No Reservation Required!

Hey, some good fellow went and followed the link below to read that racist post from Aaron Clarey on Indians. And I guess he then asked,

How do you know it was Native Americans that stole your car???!!!!Pretty presumptuous on your part!

to which the Pathetic Ignorant Little Man answered, gracefully,

Uh, because the cops recovered it on an Indian reservation.

No, i just surmised it must be a group of Indian kids because that's the mood I was in.

Any other stupid questions?

And, hey, that does clear it up! Because there's no chance that, say, some white kids that stole a car and are wondering where to go with it, might not want to go where they've heard they can buy smokes and sixes for cheap, and where there aren't so many cops on the ground. No, it's much more likely that whoever stole the PILM's car drove straight home with it, that being of course the whole point of a joyride, and having the additional benefit of letting people know who stole the car, which can help if they're particularly thick radio-host-types.

So rest assured, it's NOT some odious little man making a characteristically racist assumption and then broadcasting it as true from his soapbox.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

So, quite often someone from the Great Out There will email us more instances of public racism from "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey. Usually, we ignore them, because the Clareywatch is not a customer-service oriented outfit. Then all of a sudden when we check one out, we find a little gem like this little racist item (PDF) from the Clareyster. Let's look at it.

He's unloading scorn on an outfit he's heard about on the radio called MUD, which stands for Metro Urban Indian Direction, an "initiative to help educators reach out to Indian kids." So as always it's like there's a wall of stupid between Clarey and information, since we're told that the organization, MUID, is actually the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors, an umbrella organization for Indian organizations in the area which does a number of things including advocate for afterschool and educational programs and safe neighborhoods. He makes fun of the fact that he can't learn anything about them on the Internet - presumably because he's looking for information on whatever made it through the wall of stupid, not what actually exists - and I guess that "libertarian light" insists that every NGO, even little ones which basically just coordinate separate entities, employ its own web guru.

And he ends with these pearls of wisdom:

they're referenced as some kind of initiative to help educators reach out to Indian kids.

Maybe they could reach out to the scum bag Indian kids that stole my car and punch them for me.

Oh, I'm sorry, white males aren't supposed to display anger. We're just supposed to bend over.

So take note of the wisdom of Aaron Clarey, all you darkies! Keep all yours in line, 'cuz there ain't no reason we should be doing shit for any of you! No, we should instead by hunting down your kids for joyriding, which white kids don't. And beware the wrath of the white males, man. They are the sleeping dragon, the dark horse, the X factor.

Y'know, truthfully, we can't figure out why Clarey gets so hostile when people point out that he's a racist. I mean, you'd think he takes some kind of pride in it. He writes like he learned everything he knows from some kind of Archie Bunker correspondence course, with the exams proctored by Timothy McVeigh.

A bit of J school

Hey, it turns out that, life being unfair and all, we got an additional fifteen minutes! Fact is, because of the holidays and stuff, we just found out about it here. But we have a lot of little quibbles with the story presented.

Perhaps most striking was the assertion that "Captain Capitalism" Aaron Clarey "shines a libertarian light on politics." Now, funny thing, but libertarians don't actually advocate national ID cards, or celebrate when an authoritarian government seizes private property for big public works projects, or bitch and moan when women and families make their own economic decisions, or advocate increased government control over the borders or scrutiny of firms' hiring practices or... Heck, for that matter they probably don't launch big lawsuits against free speech, no? Especially not when they don't even allege a penny of monetary damage in the complaint, which you'd'a thunk the reporter had read, no? Surely that's not "libertarian."

Well, look, that's actually sort of irresponsible of the writer. If Aaron Clarey is a libertarian, I'm a giant panda.

Now, you might try "conservative." Except, well, conservatives don't talk smut about women and children and the elderly or make fun of the religious or suggest minimum wage COLAs or attack Larry Summers' suggestion that affirmative action to recruit women into technical fields might be fruitless (admittedly, Aaron seems confused about what he's commenting on there), or celebrate when dictatorships build obstacles to keep people from fleeing torture under Communist regimes, or...

And neither label really conveys Aaron's bizarre need to keep up - but to hide! - speech which is nothing but a long racist attack on Latinos, or which harasses Americans who've lost their homes and families in a natural catastrophe, or tells us that gays are unmanly, or the bizarre insistence that the Nazis under Hitler were left-wingers, or...

Mr. Reporter, "libertarian" is dishonest. I think the words you're looking for are bigoted, offensive, jingoist ass.

Hope that's helpful!

UPDATE: But ya gotta love the "Perils of Pauline" sound of "this guy's not getting away with it." It makes one feel so...nefarious!