{"id":9779,"date":"2012-04-10T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/10\/institutionalized-racism\/"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T14:43:43","slug":"institutionalized-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/10\/institutionalized-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Institutionalized Racism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Liberals love the phrase, &#39;institutionalized racism.&#39;&#0160; A&#0160; racist society it is in which so many blacks achieve high political office despite the fact that blacks are a small minority of the population.&#0160; Indeed, we have a black <em>president<\/em>.&#0160; What better proof that racism is inscribed into our institutional structure?&#0160; But then again, Obama is only half black.&#0160; If George Zimmerman of Trayvon Martin fame is a &#39;white Hispanic&#39; as maintained in the Solomonic pages of the <em>New York&#0160;Times<\/em>, then, by parity of reasoning, Barack Obama is a &#39;white black.&#39;&#0160; Is that perhaps the proof of institutional racism?&#0160; You see, if the USA&#0160;were not institutionally racist, then we would have a <em>black-black<\/em> president by now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Of course I am being sarcastic.&#0160; In dealing with notions as preternaturally idiotic as those of liberals, mockery, derision, sarcasm and the like are more effective than patient argument.&#0160; Reason and argument are effective only with those who inhabit the plane of reason.&#0160;There is no point in talking sense to the denizens of the planet <em>Unsinn<\/em>.&#0160; &#0160;Or if you are not in the mood to mock and deride them, if you are feeling charitable, then offer your help and therapy.&#0160; Those who are beneath reason do not need refutation;&#0160;they need therapy.&#0160; They need care.&#0160; And we conservatives do care.&#0160; We want you liberals to be happy and successful and less stupid.&#0160; Of course we are honest enough to admit that our motive is partially selfish: the less stupid and unsuccessful and unhappy you are, the better it will be for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Actually, what we need is a &#39;proctology&#39; of the liberal.&#0160; We need to understand how so many heads can inhabit that region where the sun doesn&#39;t shine.&#0160; But understanding is not enough: we need practical methods of extraction.&#0160; My fear, however, is that even an army of proctologists, each member of which enjoys the life span of a Methuselah, would not be able to bring the shrunken pate of even one liberal into the light of day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And that&#39;s a pity. (I have successfully resisted the temptation to engage in scatological alliteration.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For an example of the sort of idiocy I am excoriating, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegrio.com\/specials\/trayvon-martin\/trayvon-martin-case-brings-similar-scenarios-out-of-the-woodwork.php\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>; for an antidote, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/10\/still_the_least_racist_country_in_the_world_113784.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals love the phrase, &#39;institutionalized racism.&#39;&#0160; A&#0160; racist society it is in which so many blacks achieve high political office despite the fact that blacks are a small minority of the population.&#0160; Indeed, we have a black president.&#0160; What better proof that racism is inscribed into our institutional structure?&#0160; But then again, Obama is only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/10\/institutionalized-racism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Institutionalized Racism&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}