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Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin tragedy in February, many publications posted articles about "the talk" — a phrase denoting the conversation many black parents have at some point with their children to explain the realities of racism. Last Thursday, writer John Derbyshire penned an article titled "The Talk: Nonblack Version," which codified a similar set of lessons he had given to his children over the years. Unfortunately, those lessons turned out to be horribly racist themselves. "The remarkably long list of how to teach children to stay safe by avoiding black people goes on for two pages and Derbyshire contends is a true lifesaver. There is no irony or clarification that, perhaps, this is a joke, no matter how much you may want to find a disclaimer after you’re done reading." Reader concealment writes to point out that the internet and the media vocalized their disgust quickly and at length, and now Derbyshire has been fired from his position at the conservative National Review magazine (the offending article appeared in a different publication called Taki's Magazine).
>>>got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school
More recent example:
A white guy was beat-up by some blacks who said, "This is for Trayvon." In other words it was a revenge attack against white people. (Never mind that the killer was actually hispanic; not part of the white majority. News orgs like NBC have twisted the story.) Of course the blacks were not charged for a hate crime. Or assault. Just disorderly behavior.
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that blacks have lower median IQ than whites (true), higher rates of criminality than whites (true), and that you shouldn't go into black neighbourhoods (duh).
What can we conclude? The truth is racist.
After I got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school, I realized that dad may not be so stupid after all and moved back with in him.
Whether he's stupid depends on how he interprets the situation. Are young black men more violent towards young white men because they're inherently violent because of genetics? Or do they simply learn that their roles aren't valued by society and take any chance they can to assert dominance, just like anyone of any race would do in their position?
The former is stupid and racist. The latter is smart and correct. Your experience, while possibly consistent with a racist interpretation can also be completely explained without racism. It's still stupid to be racist.
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Whites are not the minority.
Blacks are a minority and there is a long history or racism against them, especially in the south.
Derbyshire has been an embarassment at NRO for quite some time. That right-wing mag, started by the potent (but racist) thinker William F Buckley, has become a sewer of ugly bigotry and hatred, though it didn't really have all that far to go to begin with. At least under Buckley, there was an attempt at some intellectual basis for their ugly bigotry. Now, it's just a bunch of hate speech mixed with pearl-clutching and tsk-tsk-ing over the horrible, incivility of the American Left. Sort of the "Mom, he's hitting me back!" syndrome.
When they fired Christopher Buckley, Wm F's son, because he wasn't sufficiently hateful, they signaled their direction and their ultimate decline. They've been nosediving ever since. In some circles, National Review Online is knows as "The Shittiest Website on the Internet". Then, they fired David Frum for suggesting that Barack Obama was not a islamo-marxist blackety-black kenyan hitler on steroids. When Frum later said, "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.â the folks at NRO put a price on his head. He currently resides in the former-wingnut protection program.
Today, the intellectual leader of the National Review Online is the well-known Doughy Pantload, Jonah Goldberg. Raised like a veal in a whorehouse by the famous harpy Lucienne Golberg, Jonah Goldberg is best known for his weighty tome, "Liberal Fascism", which puts forth the case that liberals are like Hitler because National Socialism has the word "socialism" in it and Hitler was a vegetarian and all liberals are vegetarians so it's not the corporate Right that are fascists, it's really the liberals, neener neener neener. And it took him like a thousand pages to state that thesis. He still has not been able to understand why the intellectual elite did not raise him up on their shoulders and show appropriate awe for his intellect. He has an entire chapter (and I'm not making this up) where his main argument amounts to, "I'm rubber and your glue and what bounces off me sticks to you". Only he didn't make the argument nearly that cogently.
So now, circa 2012, and noticing that instead of following them to the far right, Republicans are about to nominate Mitt Romney, they have decided they better try to clean up their act. Derbyshire is the first casualty. I believe the guy who works in the mail room's job is safe, but that's about it. Goldberg's job is probably safe too, because he works for free (well, not exactly for free - his mom puts ten dollars on his dresser every M-W-F so he has milk and bus money.
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