Where’s the outrage? Prejudice against redheads has become so intense that sperm banks are refusing their genetic material, the Daily Caller reports. When will society finally stand up to protect this oppressed minority? (H/t to Ben Domenech.)
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Was Woodrow Wilson a Racist? And Does It Matter Now?
by Mike Gray Wilson gave the finest sermon for what humans are capable of if they are not human. — George Clemenceau Woodrow Wilson’s brand of oblique racism—publicly professing one viewpoint while pushing policies that affirm its opposite—has been the modus operandi of most “progressives” for nearly a century. At Accuracy in Academia, Malcolm A. Kline has written about Wilson’s hypocritical stance on segregation: Few presidents are as revered as Woodrow Wilson in academia. He was, after all, the last academic elected to America’s highest office. Beyond that, much ink is spilled and many lectures devoted to his policies which many professors are enamored of, chiefly the progressive income tax at home and the League of Nations abroad … we should highlight a Wilsonian trend in policy that is relevant to both his national and international outlook—segregation. A kinder, gentler racism would almost inevitably be part of any “progressivist” program, or what Jonah Goldberg has called “liberal fascism”: The side of fascism attributes to American liberalism is not that associated with the works of George Orwell or the racism and genocide of the Holocaust. It is much less brutal, “smiley-face fascism,” as he puts it. He asserts that
Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Fox News and a Raw Deal
I’ve been too busy with paying work to read everything on this kerfuffle. But I see now that the story line has shifted to even people on the right giving Andrew Breitbart blowback for supposedly taking Shirley Sherrod’s comments — as the saying goes — “out of context.” According to a transcript of Sherrod’s comments James Taranto dropped in his “Best of the Web” column at The Wall Street Journal Online the other day, the former Ag official said this: The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing. But he had come to me for help. What he didn’t know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him. I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So, I didn’t give him the full
Academics ‘Discover’ Religion Makes You Racist
Seeking to broaden the scope of psychological pathologies associated with conservatism, academics now turn their meta-analytical barrels on religion. University of Southern California social psychologist Wendy Wood, in “Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A Meta-Analytic Review of Religious Racism,” delves into the “religion-racism paradox” and discovers that racism is deeply embedded in organized religion which, by its very nature, encourages people to accept one fundamental belief system as superior to all others. The required value judgment creates a kind of us-versus-them conflict, in which members of a religious group develop ethnocentric attitudes toward anyone perceived as different. The problem for those benighted followers of organized religion is their moral sense of right and wrong. “Religion creates a very strong sense of a moral right and wrong within the group,” says Wood. “When you do that, members of the group will be more likely to derogate anyone who is not part of it.” Wood and her co-authors Deborah Hall of Duke University and David Matz of Augsburg College focused their “study” on Christians, “mostly white and Protestant.” The problem, it seems, is that these white Protestants are more likely than agnostics and atheists to rate conservative “life values” as
For the Hollywood Left, ‘Heterosexism’ Is the New Racism
“Heterosexism” is becoming the term of choice among Leftists dominating the Entertainment Industrial Complex. The Writers Guild of America gave its imprimatur to a group of Leftist True Believers at a panel titled “Flipping the Script: Beyond Homophobia in Black Hollywood.” “Homophobia,” however, doesn’t properly capture the “institutional bias that affects jobs and advancement,” according to Jasmine Love, a writer on “Moesha,” “The Division,” and “The District.” Apparently “heterosexism” hasn’t hurt her advancement, but logic is not the strong point of this movement. Examining the list of panelists leads reinforces the idea that Leftists in Hollywood would rather score ideological points than tell good stories. Here are the people condemning the lack of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered characters on the large and small screens. Moderator: Sheryl Lee Ralph, one of Broadway’s original “Dream Girls” Quincy LeNear (writer-producer-director, The DL Chronicles) Deondray Gossett (writer-producer-director, The DL Chronicles) Maurice Jamal (writer-producer-director, Chappelle’s Show) Tim McNeal (vice president, talent development and diversity, Disney/ABC Television) Tajamika Paxton (GLAAD director of entertainment media) Wilson Cruz, a bisexual teenager on My So-Called Life and a recurring character on the gay-themed cable series Noah’s Arc How, exactly, has being black and homosexual damaged
‘Cop Out’ Doesn’t Just Stink, But It’s Racist, Too?
The new movie “Cop Out” has created a lot of buzz, and not just because critics are hammering Kevin Smith’s homage to the ’80s “buddy cop comedies” for being painfully un-funny. The film is apparently racist, too. Film critic Christian Toto gives us the run-down: Armond White of the New York Press, a reliably contrarian voice in film critic circles, slams star Tracy Morgan for his performance: “His broad face and goofy baritone are the essence of how Hollywood once tried to stereotype Louis Armstrong; yet Morgan embraces the denigration, performing a string of mortifying buffooneries.” Critic Emanuel Levy also found fault with Morgan’s character and how the film depicts the Latino heavies in the film. “There’s also an uncomfortable racial awkwardness to a great deal of the material that makes “Cop Out” feel rather unseemly. The opening Morgan monologue is dangerously close to a minstrel act. (Not to mention a recurring and very abysmal subplot involving his raging insecurities about his wife’s alleged infidelities.) “Worst of all, the Mexican criminal lords that become the movie’s traditional heavies are so lazily conceived, overscaled and outrageously drawn that turns “Cop Out” not only into a bad film though a somewhat unpleasant
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