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I'm so, so sorry I said that, and also that you're a huge whiner… Aren't you tired of perpetually injured and whining blacks who think that their crocodile tears are like exotic jewels of emotion? Perhaps my favorite moment in their latest weepy and slightly drunken racial lamentation was this response by, of all people, Al Roker:
I cannot tell you how many people have asked me about my thoughts on Don Imus.
You're a huge liar, Al. No one will ever ask you about your thoughts on anything. But the notion that, when some mildly edgy or tasteless remark makes us cry, we turn to a fat, cheerfully inane clown weatherman for words of healing is proof that we are but characters in an epic satire set in a world of sniveling morons. (Perhaps Roker is upset that his egg-shaped head will never be called "nappy".)
I knew at once that the more the senile Imus blubbered the worse it would be for him, as the grotesque, fleshy machine of racial outrage convulsed into sanctimonious operation. His expression, that a team of female basketball players were "nappy-headed ho's" (I still haven't the faintest idea whether the bizarre mummy was trying to compliment or insult them), was taken to be a grievous insult to black dignity, or at least whatever they have in place of dignity after years of following Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson around. (Rev. Jackson should die of a bowel failure that causes the filth that has been building up for years inside him to burst out and rupture every internal organ and split apart his repulsive, bloated carcass.)
The old stereotype that blacks have minds like children is hardly given the lie to by these ridiculous tantrums. And as if to compete in this Olympics of emotional menstruation, whites everywhere have reacted with comical petrification and status-seeking. As Steve Sailer points out, these donnybrooks of racial outrage give people the opportunity to display their moral and class superiority through flagellation of race criminals and advancement of a racial spoils system. It is the secret to their behavior, moreso than claims of "guilt" which few if any whites genuinely feel about anything. Guilt may motivate us to conceal things about ourselves, but it does not make us preen.
It is considered a mark of high status to refuse to see the world clearly – for only someone of high status can persist in impractical behavior and beliefs.* In the case of blacks this means extending credibility to shamans like Sharpton and Jackson. How better to announce one's moral purity than to leave as judges of such matters men of comically shaky character who will grasp at any straw in order to advance themselves? Turning the merest infraction into an intolerable hate crime is the best and most conspicuous style of preening. Better still, ostentatiously rejecting the apologies of racial criminals encourages the next apology to be even more abject – and then one can bask in the wide social gulf which separates the morally correct from the reviled.
It is a little perplexing that Imus could be so stupid as to think that groveling would save him. As Howard Stern noted, "He's apologizing like a guy who got his first broadcasting job. He should have said, 'Fuck you, it's a joke.'" Perhaps his radio and television superiors forced him to take the walk of shame to Al Sharpton's radio studio; Imus spent his appearance wavering between abject apology and testy irritation at the attention-whoring fraud. Imus should have recalled Ann Coulter's obstinate refusal to apologize for calling John Edwards a faggot in joking about re-education camps. The only way to defeat status-seeking outrage is to show that one is so high status that one's position cannot really be affected – impotent outrage is the quickest to dissipate.
Because contemporary racial outrage depends on status-seeking whites, the main antidote to it is shaming the preeners in their own language of moral condemnation. As it happens this is quite easy to do, as every one of them is a fraud and hypocrite. It is important though that they be laughed at and mocked when they are shamed, for this is something moral preeners cannot withstand (this is why they attack ridicule and humor with particular vengeance). It is the one response that robs them of their status.
As the Satanist in Angel Heart remarks, "Evil is a dunghill, Mr. Angel. Everybody climbs up on theirs to speak out against somebody else's." Oh, how we know it! It is one of the oldest games there is, and even fools can master it. * Hence also the immigration question, which is also seen as low-class griping by "nativists" who must be of such lowly station in life that uneducated immigrants threaten their status.
Postscript: My sisters have each given birth to little babies and even they don't sound as whiny as this self-pitying bitch.
Don Imus, by way of introduction, is a shock jock who, sometime in the 90s, transitioned his show to a political format and starting having Beltway reporters and politicans appear on a regular basis. Despite the fact that his radio program is not top-rated, advertisers like the demographic he reaches, so in those terms he punches above his weight.
I haven't lived in a place that broadcasts him for years, but my memory of his program is that it is an irreverent current affairs talker and that Imus leans hard on the pose of being a vituperative loudmouth with cowboy-rancher affectations. Evidently he even calls his wife a "green ho" for her environmental interests. The show has always thrived on outrageous humor and insults (he got national exposure out of embarrassing Bill Clinton at some 90s Washington press gathering) and by remaining politically ambiguous. Imus cultivates ring-kissers from both the Democratic and Republican parties as well as among the egomaniacal Washington journalist tribe.
Imus himself is routinely subjected to ridicule on his show, such as being called "turkey neck" and "lizard" (among choicer allusions to Imus' extreme physical decrepitude) by his own producer, Bernard McGuirk (to whom Imus returns the favor by calling him a "bald-headed Nazi").
Post-postscript: Sailer posted a link to this in the comments of Matthew "Frodo" Yglesias' weblog, and intense status-seeking ensued almost as if a macro had just been launched. A liberals-always-know-to-treat-blacks-like-babies-exempt-from-criticism-because-they-are-dumb macro. Congratulations, fools! Once again you refuse to draw out the lessons from our hopelessly neurotic culture. Indeed, Yglesias' readers flew into a status-seeking rage as soon as Sailer brought up his idea of white vs. white status-seeking.
If you go to nerd forums you see the same thing, only regarding women. They refer to it as "white knight" syndrome, whereby fat, sexless nerds go to insane lengths to defend the "honor" of the girls who hang out there (typically to attention-whore). Nerds make it even more blatant because they are so desperate for female acceptance, but it's really the same social signaling.
One commenter threatened to beat up anyone who said such a thing about his daughter (on the Internet, everyone's a tough guy). He claims to be black, too. Doubtless posting this inane threat to nobody in particular helped him reach emotional orgasm as he imagined himself white-knighting (if you'll pardon the expression) his own daughter; Yglesias draws a strange and amusing crowd of losers.
Are the words "nappy-headed hos" truly hateful, racist, sexist, abhorrent, despicable fighting words, as we have been prissily advised by various ninnies who hate the sound of laughter? Surely the term "ho" has lost some of its punch by being repeated 500 billion times by wits and rappers everywhere. The expression was obviously intended as a silly aping of black-speak. But don't let this stop your asinine status-seeking, fools.
Additional: Bob Somerby at The Daily Howler teases out the question of how difficult judging parody and caricature really is, while defending (perhaps over-vigorously) the honor of the nearly anonymous female basketball players. Here's the takeaway:
Imus has said a lot of dumb things over the years; we plan to discuss these problems tomorrow. But you know the ways of that mainstream press corps! After a decade of puzzling silence, Steinberg is deeply offended today. Why, he’s offended by everything, now—now that a brilliant new script has been written. They wait until a consensus is formed. Then they all jump on the pile.
He also defends Jackson and Sharpton, inexcusably, but you'll just have to skip that part. He makes up for it, trust me. Somerby, an actual comedian, goes where the humorless, spineless journalist tribe will not. |
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