This, Again?

I didn't know this silliness was going on again until someone made a comment here about it. There are several strange things about this. It was discussed long ago, so I'm unsure of why anyone would bring it back up. I don't believe this kind of silliness helps blogs or anyone that blogs in a serious way. My advice to Stacy would be, don't encourage it. Kicking a nipping hound might feel good, but it rarely accomplishes anything good.

Any traffic generated from engaging it isn't worth it and these misguided arguments aren't of the type someone wins. Everyone loses. Personally, I didn't find his original comment from so many years ago to be racist. If self-appointed language policemen accomplish anything, it is shutting down candid debate. Jeff Goldstein makes that point very well. That's why I've chosen to link him above.

There will always be feckless ninnies intent on lining themselves up within the politically correct boundaries the Left and its enablers would establish for us, even if the Left doesn't adhere to them themselves. Ultimately, the misguided, or in some cases, the cowards who buy into that deserve to be ignored, especially when they hike up their skirts and start shrieking racism as if they've seen an afro-American mouse.

Patterico’s claim is that he is after the Truth, the specific truth he seeks here presumably being whether or not Stacy McCain is a racist, or wrote things that can be construed as racist by “reasonable” people once they’ve been removed from their context and repackaged for contemporary consumption.

The question is, why? Is it to “out” “racists” who may damage conservatism at large by dint of their being attached to the movement publicly? Because that may very well be a worthy goal (even if it obliquely smacks of demanding the kind of “ideological purity” so-called pragmatists deplore in others).

Comments

[syn]

The right side of the blogosphere blew it when they pushed Jeff to the side; he understands the tyrannical language of Identity Politics and the nature of its oppressive manner.

Patterico? well, he's a California lawyer who actually thinks 'same-sex union between opposite sex' is a reasonable construct; no doubt, this lawyer also thinks 'fetus' is life or is not life according to emotional need.

Given the nature of oppressive thought crime policed by Darwinian ape with law degrees there is no Justice in America and Patterico's life is a lie; accusation of racism from brain-dead Darwinian ape with a law degree holds no meaning.

End Tenure: Stop Ivy-Inbred Indoctrinating Their Evil Occupation.

[syn]

TO put another way:

darwinian apes with law degrees are using language to usurp Justice; turning a fine Republic in rotten bananas.

[white guy from the south who is considered a racists b/c he is white and from the south]

rsm seems to spend much time defending himself over something that is subjective and delicious to those that think such a statment coming from someone in the south is nothing but racism b/c all white men in the south are racists. i would have told folks a while ago to f-off, and lets have a face to face if the issue is that important to you. it is amazing how some people have a new attitutde when you are eyeballing them as compared to when they are safe and cozy sitting behind a computer screen. i wonder, if rsm was from ny or la would he be such a racist, b/c we all know that anyone who calls someone a racists has never had a racist thought, especially if the so called racists identifier livs outside of the south east and consedirs themself of such intellectual heights that it is their duty to bear the cross of pointing out white men from the south as being racists.

[WestWright]

White guy from the south, good response on Stacy Mc...I don't think Stacy will have any trouble defending himself, Patterico’s claims he is after the Truth....WTH made Patterico the hall moniter on the WWW? Has he run out of Racist targets in LALA Cali?

[templar knight]

Patterico's motive in all this silliness has me baffled. Is he trying to be the new Charles Johnson? In any event, he needs to let this go, unless, of course, he is looking to post at the HuffPo. Think Conor with one R.

[ThomasD]

"There will always be feckless ninnies intent on lining themselves up within the politically correct boundaries the Left and its enablers would establish for us, even if the Left doesn't adhere to them themselves."

There is no 'if' about it. But otherwise a spot on assessment.

[mark l.]

personally, i'm King Kamehameha of racists...

I'm pretty much disgusted by every race on the planet, including whites.