Anti-Trump conservative writer David French generated some collective eye-rolling last week when he confessed in an interview that he’d slowly come to accept that racism is real.
Cons believe that racism in America is dead, hence no need to the Voting Rights Act anymore. It's just a coincidence that they also believe that gutting the VRA will help them in the midterms. Maybe they are right about the second sentence, but they are wrong about the first one.
My wildly insightful reply post of the day: David French is absolutely insufferable and always has been.
Having said that, one rock solid tenet of conservatism is that conversion, empathy-whatever you want to call it-can only come from *personal* experience, which is the reason French could pooh-pooh Coates and the others. He, like most of the National Review ilk, can't imagine a world beyond their own noses. His community always treated HIM well, so he couldn't imagine his Black daughter would have a different experience. It's mind numbingly ignorant, but I guess it's also not surprising. Next thing you know he'll be ruminating harshly on the subject of sexual harassment when one of his girls gets catcalled walking down the street.
This is absolutely consistent with conservative thinking.
They will deny a problem exists and go to great lengths to abstractly lecture others with personal experience about how wrong they are *until it happens to them personally and directly*.
Then there's the 'huh, maybe there's something to it, poor poor me' op-ed and zero apologies to those they've trashed in the past.
And even MORE insufferable? Their inability to transfer that 'lesson' onto other situations effectively identical save for the details. He's gonna have to go through the SAME process 'learning' about gay people, then the SAME process 'learning' about immigrants, then the SAME process 'learning' about Liberals...
I mean, WTF IS knowledge if its not transferrable? Thank doG I wasn't born with this breathtaking mental deficit...If you're not connecting the dots? WTF is the POINT?
BY GOLLY.
I wish I was even surprised. I can't even manage a Susan Collins raised eyebrow. This is a trope at this point.
It's almost even an incidence of Cheney Syndrome, i.e. "It's only real when it happens to me."
Phil Williams is on this chucklehead's TV if he cares to tune in. Franklin is scary.
This was his post yesterday and it's part of a series. https://www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/hate-in-a-hallmark-town-part-4-a
Excellent post. And to live in Tennessee and not see racism takes some serious Tommy-level obliviousness.
Some of my best daughters are black people!
"As a father of people of color..."
(:
Cons believe that racism in America is dead, hence no need to the Voting Rights Act anymore. It's just a coincidence that they also believe that gutting the VRA will help them in the midterms. Maybe they are right about the second sentence, but they are wrong about the first one.
"and his daughter paid the price for his adult education courses in remedial racism."
Ouch and touché
Looking forward also to his hey guys I just noticed water is wet column.
My wildly insightful reply post of the day: David French is absolutely insufferable and always has been.
Having said that, one rock solid tenet of conservatism is that conversion, empathy-whatever you want to call it-can only come from *personal* experience, which is the reason French could pooh-pooh Coates and the others. He, like most of the National Review ilk, can't imagine a world beyond their own noses. His community always treated HIM well, so he couldn't imagine his Black daughter would have a different experience. It's mind numbingly ignorant, but I guess it's also not surprising. Next thing you know he'll be ruminating harshly on the subject of sexual harassment when one of his girls gets catcalled walking down the street.
This is absolutely consistent with conservative thinking.
They will deny a problem exists and go to great lengths to abstractly lecture others with personal experience about how wrong they are *until it happens to them personally and directly*.
Then there's the 'huh, maybe there's something to it, poor poor me' op-ed and zero apologies to those they've trashed in the past.
Good ol' Cheney Syndrome!
And even MORE insufferable? Their inability to transfer that 'lesson' onto other situations effectively identical save for the details. He's gonna have to go through the SAME process 'learning' about gay people, then the SAME process 'learning' about immigrants, then the SAME process 'learning' about Liberals...
I mean, WTF IS knowledge if its not transferrable? Thank doG I wasn't born with this breathtaking mental deficit...If you're not connecting the dots? WTF is the POINT?
Amen!
Whatever works. Now if one of his kids comes out as gay...preferably just as desert is served on Thanksgiving...