of racism, which is indisputable, would give Republicans a story to tell when they went before black groups to solicit votes. I thought it would also make Republicans more sympathetic to the problems of the black community, many of which are historical in their origins. Analyses by economists and sociologists show that historical racism still holds back African-Americans even though it has diminished radically since the 1960s.

Holy shit.

So I wrote Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past. Unfortunately, it was published the day Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses.

Yeah, well, Obama winning isn't why that book is embarrassing.

It is the assumption that "black groups," and also "people with access to consensus reality," are absolute morons, that is the problem there.

If you don't know why the GOP now wins the South, bless you, have a biscuit.

Some dogs can learn English, apparently. But they'll still eat their own shit.

Can't blame them.

It's their nature.

MAS. Bark bark.

MUCHO MAS. Just to say, while it is all very swell that Bruce Bartlett, David Frum, and Andrew Sullivan have courageously declared themselves non-wingnuts, that hardly qualifies them as people who aren't boring idiots generally. "Finally, after much inner struggle, I realized that the Rush Limbaugh view of the world has its flaws" is not, in the final analysis, a very impressive intellectual manifesto. Here is Sullivan:

I endured the same kind of thing, although I was much less polite than Bruce and had an independent platform. But it's still remarkable to me that I have not been invited on Fox for a decade - even to discuss or debate my book on, er, conservatism and fundamentalism. My book, The Conservative Soul, was not reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, and given a formal excommunication/evisceration by National Review's Jonah Goldberg.

Jesus fucking Christ. Reading these people is like watching the lost footage of Ingmar Bergman's version of The Terror of Tiny Town.

Many of My Best Friends Are Racists

Someone at Townhall has decided to explain to us the Curse of Racism. HARK! TO THIS SENSIBLE ADVICE!

It's quite wonderful, this Townhall piece. Here:

I’m not going to fall back on the old saw "Some of my best friends are black (or Hispanic)."

And then in the very next sentence:

Some of my friends over the years have been black, and my best friend in high school was in fact, a native of Mexico.

Holy tits of Santa.

Whatever. This Townhall git is however instructive insofar as his cluelessness takes us. He wonders why black people voted for Obama, and ends up, no shit, here:

When the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia, they eventually ran out of enemies to lock up, and began arresting seemingly loyal party members out of paranoia and a need to maintain a grip on the country. People with power will do many things to hold on to that power, and if you step out of line, then suddenly, you may become The Other. 

Take care that in your zeal you do not become the thing you claim to despise. You may be one complaint away from becoming one of us.

If you think the Democratic Party has become the Khmer Rouge, you've either lost your mind, or you have some special personal reason to be bothered by Reconstruction that involves cheesy vampire fan-fiction. Or, worse, improperly digested family history. In either case, shut it, the rest of us are moving on.

Which brings us, lamentably, to Jonah Goldberg, who informs black people that they are idiots for voting Democratic because the Southern Strategy never happened, Condoleeza Rice did happen, and the GOP didn't openly try to suppress the black vote as long ago as last month.

MAS. Got banned from Chicago Boyz, ochone. For this --

I Just Found the "Whitey" Tape

Mark Steyn hates the whiteys.

A lot of the telly chatter is about how Republicans don’t get the shifting demographics: America is becoming more of a “brown country,” as Kirsten Powers put it on Fox. But New Hampshire is overwhelmingly white — and the GOP still blew it. The fact is a lot of pasty, Caucasian, non-immigrant Americans have also “shifted,” and are very comfortable with Big Government, entitlements, micro-regulation, Obamacare and all the rest — and not much concerned with how or if it’s paid for.

Those race-traiter fuckers.

Tuesday's Crazy, Today

The Townhall brain trust has uncovered a wicked conspiracy on the part of The Blacks to steal Texas for Obama through the vicious practice of passing out water bottles to people waiting on line to vote.

Friday afternoon at an early polling place located at 6719 W. Montgomery Road in Houston, NAACP members were seen advocating for President Barack Obama according to volunteer poll watchers on location at the time.

According to Eve Rockford, a poll watcher trained by voter integrity group True the Vote, three NAACP members showed up to the 139 precinct location with 50 cases of bottled water and began handing bottles out to people standing in line. While wearing NAACP labeled clothing, members were "stirring the crowd" and talking to voters about flying to Ohio to promote President Barack Obama.

As Townhall would have it, such atrocities are roughly equivalent to those perpetrated by the Dusky Hordes in the classic documentary Birth of a Nation.

Or else, perhaps what happened is that a crazy person trained by voter suppression group True the Vote made a pest of herself and was told to go away.

Whatever. Expect to see several million similar stories blared out screechily come Wednesday. Fun!

The Real Racists

Lots of great candidates today for the "Liberals are the Real Racists" booby prize.

PowerTools is pretty special for claiming that Obama is racistly hell-bent on ethnic cleansing the white suburbs in order to give YOUR SUV to the inner-city poors, and that the Bush administration did so do a heckuva job helping the New Orleans inner-city poors after Katrina. Best part: "Speaking to an audience of black ministers, and using a black dialect only marginally more authentic than Joe Biden’s..." Those black people Obama was talking to only didn't realize how fakey-black Obama talks because they haven't escaped the Culture of Dependence, as have Real Black Dialect Talkers like, say, Alan Keyes.

He speaks jive.

But, of course, nobody can out-smarm The Corner!

Setup:

For all of Obama’s talk about there being no red America or blue America, no black America or white America, from the outset of his term, this president’s rhetoric and policies have divided Americans by race, ethnicity, and class. The roll call of his racial bean counting would take pages to recount. From the stark racial preferences strewn throughout major pieces of legislation such as Obamacare and Dodd-Frank, to the Justice Department’s refusal to bring voting-rights cases against black defendants...

And punchline!

to the claim that voter-ID laws are Jim Crow–like attempt to suppress the black vote, the president and his administration have all but abandoned any pretense of colorblindness.

Now, that's smarmy! But on the bright side, it's a National Review writer coming out against Jim Crow, so you take what you can get, I suppose.

Ooga Booga

I had been inclined to not take the Tucker Carlson "whitey" tape seriously, but seen in its entirety, I have to admit, it's more than a little shocking.

 

When the Whistle Blows, Dogs Bark

That's how it works!

Ann Althouse, of course, is the enlighteningest.

Someone in blackface "grinning widely as he is about to chomp into a watermelon" is himself playing the role of a black person. This black character making a stereotypical gesture can't be read as expressing hostility toward black people. The black person is his hero for enjoying an excellent source of Vitamin C.

Oh wait, oopsie. Botched that quote.

Someone like Andrew Dice Clay making "limp wristed" gestures is himself playing the role of a gay person. This gay character making a stereotypical gesture can't be read as expressing hostility towards gay people. The gay person is his hero for having such wonderful dextrousness.

Dammit! Goofed that again. Let's give it another go.

Someone putting on comically buck teeth, scrunching his eyelids together and "pronouncing the leter l like the letter r" is himself playing the role of an Oriental. This Oriental character making a stereotypical gesture can't be read as expressing hostility towards Oriental people. The Oriental person is his hero for cooking such delicious rice.

What on Earth is the problem here. Another stab at it....

Someone making a "big tits joke" in regards to a woman's hireabilty is himself playing the role of a sexist. This sexist character making a sexist joke can't be read as making a sexist joke because of Ann Althouse's idiotic double standards. Ann Althouse is her own hero for calling other people bigots based on nothing but featherbrained malice whenever it suits her and squawking about her personal victimization at other times depending on whatever feeds her ego at any particular moment. (Her whole fucking blog as a cite for that last bit.)

Wait, fixed the bug! Here's what she actually said:

Someone doing the “tomahawk chop” is himself playing the role of Indian. This Indian character making a stereotypical gesture can’t be read as expressing hostility toward Indians. The Indian is his hero.

Oh well that's sensible.