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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).
Blacks make up a majority of the civilian population, but a majority of the prison population. Avoiding them on the street isn't racism. It's fact based statistics.
I recall the government-funded NPR recently fired a black reporter after he made a guest appearance on FOX and said some things NPR did not like. So to answer your question: Yes.
The ideal would be no censorship but of course that doesn't apply to private organizations. They censor things all the time.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
>>>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.
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
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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Fact: there are more white criminals than black ones.
That there are more blacks that are convicted doesn't disprove the latter, it demonstrates the racism of the justice system.
Be more careful about your data analysis and understand what it describes, and how the data points can be manipulated.
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Negroes attack whites at something like 6 or 7 times the opposite. /.'s political correctness makes me wanna puke. So do you white race traitors and H1B Hindus and Pakis with your bogus technical "degrees" that are forcing down our wages. GTFO!
"those lessons turned out to be horribly racist themselves."
How "horribly racist".
Damn those white people for not getting with the program and letting their countries be destroyed by unfettered third world immigration! Obviously as soon as a third worlder steps foot on European soil, they magically transform into a European, and their IQ increases, and they become more law abiding! Because we all know that it's LAND MASSES that make one person more intelligent than another, right? It couldn't be genetic, could it... no, of course not.
In other words, the Left are seriously trying to argue that it's LAND MASSES which made Europeans successful, which made us invent 99% of everything that exists in the world today, and it's that nasty land mass of Africa which somehow held back 'the black man' for the last 100,000 years... It's definitely not genes, is it...
Perhaps one of the idiot Left wingers on this forum can tell me - why do you think white people don't have the right to have their own countries ANY MORE?
When I was a kid, I had a liberal stepdad and a conservative dad. I always thought my dad was just a racist who didn't know what he was talking about. At one point we had it out and so I left my lilly-white hometown to to live with my mom and stepdad in what happened to be a predominantly black school district (which my liberal stepdad considered a great opportunity for me to learn a valuable cultural lesson). After I got a harsh lesson in anti-white racism by getting my ass kicked for about the 10th time at said school, .
How much of your getting an ass kicking was about your attitude at that point?
I would postulate that in your case your 'conservative' father had already sewn the seeds of prejudice in you, and that your difference in skin colour was massively overshadowed by the colour of your attitude towards others.
There's no way that black scholar would be working at National Review in the first place.
You have to be pretty seriously racist to get yourself fired from National Review.
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.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Why NPR get government funding I have no idea.
There are tons of radio stations out there. No need for the government to fund one.
NPR is a relic and all government funding of it should be stopped.
If it can survive without the funding then great. If it can not also great.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?