tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post3228311741383557442..comments2024-02-27T22:20:11.974-08:00Comments on Center of Gravitas: Confirming RacismGayProfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11289510184782252498noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-66831418635041134072009-08-04T07:10:30.259-07:002009-08-04T07:10:30.259-07:00Elected doughboys like Senators Sessions, McCain a...Elected doughboys like Senators Sessions, McCain and Hatch have that paternalistic mindset that only straight, white men like themselves are capable of being truly rational and unbiased, because they, unlike women, blacks, gays and Latinos are unfettered by feminine emotionalism and rabid ethnicity. <br /><br />A similar take seems to be standard rhetoric at Fox News and with commentators like Glenn Beck and Patrick Buchanan.<br /><br /> So, unless you're a southern or western Senator with Elmer's glue-white skin and a Deputy Dawg drawl, you're probably RACIST!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08827846262483271138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-88877565426135520592009-07-18T18:40:54.782-07:002009-07-18T18:40:54.782-07:00I had only heard recently about that cocktail part...I had only heard recently about that cocktail party and I was so irked by the GLBT guests at the White House taking in everything that Obama said as if it was going to be a piece of cake to get everything done/overturned. <br /><br />I just don't want to see Anita Hill show up at Sotomayor's confirmation hearings and claim having a lesbian relationship with Sonia.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02884928698586182128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-83696335176358080162009-07-17T06:16:22.695-07:002009-07-17T06:16:22.695-07:00I can't watch the confirmation hearings. Every...I can't watch the confirmation hearings. Every time I see an uptight republican senator grilling her I think, "Really? People actually elected you?" They all sound so inbred to me.tornwordohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-4193547914943701252009-07-16T12:33:25.849-07:002009-07-16T12:33:25.849-07:00Great post & comments, GayProf and friends. (...Great post & comments, GayProf and friends. (Hey--you could be the SuperFriends!)<br /><br />I think Roberts's ideas, and the ideas of many on the Right about race and racism, go to the fatal white person's flaw of believing that racism is an emotion they either feel or they don't feel, rather than the objective social and cultural conditions under which many people live. Thus, the magical thinking (and I love the Tinkerbell allusion, BTW): "If I close my eyes and try real hard, racism will disappear because racism is something inside me (or not)! So if I don't feel I'm racist, and I don't see or hear racism myself, racism doesn't exist! Yay!"<br /><br />This is also the root of the fantasy of "post-racial" America, IMHO. I am not a "Clinton apologist," although I will say that I supported her in the primary and was disturbed by the degree to which many white Dems truly believed that if they voted for a black man, all of America's racial sins would be washed clean. That's no reflection on Obama's qualities as a candidate or as a leader--but it surely made me reluctant to sign onto his bandwagon because of all of the a$$hattery among his supporters. Tinkerbell, indeed.Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-17295574670013358692009-07-16T10:08:51.277-07:002009-07-16T10:08:51.277-07:00@gayprof - (1st excuse me for all the additional c...@gayprof - (1st excuse me for all the additional comments below . . .) just wanted to say thanks for the reasoned review. It's past time to discuss his record analytically. FYI- the dept of justice also filed a brief saying DADT was necessary to maintain the troops against the military's own findings, and his staff's statement that he is working on reviewing DADT have been disproven since he has had no meetings with anyone in the military about it nor were any scheduled for this year to date. (Oh but he did promise once again to address both at that fancy dinner that I got an email asking to promote.) His administration has also decided not to challenge a recent decision to exclude transgender rights from certain policy decisions. In comparison, I do think he has done a better job on Latin America. While he continues to support debilitating trade agreements, he has taken a higher interest in environmental, cultural, and labor issues and has a higher "tolerance" for "non-traditional" political systems. Being there during the Honduras crisis and also participating in LACS based talks during the Columbia situation, also seem to have pushed his thinking in positive ways. As for Latinos, the man still supports a border fence and this rhetoric of the "back of the line" so you know . . . and he has been largely silent about Sotomayor (all tho I heard he did have a meeting with several groups assuring them about her stance on women's issues)<br /><br />@mel - thanks for that info, I missed it & will be looking for a cite to add to my post about Graham's meltdown on the 2nd day of hearings<br /><br />@dance - to me, the French thrive on the exoticization of the African body & fear of immigrants from Africa & the Middle East. It saturates pop culture & is most recently evidenced by the ban on head scarves and the rise in supramcist orgs (as well as the sale of Nazi inspired products which I find just freaky)<br /><br />@Frank - yeah but did he say that b/c it was true or b/c it fit into his "reverse discrimination" anti-affirmative action narrative?susurro "the wordy"http://likeawhisper.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-23440392443314856132009-07-16T07:24:48.011-07:002009-07-16T07:24:48.011-07:00Good post.
The way the Right is blowing a gasket ...Good post.<br /><br />The way the Right is blowing a gasket is outrageous. I think the most shocking statement I read was from, of all people, G. Gordon Liddy about whether Sotormayor will be menstrating while making a decision. I mean, I don't get <i>why</i> anyone cares what he thinks in the first place, but that's a whopper of a bigoted statement.Antoniohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551523252110967405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-71994027450307321872009-07-15T14:06:45.443-07:002009-07-15T14:06:45.443-07:00The only thing is I don't think the Republican...The only thing is I don't think the Republican attack on Sotomayor has particularly worked. Sure, the Usual Suspects in the punditsphere and the wingnut blogosphere are frothing at the mouth, but, on the whole, I get more of a sense of "Meh!" than anything from people. And I actually think that's appropriate, because, you know, as this week has taught us... confirmations are BORING. Seriously, you have to be a big policy/judicial wonk to not start snoring. And Lindsay Graham actually spoke the truth when he said she'd get nominated almost no matter what; this is all theater, great huffing and puffing signifying nothing. They can't, and haven't been, attacking her experience or her record, because they can't, so it's all about the damn "wise Latina" thing. They're attacks are so ridiculous, too, that even people who might be mildly racist, which I have to include people like my mother in, are all, "Really? You're serious?" Plus, she's apparently kicking ass (I just read blog reports on it; I'm not a wonk), so there's that, too, especially when some of those senators sound like absolute morons.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03301077496668834657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-9793616171301239142009-07-14T22:52:15.573-07:002009-07-14T22:52:15.573-07:00I have seen (not-US) documents from the 1820s &...I have seen (not-US) documents from the 1820s & 1830s in which slaveholders say "if we stop all this talking about race and not noticing it, it will just go away and there will be harmony". Also, that's what France does, I hear. Doesn't seem to work too well.dancehttp://pronetolaughter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-54948680452435027672009-07-14T21:58:53.095-07:002009-07-14T21:58:53.095-07:00But do we really expect anything different from th...But do we really expect anything different from the Republicans? After all, Lindsey Graham won his seat by Jew-baiting his (not actually Jewish) female rival and using overtly sexist ads in his campaign.<br /><br />I'm surprised he hasn't come right out and said, "Tell me, Maria. Don't all y'all just want to make us white folks eat beans and listen to merry-atchee music?"Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18047049720897209506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16010478.post-40987236976803248272009-07-14T21:15:32.276-07:002009-07-14T21:15:32.276-07:00I would totally support a banana cream pie war. I...I would totally support a banana cream pie war. It sounds delicious.vuboqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17713707780151175505noreply@blogger.com