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It’s 2014: Why Aren’t You Racist Yet?

Posted on | April 27, 2014 | 51 Comments

So, apparently, this was The Week When Everybody Became Officially Racist. First it was Cliven Bundy, and now L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been caught on audio saying racist — RAAAAACIST! — stuff to his hot young girlfriend, who just happens to be half-black and half-Mexican. Rich elderly white guy is OK with dating this exotic young hybrid, but he seems to perceive some kind of image issue with his girlfriend hanging out with black people.

Can this be explained? Maybe. But if you find yourself forced to explain a remark about race, face it — you’re Officially Racist.

Ditto Avril Lavigne. She made a weird music video about Hello Kitty and was denounced by Zack Beauchamp of Vox.com as having “hit some kind of Orientalist Japanese Stereotype trifecta.” Ann Althouse looked closely and saw nothing racist. Moe Lane looked closely and saw nothing racist. Ann Althouse looked again and still saw nothing racist.

And this proves what, boys and girls?

Exactly: Ann Althouse and Moe Lane are both racists — RAAAAACIST! — because they are not as sensitive and keen-eyed as Zack Beauchamp in detecting Orientalist Japanese Stereotypes.

Of course, Avril Lavigne is Canadian. And you know how those people are.

 

 

Comments

51 Responses to “It’s 2014: Why Aren’t You Racist Yet?”

  1. K-Bob
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:42 am

    I just keep hitting back with:

    Only the left cares about skin color

    But I love how the terms get shifted in mid discussion to mean whatever they want them to mean at the time.

    If the word “racist” is to have any derogatory heft, it has to amount to something more than using “racial” language, such as found all throughout “affirmative action” laws and 80 percent of Richard Pryor’s comedy. Most white people don’t really think the words used by the major black comedians are actually “racist,” but there’s no denying they are racial.

  2. robertstacymccain
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:45 am

    I’m just waiting for somebody to tell me that the phrase “exotic young hybrid” is racist.

    Of course, it is. I’m a white heterosexual male, and therefore everything I say or do is racist.

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    April 27th, 2014 @ 3:54 am

    […] It is 2014, and we are all racist… (I must denounce […]

  4. JeffS
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:55 am

    We’re all racist together.

  5. Rosalie
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:58 am

    And if a politician is a black conservative, the Dems give him/her no credence or respect.

  6. CrustyB
    April 27th, 2014 @ 10:01 am

    If liberals looked objectively at the difference between Clive Bundy and Donald Sterling…well, I guess I can stop at “liberals looked objectively.”

  7. Jeanette Victoria
    April 27th, 2014 @ 10:03 am

    They would be called self-hating minority and step and fetch-it house (epithet goes here)

  8. Daniel O'Brien
    April 27th, 2014 @ 10:20 am

    While employed with a large Fortune 500 company in the late 70’s, I was “volunteered” to attend an Urban Minority Workshop where I learned I was a racist because 1) I was white, 2) I lived in a white community, 3) I married a white woman, 4) I wouldn’t admit my racism, 5) I admired the brilliance of black children at the charter school we visited (i.e., low expectation), 6) I felt uncomfortable being dropped off in the middle of Newark, NJ and told to eat lunch at a local diner where I was the only white person, and on and on. Yes, I’m a RAAAAACIST.

  9. The Daley Gator | Im a racist, shes a racist, hes a racist, wouldn’t you like to be a racist too!
    April 27th, 2014 @ 10:34 am

    […] Apparently 2014 is the Year of RAAAAACISM, or maybe there is just something in the water […]

  10. Eric Ashley
    April 27th, 2014 @ 12:16 pm

    At the invite of the Torlings of the House of Orson Scott Card pays for all our bills, and we hates him, we hates him, I and some others went over to explain that Vox Day wasn’t a racist, that we were amused, and that it was real sweet of them to agree with Larry Correia that the Hugos were not about merit, but about popularity and politics.

    So, while I have a civil skin, I am intellectually dishonest, and no doubt a racist. I also have privilege.

    But more importantly I have laughter because laughing at liberals, even genially as I tried to do, is RAAAAACIST.

    I condemn myself.

  11. DaveO
    April 27th, 2014 @ 12:20 pm

    Althouse voted for Obama, because she’s a conservative blogger. Her votes for Obama make her racist. Sterling is a very rich Democrat who employs black men and women. Because Sterling is jealous, he is a racist. Moe Lane is a racist because “Lane” is a four letter word, and Moe rhymes with Hoe.
    “Sotomayoring” is calling for a conversation on race with the precondition that White Males are always guilty, regardless of their votes, their activism, and especially their religion. Sotomayoring is the equivalent of Hamas having the rigid precondition of there being zero Jews and no Israel before they will enter into peace negotiations.
    Race relations in America is identical to the ethnic relations in the former Yugoslavia in 1991. One can not distinguish between the speeches of convicted war criminals Karadic and Plavsic and the racialists of the American Left.

  12. Rosalie
    April 27th, 2014 @ 1:04 pm

    The left wants us all to be criminals.

  13. Rosalie
    April 27th, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

    Thanks for the info. I just found out I’m a racist too.

  14. Rosalie
    April 27th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm

    “Moe Lane is a racist because “Lane” is a four letter word, and Moe rhymes with Hoe.”
    LOL

  15. Julie Pascal
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

    I just figured you were being deliberately provoking.

    If I were a pedant I’d point out that “hybrid” is a biologically incorrect term, but “exotic” fits as mixed race people often are particularly attractive individuals… no matter what that “human barbie” girl said about Armenians… or whoever it was she decided had big ugly noses.

  16. RS
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

    I recall some years ago, I participated in an adoption of two special needs black children by a white couple. The fact that this white couple would agree to make these children their own and support them was deemed–wait for it–RACIST!!!!!, because they really wanted to prevent the children from experiencing their own culture. I pointed out, the “culture” in question consisted of an unknown father and a mother who was a crack whore, and asked if that was the culture we really wanted to perpetuate. You guessed it. I had my Platinum RACIST!!!!! Card (TM) validated at that moment.

    I’ve also been called a racist for believing that people should marry and procreate with whom they want without regard to skin color. That, of course, is tantamount to advocating genocide, the fact that if different races intermarry and have children both races lose their genetic “purity” notwithstanding.

  17. Julie Pascal
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm

    “I love Japanese culture and I spend half of my time in Japan. I flew to Tokyo to shoot this video specifically for my Japanese fans, WITH my Japanese label, Japanese choreographers AND a Japanese director IN Japan.”

    So he’s left with complaining about appropriation, since the entire article was then rendered moot (but not rewritten) by the fact that she was deliberately performing for a Japanese audience. And then he offers the frosting on the whole cupcake which is that globalization will undoubtedly lead to ever more instances of cultural appropriation and every more opportunities to publicly preen over having a higher sensibility. So, win-win!

  18. Paul H. Lemmen
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:17 pm

    Yep. We’re all Bozo’s on this bus …

  19. darthlevin
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:40 pm

    I remember back in the 80’s when anime was called “Japanimation”, and pronounced “ja-PAN-i-MA-tion”. Nevertheless, we had to start saying “anime” because Our Betters told us that no, the word “Japanimation” is not a portmanteau of “Japan” and “animation” it’s really a racist slur of “Jap” with “animation” slapped on the end. Despite the fact that nobody ever said “JAP…AN-i-MA-tion”.

    In the 30 years since then, Japanimation has gotten consistently weirder.

  20. Phil_McG
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:46 pm

    Si. When laws proliferate to the point where everybody’s guilty of something, folks are permanently at the mercy of the state. Which is just the way the left likes it.

  21. Phil_McG
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:47 pm

    She’s smoking! Get her!

  22. Phil_McG
    April 27th, 2014 @ 2:49 pm

    I thought you were paying the young lady a complement. And fair play to Mr Sterling. She’d give some men half his age a heart attack.

  23. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 27th, 2014 @ 3:08 pm

    #You’reSoRacist because you support affirmative action based on someone’s skin color

  24. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 27th, 2014 @ 3:57 pm

    As Jazz Shaw notes: One, Sterling is up for an NAACP lifetime achievement award. The second is that he is apparently also a significant Democrat donor.

  25. ThePaganTemple
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:18 pm

    He’s just mad because his trophy girlfriend is making him look like Not A Stud-
    http://athenesword14.blogspot.com/2014/04/nba-owner-upset-over-trophy-girlfriends.html.

  26. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:34 pm

    Annie Althouse is no Raaaaacist – she’s just a fool.

  27. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:37 pm

    Well…Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers and they’ve been known to pick a song or two [yes they do!]

    But…Lord they get me off so much; they pick me up when I’m feeling blue – now how about you?

  28. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:39 pm

    You win this thread.

  29. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:46 pm

    When I speak of those in Japan who had nothing to do with WWII, I call them ‘Japanese’, but when I talk of the bastards who started the War, fought for Japan, and spawned the sniper who shot my Father across the forehead, I call them ‘Japs’.

    Denounce me and I just say ‘So?’

  30. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:48 pm

    All such men as this Sterling fellow who date women more than twenty years younger than themselves all look like fools.

  31. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 4:50 pm

    And as for those Germans who fall into the same category, they’re ‘The Hun’, which pisses their Aryan arses-off to no end.

  32. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 27th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm

    Yes they do…

  33. angrymike
    April 27th, 2014 @ 7:49 pm

    Yup thread winner, love it…….. 😉

  34. K-Bob
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:05 pm

    That’s because it shows no love for Teutons.

  35. K-Bob
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:05 pm

    That’s because it shows no love for Teutons.

  36. K-Bob
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:09 pm

    I think you’re required now to always add the parenthetic “(Who writes really good stories, but I don’t agree with his hatred)” whenever you drop Card’s name. Because he’s a hater. Which probably means he’s racist, too.

    All the pages in his books are white.

  37. cmdr358
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm

    That was super wasn’t it ?
    Fantastic documentary!

  38. K-Bob
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:17 pm

    I like the Cogitative Dissonation of his being racist for not wanting her to bring blacks to his games, but it’s okay if she sleeps with them.

    That’s some really selective racism, that is.

  39. cmdr358
    April 27th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm

    Them you’re just indifferent to raaaaacism which is worse! [end sarc.]

  40. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 27th, 2014 @ 10:59 pm

    It was very well done. I was very impressed.

  41. DeadMessenger
    April 27th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm

    I’ve been trying to self-identify as a racist, but my minority friends refuse to back me up on it.

  42. Adjoran
    April 27th, 2014 @ 11:14 pm

    Me, too. It really pisses me off when they laugh at it, too.

  43. Adjoran
    April 27th, 2014 @ 11:17 pm

    All the funny noses, big shoes . . . that Future Fair is going to be something!

  44. Adjoran
    April 27th, 2014 @ 11:21 pm

    I use “Krauts” – they hate that, too. Means “cabbage.” Too Polish for Jerry, I guess.

  45. Bob Belvedere
    April 27th, 2014 @ 11:57 pm

    Damn! I knew I forgot something – I do use Kraut.

  46. John Bradley
    April 28th, 2014 @ 3:07 am

    Personally, I love Teutons. On a salad, with bacon bits and ranch dressing.

  47. K-Bob
    April 28th, 2014 @ 4:42 am

    Made from Trench bread?

  48. John Bradley
    April 28th, 2014 @ 8:59 am

    Bzzt! As a White Male Oppressor, you don’t get to say who is and isn’t a 5-A racist. Only Jesse Jackson has the power to make that determination.

    Keeping with the South Park motif: “Kiss it.”

  49. Speichera
    April 29th, 2014 @ 9:14 am

    I find your use of the term “hybrid” to be racist. Racist bastard.

  50. Dinsdale Piranha
    April 30th, 2014 @ 8:14 am

    When you’ve got a shiny new Guillotine, everyone looks like an Oppressor.

    I’ve been to all the places in the video. Random train station, Harajuku street, tiny sushi shops, candy stores. They LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THAT in Japan. The only thing I haven’t seen there is the backup dancers had thin stripe suspenders when it’s a fashion no-no. The hair color is standard.

    And note that she was NOT trying herself to look Japanese at all, it was the same Avril with a goofy candy skirt. I guess Mr. Zack just needs to pull his head out of his ass and stop seeing racists under every sushi bar.