Don't look now, li'l snowflake, but there is a White History Month. They call it high school.
CNN is serving as the KKK stooge this week and is presenting the same ol' racist slapstick. (CNN: It's time to talk about 'black privilege')
The article was written by John Blake who won't, we surmise, be up for a Pulitzer Prize any time soon. It never occurs to these lummoxes with learned lexicons there's not an original word in any of these presentations. Check out his lament if you like but I ga-ron-tee you have read every word of it elsewhere.
It's not so much the racism of the article to which we're drawn because aspect is obvious and extremely hackneyed. We don't even see a future in sports reporting for Blake since it appears he will only keep repeating the scores from last season.
The lack of originality in things is disturbing because that aspect, particularly in journos, is ubiquitous. In part that comes from journo corruption in which they're told what to write and, for a nominal sum, they write it. The more disturbing aspect is the apparent lack of wit in the content which comes.
Evidence:
Blake gives us the same racist playbook presented at every KKK meeting since it was founded in Tennessee after the Civil War.
Jessica Valenti gives us a the New Age version of Gloria Steinem ... and most of the time she borks it.
Donald Trump says, "He started it!"
Anderson Cooper said, "That's the logic of a five-year-old and he's right but advisement of that fact didn't even slow Trump slightly."
Cooper is right regarding Trump and about the others in that list as well. All of them act like spoiled five-year-olds and, here at the Rockhouse, we know of at least one kid of about that age who behaves far better than these (cough) adults can manage.
(Ed: the Fairy Princess?)
The very same.
In fact, how about this interview: rather than talking to some downtown high-roller, how about talking to the Fairy Princess and ask her what she thinks 'white privilege' means and I don't mean in any way to use her for making points. Instead, think of this as Art Linkletter with "Kids Say the Darndest Things" which was a charming show. That I remember something of it when it went off the air, oh, a hundred years ago or so should give you some idea of the charm of it.
In that type of interview, there can't be any loading of the question by the interviewer. In other words, we can't lead her into any thinking 'white privilege' is good or bad, it's simply a question and she can make of it what she will. That answer when she does not know and has not been led to what she should say can be funny, fascinating, all manner of things.
Note: the interview will never happen because it violates the FBL (Family Baby Law) in which anyone younger than twenty won't be shown online.
(Ed: is it really that restrictive?)
That's loose, mate. The Raven and I decided wait until the Fairy Princess is twenty-eight and then upload everything! (larfs)
The Logic of Five-Year-Olds ... well, there's quite a bit of that floating about, isn't there ... not with you, of course, esteemed reader ... but in that other lot, they're no damned good, are they.
CNN is serving as the KKK stooge this week and is presenting the same ol' racist slapstick. (CNN: It's time to talk about 'black privilege')
The article was written by John Blake who won't, we surmise, be up for a Pulitzer Prize any time soon. It never occurs to these lummoxes with learned lexicons there's not an original word in any of these presentations. Check out his lament if you like but I ga-ron-tee you have read every word of it elsewhere.
It's not so much the racism of the article to which we're drawn because aspect is obvious and extremely hackneyed. We don't even see a future in sports reporting for Blake since it appears he will only keep repeating the scores from last season.
The lack of originality in things is disturbing because that aspect, particularly in journos, is ubiquitous. In part that comes from journo corruption in which they're told what to write and, for a nominal sum, they write it. The more disturbing aspect is the apparent lack of wit in the content which comes.
Evidence:
Blake gives us the same racist playbook presented at every KKK meeting since it was founded in Tennessee after the Civil War.
Jessica Valenti gives us a the New Age version of Gloria Steinem ... and most of the time she borks it.
Donald Trump says, "He started it!"
Anderson Cooper said, "That's the logic of a five-year-old and he's right but advisement of that fact didn't even slow Trump slightly."
Cooper is right regarding Trump and about the others in that list as well. All of them act like spoiled five-year-olds and, here at the Rockhouse, we know of at least one kid of about that age who behaves far better than these (cough) adults can manage.
(Ed: the Fairy Princess?)
The very same.
In fact, how about this interview: rather than talking to some downtown high-roller, how about talking to the Fairy Princess and ask her what she thinks 'white privilege' means and I don't mean in any way to use her for making points. Instead, think of this as Art Linkletter with "Kids Say the Darndest Things" which was a charming show. That I remember something of it when it went off the air, oh, a hundred years ago or so should give you some idea of the charm of it.
In that type of interview, there can't be any loading of the question by the interviewer. In other words, we can't lead her into any thinking 'white privilege' is good or bad, it's simply a question and she can make of it what she will. That answer when she does not know and has not been led to what she should say can be funny, fascinating, all manner of things.
Note: the interview will never happen because it violates the FBL (Family Baby Law) in which anyone younger than twenty won't be shown online.
(Ed: is it really that restrictive?)
That's loose, mate. The Raven and I decided wait until the Fairy Princess is twenty-eight and then upload everything! (larfs)
The Logic of Five-Year-Olds ... well, there's quite a bit of that floating about, isn't there ... not with you, of course, esteemed reader ... but in that other lot, they're no damned good, are they.
3 comments:
The Fairy Princess is far beyond her years. She is 7 now.
She is just now learning of skin color and doesnt understand why it is different.
So she understand privilege but not by color of the skin. As her classmates have privilege covered no matter the skin color.
That would make her answers fascinating so long as the question isn't even a little bit loaded. Linkletter was really good at that and the results could be hysterical. It was M*A*S*H comedy as the hysterical was cool but there was often some insight into things the way those little rotters can do.
Probably family couldn't do the interview because the kid would be too much inclined to answer to please or whatever. With an unknown person maybe they're more candid but unknown is creepy. Linkletter could do it because he was fookin' Linkletter, as squeaky clean as Mister Rogers. Hmm ... maybe YouTube.
Yep, he's there and some is B&W which looks like early fifties but unknown when broadcasting started.
Cool that it survives.
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