RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| Political Correctness Has Transformed Ordinary Assholes Into American Heroes |
Laura Miller of Salon.com wrote "Political
humor used to belong to the left, but that all changed in the 1990s,
when the priggishness of political correctitude injected new vitality
into a segment of the population that had been shut out of comedy's
pantheon: assholes. Suddenly, a guy could flaunt his most petty and
vindictive prejudices and still get to feel like a champion of truth
and freedom. You could rail against "victimology" when,
say, sexually harassed workers dared to resort to it, and then turn
around and avail yourself of the same trend by claiming that a pack
of censorious puritans was trying to shut you up. Without political
correctness (and that's fading fast), a big chunk of what passes for
contemporary American humor would be flapping in the wind."
Personally, I blame Archie Bunker.
Half of the people that watched "All
in the Family" knew they were watching a comedy.
The other half thought they were watching the chosen
one.
They looked at Archie Bunker like he was Morpheus coming to hand them
a little blue pill and take them out of the Matrix.
I think of Laura Miller's quote every time I hear someone talking
about "telling it like it is,"
or "shooting from the hip"
or the ever popular "no spin zone".
Although Laura Miller only wrote that barely a month ago, she put
into words what I had been asking for years.
Exactly at what point did Mancow get in a position where he could
actually believe that he is socially relevant or Bill O'Riely's O'Riley
factor become anything more than Vince McMahon meets Meet the Press?
Ted Nugent, the right wing poster boy for killing things is in hot
water for calling Asians "gooks"
and blacks "niggers" on
a live Denver radio show.
Even the guys that invited him on the show, Lewis and Floor from the
wax morning show on 103.5 FM the Fox in Denver, who apparently are
huge fans on Nugent's took him to task on the air.
Nugent's point was that these are only words
and that they shouldn't mean anything.
Nugent is known as a guy that likes to "shock".
. "He loves the reputation he has of
being a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy," said the shows
producer, Kathy Lee a woman of Korean
descent and apparently a Gook.
One fan took him to task for the terms on Nugent's Web site, and Nugent
replied that political correctness "has
brought America to its knees. Not me. NEVER!"
See what I mean? Since when did being an asshole make you sweet?
You know conservatives are in power when a white guy is insisting
that he should be able to call black people niggers
because it is only a word.
Yeah right.
I can't think of a racial group that seems more genuinely pissed off
that they can't openly refer to you in a derogatory manner than white
people.
And it's not just limited to the word nigger either, they want to
call everybody fucked up shit.
I have never heard a Mexican pissed off because he can't openly call
Asian/Black mixed children "Bumblebees".
I don't see Jews pissed off that they can't call Mexicans "Chili-Shitters"
to their faces but there isn't a white person that I know that hasn't
at one point in time seemed genuinely bothered by the fact that they
couldn't call a black person a nigger, even as a term of affection.
They hear blacks saying "that's my
nigga" or "What up nigga?"
both in affectionate contexts. If you ask me it seems like they feel
left out or something.
Trust me. You want to be left out of this one. I say nigga. I wish
I didn't but I do. I can't stop. The shit is addictive.
Let me give you a hint. The only reason Nugent can say nigger
and get away with it is because he doesn't know any.
And if it makes you feel any better whites did call niggas niggers
for about 472 years unchecked. In fact, whites called them "nigger"
so much that's why they call themselves niggas to this day.
Shit got pounded into them so relentlessly it became the most all-purpose
and addictive word blacks can say. Once you start saying nigga you
can't stop. Trust me. When you can say nigga you don't have to bother
to remember anybody's name anymore. Damn near everybody in the room
answers to nigga.
If you said in a room full of blacks, "hey,
nigga close that window its getting cold in here", everybody's
going to get up to close the window. If you said, "which
one of you niggas farted?" everybody's going to answer,
"It wasn't me."
It's hard to drop a word with that kind of power.
The only thing more fucked up than a white person calling a black
person a nigger is a German calling a Jew "firewood".
You know what the Jew would do if a German called him "firewood"
don't you?
He would fire him. |
