August 19, 2010

Untethered on press reaction to Omar Thornton

Dennis Dale writes
The grotesque irony of pursuing a homicidal bigot’s complaints of racial harassment is only noticed by the irrelevant (my hand’s raised). ... For the media the event worked like a brain-teaser, where habitual thinking leads one to miss plain meaning. You know:
one of the coins is a nickel; the doctor is the boy’s mother; the hateful murderer is the bigot.

No “but of course” moment is forthcoming. Here the press is like the ideal subject for a hypnotist’s lounge act: easily brought under, highly suggestible, shameless in its stupor, oblivious in retrospect.

This defamation of the dead isn‘t without its black comedy: the murderer was wearied, we’re told (by a callow girlfriend as oblivious to shame as the reporters encouraging her, reveling in the attention and enthusiastically adopting, as it were, the role usually reserved for a tearful mother), by the racism that just so happened to find him at every job. The chronically incompetent and stupid typically blame luck or a spiteful world for their misfortunes, and in Omar’s mind racism followed him like a personal storm cloud, manifested, I presume, in charges of tardiness, ineptitude, theft. Perhaps it is me who’s being naïve. After all, what a boundless reservoir of racism white America is!

The media’s appetite would not be sated before we were assured of the gentle nature of this man and his love for family, lovers, and handguns. One newspaper featured a photo spread of the widow (of the killer, not one of the killed), complete with an image of the tattoo consecrating her upper thigh to their love. ...

Once the guilt of the dead is confirmed by the standard of federal “civil rights law”—wherein the burden of proof is on the accused (here they can be said to be doubly disadvantaged, compelled by law to prove the negative in a voice rendered silent by their accuser; damn this teacher is strict!) ...

21 comments:

  1. Here the press is like the ideal subject for a hypnotist’s lounge act: easily brought under, highly suggestible, shameless in its stupor, oblivious in retrospect.

    That's where I was maybe back in the 1980s - liberals are well-intentioned, well-meaning, decent-but-misguided old fools.

    But having watched them cover for Bubba during the scandals of the 1990s, and hearing about Chrissy Matthews' leg tingling, and now watching all of this JournoList nonsense [compare the latest from the Associated Press], I just ain't buying it no more.

    These nihilists know exactly what they're doing.

    [PS: If you haven't done so already, then you really do owe it to yourself to watch the Frankfurt School video.]

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  2. I suppose he'll end up taking a place next to Emmett Till in the pantheon of heros who fought injustice. Once a year the media will commemorate him for the stand he took against the evils of the world. We must be running low on heros these days, the quality just isn't there anymore.

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  3. Certainly a lot of them do, Anon, but the rank and file mostly don't know what's going on at all.

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  4. This defamation of the dead isn‘t without its black comedy

    The Sailer Solution: If we wax sarcastic and crack enough jokes then these projecting hate-filled antagonists will surely cry in shame, apologize, and become our best friends forever.

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  5. "the racism that just so happened to find him at every job"

    Nowadays it's more likely his co-workers were falling all over themselves to make him My Black Buddy.

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  6. its funny how to turn things on their heads..

    u see, Omar was fighting against racism

    this itself is irrelevant and unimportant to you becuase white people cannot be racist, only black people can be.

    no one in the press suggeested those racist white folks deserved to be killed

    but Omar felt he had a noble reason.

    you're saying it was all in his head, how do u know??

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  7. how fitting that you should quote fellow HBD-er Dennis Dale,

    kind of like a circle-jerk.

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  8. Yes but WHO is the main audience for news? Look at the ads on local news, the ads in the local newspaper, what's covered, what is not.

    The answer is women. For a variety of reasons, this uber-PC and blame the dead White victims instead of the Black murderer at least does not produce revulsion among the largely female audience for news.

    Its like Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson (as actors I like them both, they're both insane and nutty people) versus say Michael Richards or Dr. Laura. Charlie Sheen can (allegedly) put a knife to his wife's throat and threaten to kill her on Christmas Day, nothing much happens. He gets a RAISE in his show, feminists don't complain. Use of the n-Word did not hurt Mel Gibson's career -- Whoopi Goldberg defends him. Meanwhile Dr. Laura and Michael Richards are persona non grata.

    Its who you are (Gibson can be a paleocon, make his comments about Jews and not suffer), being the "Big Man" above all else. Because women forgive anything in a man as long as he's Alpha exciting.

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  9. "Use of the n-Word did not hurt Mel Gibson's career -- Whoopi Goldberg defends him."

    Let's go through this one more time, Whiskey - one black leftist feminist who spoke up for Gibson does not make a meaningful trend. Gibson's career is almost certainly damaged beyond repair.

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  10. Whiskey again thumps for his alpha male theory. But again the evidence doesn't support him.

    Women are not the focus of the news. Women tend to be less interested in politics than men and young people less so than old people.

    Notice all the codger oriented ads on Fox News. They show ads for Viagra and testosterone supplements routinely. Or maybe Whiskey thinks they are aimed at women who just want more action in the bedroom?

    It is true that women are often soft headed when men would be hard headed. We saw that this week with the Blagojevich jury. When I was on jury duty last I witnessed the same phenomenon, the women wanted to be merciful irrespective of the evidence. Is this a bad thing? Maybe, but we're mammals. We love our mothers and we expect female kindness.

    Albertosaurus

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  11. how fitting that you should quote fellow HBD-er Dennis Dale,

    I'm an "HBD-er"? I had no idea. Do I need a new wardrobe?

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  12. Women are not the focus of the news. Women tend to be less interested in politics than men and young people less so than old people.

    This isn't politics, though. It's culture. Women eat these kinds of stories up, and this particular one will allow them to out-anti-racist their friends. "Yes, yes, it's terrible. But you know, if they really were racists it's all very understandable. I mean, how much do you expect the poor guy to take?"

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  13. I'm an "HBD-er"? I had no idea. Do I need a new wardrobe?

    Apparently to join all you need to go through the strenuous exercise of pointing out the freakin' obvious.

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  14. It is intriguing that Thorton didn't shoot any women.

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  15. "becuase[sic] white people cannot be racist, only black people can be."

    You should read the article on Projection...

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  16. This isn't politics, though. It's culture. Women eat these kinds of stories up

    Of course you're right about women's interests, I couldn't agree more. But I was responding specifically to Whiskey's assertion that the news was aimed at women. That simply isn't true.

    Albertosaurus

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  17. Shaft's Big Score8/21/10, 11:29 AM

    http://mynorthwest.com/category/local_news_articles/20100820/10~year~old's-mother-says-she's-pissed-off/

    Maybe 'thorton' should join the English lexicon as an attempt to whitewash black crime and violence.
    So, in the news story above, the mother of the accused kid was thortoning the incident. You see, it was not the fault of her nice sweet kid, and of course no fault of hers as a parent. It must be the fault of a 'racist' society trying to railroad her innocent sweet child.

    I think we can better understand the act of thortoning if we remember the practice of hortoning.
    In 1988, Bush hortoned Dukakis with an ad about a black criminal named Willie Horton who raped a white woman and humiilated and assaulted the weaker white man who was unable to defend his woman.
    It was an ad that played on racial fears that was real and valid enough, but liberals went crazy over it.
    So, 'hortoning' is a no-no. Whites are not supposed to call attention to black crime and violence.

    But 'thortoning' is in, where liberals, a good number of them Jewish, apologize for black crime and belittle and mock the tragedy and sorrow of dead white people.

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  18. Albertosaurus has got it right, more or less

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  19. The girlfriend always comes up.

    He was doing a bunch of white girls.
    Is that what really pisses you all off?

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  21. >He was doing a bunch of white girls. Is that what really pisses you all off?<

    Yes. Racist mass-murder, and a nationwide campaign implicitly to excuse it, doesn't bother us, as it doesn't bother you. What bothers us is the center of the universe, also known as your dik.

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