Every day this week, I’ve checked the news and found more and more nonsense from Racist White Idiots spouting ridiculous garbage about “making white privilege great again”, and using phrases like “dispossession of white america”, to make their evil hateful cowardice seem like some sort of valid philosophy, or political point of view. A great many of them even refer to themselves as the “alt-right”, like maybe they’re aren’t so far off the map of basic human decency that they can actually be called terrorists.
Which is what they are. They’re using hate, violence, and fear to scare people into giving them what they want, and that’s called terrorism. Plain and simple. There’s no defending it, no trying to lay the blame on both sides. It’s an evil, and pretending it’s anything else is a pusillanimity for the grabbing.
And as much I long for the day when I don’t have to wonder if every bearded white guy in an american flag hat is a racist, I’m not stupid enough to believe that it’s going away anytime soon. This kind of chickenhearted buffoonery has been around for as long as skin has come in different colors, as long as we’ve had gods, as long as we’ve needed to rationalize how horribly we treat each other. It’ll probably be around for a long time to come, because well, people are idiots, and staying dumb is easy. I do, however, have a couple of things to point out, interspersed with one or two things to ask.
The first of the things which I would like to ask is directed towards those people -particularly those elected leaders who are affiliated with a certain Elephantine party- who heard Trump’s reaction, and got all shocked and surprised by it. My question to you fine folks is this: Why such bemusement? Before you decided to tow the party line and vote like your donors told you to, did you not listen to what this rotten bag of assorted archaic inanities was spewing during his campaign? Did you tell yourselves he didn’t mean it, that it was just locker room talk he was sharing with the whole world?
Or were you all, “Sure, he hates Muslims and women and Mexicans, and he equates his own book with the Bible, but he can’t really be a Racist, right? Let’s make him President!”
Or maybe you’re just denouncing him now because it’s the right political move to make. Not that I would ever accuse politicians of prioritizing their job over their own beliefs or anything. Although I hear the health care plan is pretty enviable, and would be difficult to replace. As far as that goes, by the way, pretending to be all shocked and trying to distance yourself from him now doesn't make you look good; it makes you look like you weren't smart enough to see through him in the first place.
A taco bowl, for heavens' sake.
I’m also curious as to why so many of these racist knaves are getting airtime on all these news channels. I don’t think we need to hear more about their point of view, do you? It’s pretty clear, I think. When spoiled awful children throw tantrums in the store, rewarding them with candy and hugs isn’t going to teach them to behave. Maybe we could, instead of putting these intellectual throwbacks on the air, we could give that time to the people who show up to protest them.
Think of it: every time the racist morons of the world get together and have a little march or whatever, all the world sees is the people across the street, demonstrating against them. All their tiki torch waving, goose-stepping, white male fury completely ignored as the world smiles on the people they hate. Wouldn’t that be great?
I mean, I don’t know if people chanting about equality and love is as much of a ratings grabber as proponents of hate and terrorism are, but it’s not like all that matters is profitability, right?
Finally, I think it’s highly telling that these advocates of asininity are so upset about how they are losing their privilege, and their country is being taken away from them, and so on. How does that jive with the idea of them being a superior race? If these caterwauling caitiffs were really so great, all that competition from immigrants and other races wouldn’t really be an issue, would it? Wouldn’t their natural superiority keep them in first place always? If there was any truth at all to their convictions, they wouldn’t have to walk around in groups yelling about how great they are. The only really great person who had to walk around constantly reminding us he was the greatest was Muhammad Ali, and he only had to do that because of the Idiot White Racists in the first place.
Anyway, it’s 2017, and I am embarrassed for and in utter disbelief of us that we even have to have this discussion. See you next time, friends and neighbors.
-John
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