Thursday, May 15, 2008

Y'know what?

I'm not going to snark Megan's long ass post on race after all. There's some mockable moments where she uses her own experience of other people telling her their experiences in revealing ways, but the truth is she's trying. Steve Sailer won't like her post, surprisingly. It is a bit patronizing for her to "allow" black folk to be resentful, especially considering I find it expressed more often today as exhaustion, like a tired adult rhetorically asking themselves whether their spoiled child needs to throw yet another tantrum at this precise moment, but I'm also not black so I'm going to shut the fuck up now.

Update:

Upon rumination, I think I do have to at least highlight the fact this privileged glow in the dark white woman is producing this content for The Atlantic, instead of one of the many fucking millions of black people in the country. But I am also glow in the dark white (but Scottish, not Irish, eff you bagpipe stealin spudsuckers) so I'm going to go back to shutting the fucking upping now.

3 comments:

spencer said...

The difference is, you don't try to pass yourself off as an authority on race by publishing something on the topic under The Atlantic's masthead.

I would never try to write about race either. But that won't stop me from pointing out that Megan is full of shit.

M. Bouffant said...

I can't possibly agree w/ you more about the Irish. Give us back our pipes, y'bog monkeys!! And if I have to hear or read anything about Celtic Women or Riverdance again...

Signed, A Scotsman in the Woodpile

spencer said...

Oh, and mark me down as Scotsman #3 on this blog . . .