A reader writes:
I used to be a regular watcher of the show, up until about 2000, when I went to college, and the quality of the show hit the toilet. They used to lampoon long standing cultural institutions, but since they've made fun of all those, what they make fun of now are the latest fads of the day, like boy bands, or reality TV, or Fox News, or whatever.
But last night, we got a taste of the old Simpsons brilliance.At the dinner table, Homer and Marge have a conversation along these lines:
Marge: It was a woman who invented liquid paper.
Homer: And you know what a man invented? Actual paper!
Marge: I think it was a woman who invented the wind shield wiper.
Homer: That goes well with another male invention: the car.
Marge: Well, I think a woman might have invented nylon stockings. Women wear lots of those.
Homer: And men invented suspension bridges, rockets, constitutional government...
Like you said one time, the fact that we go out of our way to celebrate the fact that a woman invented liquid paper, subtly implies the truth that men invented just about everything else. Although I have never seen on TV this point being made in such blunt, simply stated terms.
Back in 2002 I wrote in VDARE.com:
In my experience: whites who proclaim their anti-white feelings don't really care much about blacks or other minorities, pro or con. What they care about is achieving social superiority over other whites by demonstrating their exquisite racial sensitivity and their aristocratic insouciance about any competitive threats posed by racial preferences.
To these whites, minorities are just useful pawns in the great game of clawing your way to the top of the white status heap. Which, when you come right down to it, is the only game in town.
Imagine some pathetic Euro-American activist grabbing your lapels and demanding,
"Did you know that Euro-Americans invented the airplane? [You nod.] Oh, you did? Well … did you know that Euro-Americans invented the golf cart? Huh? Huh, did you know you that?"
Well, duh, everybody knows—whether or not they're crass enough to mention it—that over the last 500 or 600 years, whites invented pretty much everything worth inventing. (And, of course, a lot that wasn’t.)..
Cheerleading for Euro-Americans seems as pointless as cheerleading for men would be. It's mildly interesting that a woman invented Liquid Paper whiteout fluid (namely, Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary and the mother of Mike Nesmith of The Monkees). But the fact that a man invented Post-It Notes is not interesting—because we all know that men invent more or less everything. [More]
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