One Of Journalism's Emperors Has No Clothes (But That's Gay Dudes For You)

Andrew Sullivan now says "The Woke: On The Wrong Side Of History (We need a racial politics for 2119, not 1619. Latinos will lead the way") but, when Obama was hot, he also said "Is anyone as unsurprised as I am that he's a Leo?" (and don't make me bring up the Sarah Palin shit). What''s unsurprising is, in all this time, he's never entertained (or, apparently, had it seriously suggested to him) that - even though he writes his ass off - his ability to reason may have an OBVIOUS flaw in it. So, I think, he could be mistaken about woke. 

Andrew Sullivan has simply never understood the world around him.

Me & Baby Brother

Coates was born exactly 4 years after I'd heard this

"We were asking back in 2008 how it was possible Sullivan even held a writing job - a fact we still don't understand. Well we do, kinda, now that we're familiar with the mindset of those who hold the unique position in American business known both as 'management' and/or 'Human Resources', but - other than that - no, we don't get it."

- The Crack Emcee, nailing Andrew Sullivan, December 21, 2010

"You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, explaining Sullivan's success in a way I saw and can understand, December 23, 2014

Andrew Sullivan Became Known To Me After Althouse Which Became Known To Me Through Instapundit,...

Whites advanced the careers of O.J., Bill Cosby, and Charles Barkley - not black demons

It's bizarre, once you become familiar with white folks online, how disappointing they can be as intellectuals. I guess it's inevitable, seeing how whites can be trained to fear the truth, but still - you'd think there was something, other than just loading us up with words, that would justify their positions, both as employable people AND as those anyone should've heard from in the first place. Take the writers at our richly-rewarded New Republic:

"John Cole has helpfully provided a brief list of the atrocities committed by the magazine under Peretz's leadership, and under the editorships of Michael Kinsley, Andrew Sullivan and the late Michael Kelly, among others, whose reputations as thinkers and journalists have survived largely untouched because that's the way it is when, to poach a phrase from the estimable Driftglass, there is a club and you're not in it."

I recently got another email on the perils of thinking of myself as a "victim" - apparently the absolute worst thing whites think can happen to a black person, filled as they are with the need to tack happy endings onto any story, no matter how brutal. The idea that recognizable whites have recognizable jobs and positions, that blacks can recognize whites don't deserve - but who are promoted to blacks as ideals we should shoot for - and that makes our unemployed asses a victim every day we have to look at them, never occurs. Think about it:

Without white's segregation, and discrimination, and all the mind games they play - today - to avoid hard discussions (or else they freak out) who and where would these people be? 

These are people who are regularly wrong. People who are leading to the country's downfall. People who get (and got) other people hurt or killed. People who cause/caused us to gag. And people who can't be touched - except by each other.

Yeah, I live under an ocean of white supremacy and privilege and, yeah, I'm drowning:

But, I hear, being white and in charge's a really *sweet* gig if you can get it,....

Water Under The Bridge: How Can TMR Equate White Racism On Law Professor Blogs,...With Homeopathy?

White law professors, who wallow in racism, react the same way homeopaths do to critics: they try to ignore them, hoping other whites - those with better ethics - won't notice what they're up to:

"This is a personal attack following an encounter on Facebook and I am surprised you would regard it as worthy of further attention -- I certainly don’t."

I know you are.

I know it because I've been pointing out the racism of Glenn Reynolds, Ann Althouse, and a whole slew of others in the law professor world of blogging for some time now, and there's not been a single word mentioning anything I said - because they, too, don't think an outside mention of race "as worthy of further attention," either, unless a white person says it.

That's how whites roll,...right over race, when blacks speak, as their readers openly call civil rights activists "hustlers" without challenge.

If Andrew Sullivan, or Rush Limbaugh mentions Ann Althouse, for instance, she's sure to plaster it where it can be noticed and talked about, because her readers are racists themselves, unlikely to acknowledge anything other than white words for their hero, and unwilling to challenge her on what they, themselves, believe but (also) don't understand - or care about:

The black people they abuse, with the policies they vote for, and encourage others like them to support.

It's a nifty trick: whites - hiding behind feminism, or gay rights, to maintain a "moderate" facade - while openly utilizing the power of white supremacy to screen out racial debate, and all while also denying that's what they do on a daily basis.

It's so effective - and so natural for whites, today, to do it - it's no wonder even they don't realize they're racists anymore,...

Invisible Man (Blacks From Our Future Can't Be Seen)

EMD said...

"Crack must be in the hospital or something. How else to explain his lack of presence on this topic?"

"Homeless. Because of you. And Republicans."

And, there you have it, white America's message of morality to disagreement and/or blame. Translation:

They Care. 

And they do. As long as you agree with them on things no sane person could agree with. Otherwise, homelessness, banishment, abandonment, or - my favorite from talking to white high schoolers about their parents - being "disowned". Scientologists "disconnect" people from their families, too, so there's that to ponder, as well. 

They don't get much whiter than L. Ron.

Little wonder that blacks, sticking together, freak the sociopathic "post-racial" crowd out. We just refuse to be like the rest. Cold. Unfeeling. Seeing people as discardable. Disposable. Willing to hide the bodies - and the guilt - under years of lies, right or wrong. 

Decades go by. Centuries. But look the other way. "Time heals all" they think. Everything but the truth. And anyone but them. They'll die first - or watch millions do so. They don't mind. You didn't agree. 

White culture's been this way since slavery.

It's America - not as a meritocracy - but a meat grinder.

Salute the flag.

"For them to turn on someone this way is wrong." 

 -- Geoffrey Moore (quoted by Ann Althouse) on gays and Brendan Eich, April 4, 2014

  "Justice Thomas Was Right/Citizens United and the defenestration of Brendan Eich." 

--  James Taranto (quoted by Ann Althouse) April 4, 2014

  "If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out.

"If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us." 

 -- Andrew Sullivan (quoted by Ann Althouse) April 3, 2014

  "I took a dissenting position [to Ann Althouse] - not because I hate gays or gay marriage, or openness in public affairs, but because of the ridiculous reaction gays have had to losing in the recent past - which I thought was ugly and don't want to see again." 

 -- TMR (not quoted by anybody paler, or living more comfortably, than I am) January 22, 2010

Yes, indeed - only four years old and even my right-on-the-bullseye ideas are "homeless. Because of you. And Republicans." 

And, apparently because of my race, the right and wrong - of, repeatedly, ignoring a *correct* black voice - will never come into it.

Almost like it never even happened,...

 

The Right's Blogosphere: Experts On Yoga, Meditation, Quackery, Gays & Alternative Medicine (But No Blacks)

Did you ever noticed, while I've nailed them for promoting all kinds of useless garbage, The Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse - Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan, Steven Den Beste, and Charles Johnson - have never taken the subject of slavery's economics very seriously? 

“Slavery has been written off as part of the pre-history of our world. Contemporary capitalism was shaped by its rational brutality but the banks, insurers and speculators who facilitated and expanded slavery have been able to project their activity as unsullied by a cruel and racist system that was as systematic as it was functional.”

Well, to be honest, if you ask me - except as a scam on their countrymen - they've never took blogging very seriously either,...

 

Read, White, And Singing The Blues (Which Ann Called "Bellyaching" When Black Folks Do It - But Not Gays,...)

As a blogger, it's comforting to know I can always count on Ann Althouse:

“Selecting that Andrew Sullivan quote for this post, I didn't think about the fact that it's one gay man commenting on another gay man, but I'm thinking about it now,...”

She's really great because, no matter what she thinks she's talking about, there's always that moment - like the one above - where she goes off the rails and (garbage in/garbage out) you know there's no need to read further. 

 See, if I was to write a post on, say, Clarence Thomas, would Ann be like, "Wow - it's a black guy - actually talking about a black guy!"? No, she wouldn't (and never has) because the reality is A) there's nothing particularly remarkable about it - gays have always been Chatty Cathy's - and B) she's only saying it because she doesn't give half-a-fuck about blacks like she does gays. 

Everything they do is reason for her to do some really, really deep thinking.

Blacks, on the other hand, are just here to provide the Civil Rights argument for her kid - we're not actually people, or even a people (as she seems to think gays are) with issues to be respected or even thought about. 

If we were, she'd acknowledge blacks didn't die for homosexuality, and - being a lawyer - come up with some original arguments that don't involve dragging us where we don't belong nor (as every poll shows) want to be. 

    

We all know (from the full-court "Will & Grace" media blitz) everyone will bend over backwards not to offend gays right now. Blacks, not so much. Especially when it comes to gays and their supporters. We have to suck it up - still. I'm sure, subversive little fucks that they are, they get a special thrill from the association - knowing we don't want it made and doing it anyway - but that's not respect either, it's just pervs getting another hard-on and thinking we should be flattered to see it. 

 They never think, how blacks can be so important to their argument, but so unimportant - as human beings - that they'll walk over and/or appropriate our most treasured accomplishment. 

But sadly - when it comes to a certain strain of American - that's nothing new: 

No matter who's doing it, exploiting us is - still - as American as apple pie,...

 

Standin' On Shaky Ground Ever Since You Put Me Down

 

That's some pretty boring reading out there today. Until I arrived at the Althouse, who really got things shakin' in an exchange with a reader, and revealed her chain-yanking ways:

"'A lot of bloggers tease their posts on Twitter and I think people follow bloggers on Twitter and then choose which post to click over to.' 

 

This doesn't work. I've tried it and there's virtually no traffic that comes through this way. I can see on Site Meter where my traffic comes from, and it's never from me teasing my own blog posts, even when I craft a tweet in a way that should be intriguing. I don't really think the readers are there. I think it's a lot of people trying to promote their brand, in competition with other promoters."

This makes me wonder what my fellow so-called "Hillbillies" were up to for all those years, because "teasing my own blog posts" was repeatedly charged as my behavior, whenever I'd make a point by linking to a post I'd created. It was, supposedly, the worst thing a blogger could do.   

But Ann can openly state she's intentionally done it ("I've tried it") and her readers don't blink. They even discuss how it works and what might be going wrong. They know her hook-up with Instapundit isn't designed to fix anything, solve problems, make America better, etc., but just to extend their reach - apparently into our wallets. 

They're frauds, this is a game, and whatever happens, happens.

   

 So was the whole thing with me. It was a set-up. A tactic. Something the "Hillbillies" intentionally used to try and get under my skin. Ruffle my feathers. 

Chase me away. 

 

Black guy gets hurt? Big deal. He talks too much.

 Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they ain't out to get me, huh? And for behavior that, still, drives me to say the whole cabal is dishonest. Funny how that works. It took 'em a while. 

And I love the ending:

   

 Based on Glenn & Co. saying the election's in the bag, the Hillbillies were screaming they don't need my vote - it was fucking beautiful. 

   

 Now don't get me wrong - whether looking at all of this as just a blogging matter, or (more importantly, if you want to get serious, and I do) also as a story of race in 2013 America, how politics currently "works" on the Right, an expose' on the deployment of cultish thinking (or the "groupthink" Robert Stacey McCain admitted to) or any number of other issues, discovered to be a "problem," on "our side" - none of that will ever make TMR as "brilliant" as Andrew Sullivan's online assumptions about the policy implications of President Obama's star sign. 

   

 Blow me. 

   

 I think, as a historical matter - since Ann agrees so vehemently that blogs are special - I've got the Right by the balls. 

Or something.

TMR ain't going away.

   

 Some of the tags I'm using for this post are "ann althouse," "glenn reynolds," "blogging," "politics," "race," "cultish thinking," "lying," "deception," "manipulation," and "exploitation".

   

 I think the evidence speaks for itself,...

 

Speaking As An Individual (It Sounds Kind Of NewAge-y)

Wanna see the similarity between the whole Transcendental Meditation racket, seen above, and Instapundit?  Robert Stacy McCain has an interesting observation:

"This network/community concept seems to have been lost by (or, more likely, was never known to) newer arrivals in the ‘sphere. The idea that each of us is contributing to a common project is not just some kind of “Stone Soup” idealism, but is in fact the only way to build any genuinely meaningful alternative to that pathetic exercise in groupthink we call the Mainstream Media…."

So Glenn's answer to the Mainstream Media's "groupthink" was to create a vessel for his own. And now they, too, are known for deception, manipulation, misinformation, and exploitation. Paraphrasing:

That Mitt Romney election was in-the-bag, now pay us for that marvelous insight - at, supposedly, no cost to yourself - unless you think losing the White House bore no cost.

Fools. Rush. In.

Listen to Ann spout it:

"I'm getting impatient with Tracy right now. I want to interrupt and say that blogs are a great format if you have a distinctive voice, and not just if you have idiosyncratic attributes — like gay, English, Catholic, and heretically conservative. The form — the blog — was so great, so powerful, so liberating, that many, many writers said me too, often pushed by an old-style publisher like the NYT that needed to have blogs to seem up-to-date. What made the age golden was the greatness of some blogs, like Sullivan's, not the sheer number of blogs at any given time."

Yeah, and as long as you silly, silly people - and not ideas - got there early enough to become the gatekeepers, saying who's "in" and "out". Listen to the loonie:

She actually wants us to go along with the suggestion that Andrew Sullivan - the weirdo who launched an investigation into Sarah Palin's womb - runs a blog of "greatness".

There aren't enough drugs on the planet to make that work. How can it?

Yesterday, when I was posting about gay men and NewAge, I could've been writing about Sully.

This is, specifically, why a blog about NewAge cultism focusses on the political blogosphere. They are as blind to themselves as the mainstream media is.

Point - I don't pick on Professor Jacobson.

It's a fact that Glenn Reynolds & Co. can't give me a fair shake, because I spotted - and spoke out about - their cultish nonsense from Day One. I was ranting about despising "groupthink" wherever it comes from - Left or Right - and saying I will never fit into it. 

Nor will I ever try. 

And, as Boomers,  this "community" of "groupthink" was destined to be their answer. 

In stepped Ann Althouse.

I was raising noise about their "clique," on her blog, and she told Glenn to link to TMR, probably to shut me up. People on her blog were listening to me then.

That's what big bloggers are afraid of. It has nothing to do with language or attitude - or else Ann would've gotten rid of me, long ago, instead of me leaving - it's attention going elsewhere. They can't shake down the rubes without 'em, can they?

Their mistake?

Assuming - by inviting me in - I couldn't see, and would stop saying, what they've been up to all along.

But, as Sojourner Truth said, ain't this a blog?