Wednesday, July 14, 2010

It's your fault, you paid attention!

Dave Weigel has been temporarily brought on board to fill-in for Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic. Apparently he successfully portrayed himself as a libertarian who also thought the "Bell Curve" was AWESOME!! Weigel has written in Sully-ese that the NAACP just needs to get over the whole Tea Party racism thing, it is so passe:

...to imply that stunts like [racist signs] are such a pressing problem that they will be one of the few selected for action by the NAACP is to concede that there isn't much real racism to worry about.


And apparently as evidence of this, the paragraph continues...


It's the sort of headline-hungry act that shadows the NAACP's other priorities -- one example being Michelle Obama's admonition for African-Americans to "increase intensity," which is now being spun by Limbaugh et al as a call for more racial outrage...


You seen NAACP, your complaints about racism are totally causing racist behavior in racists, how dare you.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

11 comments:

StonyPillow said...

There's no known cure for suppurating TNR eruptions. They should be scrubbed clean and covered with gauze pads because:
1) it reduces the chance of spreading
2) it helps to resist the understandable temptation to scrape at them with potsherds, and
3) we don't have to look at them. They're gross.

sukabi said...

was surprised when Weigle was canned from the WaPo for his private emails, because they weren't a quarter as loathsome as most of the stuff conservatives write about liberals in the paper itself... but have seen him on Olbermann & Maddow at times and have thought WTF!?!? because he clearly has a conservative agenda and doesn't hide it and he's also not the sharpest tool in the shed and goes for the accepted "conventional wisdom" to support his positions, but in a plus he also didn't appear to be certifiably insane...

this is making me rethink that...

Olives and Arrows said...

heh/
Seems rather rich with irony that an organization calling itself the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is pointing to other people's racism. No doubt that there is some racism in the so-called Tea Party movement but just imagine the outrage if there was actually an organization calling itself National Association for the Advancement of White People?

sukabi said...

Try engaging your brain for once... if this entire country (and much of society at large) hadn't for centuries been geared toward advancing WHITE MEN's interests above all others while actively working to keep minorities and women from reaching equality there wouldn't have been the need for organizations promoting "advancement" or equality. And since full equality still hasn't been reached, the need is still there as are those organizations that promote it.

pansypoo said...

i loved the guy on NPR calling the NAACP racist while using blatant racism. honkey.

Olives and Arrows said...

Pansypoo,
There can be little doubt that the NAACP is inherently racist, that much is obvious in the name that the organization has chosen. Same principle applies for Congressional Black Congress as it (rightfully) would if there were an organization called Congressional White Congress or another with the name National Association for the Advancement of White People.
This type of racism becomes quite obvious when substituting the name white for black in the names of the various organizations. Subaki's above commentary basically boils down to his opinion that "two wrongs make a right".

sukabi said...

pull your head out of your ass... rainbows and ponies didn't magically appear for everyone regardless of color or sex when some asshole declared after Obama's election that we are a "post-racial" country... same old shit, new day continues apace.


It seems your "solution" for everyone not a white male is to just lay back and "take it", because to do anything else is "wrong".

have fun with your victimhood, to everyone not a racist, white male you look pathetic.

pansypoo said...

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Olives and Arrows said...

....white male you look pathetic.

Sukabi? What makes you think that I'm a white male?

And why have you written the words "take it" and "solution" in quotation marks?

Olives and Arrows said...

// Oh LOOK !! Andrew Cuomo !!! //

pansypoo said...

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