He’s not following the thread, Dr. Von Braun; he thinks you’re a reprehensible dipshit and enjoys calling you names. He’s right to the extent that you keep coming back for more, thinking you’re scoring some sort of points. If it will make you fuck off about some other topic, allow me to state here, categorically and generally speaking for all liberals past, present and future across the universe that we hates de white man; black racism is a greater good unto itself; Marx, Che Guevara, Malcom X and Ho Chi Minh should be on Mount Rushmore and evolution really IS a plot to brainwash good American children into becoming homosexuals. Can you go now?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So policies that promote a minority are suddenly “anti-majority”????

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

By the way, Autistic, you keep posting that “black on white” thing. Boy, are you going to be eating carpet.

I mean, crow…

Nope.

But it is racist to fixate on it the way you have, pal.

As for your stated response to my last post:

1. The words “in part” are fairly critical in my post. Read carefully before you respond, else you’ll be perceived as making things up so they suit your prefab comment.

2. You use the words “always” and “all” an awful lot in your statements. Doesn’t make your thoughts about race relations seem very nuanced. I wonder if that’s by accident, or if you’re really that intentionally absolutist. In any event, it doesn’t give you much credibility when discussing a complex human relations issue to state everything in categoricals.

3. Your proffered evidence is nothing of the sort. It’s three examples of where you think black racism may exist and nothing more. Recall what the original statement is, then walk us through the logic necessary to come to that conclusion. Basically, you’ve given us “well, they call us crackers in the “Friday” movies and get away with it.” Not equal to “it is immediately evident black people engage in racism far more than white people.” What on Earth makes you think this is in the least bit persuasive?

4. You do recognize that most of the decisions of “discrimination” you decry in university hiring settings are made and carried out by white people, right? Is there anything other than the predictible “white guilt” response?

5. Are you unaware, or just unwilling to acknowledge, the distinction between “crime” and “racially motivated crime?” I’ve already offered a perfectly reasonable explanation for your cherished black-on-white crime figures (to which you haven’t provided any actual citation) – your choosing to ignore it doesn’t mean you’ve won the point.

6. For the last time, there are at least a dozen posts in this thread now that point to things you’ve said that people believe to be racist. Regardless, even if there weren’t, I’m curious as to how you think whether you personally have said something racist has anything to do with white people as a whole. Rather unimpressive sample size, there.

7. My “earlier comments that being white is a prima facia case for being racist?” Ruh-roh. Someone’s in fantasy land. I won’t attempt to recreate the twisted logic that got you there.

You have very refined skills in the areas of obfuscation, deflection, asserting false premises authoritatively without looking back, and willfully ignoring the obvious. I’m sure those get you far when unchallenged. You appear totally uninterested in self-reflection or answering your own rigged questions, however, and refuse to engage when called on your tactics. I’m afraid I’m done with this conversation, but thank you for the experience. It’s been interersting, even illuminating, for me, though not in the way you I imagine you’ve intended.

The implementation is rarely better than the idea. Plus, Edroso’s got his own blog; comment boxes are strictly for us third-stringers.

OK, so we’ve agreed: I’ll stick to the moniker “The Authentic” and I’ll be allowed to keep posting here.

As for the number of fights I’m involved in, well I’ll try to ratchet it back a bit.

Yeah, I mean, there are times that demand more robust trolling, and good trolls are genuinely hard to find. It’s just been really overboard lately with up to three or four different people operating at once.

The number of posts is pretty high; maybe just pick one fight at at time.

They will taste horrible and poisonous, of course, but will only amount to a bite or two so I am willing to take that one for the team.

I’m betting he’ll suggest segregation.

We don’t like to ban or moderate anyone here, but the problem has been getting so acute that people are getting bored and drifting off.

What do you think would be the best way to handle it?

It seems to me that you’re full of shit.

[/trollbaiting]

No, it’s racist to take the words of an individual member of a group and use them to insult the entire group.

[A black man said offensive things, and] for a black man, it is just par for the course. We expect this level of racism in black people … By the way, I’m still waiting for anyone to point to a post of mine they consider racist

Um, this one?

Gavin, are you really going to pretend that Amiri Baraka is treated the same way that a white person who made similar comments would be?

If you’re going to make up my arguments as well as your own, then it seems unlikely that we’ll succeed in solving the problem of race in America.

The answer to the earlier question is that Baraka was sanctioned after the 9/11 flap. You asked why he wasn’t, but he was. So there’s that.

What I said rather than the same-as-a-white-person thing abstracted above was that Amiri Baraka is not generally thought about to any great degree. As in, I don’t think about Amiri Baraka.

But since you raise the topic, I do spend a fair amount of time looking at white racist stuff, and see a lot of nasty things said about black people. I’m not dismissing your question but answering it when I say so what, big freaking deal if someone said something naughty, whether years or decades ago like Baraka, or five minutes ago at Stormfront.

Actually, the crowd at Stormfront is more congenial than the one at Free Republic. They’re more relaxed and tolerant of dissent.

A white person who talked about massacring blacks and slitting their throats and raping them would get grants from the NEA and awards galore?

There was certainly a time when that sort of thing was seen as edgy, and when radicals were getting hooked up with academic jobs. You seem to believe that it’s still going on. And Karen Finley and her yams are still insulting the American taxpayer, right? That song ‘Cop Killer’ is still causing uproar.

Please. You need to distract from your hypocrisy, not draw attention to it. Baraka was named by Molefi Kete Asante as one of the 100 most important African Americans, has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the Langston Hughes distinction from the CCNY – the list goes on. He is a mainstream black intellectual, he is a vicious racist, and the fact that this elicits yawns shows how “dog-bites-man” the reality of black racism really is.

Do you have any familiarity with those names and institutions, or do they just look effective as elements in a case?

Sure, send it here.