Posted on 03/21/2013 1:40:04 AM PDT by neverdem
When your article inspires a big-city mayor to refer your case to a "human-relations commission," you know you've hit a nerve. And when that article is the recent "Being White in Philly" piece by liberal Robert Huber, you know it doesn't take much truth to hit that nerve.
That's the scary part. Huber's article contains mostly tepid examples of whites' negative experiences with blacks and primarily black neighborhoods, such as a Philadelphia resident whose grill was stolen from her backyard but "blames herself" for not fencing it in. Its tone is basically apologetic, absolving a drug dealer of responsibility because he was just "trying to get by" and describing the US' racial history as "horrible and daunting." Yet this wasn't good enough for Mayor Michael Nutter and his comrades. They still want Huber silenced.
Oh, they won't get what they want...at least not exactly and not yet. But, nonetheless, writes Philly.com, "In a scathing letter, Mayor Nutter last week requested that the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission consider whether the magazine and Huber deserved to be rebuked for the article." Why is this significant? Well, when we hear about Englishmen, Canadians, Australians, Swedes, or other Westerners being imprisoned or fined for criticizing Islam or homosexuality -- yes, this does happen -- guess what the instruments of their oppression are.
Human-relations commissions.
Of course, they're usually called "human-rights" commissions, and the entities that actually judge those charged with "hate speech" are called "tribunals." And they have proliferated in the West. You can bet your state has one, and your county may, too. But, no, you won't be silenced by them -- at least not exactly and not yet. We have that pesky thing called the First Amendment (for now).
But Huber certainly was rebuked. In a Monday panel discussion moderated by the...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That was my opinion of the article. Tepid. The most scathing comment in there is a woman from Moscow who is exasperated that we pay black people not to work and to have more and more children. He then explains it away as her lack of knowledge of our racial history in this country.
It was pretty lame.
. . . or much of anything else in the actual Constitution.You would think that the press would favor the First Amendment, but you would be wrong. In reality the telegraph, as employed by the wire services (really by the AP, but it is the inevitable effect of any and all wire services), has politically homogenized the nations journalists against the Constitution. Adam Smith predicts the effect perfectly:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch 10The AP newswire is nothing other than a continuous virtual meeting of journalists which has been going on since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Nothing else could have been expected to come of it, than that the members of the AP should, at least, tacitly, enter into "a conspiracy against the public.
The AP has always been monopolistic in its practices, and was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act back in 1945. It systematically suppressed competitors. But beyond that, it created a pecking order" in journalism with itself and go-along-to-get-along journalists at the top, and truly independent journalists at the bottom.It thereby made questioning the objectivity of its members into a taboo subject. Well, under the Constitution, Hillary had a point:
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, "We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!Just so, we are Americans and we should question the objectivity of journalists, whether it is the Associated Press or Edward R. Murrow or any journalist! And dont let anyone claim that journalists know so much more than the rest of us do - they know little smatterings of things that the rest of will find out soon enough, if we care about them! And if we really care about them, we are likely to find out about them faster over the Internet than we will from a member of the AP!And we can test their historical track record - and frankly, it stinks! Whether it was the reality of Soviet penetration of the US government under the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, or whether it was the basis of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - or the malicious Nifong persecution of the Duke Lacrosse Three or the malicious persecution of white Republicans under the aegis of the baseless prosecution of white George Zimmerman, journalism systematically oversells itself and devalues the people who get things done.
I hear you Tupelo. Everything a white republican says today is racist.
I am copying what I wrote on a previous post but it is applicable here too.
Honey, Id rather have hot dogs tonight instead of Mexican RACIST
Not a fan of that Rap Song RACIST
They should bench (Black QB), hes playing lousy RACIST.
The above is all the masses here 24/7 from the MSM and the Left Side and its all they will ever hear.
I was telling a friend the same thing recently. Blacks were cutting edge/pioneers for a lot of music. Jazz, Blues, Early Rock and funk/r&b. Even Rap was cutting edge in the beginning.
How the creativity became such a laughable cliche is amazing. Same videos, beats, lyrics, stupid dances for the last 15 years.
Same thing for female pop singers with the stupid, played out dancers doing the same crap behind them.
Pursue the friendship and walk the eggshells as long as you have to. Your reward will be a hundredfold.
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I can't claim that. In fact I have yelled out an open window to my illegal neighbors: "Go back to Mexico" and various colorful expressions when they were making too much noise. We have also helped them out, on numerous occasions, so I don't know if it all cancels out. Cordial most of the time. Yes, we live in a trailer park.
“Ego te absolvo...”
This nutty Nutter response will just increase the white flight from Philly. He just shot the city in the foot.
Thanks for the link.
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