As I've observed elsewhere, one of the hallmarks of a stone racist is their presumed expertise on the race in question even when they actually don't know anyone from that race. This presumption applies both individually (as in knowing exactly what MLK was all about and why they should condemn him) and collectively (as in welfare queens driving Cadillacs).
"[A]nd one of Crowder’s white sidekicks goes, 'Look, I get it, there was so much injustice, I have no idea how I would feel, but I probably wouldn’t burn down or rob a local store owned by other black people in my community.' You don’t say."
My earliest memory is of the smell of smoke. I was not quite three when MLK was murdered, and the smoke was because the West Side of Chicago (we lived on the South Side) was on fire from the immediate aftermath. Days of "shoot to kill" and all that.
"Oh, You Like Margaret Sanger Well SHE WAS A BIG RACIST"
I seem to recall hearing Ben Shapiro use that line on Bill Maher. It was a few years back, before he had the monobrow split with laser surgery. I remember it looked like a giant caterpillar was eating his head.
I seem to have made a study of the NY Post's annual MLK day editorials, which is easy because they've been virtually identical for the past few years. Lately it always includes this bit:
"Yes, in the decades since his death, scholars have found that he had his flaws and frailties. To err is human.
Then, too, we nowadays largely idealize his crusade — forgetting the issues that made him even more controversial: his opposition to militarism; his denunciation of America as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today"; his warning that the greatest threat to black progress was "the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to racial justice."
I guess one person's "controversial flaw" is another person's "right on, Reverend, right on."
That's been a guiding principle for the right since the rise of the conservative media decades ago. Then again, since facts and reality have a liberal bias, sort of leaves them with bullshit and the insensible.
related to that, I love Crowder's line: "You probably didn't know this". Sure, because he just pulled out of his ass so sure, who'd've known til he told us?
I barely looked at Twitter yesterday because of the rancid MLK stuff. Seems doom scrolling is bad for my blood pressure. Who'd a thunk it! Anyway, just for the grins you might Google Sam Seder and big moist boi Stevie Crowder, they've had a couple of fun interactions. 😉
I know it’s stupid to point out the giant redwood mote in the eyes of the very same people who wail on about how MLK was a skirt chaser and a poor student when their godhead is Donald Trump, who doesn’t have a single commendable human trait to balance against his “human frailties”. Not a one! But holy shit it gets on my last nerve.
That construction of Baseball Cranks's is really a head-shaker - “Perhaps some progressives and Democratic politicians truly believe that John C. Calhoun was right about the American Founding, and that both Dr. King and Lincoln were wrong” - since it totally ignores pretty much ALL of King's statements about the founding and the Constitution, i.e., "Ever since the birth of our nation, White America has had a Schizophrenic personality on the question of race, she has been torn between selves. A self in which she proudly professes the great principle of democracy and a self in which she madly practices the antithesis of democracy," or "...for the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country, even today, is freedom and equality and that racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists."
But at least he acknowledges that King was a leftist, which is always ignored in these right-wing encomiums to someone they would have hated while he was alive and whose positions they all hate now that he's safely dead, and unable to rally the masses any longer.
My favorite attempt to claim King as a conservative Republican has to be this one, though:
"It doesn’t have to make sense, because God knows Crowder’s fans don’t expect that."
Damn straight.
Myself, I expect the politicians I support to make at least some sense, but that's because I see some connection between politics and reality. You need health care, you organize politically to get it, and any politician you're counting on for that had damn well better make some sense, had better stay at least somewhat tethered to the real world.
But what if, for you, politics is really all just for the Lulz? Total irrationality is an advantage then, you get to enjoy the gobsmacked silence it produces in your opponents, and that looks like a win to you.
It's like Trump at his Arizona rally complaining that "White people get sent to the back of the line" for the vaccine and his crowd reacts with spittle-flecked outrage, of course. Yes, that's the same vaccine that they believe will kill you, HOW DARE THEY DENY US THAT! No, don't try to figure it out.
As I've observed elsewhere, one of the hallmarks of a stone racist is their presumed expertise on the race in question even when they actually don't know anyone from that race. This presumption applies both individually (as in knowing exactly what MLK was all about and why they should condemn him) and collectively (as in welfare queens driving Cadillacs).
“And also, did you know that Democrats were the party of slavery? It’s true! Just watch the movie Lincoln!”
This horseshit gets recycled, repackaged, stripped down, and buffed up, but it never, ever changes.
"[A]nd one of Crowder’s white sidekicks goes, 'Look, I get it, there was so much injustice, I have no idea how I would feel, but I probably wouldn’t burn down or rob a local store owned by other black people in my community.' You don’t say."
My earliest memory is of the smell of smoke. I was not quite three when MLK was murdered, and the smoke was because the West Side of Chicago (we lived on the South Side) was on fire from the immediate aftermath. Days of "shoot to kill" and all that.
All of that to say this fucker has *no* idea.
A rich nugget from Kuhner: that the Democratic party is somehow "anti-war."
"Oh, You Like Margaret Sanger Well SHE WAS A BIG RACIST"
I seem to recall hearing Ben Shapiro use that line on Bill Maher. It was a few years back, before he had the monobrow split with laser surgery. I remember it looked like a giant caterpillar was eating his head.
Hey, we pointed out Robert E Lee was a racist traitor, they point out all the shit J Edgar Hoover uncovered about King by tapping his phone.
"spelunk the whole parfait"
Oh, how many times and ways I'm gonna apply that one!
I seem to have made a study of the NY Post's annual MLK day editorials, which is easy because they've been virtually identical for the past few years. Lately it always includes this bit:
"Yes, in the decades since his death, scholars have found that he had his flaws and frailties. To err is human.
Then, too, we nowadays largely idealize his crusade — forgetting the issues that made him even more controversial: his opposition to militarism; his denunciation of America as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today"; his warning that the greatest threat to black progress was "the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to racial justice."
I guess one person's "controversial flaw" is another person's "right on, Reverend, right on."
"It doesn’t have to make sense..."
That's been a guiding principle for the right since the rise of the conservative media decades ago. Then again, since facts and reality have a liberal bias, sort of leaves them with bullshit and the insensible.
related to that, I love Crowder's line: "You probably didn't know this". Sure, because he just pulled out of his ass so sure, who'd've known til he told us?
Anyway. A day late, some quotes and a link:
https://whowhatwhy.org/justice/rights-liberties/mlk-jr-from-give-us-the-ballot-to-why-america-may-go-to-hell/
The agitprop is so lockstep and pervasive it is obviously professionally produced.
It is somebody's job to write that poison , identify the potential consumer and figure out the most effective way to deliver the message.
Imagine recruiting for that position.
Wanted: Racist-must be fluent with InDesign and excel.
I barely looked at Twitter yesterday because of the rancid MLK stuff. Seems doom scrolling is bad for my blood pressure. Who'd a thunk it! Anyway, just for the grins you might Google Sam Seder and big moist boi Stevie Crowder, they've had a couple of fun interactions. 😉
I know it’s stupid to point out the giant redwood mote in the eyes of the very same people who wail on about how MLK was a skirt chaser and a poor student when their godhead is Donald Trump, who doesn’t have a single commendable human trait to balance against his “human frailties”. Not a one! But holy shit it gets on my last nerve.
That construction of Baseball Cranks's is really a head-shaker - “Perhaps some progressives and Democratic politicians truly believe that John C. Calhoun was right about the American Founding, and that both Dr. King and Lincoln were wrong” - since it totally ignores pretty much ALL of King's statements about the founding and the Constitution, i.e., "Ever since the birth of our nation, White America has had a Schizophrenic personality on the question of race, she has been torn between selves. A self in which she proudly professes the great principle of democracy and a self in which she madly practices the antithesis of democracy," or "...for the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country, even today, is freedom and equality and that racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists."
But at least he acknowledges that King was a leftist, which is always ignored in these right-wing encomiums to someone they would have hated while he was alive and whose positions they all hate now that he's safely dead, and unable to rally the masses any longer.
My favorite attempt to claim King as a conservative Republican has to be this one, though:
https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1483154845364367366?s=20
That last line just SCREAMS for a response.
And you know what else? THEIR CHARACTER SUCKS!
"It doesn’t have to make sense, because God knows Crowder’s fans don’t expect that."
Damn straight.
Myself, I expect the politicians I support to make at least some sense, but that's because I see some connection between politics and reality. You need health care, you organize politically to get it, and any politician you're counting on for that had damn well better make some sense, had better stay at least somewhat tethered to the real world.
But what if, for you, politics is really all just for the Lulz? Total irrationality is an advantage then, you get to enjoy the gobsmacked silence it produces in your opponents, and that looks like a win to you.
It's like Trump at his Arizona rally complaining that "White people get sent to the back of the line" for the vaccine and his crowd reacts with spittle-flecked outrage, of course. Yes, that's the same vaccine that they believe will kill you, HOW DARE THEY DENY US THAT! No, don't try to figure it out.
Probably takes steroids to make those big muscles and he's always got a gun in a holster under his arm, such a tough guy.