I’m generally non-violent, but the McCloskeys need to be marched to the guillotine if only because of their fashion choices. If I had that kind of cash I’d be living 24/7 in lewks that would make Anna Wintour weep with envy. But these assholes? The Devil Wears Schmatta.
White Power and Anti-White Power: If you get to talk to conservatives (as I, unfortunately, get to do all too regularly), what you hear is that White privilege does not exist. That in fact it is Black people who have all the advantages, get all the good breaks, exercise all the privileges.
And, most interestingly, they will explain to you that, really, all of American society is a zero-sum game. So allowing Black people to, say, go to college means that White people can't. Allowing Black people to vote means that White people can't.
These people are terrified. Constantly. About everything. Is it any wonder they demand the right to walk around armed to the teeth?
"...every single day brings a deluge of opinion and news coverage advancing what you might call 'anti-white power'."
As is so often the case, Dreher writes from an alternate universe in which the Great Race War has been going on forever, with each side having compiled a long list of war crimes against the other. OK. I'd think that even in that universe, however, Dreher ought to be capable of heeding the words of the Republican president who was so tragically unable to fulfill his mission of ending this civil war:
"Yet, if God wills that this Great Race War continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether'."
I don't think all that wealth has been sunk yet, has it?
"Stop Killing Us, Especially For No Reason" has broken the brains of some people. (Nice, Polite Racists are all aflutter. Because what are they going to do without "Live, Laugh, Love, Lynch"?)
As a fellow writer and a lover of language, I got to give it up for Ed Royroso's Thackerayan prose. He often tosses out a thought that really make me jump: like this on libertarians here "who are basically white supremacists run through cheesecloth to make their supremacy whiter." You got yer figurative language, you got yer polished rhetorical shine (polyptoton, even), you got yer forward energy. We live in a world where words are almost meaningless -- yet you don't have to be a pedantic grammar Nazi to deal in well-crafted language. Thanks again, as always.
Conservarian commentators were wringing their hands yesterday because Rick Wilson suggested that there would be lines of people waiting to piss on the Occupant's grave: I agree this will be an issue. I suggest that Orange Trash be buried at sea like Osama bin Laden...
"All you, my fellow honkies, really have to do is not backslide like those shitty boomers did in the 60s when society offered them cushy jobs to give up this social consciousness stuff."
As an older millennial (born in '82), it was a shocking revelation to me growing up that the "anti-war, peace & love" generation of the 60s and the coked up Wall Street dickheads of the 80s and 90s were the same people. And if you ask them what their legacy is, they'll still talk about the summer of love (not withstanding the racial protests in cities everywhere) and Woodstock and all that jazz, when their real legacy is the corporate malfeasance, climate devastation and income inequality that ravages my generation and the next generation coming of age.
I don't hate all boomers, obviously (my parents (RIP) were boomers), but I'm so tired of that generation running things. It's so depressing that we're going to have another 4 years of that generation in the White House, but it is really cause for hope that Gen Z (and to a lesser extent, my people) are out on the streets demanding change.
I don't know what happened to Gen X, it seems like most of them disappeared into minivans in the late-90s and were never heard from again, but they're welcome to join the rest of us, too.
Aside from the obvious, which is our traitor president deliberately stoking chaos and hate since his inauguration like an orange version of The Joker, it is worth noting that the power of the now-ubiquitous mobile camera phones and police cameras to spotlight the grotesque abuse of power by cops (not to mention the bizarre "Karen" white privilege abuse) may be a growing game changer. (And can we stop using the the Karen meme? I know a number of really nice and definitely "woke" Karens. I suggest we substitute "Ivanka" for "Karen".
It could be as Gil Scott Heron wrote that "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" but, if we are lucky, it may be videoed.
'All you, my fellow honkies, really have to do is not backslide like those shitty boomers did in the 60s when society offered them cushy jobs to give up this social consciousness stuff.'
Oi. A lot of those shitty boomers maintained the faith over five and a bit decades, never left and are still at the barricades, demanding change. Bernie isn't only a kids hero and most still celebrate Noam Chomsky day as well.
Still, some were co-opted, some were worn down, some passed, some just wanted some peace. And who could blame them.
Nah, don't just blame the boomers Roy. It's humanity that's weak, and fallible.
"You’re probably also aware that neither the white privilege thing nor the kill-the-hippies thing has gone away. In fact, recent events seem to have inflamed those people more than usual and made their gabble madder."
As I think I maybe noted here, the one thing I enjoy about Trump without the need for him to be channelled by Sarah Cooper is that he's recycling all of the GOP's shibboleths (or line of bullshit) from the last 60+ years, all turned up to 11 or higher. Nostalgia and audible; what a combo for a dotard!
Anti-White Power! I'll bite (but refuse give TAC the click): What in the name of any god of your choice does that even mean if not racism?
Another great one, Roy.
I’m generally non-violent, but the McCloskeys need to be marched to the guillotine if only because of their fashion choices. If I had that kind of cash I’d be living 24/7 in lewks that would make Anna Wintour weep with envy. But these assholes? The Devil Wears Schmatta.
White Power and Anti-White Power: If you get to talk to conservatives (as I, unfortunately, get to do all too regularly), what you hear is that White privilege does not exist. That in fact it is Black people who have all the advantages, get all the good breaks, exercise all the privileges.
And, most interestingly, they will explain to you that, really, all of American society is a zero-sum game. So allowing Black people to, say, go to college means that White people can't. Allowing Black people to vote means that White people can't.
These people are terrified. Constantly. About everything. Is it any wonder they demand the right to walk around armed to the teeth?
I'm just so in love with that subhead.
"...every single day brings a deluge of opinion and news coverage advancing what you might call 'anti-white power'."
As is so often the case, Dreher writes from an alternate universe in which the Great Race War has been going on forever, with each side having compiled a long list of war crimes against the other. OK. I'd think that even in that universe, however, Dreher ought to be capable of heeding the words of the Republican president who was so tragically unable to fulfill his mission of ending this civil war:
"Yet, if God wills that this Great Race War continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether'."
I don't think all that wealth has been sunk yet, has it?
Thanks for this.
"Stop Killing Us, Especially For No Reason" has broken the brains of some people. (Nice, Polite Racists are all aflutter. Because what are they going to do without "Live, Laugh, Love, Lynch"?)
As a fellow writer and a lover of language, I got to give it up for Ed Royroso's Thackerayan prose. He often tosses out a thought that really make me jump: like this on libertarians here "who are basically white supremacists run through cheesecloth to make their supremacy whiter." You got yer figurative language, you got yer polished rhetorical shine (polyptoton, even), you got yer forward energy. We live in a world where words are almost meaningless -- yet you don't have to be a pedantic grammar Nazi to deal in well-crafted language. Thanks again, as always.
I continue to be gobsmacked and awestruck. The description of libertarians alone! (Grouchy beat me to it)
Yet another column that needs to be made public.
Conservarian commentators were wringing their hands yesterday because Rick Wilson suggested that there would be lines of people waiting to piss on the Occupant's grave: I agree this will be an issue. I suggest that Orange Trash be buried at sea like Osama bin Laden...
“White Alert” — Aces.
Is White Alert more or less serious than DEFCON 1488?
"...since society currently doesn’t have shit to offer as a bribe."
The plutocrats will see the necessity of offering bribes soon enough. They certainly have no moral qualms about it.
"All you, my fellow honkies, really have to do is not backslide like those shitty boomers did in the 60s when society offered them cushy jobs to give up this social consciousness stuff."
As an older millennial (born in '82), it was a shocking revelation to me growing up that the "anti-war, peace & love" generation of the 60s and the coked up Wall Street dickheads of the 80s and 90s were the same people. And if you ask them what their legacy is, they'll still talk about the summer of love (not withstanding the racial protests in cities everywhere) and Woodstock and all that jazz, when their real legacy is the corporate malfeasance, climate devastation and income inequality that ravages my generation and the next generation coming of age.
I don't hate all boomers, obviously (my parents (RIP) were boomers), but I'm so tired of that generation running things. It's so depressing that we're going to have another 4 years of that generation in the White House, but it is really cause for hope that Gen Z (and to a lesser extent, my people) are out on the streets demanding change.
I don't know what happened to Gen X, it seems like most of them disappeared into minivans in the late-90s and were never heard from again, but they're welcome to join the rest of us, too.
And this concludes my Ted Talk.
Friends, Romans and honkies, lend me your ears!
Aside from the obvious, which is our traitor president deliberately stoking chaos and hate since his inauguration like an orange version of The Joker, it is worth noting that the power of the now-ubiquitous mobile camera phones and police cameras to spotlight the grotesque abuse of power by cops (not to mention the bizarre "Karen" white privilege abuse) may be a growing game changer. (And can we stop using the the Karen meme? I know a number of really nice and definitely "woke" Karens. I suggest we substitute "Ivanka" for "Karen".
It could be as Gil Scott Heron wrote that "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" but, if we are lucky, it may be videoed.
'All you, my fellow honkies, really have to do is not backslide like those shitty boomers did in the 60s when society offered them cushy jobs to give up this social consciousness stuff.'
Oi. A lot of those shitty boomers maintained the faith over five and a bit decades, never left and are still at the barricades, demanding change. Bernie isn't only a kids hero and most still celebrate Noam Chomsky day as well.
Still, some were co-opted, some were worn down, some passed, some just wanted some peace. And who could blame them.
Nah, don't just blame the boomers Roy. It's humanity that's weak, and fallible.
"You’re probably also aware that neither the white privilege thing nor the kill-the-hippies thing has gone away. In fact, recent events seem to have inflamed those people more than usual and made their gabble madder."
As I think I maybe noted here, the one thing I enjoy about Trump without the need for him to be channelled by Sarah Cooper is that he's recycling all of the GOP's shibboleths (or line of bullshit) from the last 60+ years, all turned up to 11 or higher. Nostalgia and audible; what a combo for a dotard!
Anti-White Power! I'll bite (but refuse give TAC the click): What in the name of any god of your choice does that even mean if not racism?