So: On May 16, 2006, Aaron Clarey posted the following lovely item on his website, which he has since tried to bury:
Blacks Commit Disproportionately More Crimes than Whites
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2179561,00.html Why is it so hard to say? Why can't we address this like adults to solve the problem and be forth right [sic] about it? Oh, I forgot, because it's the truth. And the truth hurts. Especially when it harms the socialist movement
OK, let's do some exegesis now! The link is to an article discussing that in some areas of London, a plurality of people arrested based on evidence from hidden cameras (every libertarian conservative's delight!) is black.
So, right out of the gate Aaron is establishing his racist bona fides. He's going to use the behavior of blacks in London to say something about blacks in our society, since apparently race is much more deterministic of, say, people's criminal behaviors than nationality, society, etc. That racist assumptiuon isn't uncharacteristic of Aaron: he did it, for example, when he tried to say that Latino-lookin' guys in Minneapolis should be thought of as misogynists based on badly interpreted stats from Mexico. But, geez, it makes you think back a little uncomfortably on, say, things he's had to say about Africans, doesn't it? Of course, in this case he's right: everybody who's been among African-Americans knows about their strikingly universal love of fine tea and cheese, their reverence for the Queen, their love of soccer (which they sneakily call by a different name, just like they sneakily misspell words like "flavor" and "color") and cricket, their colorful argot ("boot" for "trunk," "trainers" for "sneakers," and "bobby" for "5-0," for example) and their quaint ethnic cuisine ("colcannon," "pigs-in-blankets," "haggis," and the like). But that's besides the point.
But then Aaron goes on to talk about how somehow, we don't discuss that there's a real disproportionate crime problem among minorities here in America. Which is, well, puzzling, because I think it would be difficult to read a major American newspaper for a week without finding some discussion of it, and it's a major theme of American art as well. And even if you accept the occasional evidence that Aaron Clarey basically can't read at an adult level, well, the culture has been so rife with this idea that if anything the discussion has been on how there's far too much portrayal of minorities as criminals rather than as heroes on TV and in pop culture. Hell, the only really new idea in the dialogue in forever has come from conservatives like Ward Connerly arguing that if anything we focus too much on the racial statistics. Even Aaron Clarey is not ignorant enough to think that what he's saying here is not unrealistically stupid.
So why's he say it? Well, because there's a population, sad to say, of low-browed, knuckle-walking, sloping-forehead, thick-necked Americans that are real real sure that all those nasty black people are getting away with something, and that's why they personally are being shafted, and if only the wool weren't being pulled over everyone's eyes by the liberal media, they'd get it. And that's Aaron's core audience, and here he is, reaching out - so nakedly that even he has tried to hide it. He's quite happy to smear minorities to make the fan base happy, until somebody notices it.
And he tells you as much with his clincher. Aaron, why exactly would a more criminal picture of black Americans harm "the socialist movement"? What exactly are you implying there? Care to elaborate, PILM?
I'm thinking, not.
8 comments:
Man, brilliant as always! You should write a book! I'm going to email it to everyone everywhere! Maybe someone will email me back sometime!
Of course you'd write this better if like me you had read a book and therefore had a classical education, as I do, although it does not include classics themselves but still I can quote: cogito, ergo, cunnilingus maximus. I am quite the historian, and am lecturing now on water-ships, that having been the subject of the book I read, which also taught me the secret language of rabbits, who can only count to five. And I am lecturing at the front half of the plush armchair in my shower, which is known far and wide to all as the Harvard of the left two-ninths of my cerebellum, so you should read the book. Thank you. Our Western culture is at risk, so I now declare myself an admiral.
You sure hit the nail on the head! It's like I've said, we need "secure anuses and borders." Hey did you know Barack Obama is BLACK! BLACK BLACK BLACK! And that Latinos are more docile than other people? And Muslims should assimilate or go home because having them around makes you crazy.
I wrote a song about it and called in to your show - that was me! But your screeners said the voices in my head couldn't sing harmony.
You pussies. You're poopyfaces! Just plain old gaywad poopyfaces! That's right. I'd kick all your asses to prove it because I'm sensitive. But yeah I'm reel angry too. Reel angry. Don't think I won't. Aw, does that make you feel big?
Huh, yeah, her'es my supercilious asshole comment making fun of this dumb blogger. After all I'm so pathetically tied down at work that I have to go all the way to Minnesota to find worm-like intelligences to ridicule instead of mocking the ones one seat over.
I'm wondering:
Does that post by any chance give you a rumbly in your tummy? Because that tummy rumbly could mean you're sitting on a gold mine, what with the price of Pepto-Bismol and all. Trust me: I'm very, very smart.
I'll send you some tantalizingly irrelevant articles, so you can see the possibilities.
Yeah, you just keep talking. Because you aren't in lock-step with me it's clear you're a leftist and a Communist taking orders from the Wicca and the Comintern. And as a Communist you hate children and old people. Of course, so do I, but I'm not a leftist, I take orders directly from Comrade Stalin, whose head I keep in a cabinet which is distinctly on my right, though I am on his left.
You just keep posting. It makes it easier to fight the socialist movement. Because girls love guys who contribute to GDP, sit on their asses playing video games, and sling racism around.
Like my girlfriend, um, Veronica van der Muchly. You don't see her around a lot because she's busy in, um, Denverm where she's a big socialite and she knows Paris Hilton, but, trust me, she's begging for me all the time. That's her right now on the phone. I have to go. I'll leave you with this best of: "you're all LEFTISTS!"
That's a kind thought, Mr. Hoskins. You misappreciate the spirit of the blog though -- it's a wholly unadvertised little thing that basically started out as some folks making fun of a boob.
Sure, the point can be made more succintly: one or two of the items linked here are simply racist, period. This is again more an exercise in fun than anything else. It has a slightly serious side in that it's nice that things are archived in case anybody has an issue that needs it -- which likely somebody will.
I don't think I'm one to enlighten people to the joys of diversity as it were. Honestly I think the culture is trending so people are, generally, aware of it. Were it otherwise this site would be less than useless.
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