How does this happen?

Sometimes I get asked, hey, enough with the parody here. Nobody agrues that posts about how Latinos are wife-beaters, or how a positive image of blacks helps the socialist agenda, are stone-cold racist. But (they ask), how does a racist like Aaron Clarey, become a public figure, with a radio show and everything? I mean, people are basically decent, and nobody supports that kind of statement. So, what gives?

Basically Aaron Clarey's trick is, he uses the old dodge of, sure I use the racist stuff for money and publicity, but, I'm no racist deep in my heart. And while that doesn't pass the common sense test since it's still doing harm to the minorities, Aaron still goes to sleep saying, hey, I said that Latino Americans were woman-abusers, but it's not like I called anyone a "spic" or a "nigger." So I'm good!

But let's look at some of Aaron's writings which aren't, ostensibly, on race, and see how his attitude bleeds through. Consider this one on the French student riots. Aaron shows a picture of rioters attacking a passerby during the student riots against a new French labor law. He captions it, noting that in France, "black people will kick the piss out of your door to door salesmen as long as he's white." It is revealing of Aaron's assumptions, and way of seeing the world, that he sees the photo that way; I suspect, following the link, your conlcusion will be different.

Let's pick a couple more. In this post Aaron first replies to a commenter, calling him -- although neither the commenter's sexual orientation nor nationality are known --- a "gay little Indian." It is again revealing where Aaron leaps for insults.

Lastly, there's this gem, which we have mined before. Here, Aaron links to a sad story about an 11-year old heavily smoking girl, who became pregnant on a drunken night out with friends.

What's funny here is, he titles the post "This is not Africa!" and bemoans "deteriorating standards in the West" and cultural diversity. Now, scietifically this makes little sense (since girls in poor countries tend to reach physical puberty later than in the West). And socially it makes little sense either: the fates of young girls in the developing world can be awful but the absence of parenting and the late nights out drinking and smoking with the guys would appear to be a Western problem, no?

But for Aaron, the world isn't like that: he likes in a primitive, crude world where racial "others" are somehow inherently bad as these posts suggest: he fears the hatred of the minority (seeing black-on-white violence as his filter), he jumps there for insult ("gay, Indian"), and he sees the racial "other" as the metaphor for all depraved or licentious behavior ("this is not Africa!")

These might be interesting things to discuss with him on his radio show!