Posted on 05/10/2017 10:34:52 AM PDT by Cubs Fan
This week, an odd tweet appeared in my mentions from verified Twitter users — users prominent enough to be granted a blue check mark by Twitter itself. This one came courtesy of a rapper named Talib Kweli Greene. I'll admit I'd never heard of Greene until he appeared in my mentions calling me a "racist ass." It turns out Greene is a rapper with well over 1 million Twitter followers and a long history of "social activism."
A quick search of Greene's Twitter feed showed a wide variety of instances of the rapper calling people "white boy" and "coon." He says that this does not make him racist, of course — only the term "black boy" would be racist, since Greene maintains that white people cannot truly be victimized by racism. When I pointed out that seeming incongruity, Greene replied: "What's the problem white boy? You think 'white boy' is racist? Wow. You're dumber than I thought." He then dared me to call him "black boy," which, of course, I would never do, since that would be racist.
What's Greene's actual argument? It seems to be that since the derogatory slur "black boy" was thrown around by lynch mobs, any other derogatory slur can no longer be derogatory. This is the rhetorical equivalent of the argument your mother used to make back in grade school: You're not truly hungry, since there are children in China who are starving to death. The argument fails for the same reason: Yes, it turns out there are gradations of racism, just as there are gradations of hunger. But you were hungry when you were a kid, even if your bowels weren't distended, and you're a racist if you call someone "white boy" in a derogatory fashion, even if you're not attempting to lynch him.
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*Except hating whitey
IMO modern liberalism is ethnic marxism-—the old marxism was based purely on class. but modern liberalism, much like naziism, is based on ethnic grievance. And if a group has been on top too long, like whites, men, christians, heterosexuals, you need to damage them to “make up for it”
Again, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that there are far worse things in the world than racism...but try telling that to liberal democrat racists.
Thanks Captain Obvious.
Unfortunately it’s mostly just any excuse to lose your sh*t anymore.
Actually, you should have called him “black boy”.
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