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Downtown San Francisco Is A Hellscape

The pompous French crave our fast food — shocked Americans say they’re très stupide

The bizarre condition that makes people see ‘demons’ with ‘disturbing’ warped features

Christian group is ‘luring’ students with free pizza at lunch

White Americans More Likely To Succumb To ‘Deaths Of Despair’ Than Minorities

Wife's veganism has become a third party in marriage

TMR's Been Pushing A Moral Moment Of Clarity 4 Years

And now, in 2015, the country's catching up for a change:

Glad I hung around to see it,...

Cosby's Respectability Politics Just Keeps Taking Hits

Let me ask you a serious question - 100% - if you were black, who would you rather be standing with?

A decent kid who's had a few "youthful scrapes with the law" he can grow out of (AKA a "thug" in the white world) or a rich, and formally-well-liked, and world-renowned, rapist of children with white conservative support?

It's not exactly an ethics test, I know, but choose wisely anyway: 

Your answer still says a lot about you,...
 

The Althouse Blog: Where Whites Show How It's Done

Not "the most racist" but - when it comes to consistency - giving whites a real run for the money

"You'd better believe I had all the early Kinks albums, Kinks, Kinda Kinks, and Kinks Kontroversy. I still love that kind of [kinda] thing. It still appeals to me more than the anguished bellyaching of soul music." 

 - Ann Althouse, establishing her "white" bonafides in pop rock, April 9th, 2011

Ann Althouse would be steady-as-a-rock if John Althouse Cohen was murdered

“I heard TV news folk say over and over that Michael Brown's family has requested nonviolence, but the video of the mother and the step-father show them directly inciting violence.”

- Ann Althouse, judging Michael Brown's parents - for not upholding a rigid consistency while grieving "bellyaching" - November 25, 2014

When playing cards, this is called a "tell"

"I had never heard 'okey-doke' used like that. I only knew 'okey-doke' as a cute/corny way to say 'okay.'"

- Ann Althouse, again showing her intimacy with blacks - and black idioms - before her judging of us really began, November 16th, 2014

White people are making blacks even more cynical about white people

"I knew that I was tired of good people, that I had had all the good people I could take."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, considering white racism - without noticing Ann Althouse yet - in The New York Times, March 6th, 2013

Reading Ann Althouse would make blacks more cynical - about living

"My question is: How did some people get to be considered the 'good' people in the first place? It's that question that fires my antagonism to liberals. They think they are good."

- Ann Althouse, trying to get noticed by Coates, March 10th, 2013

Ann doesn't know if traumatized parents of a murdered boy are "good" - or just "bellyaching"

“Everybody wants me to be calm. You know what them bullets did to my son! They still don’t care! They never going to care!”

- Lesley McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, November 25th, 2014

How to spot those who aren't "good" is easy

”No one cares; take responsibility for yourself. When, if ever, will that cruel, harsh and unpleasant reality sink in?"

- veni vidi vici, the type of regular "colorblind" commenter Althouse caters to - who she identifies with because he isn't trying to be "good" - November, 20th, 2014

Althouse's crowd is fond of saying, "We don't even THINK about race!" - and it shows

"Ann doesn't keep hate sites on her blogroll, no matter who is claiming to be her friend. That's just one of the many things that gives her integrity."

- Meade Lawrence, calling out TMR for the insufficient sensitivity - to the years of "integrity" - I've found on Althouse, November, 24th, 2014

Giuliani Is Proving Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Invaluable

Almost too predictable for mention - but it was

This weekend, when Chuck Todd asked former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani about the preponderance of white police officers patrolling black neighborhoods nationally, what did Giuliani do? He did exactly as Ta-Nehisi Coates said he would,...and changed the subject. Here's Coates in his piece, "Black People Are Not Ignoring 'Black on Black' Crime":

“The pattern is the transmutation of black protest into moral hectoring of black people. Don Imus profanely insults a group of black women. But the real problem is gangsta rap. Trayvon Martin is killed. This becomes a conversation about how black men are bad fathers,...”

And here, sure enough, is a demonstration of that: Giulliani prefers saying anything - literally anything - to staying on-point, because: 

“The politics of respectability are, at their root, the politics of changing the subject—the last resort for those who can not bear the agony of looking their country in the eye.”

Because, if Giulliani was looking his country "in the eye," he'd surely see he's led a force full of resentful, and unrepentant, white supremacists who are incapable of dealing with the problems white supremacy has created for us all:



But he can't say that - he can't face it - so we get this, instead,...

Whites Can't Even Count (1919 Came Before "The 60s")

Wear the "wrong" pants and blacks deserve whatever whites do

Racist white's oppressive focus on the blacks they've made poor - and not white's own racist behavior - began long before LBJ:

During the Reconstruction era some Black Americans believed that the solution to social uplift was not in social reform but in individual moral behavior. Behind the idea was the concept that discrimination and systematic oppression took place because Whites did not respect Blacks. However, the theory went that if Blacks changed their behavior, fashion, and even music, Whites would begin to respect them and therefore treat them as deserving of dignity. 

Politics of respectability was,...an ideology, targeted towards poor Blacks, urging them to get on board with behavior that Whites deemed respectable, as a necessary and sufficient condition of racial uplift,…The Chicago Defender posted weekly reminders targeting poor Black Chicago migrants, admonishing them against vulgar language and ragged clothes. Avoiding these things, the newspaper argues in a May 17, 1919 issue, "will disarm those who are endeavoring to discredit the race." 

Instead of moral excellence being a possibility for us all, politics of respectability places the burden of virtue on the oppressed and lets the oppressor off the hook. Instead of challenging the oppressor to be fair, loving, or unconditionally compassionate, they demand that the oppressed "pull up their pants," "don't wear hoodies," "remain chaste," and "don't be lazy" -- while simultaneously excusing the unethical acts of the oppressor towards them.

We must still be in the Reconstruction Era

Whites in blackface just like always - but in 2014

Blacks seem to change much easier than whites - why is that?

When racist whites focus, on what racist whites do, then racist whites might become respectable themselves,...

This is how a white person looks "thinking about race"

ADDED:

History has shown that 'acting better' does not bring about being 'treated better.' We must remember that four girls were in Sunday school when their Birmingham church was bombed. Amadou Diallo did not commit any crime, obeyed the police, but yet was shot 41 times by the police. We can count numerous times in which women were raped not because they wore short skirts or were intoxicated but simply because they were women. This is why in "A Case For Reparations", Ta-Nehisi Coates claims: 

The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more respectable. The essence of American racism [or any hatred for that matter] is disrespect. 

Moreover, respectability politics is not a philosophy where we value morality for morality sake but it is used as a means to achieve respect from Whites and men: a goal that may never be achieved.

Ann Althouse's Kid Is As Dumb As She Is If He Thinks I Don't Know When He's Trying To Lie Out Of His Ass

Althouse has a running joke. At least, Ann treats it as a joke:

Whenever someone discovers she's not too bright, or deeply immoral, at some point they scream "And you, a law professor!"

Ann thinks it's funny, or rebellious, destroying any respect we held for her position before we discovered she's the type who holds it.

It seems to be what whites want to do to America as a whole.

I mention this because Ann put a quote about prejudice on her blog today - from her son, John Althouse Cohen - and it's clear the apple hasn't fallen far from the stupid tree: 

  "A lot of people have an impulse to be prejudiced. But at the same time, they're like almost everyone in that they want to avoid being socially unacceptable. So they want to vent sexism and racism somehow — but only in ways that are considered socially acceptable.

And how can one do that? It's obvious: by expressing sexism/racism against men and whites only. If they'd been born long ago, they might have vented against women or blacks instead. That's why when I hear people expressing shamelessly anti-man or anti-white views, it doesn't strike me as a dramatic improvement over the expression of anti-woman or anti-black view....

Notice anything missing from this formulation? Of course, just like the racist whites who gather at Ann's for their daily black-bashing (with no pushback, as she regularly does for "women's issues") John Althouse Cohen gives no indication there's a white history of black oppression what-so-ever. He doesn't see the problem as what whites have been doing wrong for centuries - for no good reason - but that the people whites have been doing it to (the descendents of American slaves) are being just like everyone else in every way. We blacks want, so badly, to join whites in acting despicably. He even starts his riff with a quote from a Scientologist - one of the most oppressive and exploitive groups imaginable.

Why, if blacks were in John Althouse Cohen's shoes, we'd be re-writing history for our own convenience, too! Fuck our educations, fuck our elder's moral guidance, fuck everything - BLACKS JUST WANT TO BE EVIL TO WHITES SO BAD!

So, according to this law professor's son - a law professor's son! - there's been no stolen bodies (so no accumulated pain) no stolen money (so no accumulated poverty) no lies (so no accumulated lack of trust) no mass incarceration (resulting in massive disenfranchisement) no nothin' (and, thus, no reason for black's anger at, even, such an evil thing as what John Althouse Cohen is proposing). Blacks are just looking for trouble, as whites have done, with Ann, and her kid, and everybody else who's white and openly living off the wealth stolen from blacks (and now desperately trying to run out the clock on the crimes) being saints suffering unprovoked attacks. Why, "If they'd been born long ago, they might have vented against women or blacks instead."

Yeah, the history of blacks attacking blacks "long ago" is legendary - Harriet Tubman (a woman last time I checked) led the way.

My GOD, white people's stupidity is equaled only by their attempts to be self-servingly disingenuous,...  

Anderson Cooper Has Better Morals Than Althouse

The best statement on feminism I could find 

Unlike white's blogging princess, manipulation and exploitation don't seem to be the reporter's racket: 

  "Anderson Cooper aghast when reporter asks him to take selfie near Ottawa shooting scene" 

Althouse would've done it in a minute:

As long as it made her "happy",....

 

Althouse Explains Her So-Called Morals After Ebola

The exploitation of black children - throughout American history? Not a problem

"I consider it deeply morally wrong to appropriate and exploit children like this."

Ahhh - but grown, educated white women, trying to spread a terror of black disease carriers, is "deeply morally" right - especially without a retraction when it becomes clear you were obviously, terribly, miles-off-base wrong. 

And making up "possibly" sexist charges against black men is also "deeply morally" right - because Rush Limbaugh said your name.

Althouse's ethical framework is so "deeply morally" convoluted, I'm surprised even she thinks she knows what she's saying:

"I think the best I can do is try to shame the adults who are treating children this way."

Sorry, Lady, but - in less than a week - you traded any moral authority you may have for cheap publicity on white-wing wadio:

You can't shame anybody.

BTW - White women are exploiting white kids - for the cause of your precious white women's feminism?

BWAAAAA-HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

 

Chained - To Humanity's Only Serious Cultural Anchor

If you 've ever wondered how 256 years of slavery became one chapter in school text books

"The unfortunate people to which I belonged, were both sentimental and callous. It was not interested in being shaken by events and any know-thyself."

That was the writer, Stephan Hermlin, on how Adolf Hitler changed European morality. But it also explains white America, too - in relation to this country's treatment of blacks - because this same behavior (along with a daily dose of snideness and ridicule) is what they show us, about themselves. Neither introspection, nor any sign of human kindness, shall bind them. 

 It's hard to believe in anything surrounded by such "people"...

 

How White America "Works": Blacks Who Have Hurt No One Die While Killers Get Donations By The Thousands

A regular series of "cool" interchangeable villains

So, The White Man's Hero is starting to crack, and finally lets the world know why he's The White Man's Hero:

"‘Do you know who I am?’ George Zimmerman threatens to kill driver in road rage incident: Florida cops"

An illustrated example of what a "country" looks like to whites

This fits perfectly with the rest of Zimmerman's profile - and that of his (and Darren Wilson's) supporters:

 "The most morally rotted and ethically suspect supporters of Darren Wilson have collectively donated at least 500,000 dollars to protect him from the consequences of killing Michael Brown.

As I wrote here, donating money to Darren Wilson (and other white vigilantes and extra-judicial killers of black people such as George Zimmerman) is the new lynching photography of the 21st century. Instead of buying postcards of hung, tortured, and burned alive black bodies, those who donate to Darren Wilson enjoy the vicarious pleasures of killing a black person by proxy. Michael Brown, and by extension other black American men, are born with a bounty on their heads.

Darren Wilson is the white gunslinger who brought the black “thug” to “justice”. This is cathartic violence for the White Right and its Fox News driven propaganda machine.

The supporters of Darren Wilson are enjoying the fun of a thrill kill; they are sharing ownership over the deed by donating money to their idol Darren Wilson."

Blacks who ask for donations get teased, whites who don't - and kill blacks - can get half a million white dollars overnight

Ol' Georgie Boy Zimmerman must be as in need of extra cash as I am, now,...

 

No Picture Necessary: We Can See This One Everyday

 "This is a story about the fact that wealthy white Americans simultaneously believe themselves to be under attack and believe they are above the moral, ethical and legal limitations that apply to lesser humans – and that, in a sense, they are right on both counts."