What explains The Radical Redneck praising Martin Luther King Jr's assassin is he's just trolling? And what he wrote is hilariously funny... he probably believes? Remember that Conservatives claim MLK was a republican.
Crikey. I'm not surprised to see this. R.R. is one of Lisa's more disgusting low lifes. She thinks he's funny. That says a lot about her and her blog. Yeah. R.R. is trolling, thinking he's owning the Libs, when in fact he's showing himself to be a sad little rodent whose highest achievement in life is making a fool of himself on a racist blog.
Yesterday, on MLK Day, Trump sent out several messages and not once did he mention Dr. King.
In the past, Trump has said "I love the Blacks." LOL! What a greasy little pandering worm. Oh how his cultists love his lies and hypocrisy. Trump has even turned on Ron DeathSantis because DeathSantis hasn't properly kissed Trump's fat orange posterior hard enough. LOL!
At his recent bund rally in AZ this past weekend, Trump lied his fat orange posterior off by telling his cultists that if you're white, you have to go to the back of the line to get a vaccine. That is, of course, a despicable lie, told to make his aggrieved cultists feel even more resentful and angry. That's how he keeps his cultists riled up, and the poor benighted dupes lap his divisive lies up like a dog finding a dish of Dr. Marty's Nature Blend Dog Food. If someone told this to me, I'd laugh in his/her face because it would be difficult to believe so many, thousands!, of people could worship an obvious psychopathic malignant narcissist who's following the playbook of every despot whoever walked the planet -- (and who eventually was destroyed by his own lies and/or followers.)
Seniors were given priority initially. My parents were able to get vaccinated quite awhile before I was allowed to schedule an appointment. Because people deemed to be at higher risk went to the front of the line. Your "racializing" whine concerns a policy put in place for the same reason.
btw, being rich doesn't put anyone in a higher risk group :P
Blacks may be "at higher risk" of POVERTY, but not of Covid. So "prioritizing" Covid medical treatments by race is asinine, don't you agree? Or are you THAT anti-racist?
"Joe ConservativeJanuary 19, 2022 at 5:03 AM ...because "social justice" isn't "justice."
There it is, right there, the dumbest thing on the internet!
Tell that to the people who had their skulls cracked, who were set upon by attack dogs, who bled and who were murdered during the fight for Civil Rights. Fighting for civil rights is EXACTLY fighting for social justice.
But I don't expect someone like you to understand that.
Minus Eff Jay: "It explains my "perceived" racism... as I refuse to consider race in matters of justice."
Tell that to the families of George Floyd, Emmet Till, Sean Ellis, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean, and the thousands of men, women, and children who were tortured, maimed, and murdered in the South during the Jim Crow Era.
It is no wonder we are an effed-up country when we have people living here and witnessing racism in our justice system who believe there is no racism involved in our justice system.
Black men who commit the same crimes as white men receive federal prison sentences that are, on average, nearly 20 percent longer, according to a new report on sentencing disparities from the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC).
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According to the Sentencing Commission's report, the black/white sentencing disparities are being driven in large part by “non-government sponsored departures and variances” — in plain English, sentencing choices made by judges at their own discretion.
Judges are less likely to voluntarily revise sentences downward for black offenders than for white ones, in other words. And even when judges do reduce black offenders' sentences, they do so by smaller amounts than for white offenders.
That finding suggests that giving judges more discretion in sentencing, as the Booker decision did in 2005, allows more racial bias to seep into the process."
These disparities were observed “after controlling for a wide variety of sentencing factors,” including age, education, citizenship, weapon possession and prior criminal history.
So grant them all "justice". You want to review sentences, be my guest. Just don't create a new moral hazard where future black people get an 80% white man sentence discount.
...and Dervish, risks are all "relative". You can't say that people with a 5% risk of dying should be treated exactly like people at a 50% risk because they're "both at risk".
Biden administration guidance prioritizes race in administering COVID drugs
The Trump administration prioritized older Americans over all other age groups when the vaccines became available. So what's the problem with the above?
Social factors are class-based, not medically based. What's the medical vs social risk. If black genetics is a risk factor, that one thing. But if its' entirely a "social" risk, it's NOT a true medical risk factor until you also apply a "low social class" lens to distinguish a "high" one from a lower social class black. Race doesn't enter into it.
btw- Should society allocate the majority of liver transplants to homeless alcoholics? Aren't they most a risk from liver failure? How about to just black homeless alcoholics?
Of course all of this discussion is influenced by the filter of self interest. And, passing this nation's racist history through the lenses of self interest (especially for white conservatives) almost always yeilds bad outcomes. Seeing history as it really played out informs us. At least it should.
BTW JC, who should determine what constitutes "needs bassed" in your view? Evangelical Christians? Or IOW, pro conservative/tRump mentality?
Last week, New York's Department of Health released a document detailing its plan to distribute treatments such as monoclonal antibody treatment and antiviral pills. The plan includes a section on eligibility for the scarce antiviral pills that people must meet to receive the treatment, including a line stating a person needs to have "a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe illness".
No proof that seniors have lost their "at risk" status.
...for the distribution of monoclonal antibodies... residents who are "non-white race or Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity" receive 2 additional points when calculating their "COVID-19 risk score".
aka Minus lied. Black teens aren't getting treatment before seniors.
Is each co-morbidity one "risk point". If so, they are vastly over-treating minorities based simply upon "race". Black teenagers could very well be prioritized before senior citizens.
JoeCon:- "Should society allocate the majority of liver transplants to homeless alcoholics? Aren't they most a risk from liver failure? How about to just black homeless alcoholics?"
ALL alcoholics get sent to the back of the line for a liver transplant. Including black homeless alcoholics. So, JoeCon, you can sleep easy tonight knowing that a Black alcoholic will not have an advantage over a White alcoholic. They're treated the same way. Feel better now?
"Do alcoholics get lower priority for liver transplants?
With cadaveric donor livers in high demand, most transplant centers put patients whose liver damage stems from active alcohol use at the bottom of their priority lists — if they consider them at all.Feb 15, 2021
There's no shortage of Covid vaccines, so prioritizing them isn't a problem. Prioritize them for vaccines all you want.
Monoclonal antibody treatments, on the other hand, ARE in short supply. There is no justification, medical or otherwise, for giving minorities "bonus points" on the basis of race. Doing so means people die. You are simply needlessly killing people to alleviate your white guilt.
The point of the alcoholic analogy was to demonstrate that social and medical needs aren't the only factors driving the allocation of scarce resources. Behavioural factors must also be considered... like the fact that minorities distrust the government leading to lower vaccination rates. It's not "discrimination" that's preventing minorities from getting vaccinated.
If you know more about monoclonal antibody treatments and why they should be distributed at all, tell me where you received your superior knowledge.
Experts say monoclonal antibody treatment is not a substitute for COVID-19 vaccines
In the battle against COVID-19, patients diagnosed with the virus now have the option to receive a monoclonal antibody treatment, which has been shown to reduce COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients.
However, UC Davis Health infectious disease experts are warning patients that the monoclonal antibody treatment is not a replacement for the COVID-19 vaccine."
Emphasis should be on getting vaccines into arms, not monoclonal antibodies. So the argument is moot.
What part of "which has been shown to reduce COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients don't you understand?
It's not a substitute for vaccines. Nobody said it was. But if you HAVE Covid, it can save lives and shouldn't be given to high "social risk" patients at the expense of those with "high MEDICAL risks."
ps - Your vaccine isn't a vaccine. It prevents "nothing" a priori. It's a form of "treatment" like an IUD preventing pregnancy. Mono-clonal antibodies are more like the "morning after pill".
pps - you may believe that going to the end with your anti-racism screaming "black lives matter" demonstrates your commitment to "universality", but believe me when I tell you that you are no Amiri Baraka and it does nothing to contribute to your "Big Other" audience for Rawlsian justice in your imaginary "moral" (as opposed to actual) universe.
We want education for all of us and anyone else in the black belt hurt by slavery. For all the native peoples even them poor white people you show all the time as funny, all them abners and daisy maes, them Beverly Hill Billies who never got to no beverly hills. who never got to Harvard on they grandfathers wills. we want reparations for them, right on, for the Mexicans whose land you stole. For all of North Mexico you call Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado, all that, all that, all that, all that, Bu-de-daaaa do do bap bap bap baaa du de do.
Damn! The stupidity of the tRumpublican "right" keeps growing. Almost expoentially. To be expected given the the complete lack of intelligent leadership and vision that is rampant in the QGOP.
Minus Eff Jay wrote: "pps - you may believe that going to the end with your anti-racism screaming "black lives matter" demonstrates your commitment to "universality", but believe me when I tell you that you are no Amiri Baraka and it does nothing to contribute to your "Big Other" audience for Rawlsian justice in your imaginary "moral" (as opposed to actual) universe."
What in the name of God's Green Teeth are you blathering about? None of the above makes any sense and has nothing to do with my comment. What the hell kind of substance are you sniffing?
09:22 what i just wanted to say is that all those rightist liberals who say you know black lives matter is too identity and too narrow isn't it that all lives matter no the film gives an today to put it very succinctly and that it's my favorite person in the movie uh amina who elaborates it in detail she is not for class struggle but also against racism today in the united states you cannot really talk about class struggle without focusing on the position of exploited and oppressed blacks if you say we are general against exploitation you miss the the the exemplary crucial form of this exploitation it is okay to make a remark which will be non-problematic for the majority it's like to talk about uh racism in germany in 1930s and not to mention anti-semitism it's exactly the same here that's why and that was the deepest lesson for me of the film that's right that's why the reproach that black lives matter is so identitarian narrow all lives matter no this is today in our concrete situation this is a potentially racist statement why because if you say "all lives matter" we don't live in the air we live in a concrete situation where this universality every life matters is already defined by the predominant white ideology the way you define safety freedom rule of law and so on i don't have time to develop it now but upon a closer look it's easy to proceed to see how the way these terms function like universal human rights it's already covered given a spin by traditional white ideology and it's so if you say all lives matter it means the way we write people define it and we with our big generosity allow also blacks to join it but that's the lesson of the film for me yes human rights are a good thing but when blacks fight for human rights they are not just trying to include themselves into the official discourse whatever you call it of human rights they are at the same time dislocating if i may use this term dislocating the universal notion of human rights they are giving it a specific twist they are redefining the universality itself
And, of course, the ideal form of ideology of this global capitalism is multiculturalism, the attitude which, from a kind of empty global position, treats each local culture the way the colonizer treats colonized people—as ‘natives’ whose mores are to be carefully studied and ‘respected’. That is to say, the relationship between traditional imperialist colonialism and global capitalist self-colonization is exactly the same as the relationship between Western cultural imperialism and multiculturalism: in the same way that global capitalism involves the paradox of colonization without the colonizing Nation-State metropole, multiculturalism involves patronizing Eurocentrist distance and/or respect for local cultures without roots in one’s own particular culture. In other words, multiculturalism is a disavowed, inverted, self-referential form of racism, a ‘racism with a distance’—it ‘respects’ the Other’s identity, conceiving the Other as a self-enclosed ‘authentic’ community towards which he, the multiculturalist, maintains a distance rendered possible by his privileged universal position. Multiculturalism is a racism which empties its own position of all positive content (the multiculturalist is not a direct racist, he doesn’t oppose to the Other the particular values of his own culture), but nonetheless retains this position as; the privileged empty point of universality from which one is able to appreciate (and depreciate) properly other particular cultures—the multiculturalist respect for the Other’s specificity is the very form of asserting one’s; own superiority.
Crikey. I'm not surprised to see this. R.R. is one of Lisa's more disgusting low lifes. She thinks he's funny. That says a lot about her and her blog. Yeah. R.R. is trolling, thinking he's owning the Libs, when in fact he's showing himself to be a sad little rodent whose highest achievement in life is making a fool of himself on a racist blog.
ReplyDeleteSo, The Stench Trench is still producing a flow of stinky garbage to keep the net polluted w/bullshit.
ReplyDeleteSuch pathetic children.
Sounds like a pretty successful troll... of "Indigenous People's Day" liberals.
ReplyDelete...and you know who you are.
DeleteWe're the anti-racists. The opposite of you, a pro-racist. As proven by your pro-Columbus genocide comment.
DeleteYou're so binary, Dervy. All non-Greeks are "barbarians". lol!
DeleteYour anti-racism "Repressive Tolerance" non-tolerance will be the death of the Left.
DeleteYour pro-racism White Supremacist non-tolerance will be the death of the Right.
DeleteMy barbaric barbarity? lol!!
DeleteMoves toward equality = considered "repression" by White Supremacists.
DeleteMoves towards equality = imposition of white supremacy you mean...
Delete...the "new universality".
DeleteYesterday, on MLK Day, Trump sent out several messages and not once did he mention Dr. King.
ReplyDeleteIn the past, Trump has said "I love the Blacks." LOL! What a greasy little pandering worm. Oh how his cultists love his lies and hypocrisy. Trump has even turned on Ron DeathSantis because DeathSantis hasn't properly kissed Trump's fat orange posterior hard enough. LOL!
At his recent bund rally in AZ this past weekend, Trump lied his fat orange posterior off by telling his cultists that if you're white, you have to go to the back of the line to get a vaccine. That is, of course, a despicable lie, told to make his aggrieved cultists feel even more resentful and angry. That's how he keeps his cultists riled up, and the poor benighted dupes lap his divisive lies up like a dog finding a dish of Dr. Marty's Nature Blend Dog Food. If someone told this to me, I'd laugh in his/her face because it would be difficult to believe so many, thousands!, of people could worship an obvious psychopathic malignant narcissist who's following the playbook of every despot whoever walked the planet -- (and who eventually was destroyed by his own lies and/or followers.)
We're not the ones racializing government policies vis "medicine".
DeleteSeniors were given priority initially. My parents were able to get vaccinated quite awhile before I was allowed to schedule an appointment. Because people deemed to be at higher risk went to the front of the line. Your "racializing" whine concerns a policy put in place for the same reason.
Deletebtw, being rich doesn't put anyone in a higher risk group :P
Covid affects black people worse than seniors? Who knew? By all means, prioritize them.
DeleteI never knew that black teenagers died at a higher rate from Covid than 80 year old white people.
btw - I'd like to see your study that backs the policy claim up.
Delete...cuz looking at the data, I don't think it supports your conclusions.
DeleteThat isn't my conclusion. I never said "Covid affects black people worse than seniors".
DeleteThen what's your conclusion? That it's only fair that more white seniors needlessly die because black teenagers ancestors were once oppressed?
DeleteBlacks may be "at higher risk" of POVERTY, but not of Covid. So "prioritizing" Covid medical treatments by race is asinine, don't you agree? Or are you THAT anti-racist?
Deletebtw - The "Rawlsian" justice system upon which anti-racism is based is absolute Bullsh*t. It's a "theory" devoid of a "practical" praxis.
Delete"If black lives mattered, ALL lives would matter"... until like in the case above, they don't.
DeleteIt's a Theory that results in BAD practice.
Delete...because "social justice" isn't "justice."
DeleteThe "social" part gets in the way of the "justice" part.
DeleteThe real issue for you con man joe is this... the JUSTICE part gets in thr way of your racism.
DeleteThere, fixed it fer ya!
It explains my "perceived" racism... as I refuse to consider race in matters of justice.
Delete"Joe ConservativeJanuary 19, 2022 at 5:03 AM
Delete...because "social justice" isn't "justice."
There it is, right there, the dumbest thing on the internet!
Tell that to the people who had their skulls cracked, who were set upon by attack dogs, who bled and who were murdered during the fight for Civil Rights. Fighting for civil rights is EXACTLY fighting for social justice.
But I don't expect someone like you to understand that.
"...it's only fair that more white seniors needlessly die because black teenagers ancestors were once oppressed?"
DeleteRecognizing another at-risk group cancels the at-risk status of seniors? What's your evidence that this happened?
Oh Jeebus! Here's another beauty:
DeleteMinus Eff Jay: "It explains my "perceived" racism... as I refuse to consider race in matters of justice."
Tell that to the families of George Floyd, Emmet Till, Sean Ellis, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean, and the thousands of men, women, and children who were tortured, maimed, and murdered in the South during the Jim Crow Era.
It is no wonder we are an effed-up country when we have people living here and witnessing racism in our justice system who believe there is no racism involved in our justice system.
Black men who commit the same crimes as white men receive federal prison sentences that are, on average, nearly 20 percent longer, according to a new report on sentencing disparities from the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC).
Delete[skip]
According to the Sentencing Commission's report, the black/white sentencing disparities are being driven in large part by “non-government sponsored departures and variances” — in plain English, sentencing choices made by judges at their own discretion.
Judges are less likely to voluntarily revise sentences downward for black offenders than for white ones, in other words. And even when judges do reduce black offenders' sentences, they do so by smaller amounts than for white offenders.
That finding suggests that giving judges more discretion in sentencing, as the Booker decision did in 2005, allows more racial bias to seep into the process."
These disparities were observed “after controlling for a wide variety of sentencing factors,” including age, education, citizenship, weapon possession and prior criminal history.
SOURCE
So grant them all "justice". You want to review sentences, be my guest. Just don't create a new moral hazard where future black people get an 80% white man sentence discount.
Delete...and Dervish, risks are all "relative". You can't say that people with a 5% risk of dying should be treated exactly like people at a 50% risk because they're "both at risk".
DeleteWhat's your evidence that this happened? :P
DeleteBiden administration guidance prioritizes race in administering COVID drugs
DeleteThe Trump administration prioritized older Americans over all other age groups when the vaccines became available. So what's the problem with the above?
Social factors are class-based, not medically based. What's the medical vs social risk. If black genetics is a risk factor, that one thing. But if its' entirely a "social" risk, it's NOT a true medical risk factor until you also apply a "low social class" lens to distinguish a "high" one from a lower social class black. Race doesn't enter into it.
Delete...because the social risk is one of poverty, not race.
DeleteLike college tuition, these social factors should be "needs based" and NOT "race based".
Deletebtw- Should society allocate the majority of liver transplants to homeless alcoholics? Aren't they most a risk from liver failure? How about to just black homeless alcoholics?
DeleteShould race be a factor in the decision?
DeleteOf course all of this discussion is influenced by the filter of self interest. And, passing this nation's racist history through the lenses of self interest (especially for white conservatives) almost always yeilds bad outcomes. Seeing history as it really played out informs us. At least it should.
DeleteBTW JC, who should determine what constitutes "needs bassed" in your view? Evangelical Christians? Or IOW, pro conservative/tRump mentality?
Minus FJ's Link...
DeleteLast week, New York's Department of Health released a document detailing its plan to distribute treatments such as monoclonal antibody treatment and antiviral pills. The plan includes a section on eligibility for the scarce antiviral pills that people must meet to receive the treatment, including a line stating a person needs to have "a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe illness".
No proof that seniors have lost their "at risk" status.
...for the distribution of monoclonal antibodies... residents who are "non-white race or Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity" receive 2 additional points when calculating their "COVID-19 risk score".
Deleteaka Minus lied. Black teens aren't getting treatment before seniors.
Minus lied? Imagine that.
DeleteIs each co-morbidity one "risk point". If so, they are vastly over-treating minorities based simply upon "race". Black teenagers could very well be prioritized before senior citizens.
DeleteYou were 100 percent convinced they were. Now you say "could". I seriously doubt it, given that would make zero sense.
DeleteI think it's safe to say that Minus Eff Jay/JoeCon is exhibiting the typical Trumpista's "white grievance."
DeleteJoeCon: "Black teenagers could very well be prioritized before senior citizens.
Try reading facts, not fiction HERE.
JoeCon:- "Should society allocate the majority of liver transplants to homeless alcoholics? Aren't they most a risk from liver failure? How about to just black homeless alcoholics?"
DeleteALL alcoholics get sent to the back of the line for a liver transplant. Including black homeless alcoholics. So, JoeCon, you can sleep easy tonight knowing that a Black alcoholic will not have an advantage over a White alcoholic. They're treated the same way. Feel better now?
"Do alcoholics get lower priority for liver transplants?
With cadaveric donor livers in high demand, most transplant centers put patients whose liver damage stems from active alcohol use at the bottom of their priority lists — if they consider them at all.Feb 15, 2021
There's no shortage of Covid vaccines, so prioritizing them isn't a problem. Prioritize them for vaccines all you want.
DeleteMonoclonal antibody treatments, on the other hand, ARE in short supply. There is no justification, medical or otherwise, for giving minorities "bonus points" on the basis of race. Doing so means people die. You are simply needlessly killing people to alleviate your white guilt.
The point of the alcoholic analogy was to demonstrate that social and medical needs aren't the only factors driving the allocation of scarce resources. Behavioural factors must also be considered... like the fact that minorities distrust the government leading to lower vaccination rates. It's not "discrimination" that's preventing minorities from getting vaccinated.
DeleteIf you know more about monoclonal antibody treatments and why they should be distributed at all, tell me where you received your superior knowledge.
DeleteExperts say monoclonal antibody treatment is not a substitute for COVID-19 vaccines
In the battle against COVID-19, patients diagnosed with the virus now have the option to receive a monoclonal antibody treatment, which has been shown to reduce COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients.
However, UC Davis Health infectious disease experts are warning patients that the monoclonal antibody treatment is not a replacement for the COVID-19 vaccine."
Emphasis should be on getting vaccines into arms, not monoclonal antibodies. So the argument is moot.
Your "white guilt" statement is bunk.
why they should be distributed at all
DeleteWhat part of "which has been shown to reduce COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients don't you understand?
It's not a substitute for vaccines. Nobody said it was. But if you HAVE Covid, it can save lives and shouldn't be given to high "social risk" patients at the expense of those with "high MEDICAL risks."
So go expiate your white guilt someplace else.
ps - Your vaccine isn't a vaccine. It prevents "nothing" a priori. It's a form of "treatment" like an IUD preventing pregnancy. Mono-clonal antibodies are more like the "morning after pill".
Deletepps - you may believe that going to the end with your anti-racism screaming "black lives matter" demonstrates your commitment to "universality", but believe me when I tell you that you are no Amiri Baraka and it does nothing to contribute to your "Big Other" audience for Rawlsian justice in your imaginary "moral" (as opposed to actual) universe.
DeleteBu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa. Bu-de-daaaa.
DeleteWe want education for all of us and anyone else in the black belt hurt by slavery. For all the native peoples even them poor white people you show all the time as funny, all them abners and daisy maes, them Beverly Hill Billies who never got to no beverly hills. who never got to Harvard on they grandfathers wills. we want reparations for them, right on, for the Mexicans whose land you stole. For all of North Mexico you call Texas, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado, all that, all that, all that, all that, Bu-de-daaaa do do bap bap bap baaa du de do.
-Amiri Baraka
Damn! The stupidity of the tRumpublican "right" keeps growing. Almost expoentially. To be expected given the the complete lack of intelligent leadership and vision that is rampant in the QGOP.
ReplyDeleteYup, the "white grievance" trio is out in full force, guns a blazin.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's a demonstration of what "inclusive universalism" looks like.
DeleteMinus Eff Jay wrote: "pps - you may believe that going to the end with your anti-racism screaming "black lives matter" demonstrates your commitment to "universality", but believe me when I tell you that you are no Amiri Baraka and it does nothing to contribute to your "Big Other" audience for Rawlsian justice in your imaginary "moral" (as opposed to actual) universe."
ReplyDeleteWhat in the name of God's Green Teeth are you blathering about? None of the above makes any sense and has nothing to do with my comment. What the hell kind of substance are you sniffing?
Don't blame me for your lack of understanding of the "critical theories" underlying BLM and anti-racism.
Deletehttps://youtu.be/6_HpJ0gPf7Q
Delete09:22
what i just wanted to say is that all those rightist liberals who say you know black lives matter is too
identity and too narrow
isn't it that all lives matter
no the film gives an
today to put it very succinctly and that
it's my favorite person in the movie uh
amina who elaborates it in detail
she is not for class struggle but also
against racism
today in the united states you cannot
really talk about class struggle
without
focusing on the position of
exploited and oppressed
blacks if you say
we are general against exploitation you
miss the
the the exemplary crucial form of this
exploitation it is okay to make a remark
which will be non-problematic for the
majority it's like to talk about uh
racism in germany in 1930s and not to
mention anti-semitism it's exactly the
same here that's why and that was the
deepest lesson for me of the film that's
right
that's why the reproach that
black lives matter is so identitarian
narrow all lives matter no this is
today in our concrete situation this is
a potentially racist statement why
because if you say "all lives matter"
we don't live in the air we live in a
concrete situation where this
universality every life matters is
already
defined by the predominant white
ideology the way you
define safety freedom rule of law and so
on i don't have time to develop it now
but upon a closer look it's easy to
proceed
to see how the way these terms function
like universal human rights it's already
covered given a spin by traditional
white
ideology and it's so if you say
all lives matter
it means
the way we write people define it and we
with
our big generosity allow also blacks to
join it
but
that's the lesson of the film for me yes
human rights are a good thing
but
when
blacks
fight for human rights
they are not just
trying to include themselves into the
official discourse whatever you call it
of human rights they are at the same
time dislocating
if i may use this
term dislocating the universal notion of
human rights they are giving it a
specific
twist they are redefining the
universality itself
We don't need liberal "theorists" redefining specific terms as new universalities.
Deletefor as Zizek also says....
DeleteAnd, of course, the ideal form of ideology of this global capitalism is multiculturalism, the attitude which, from a kind of empty global position, treats each local culture the way the colonizer treats colonized people—as ‘natives’ whose mores are to be carefully studied and ‘respected’. That is to say, the relationship between traditional imperialist colonialism and global capitalist self-colonization is exactly the same as the relationship between Western cultural imperialism and multiculturalism: in the same way that global capitalism involves the paradox of colonization without the colonizing Nation-State metropole, multiculturalism involves patronizing Eurocentrist distance and/or respect for local cultures without roots in one’s own particular culture. In other words, multiculturalism is a disavowed, inverted, self-referential form of racism, a ‘racism with a distance’—it ‘respects’ the Other’s identity, conceiving the Other as a self-enclosed ‘authentic’ community towards which he, the multiculturalist, maintains a distance rendered possible by his privileged universal position. Multiculturalism is a racism which empties its own position of all positive content (the multiculturalist is not a direct racist, he doesn’t oppose to the Other the particular values of his own culture), but nonetheless retains this position as; the privileged empty point of universality from which one is able to appreciate (and depreciate) properly other particular cultures—the multiculturalist respect for the Other’s specificity is the very form of asserting one’s; own superiority.
I don't give a shit what Zizek has to say about anything.
DeleteI'm sure that the sentiment is mutual...
Delete‘Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots’ - Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek = member of that 99 percent.
DeleteYou wish...
DeleteRealizing there exists no intrinsic self, that we are not beings rather we are "interbeings" resolves that nettlesome concern. Doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteNot when your politics consists of "identities".
Delete...and you assess terms like "good and evil" on that basis.
Delete...and you begin to practice "intolerance" like antiracism against "tolerance" of those identities.
DeleteAntiracism is intolerance only to White Supremacists.
Delete"Imagined" white supremacism like antifa is intolerant only of "imagined" fascism. The "real" things died decades ago.
Delete...and right now the only active form of white supremacism is antiracism.
Delete...because corporate globalist capitalism depends upon the victory of multiculturalism.
DeleteAll three of your comments = Total Bullshit.
Delete^^Ad hominem is a non sequitur, not an argument or refutation^^
DeleteThe onus isn't on me to "refute" anything. You're the one stating absurdities as if they were facts.
Delete...and I'm not the globo-centric multi-cultural a-hole.
DeleteOne never attempts to refute truth. Unless one suffers fron obscurations and or delusions. So jc, it seems you're the one doing the refuting.
ReplyDelete