Blaming the Victims: On America’s New Black and Arab Uncle Toms
The Neocon’s favorite feminine “Uncle Tom” figure these days is undoubtedly La-Shawn Barber, a self described “former liberal and current renegade supporter of conservative ideals” which is a pretty accurate description…if you define “conservatism” as an ideological brew combining Billy Graham’s bigot activism and Attila the Hun’s moral ethics, or vice versa for that matter!
Yesterday, she wrote a particularly racist and sexist post that made it to the Washington Post’s media notes section (Ron, thanks for drawing our attention to this):
“As I mentioned before, black men raping white women is much more common than the other way around, but when was the last time a football team canceled its season? Other college rapes, that is, black-on-white rapes, don’t get a fraction of coverage, such as this one or this one. Remember thuggish Lawrence Phillips, a black football player who had a penchant for beating up white women? The media barely reported those stories.
And what about “hate crimes?” Although whites are the most likely hate crime victims, the only so-called hate crimes that get blanket coverage involve black victims and white perpetrators. By the way, this is what I think of “hate crimes.” ”
I’m sure La-Shawn Barber’s KKK handlers are quite proud of her for she is now to blacks and feminists what professor Fouad Ajami is to Arabs and Mohammedans: an immoral Neocon drone preprogrammed to always lay the blame on his own community in the name of “critical objectivity” and “independent thinking”… funny how this sounds hollow, for underneath the fake libertarian veneer lays a masochistic propensity to systematically blame the victims be they black, brown or yellow…all in the name of “freedom” of course!
More generally, it seems to me that Neocon and “Christian” Coalition-type commentators raise an interesting moral issue here: is a poor African-American stripper (or even worse a “lowlife black prostitute”…) essentially guilty in advance because of what she is- as opposed to say being admitted into a level playing field where her testimony would be treated with the same reverence (or skepticism) as that of a Church-going rich WASP kid from Duke?
Wahhâbi Islamic fundamentalists and other (Dixie and Israeli) followers of the Old Testament would probably say the “morally bankrupt” lady is guilty until proven innocent.
It seems to me the whole point of our civilization is to give straying souls like her the chance of a fair trial…
The Neocon’s favorite feminine “Uncle Tom” figure these days is undoubtedly La-Shawn Barber, a self described “former liberal and current renegade supporter of conservative ideals” which is a pretty accurate description…if you define “conservatism” as an ideological brew combining Billy Graham’s bigot activism and Attila the Hun’s moral ethics, or vice versa for that matter!
Yesterday, she wrote a particularly racist and sexist post that made it to the Washington Post’s media notes section (Ron, thanks for drawing our attention to this):
“As I mentioned before, black men raping white women is much more common than the other way around, but when was the last time a football team canceled its season? Other college rapes, that is, black-on-white rapes, don’t get a fraction of coverage, such as this one or this one. Remember thuggish Lawrence Phillips, a black football player who had a penchant for beating up white women? The media barely reported those stories.
And what about “hate crimes?” Although whites are the most likely hate crime victims, the only so-called hate crimes that get blanket coverage involve black victims and white perpetrators. By the way, this is what I think of “hate crimes.” ”
I’m sure La-Shawn Barber’s KKK handlers are quite proud of her for she is now to blacks and feminists what professor Fouad Ajami is to Arabs and Mohammedans: an immoral Neocon drone preprogrammed to always lay the blame on his own community in the name of “critical objectivity” and “independent thinking”… funny how this sounds hollow, for underneath the fake libertarian veneer lays a masochistic propensity to systematically blame the victims be they black, brown or yellow…all in the name of “freedom” of course!
More generally, it seems to me that Neocon and “Christian” Coalition-type commentators raise an interesting moral issue here: is a poor African-American stripper (or even worse a “lowlife black prostitute”…) essentially guilty in advance because of what she is- as opposed to say being admitted into a level playing field where her testimony would be treated with the same reverence (or skepticism) as that of a Church-going rich WASP kid from Duke?
Wahhâbi Islamic fundamentalists and other (Dixie and Israeli) followers of the Old Testament would probably say the “morally bankrupt” lady is guilty until proven innocent.
It seems to me the whole point of our civilization is to give straying souls like her the chance of a fair trial…
posted by Dr Victorino de la Vega at 6:25 PM
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Is getting a bit more difficult to weave the Taqqia?
I mean, why no mention of Saudi Imams insisting on the duty of Muslims to rape Israeli women and girls (actually, all kafir women and young girls. The sainted Imam quotes MOhammed and his band of doing just that- hence the OK)?
Does La Shawn Barbers opinion irritate you enough to compare what is opinion versus what is state sponsored?
Still the poseur.
Well said, como siempre Señor Doc!
Grand stratéguerre,
ton vocabulaire semble parfois bien éculé, d'où diable sors tu cet orientaliste "mohammedans", après 21 siècles d'Histoire depuis la mort du nazaréen ?
Je me permet de poser la question car ça n'est pas la première fois.
Sinon, comme souvent, excellent billet que tu nous livres là :) !
Salut Chapi,
Suis en voyage sous les tropiques....et il me reste 2 minutes de connexion internet
je vais donc etre bref...pour changer!
'muhammadi' c est bien evidement IRONIQUE
et puis ca a un petit cachet desuet, Ottoman et Sufi a la fois
...que j ai;me bien
THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
What common denominator stands in the shadows of time and makes a cameo appearance under a pen name and then silently withdraws down the memory hole, only to reappear again and again?
Can anyone today address the jackal’s return without becoming vaporized? And by not addressing it, we will become just another casualty of history; rewritten, cherry picked and hung out to dry.
Think Germany, think Russia, and know that their obituaries have become illegal to even question.
Scratch the history book a little, and try to read behind the victor’s rhetoric and hyperbole -- just take out the adjectives and adverbs and see what is left.
Better yet, see who published it and who wrote it and what “think tank” they are affiliated with and you will know the agenda before turning to the first chapter.
Take a step further back and watch the repeat performance ripple, new names, same game, same strategy.
You hypocrites-you know the jackal’s name and dare not call it out.
Then you ridicule any who do, to preserve your sanctioned seat at the banquet table and soothe yourself with the platitudes that you must compromise the truth to be an ally of the truth!
Rows upon rows, layers upon layers, they have renamed deceit and call it truth.
Happy Passover, all you luckless goyim aspiring to partake of this trough of swill they have convinced you tastes good. May you gorge yourself with a smile on your face and never know the poison you swallow.
Barbra-renée Brighenti
Anti-war doctor found guilty
REMEMBER THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIALS
WHERE 'following orders' WAS NOT A DEFENCE?
Now it's happened in reverse - not following orders is a crime!
RAF officer Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith was court-martialled for “refusing to obey a lawful command” after he told his commanding officer that he would not go to Basra.
Kendall-Smith, 37, unit medical officer for RAF Kinloss in Morayshire, was decorated for his role in support of military operations in Afghanistan and for two previous tours in support of the RAF in Iraq.
After studying the legal position, including the advice of Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, he decided this year that the war was unlawful and it would therefore be wrong for him to return
Principle IV of the Nuremberg Principles states that acting under orders of a "Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."
Judge Advocate Jack Bayliss ruled that such a crime "cannot be committed by those in relatively junior positions such as that of the defendant. "
Court-martial in Aldershot acted in 11 April to 13 April 2006. Kendall-Smith has been convicted, and sentenced to a penalty of eight months in jail, was ordered to pay 20,000 pounds towards his legal-aid costs and will be dismissed from the service.
So much for conscience!
You seem not only woefully ignorant of american reality (as opposed to your delusionary dialectic), but pick out the wrong people.
Get off her and get on him
BTW, IF it turns out that this exotic dancer, made the entire thing up, she will almost exactly have duplicated what you seem to be complaining about with Tawana Brawley. Right now we only know there was no rape. Color has nothign to do with objective reality. A rapae was accused of some of the Duke Lacrosse team, science now says this is impossible. Tawana Brawley made up a damaging story which played to stereotypes on both sides. I was living in NYC at the time, and she was an embarassment to everyone, and took up a LOT of air time, and man hours. This may be EXACTLY what is happening now. That is simply not disputable. We will see if that all plays out the same. The emails from the Lacrosse team renders them into cro magnon grunters, but that doesn't change the impossibility of the veracity of the accusation
BTW the Brit Dr. DID violate the law, and he is a man of conscience... good for him. That doesn't mean you don't have to pay the piper. Lot's of folks with conscience act with the penalties in full view. I applaud his forthrightness, and willingness to stand up for his beliefs. Now if only this process was followed in the rest of the world.....I wonder what would have happened in Bakuba in 1998, or in Qum now, or Pyonyang, or Hama, or Khan Younis...
Dear fan of 1984,
I have to admit I might have been a little hyperbolic and stuff in defense of that poor girl...but La Shawn Collabarborator and her Duke KKK friends represent everything I despise!
A man of conscience pays a high price for taking a stand against the Iraq war:
An RAF doctor who refused to go to Iraq on the grounds that the war was illegal was jailed for eight months yesterday in what the judge described as a message to the armed forces about the consequences of rejecting “the policy of Her Majesty’s government”.
Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, 37, of dual British and New Zealand citizenship, was found guilty on five counts of disobeying orders after a trial marked by bitter exchanges, in which he compared the actions of US forces to those of Nazi Germany.
Kendall-Smith should be saluted as a brave individual willing to speak out publicly against an illegal war. It is interesting to note that he has supposedly received many words of support from serving British forces. He fits into a noble tradition of refusing service on principle
Antony Loewenstein
He who builds his house on lies fears nothing more that the truth, which can tear it down at any time. This is the reason why, so far as history is concerned, this court-martial was bound to uphold the lies of the State in complete disregard for public opinion.
Simon
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