Gosh, can a border guard or two throw this wanker’s passport into his stupid face like they did to me and help him get over his pathetic white guilt?
The linked article belongs to the swelling “I went to a Trump rally and felt superior, here is every boring detail of that inane experience” genre. The author tries to liven up his soporific piece with a dose of racial self-flagellation that is embarrassing to observe.
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The illustration for the article couldn’t be more perfect, though — have you EVER seen a drawing that so accurately captures the overwhelming, self-loathing angst of a sensitive, superior, guilt-ridden white liberal?? Also, notice how the all-white man is totally surrounded by an all-black background…
I hope “The Guardian” paid the artist more than they paid the writer. The artist is the one with talent.
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Yes, the artist delivered the message in a powerful way.
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But Clarissa, he’s a white male Torontonian (he makes sure you know in the first paragraph) grateful for his universal health care so he can get his rash checked, and his freshman sociology classes so he can gawk at exotic American heartland poverty and hipsters. Would this guy smug at an Albertan, or is it that different?
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That’s a great question. There’s a lot of poverty and desperation in Nova Scotia. Why not go there and snob all over the residents?
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By the way, did you know that “ghetto” is a forbidden, racially-charged word now?
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/11/tarantinos_ghetto_gaffe_his_golden_globes_morricone_speech_does_not_impress/#comments
So the Jews will have to come up with another word to describe a certain historical unpleasantness in wartime Poland.
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And now a crowd of people will send outraged tweets and feel like they did something politically significant.
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I’m a Catholic with an Italian mother. If guilt made one superior I’d be the goddamn master race.
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This is a brilliant comment.
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OMG This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a week or more!
“My son’s Guyanese-Canadian teacher and the Muslim Milton scholar I went to high school with and the Sikh writer I squabble about Harold Innis with and my Ishmaeli accountant”
It’s like the Putn idolatry, can it really be serious?
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