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| White people shouldn't be allowed to vote |
| 2008-10-28 |
| I think this guy see himself as a "humorist"... It's for the good of the country and for those who're bitter for a reason and armed because they're scared. As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just don't think we can be trusted to exercise it responsibly anymore. I give you Exhibit A: The last eight years. In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election, got us attacked, and then got us into two no-exit wars. Four years later, white people reelected them. Is not the repetition of the same behavior over and over again with the expectation of a different outcome the very definition of insanity? (It is, I looked it up.) Exhibit B is any given Sarah Palin rally. Exhibit C would be Ed Rendell and John Murtha, who in separate moments of on-the-record candor they would come to regret, pointing out that there are plenty of people in Pennsylvania who just cannot bring themselves to pull the lever for a black man - no matter what they tell pollsters. These people are ruining things for the rest of us white people who are ready to move on. Sure, they have their reasons, chimerical though they may be: He's a Muslim. He's a terrorist. He's a Muslim terrorist. He's going to fire all the white people and give their jobs to blacks. But those are just the little white lies these people allow themselves to be told, a self-induced cognitive dissonance that lets them avoid saying the unsayable: I cannot pull the lever for a black man. Hey, some people just aren't ready yet, even the governor said so. Just like some people aren't ready yet for computers or setting the clock on the VCR. Or, to hear Murtha tell it, some people - specifically some people in Western Pennsylvania - will never be ready. But the fact is, if you did a statewide head count of racists, you'd find just as many in eastern Pennsylvania as you would in the western part of the state. That's why this ban on white people voting I'm proposing has got to be statewide. And I'm sorry to say, it's going to have to include all white people, even those who would vote for Obama, because you can't just let some white people vote. That would be unfair. By this point, you either think I am joking or are calling me an elitist. I assure you I am neither. OK, maybe a little of both. But it wasn't always like this. I come from the Coal Belt, from that Alabamian hinterland between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, as per James Carville's famous formulation. I am, in fact, just two generations out of the coal mines that blackened the lungs of my grandfather, leaving him disabled, despondent and, finally, dead at the ripe old age of 54. So, understand that I am saying all this for the good of the country and, in fact, for the good of those hard-working white people that Hillary used to pander to. I know those people, I come from them. They are not some shameful abstract demographic to be brushed under the rug of euphemism by Wolf Blitzer and his ilk. I have broken kielbasa with those people. I went to school with their children. I have gone to Sunday Mass with a deer-hunter hangover with those people. They are bitter with good reason, and they are armed because they are scared. They mean well, but they are easily spooked. I fear for what is to become of them after the campaigns leave town for the last time, and Scranton and Allentown and Carlisle go back to being the long dark chicken dance of the national soul they were before the media showed up. Jonathan Valania is editor in chief of the blog Phawker.com |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 "I have broken kielbasa" Well that explains it all. (They have pills for that, now). |
| Posted by: Sninenter B. Hayes9863 2008-10-28 22:22 |
| #8 Humorist, at his best! Overwhelmed by white guilt for no apparent reason(unless he went on a blind date with a black girl in college, once), self loathing asshole(he's gay, contradicted, conflicted by his lapsed Catholicism), lives in his Mother's basement, wants to be a psychologist BUT can't even get past the counselor requirements for HS, should give up the Web Log because as a writer - well, he sucks AND the dumbfuck doesn't even know that he lives in a Commonwealth NOT a state. As for the being scared hence armed, it's more like forward strategic thinking. Ever check the Game Commissions stats on hunters accidentally killing their drinking, lets go to Mass with a hangover best friends? heh |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-10-28 21:35 |
| #7 but isn't the very definition of racism treating people differently depending on their skin colour? That's just the dictionary definition of racism. The definition actually in current use specifies that only "white" people can be racists, and in fact all of them "are" racists. No "person of colour" can be a racist by definition. It is politically incorrect to articulate this definition, however. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-28 14:07 |
| #6 Maybe I'm getting this whole thing wrong but isn't the very definition of racism treating people differently depending on their skin colour? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-10-28 14:00 |
| #5 Given that this guy blogs at a site called "phawker.com", who could expect anything different? Maybe he should change the blog's name to "motherphawker.com" |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-10-28 12:17 |
| #4 Besoeker, you are correct but only when it is in the governments purview to provide bread and circuses. This is the main rationale for strictly limited government and federalism rather than democracy. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-10-28 11:31 |
| #3 "A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote - and all votes count equally - has no internal feedback for self correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens...which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it...which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'. "Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome." To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein published 1987. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-28 10:14 |
| #2 Wadda putz.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2008-10-28 10:13 |
| #1 In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election,.. Truthers part I. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-10-28 10:11 |