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By the way, this might be the single most asinine, nonsensical, off-the-wall, flat-out stupid piece I have ever seen in the Washington Post. And that's saying a lot. Somehow, even though Heath Ledger's "Joker" character was white, the use of the image superimposed over Obama is portrayed by Post staff writer Phllip Kennicott as being racist. This is the ultimate liberal bugaboo: that EVERY criticism from the right carries with it the secret motive of deep racial animus. Kennicott writes, or rather bleeds his own twisted psychology, on the page thusly: "Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks -- the thinking goes -- don't just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus." Which leads to this breathless, accusatory conclusion: "Obama, like the Joker and like the racial stereotype of the black man, carries within him an unknowable, volatile and dangerous marker of urban violence, which could erupt at any time. The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he's black."
I repeat, this is quite simply lunacy. And it is vicious. Look, I know something about real racism. Check my long, long record of fighting it in multiple, very public ways in Louisiana and in Alabama (which I won't bore you with here). This Obama/Joker post has nothing to do with race. Nothing. But those who say it does are the ones who can't get beyond race, who are obsessed with race, who are purveyors themselves of continuing racial discord. In fact, one of the biggest spurs to some whites IGNORING real racism when people point it out to them is that they so often have been falsely accused, with no facts and no truth, of being racist themselves that they discount even the real thing the same way the villagers discounted the threat of the real wolf because the boy had cried "wolf" so often. It is the false accusation that makes it harder, not easier, to fight against the real thing.
And yes, the real thing, actual racism, of course still exists. It exists by whites against blacks and by blacks against whites. But it is nowhere near as widespread, especially among whites, as it was 30 years ago, or even as it was 10 years ago. And its vestiges will never be stamped out if idiot agitators like Kennicott keep crying "Racist" when no racist is there.
Somebody ought to get a photo of Kennicott and paint a Joker mask on HIS face......
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Anonymous| 8.6.09 @ 6:22PM
Suppose this had been done with a dark Joker's face to match Obama's skin tone? I think the racial freak-o-meter would have gone crazy, too. This Joker = Racism brouhaha is manufactured indignation and is silly.
Bill Pearce| 8.6.09 @ 6:31PM
White, Male and Southern by the Grace of God.........Therefor convicted of racism in the first degree in the Court of New Yorker Liberalism.
You can only excommunicated once. Why not use it for amusement value.
GLORY| 8.6.09 @ 7:40PM
Poor little dixie.Crushed again!
Miss Nancy!| 8.6.09 @ 7:42PM
I say we excommunicate the liberal race baiters. Their attempt to repress free speech is unAmerican; so they should go!
GLORY| 8.6.09 @ 8:39PM
The right has been on the wrong side of civil rights,voting rights,social security,national highway system[IKE was a moderate],clean water clean air,they did'nt want to go to war with the nazi's,they lied to go to war with iraq,and on and on...the rebellion will be crushed once again.
Patriot| 8.6.09 @ 9:39PM
Glory is wrong. Republicans freed the slaves and fought the democrat KKK. Democrats owned slaves, fought a war to keep them and then created the KKK which terrorized black folks for decades. Shame on liberals.
Liberals are on the wrong side of history once again as they help their fellow elitist fascist liberals steal our Constitutional freedoms. They must be stopped!
GLORY| 8.6.09 @ 9:49PM
Who said anything about democrats?They we're the right back then.Lincoln was a liberal! The left led the fight to free the slaves.
Dixie Pixie| 8.6.09 @ 10:52PM
To: Glory
Many, Many Thanks for the new”handle”.
With any luck, the Brute Squad of the Obama “Office of Suspicious Internet Posts”
will soon be looking for a fast flying diminutive yellow haired girl with a perky button nose dressed in a green dress with wings. Good luck to the Brute Squad with that one.
John Brown | 8.6.09 @ 11:33PM
More race-baiting at the American Spectator.
Limbaugh's speech on Democrats as "Nazis" really got you fired up.
You think it immunizes you against the obvious observation that people are going to make: you look, sound, and are starting to act -- like fascists.
You blame minorities, you use mobs to shut down civil debate, you use people's ignorance and anxiety and insecurities and grudges to divide them and play them against minorities.
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Duck.
Nancy is a Nazi!| 8.7.09 @ 12:17AM
I guess Obama's goon squad has hit AmSpec. Did you losers get your troll marching orders by fat faced David Axelrod and Porky Pig Gibbs?
You are just paid Astroturfers trying to steal liberty from your fellow Americans.
What shall we do with you traitors when we find you?
Nancy Girl!| 8.7.09 @ 12:24AM
Sorry, Whory Glory, but nice try. Convenient for you to say Lincoln was a leftist but it doesn't make it so, it just makes you sound nuts.
You're the party of slavery, KKK and lynchings. You should be ashamed of your hatred and cruelty toward your fellow man. Nazi.
GLORY| 8.7.09 @ 1:37AM
The kkk hates the left. nancy girl sounds silly.
Truth Teller| 8.7.09 @ 2:21AM
Democrats started the KKK but threw them overboard when they realized that race baiting was profitable--not because they thought the KKK was wrong.
White leftist-democrats still keep blacks down on the liberal plantation through welfare which supplanted black fathers and lousy liberal public education.
Why did Obama get rid of SUCCESSFUL D.C. voucher schools for poor black children, especially when he sends his two daughters to one of the ritziest and most expensive schools in the country?
Typical fascist liberal--"The best for me but not for thee." Hypocrite.
Lem| 8.7.09 @ 4:10AM
The writer of the Post story seems to conclude the artist is white. How does he know? Could be by a disheartened former Obama supporter for all he knows. Could be by an illegal alien graffitist since we have so many here in LA. I guess hope only goes so far these days.
Oldefarte| 8.7.09 @ 10:47AM
....or that idiot, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a supposedly HARVARD PROFESSOR [and most liberal morons who are carbon copies of same]. When they cannot win, succeed, compete, argue,etc strictly on the merits of an issue, they resort to branding/charging RACISM, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, GENTRIFICATION, or other one word/imbicilic accusations. It's called STUPIDITY!!!!!!!
Pingback| 8.7.09 @ 2:31PM
Is Obama Really like the Joker? | Chicago Daily Observer links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Hostile Gospel| 8.8.09 @ 11:46AM
Read the article, "Gotham’s Finest: How Obama Unites the Joker and Socialism While Dividing the Art Critics" over at Brave New Post!