The organizer of the Black Lives Matter vigil got accused by several professors of promoting hate speech. According to these professors, saying “Black Lives Matter” is the same as saying “White lives don’t matter.” The white organizer of the vigil says that it has been suggested that we use placards saying “All lives matter” instead. In response, we are extending our Black Lives Matter vigil for one more week.
So my adventures in promoting hate speech will continue.
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Professors accused your group of hate speech? If it were students making the accusation, I could take it: they are young, have things to learn,etc. etc. But professors? Educated people? People who supposedly care about the future? I don’t understand why so many Americans categorily refuse to recognize the deadly, ugly racism that exists in this country. This is all so discouraging.
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“Professors accused your group of hate speech?”
– Yes. Apparently, you can get a PhD and work teaching college without having any understanding of the basic rules of logic.
“But professors? Educated people?”
– Yes. Professors say that “Black lives matter” is exactly the same as “white lives don’t matter.” I shudder to think how they manage to teach anything at all with these massive intellectual abilities.
“I don’t understand why so many Americans categorily refuse to recognize the deadly, ugly racism that exists in this country. This is all so discouraging.”
– We are just standing peacefully outside producing no disturbance whatsoever. Our message is the tamest of all we could have come up with. This is why I say this makes me feel like such an alien. I will never understand how my engaging in this completely peaceful silent activity can be seen as hateful. Hateful of whom? White people? Has anybody seen me?
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It’s even more idiotic than people calling feminists sexist because they don’t promote men’s groups!
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And I will regard your hate speech with the derisive laughter it deserves Clarissa. A click of the mouse will bring up the rap sheet of St. Trayvon Of Skittles. Or the autopsy reports that refute that Brown was shot in the back and murdered as the rabble rousers claimed. Heck, even the video of him manhandling a shop clerk half his size and stealing from him 30 minutes before he was shot is a mere mouse click away! Is it still hate speech if it is an idiot or a liberal doing it? Who cares.
I am just tickled with this:
I haven’t laughed this hard since Rachael Corrie got flattened by a D9. Really, Clarissa – your own blog is an insult to your intelligence – and that is a feat in itself!
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No one is arguing that Trayvon Martin was a saint. I (and I think Clarissa agrees with me) am suggesting that his saintliness/criminal past are immaterial: he was unarmed and didn’t deserve to get shot and killed. I am also suggesting that is incredibly and pathologically racist to assistane the character of a dead unarmed teenager.
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“I haven’t laughed this hard since Rachael Corrie got flattened by a D9. ”
This woman was crushed to death by a bulldozer. Do you understand this is why we call you deranged? What other things make you laugh hard?
On second thoughts, don’t answer that question.
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Glenfilthie is obviously experiencing a psychotic break. The tragedy is that it is impossible to explain to the mentally ill that they are unwell.
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Glenfilthie : I feel a deep compassion for your plight. Untreated mental disease is horrifying. I’m not saying this to hurt or mock. You are unwell and need help. Are there any free mental health resources available where you live? Do you need help finding them? Is there anything I can do to help?
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Saying “All Lives Matter” in response to “Black Lives Matter” reminds me of when I got a nasty narcissist on my blog who was complaining about me writing a post about how frustrated I was about Lindt Chocolates supporting Autism Speaks, saying “There are so many diseases out there, and you’re writing about autism? I’m sorry.” I told her to stop playing Oppression Olympics on my blog, and she wrote a long hysterical private message about how I was selfish for not acknowledging that she had a disease (epilepsy) which could kill her at any moment and that I would never amount to anything writing about my own disability.
That’s exactly how self-centred, whiny, and irrational “All Lives Matter” advocates sound.
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Yes, I don’t understand this idea that talking about one issue means you think there are no other issues in the world. As if it’s possible to address all of them simultaneously in everything you say or write.
Would someone show up to a local food pantry and say, “Collecting food for people living in poverty? What about environmental pollution? Why aren’t you doing anything about that, right now??”
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Sadly, yes. Some years we have a ‘communal Christmas card’ at work – one big card is put in the mail room, and if you CHOOSE not to give individual holiday cards to colleagues you can write a seasonal message to everyone in the big card then make a charity donation of the money you’d have spent on the individual cards, either to a charity suggested by the person who set up the big card, or one of your choice. We try and make this as apolitical as possible, just a way to save a bit of time without looking like a grouch by not sending cards.
One year we suggested donations for a local ‘crisis at Christmas’ scheme, and got a lot of complaints that we were ignoring world issues. The following year, we suggested donations to a national registered charity which works in the developing world doing basic sanitation projects for a project in an area where my department has connections. And the same people complained that we were ignoring local needs. Oh, and saying that they were welcome to donate the money saved to any good cause they chose, or to just not take part, was being hostile and exclusionary.
Most of the complainers had PhDs. Education doesn’t seem to innoculate against the crazy…
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I wish identity politics would take itself off and slit its own throat. You can’t even say anything coherent in its terms anymore because the opposite point of view is brought to the fore. If you say women are discriminated against, you will get people saying, “But men suffer too!” It’s time to use a totally different paradigm, which will allow one to state simple facts like that it is wrong to target those who have no power and to use deadly weapons against them. Nothing about anybody’s identity. Just stop doing it.
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Can I do this in the voice of R Lee Ermey from “Full Metal Jacket”?
YOU ARE ALL EQUALLY WORTHLESS TO THE CORPS
[ahem] 🙂
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World to Clarissa, wake up. Here’s your gentle giant in action yet once again, are you starting to finally begin to understand the term “thug.” Yeah, the red headed mop in the start was his marvelous Mom, you know, the one that guided him in life. Although actually, despite all her yapping in TV, he was basically raised by his grandmother.
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-real-michael-brown-they-dont-want.html
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So people who were raised by their grandparents deserve to be murdered? Is that the point you are trying to make?
I was raised by my great-grandparents, so I don’t find your argument convincing. When I suggested you say something original, “death to people raised by their grandparents” is not what I was hoping for.
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Do you really think it’s a coincidence you’re not getting original arguments?
Tangentially relevant:
Racial Essentialism Reduces Creative Thinking By Making People More Closed-Minded
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Thank you, very interesting! Essentialism is a refuge for lazy brains.
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