talkpolitics | Is April Race Month?

It is often said that the best way to deal with hatred and racism is to mock it. Sometimes, the stuff is just so blatant, it begs for mockery and discussion, followed by more mockery.

We have looked at the devastating effects of racism on blacks. But what about white racists? Why don't we rag on them, instead of the government?

Take this ~~Yankee Doodle~~ fine specimen of a white male, for instance. The Brit John Derbyshire. Never heard of him until someone in my vast, yet unpaid research department pointed it out.

He takes what black folk call "the talk" (about the realities of being black in a white world) and turn it around so he has "the talk" with his kids.

And he urges you to have the talk with your 'non-black' children too.

Reading this makes me want to stand in front of this guy with a knife, flay the white skin off my body and throw it at his feet in disgust. But then I would die and he would live on to hate, so fuck that. I'm going to turn the mighty collective global network 'o chortles upon his 15 Feces (see what I did there?)

He takes a bit of common sense, then rolls it in white flower and Southern Fries it with crispy racism, um hum! for example:

11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”

Of course he neglects to mention how institutional racism within society over the past 150 years has created and perpetuated this situation; multi-generational dumbing down from poor education opportunities, to the decimation of the family unit through the Prison Industrial Complex, through lead paint in public housing. These are all direct contributors to lower IQ scores. Let's not even get into racially slanted test compositions.

He is quite serious. He thinks you should teach your children about the facts of ~~racism~~ blacks.

So in order to diffuse each of his 'important talking points' to include even kneegrow childrens, Read it, become righeously outraged, steam, simmer, then pick one like I did, dissect it for the group's amusement, extract the kernel of common sense (if any), mock and de-fang the racist part, and let's put this back together so All God's Children™ can enjoy its wee bit of common sense.

If any.

ETA: oops. He got fired over this. A hat tip to the effervescent Woman O the North

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badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com

I've only read one of Derbyshire's books and I found it to be lacking. He was always one of those moderate, contrarian types, except contrarian against conservative orthodoxy - the type of conservative many felt Jon Huntsman was based on his campaign statements. He's also an atheist, and he's also apparently had race problems in the past.

I was especially struck by this piece when it started making the rounds on Twitter because the first half of it seems at least interesting enough as a read, and then you hit number 11 and beyond and it's, well, beyond the pale. I'm glad NRO wasted little time in getting rid of him, and I suspect we won't be hearing much from him in the future, thankfully.

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well that was fascinating. So even in conservative circles he is a pariah?

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Is April Race Month?