The Right Replies

With its typical fair-minded, dispassionate analysis.

You may remember the Astute Bloggers post I wrote about in Wingnut Wrapup, which used some story about neanderthals as an excuse to print this photograph:


Listen, I know, I know, these people are without conscience and it is useless to communicate with them, but I was so repulsed by this that I had to respond.  Here is my comment, posted at the website of these evil people, and their reply:
Blogger Green Eagle said...
 
"This is one of the most disgusting, degraded pieces of racist trash that I have ever seen. I don't know who you are, but you should be deeply ashamed of yourself. Sad to say, you have so given yourself over to the lowest of human emotions that I know it will never happen. You are one contemptible specimen of life."
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 Reliapundit said...
 
"YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE GREEN EAGLE. I AM NO RACIST."

No, you were just making a point concerning recent advances in physical anthropology, and have simply illustrated it with an unretouched photo showing Michelle Obama's striking resemblance to an ape, which any fair-minded person could see, and which has nothing to do with race, oh no.  It's just one of those things that calls attention to itself, right?

 "I MARCHED WITH DR MARTIN LUTHER KING."

Sure you did.  You probably had Jimi Hendrix's baby, too.

 "I WAS A MEMBER OF MY COLLEGE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN CONGRESS. I HAVE HAD BLACK FRIENDS MY WHOLE LIFE."

Boy, haven't we heard that one before.  I wonder if you have a lot of pictures of them that you have Photoshopped to make them look like apes.  Of course, that wouldn't be racism, oh no!  

"I DATED BLACK WOMEN."

So did the sons of plantation owners in the South.  If you take a loose definition of the word "dated." 

 "I HAVE PHOTOS AND PAINTINGS OF AN BY BLACK PEOPLE IN MY HOME."

Yeah, I bet you do.  Photos and paintings just like the one above, which you felt had so much artistic merit that you had to share it with the world.  

"I ADORE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL ICONS LIKE BASIE AND ELLINGTON AND NAT COLE AND SO MANY OTHERS."

You could play the lead from the twenty minute live version of Five Long Years note for note and it wouldn't change the hatred that pours from you.   

 "I DON'T HAVE A RACIST CELL IN MY BODY."

You don't have an honest cell in your body.  I cannot understand why you spread this disgusting stuff in public and then deny what it obviously is- the most vile form of racist trash.  Why are you so ashamed of your racism?  You proudly print things like this almost every day.  You should wear your intellectual efforts as a badge of honor. 

 "SO FUCK OFF YOU LITTLE MORONIC PIECE OF LEFTIST SHIT. 

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF." 

Well, thanks for summing up your position on a level consistent with your other comments.  By the way, I don't suppose you are aware of it, but the compulsive use of capitals is generally taken to be a sign of mental derangement.  Not that we'd need that to figure out that you are in deep need of psychological help. And I don't mean that as a cheap shot.  If none of your acquaintances are willing to tell you this, I will.  You need help badly, buddy.

Comments

Dave Dubya said…
None of the hate-filled, goose-stepping, Fourth Reich wannabes are racists; cuz they say so. No sir. In fact, we are the racists for suggesting they are. That's how it works in their narrow little minds.
Green Eagle said…
I just don't get it how someone can print something like this, and still manage to tell themselves that they are not racist. There are a lot of really sick people running around loose in this country.

Maybe now we know the real reason Ronald Reagan closed all the mental institutions in California. We sure as hell know it wasn't because he was worrying about balancing the budget. I think he did it because every one of those people was a potential Republican voter.
Magpie said…
I went to that post….

He says “Yeah I know it's nasty, but it's not racist: they did it too Bush” (misspelling in source)

Well I’ve never seen that picture of Bush before… but I doubt very much it was done by a black person as a comment about Bush being white, whereas it was done to Mrs Obama by a white person precisely as a comment about her appearance. The excuse that they did it too (for a completely different message – probably that Bush was a moron) is usually lame, and not the thing we let our kids get away with let alone a grown up.

And I bet the Bush picture did not illustrate a post about Neanderthals, a term that commonly carries a pejorative meaning in ordinary conversation that other terms for early humans do not.

If he marched with Martin Luther King, it must have been for the exercise, because he sure wasn’t paying attention.
Green Eagle said…
Not that it is that relevant, but Bush does have a rather simian appearance. It has been suggested that this is the result of his suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome, seeing as how he also seems to have many other symptoms of that condition.

My concern is not with Bush himself, but rather (as with people like Mussolini and Hitler) how large numbers of people can be manipulated into supporting such grotesquely unsuitable leaders. When they are willing, as this guy is, to descend into such irrational hatred, it's a lot easier to get them to support evil leaders.
Anonymous said…
I thought liberals were supposed to be so smart. They can't even tell when they are being played.
It's so easy to play a liberal because it's so easy to make your heads spin round and round until what passes for gray matter spews from your ears.
Green Eagle said…
Here it goes- Standard Conservative Excuse Number 2.

Standard Conservative Excuse Number One, of course, is to just lie and claim you never said it.

Standard Conservative Excuse Number 2 (when there is proof that Standard Conservative Excuse Number 1 won't work)consists in claiming that you were just joking, like Rick Perry is now doing about his encouragement of secession from the United States.

Forget it, Anonymous. There isn't a damned thing funny about this picture and the post it came from. It is some of the most hateful racism you will ever see. And if you have so much vested in denying this to yourself, you need to think about that. Anyone who finds this picture humorous is a racist, and all the conservative whining on earth won't change that fact.
Magpie said…
Anon, please don’t bother with the pretence that you can condescend anyone...

If he just was "playing liberals" then why did he bluster his innocence in capital derangement, parade his oddly liberal-sounding qualifications not to be called a bigot, and then tell his one liberal commenter to “FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF”?

Hmm?

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