I have a new favourite journalist!
Apr. 20th, 2005 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyThis might be old news to the rest of you, but thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
charlemagne77, I just discovered the joys of Heather Mac Donald. A poor man's Ann Coulter, she's got a hard-on for cops, a hatred for queers, and the answers to all of America's problems.
In her latest article, Heralds of a Brighter Black Future, Mac Donald coos over some -- oh, can I please say race traitors? -- Black Republicans while asserting that the biggest problem facing Black people today is not racism or poverty, but...wait for it...single-parent households and kids born out of wedlock. In Mac Donald's world, there's something called the welfare-industrial complex (sorry to disappoint -- she doesn't explain what that is), Afros stand in for Black radicalism, and police brutality is a conspiracy cooked up by the ACLU and the NAACP.
No, really, you have to read it. The "dissenters" and "iconoclasts" she interviews are just as much fun -- one guy even sold chicken sandwiches for Eisenhower in 1956. These are men whose wisdom and insight boils down to statements like, "You can’t condemn someone for his skin color. If you can’t be nice to people, there’s something wrong with you."
In case you're curious (and I know you are), this woman is entirely qualified to declare that racism is only a problem because Black people make it a problem.
Her other articles are almost as good. Feminists are "shrill, hysterical harpies," homeless people are "thuggish vagrants," and hip-hop culture gets the same kind of sarcastic quotation marks I've been using throughout this rant.
Go on, read! This has prevented me from going to the gym and/or doing laundry tonight, but it's absolutely worth it.
Now, as I'm a child from one of those awful and ungodly single-parent homes, I am off to murder some cops and get addicted to marijuana.*
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On an unrelated note, I can't figure out whether Doctor Who hits all my kinks because it's such a great show, or whether I developed those kinks because I used to watch it when I was a kid. Seriously, zombie Victorians? It doesn't get any better than that.
* On second thought, reading sounds like a lot more fun.
charlemagne77, I just discovered the joys of Heather Mac Donald. A poor man's Ann Coulter, she's got a hard-on for cops, a hatred for queers, and the answers to all of America's problems.In her latest article, Heralds of a Brighter Black Future, Mac Donald coos over some -- oh, can I please say race traitors? -- Black Republicans while asserting that the biggest problem facing Black people today is not racism or poverty, but...wait for it...single-parent households and kids born out of wedlock. In Mac Donald's world, there's something called the welfare-industrial complex (sorry to disappoint -- she doesn't explain what that is), Afros stand in for Black radicalism, and police brutality is a conspiracy cooked up by the ACLU and the NAACP.
No, really, you have to read it. The "dissenters" and "iconoclasts" she interviews are just as much fun -- one guy even sold chicken sandwiches for Eisenhower in 1956. These are men whose wisdom and insight boils down to statements like, "You can’t condemn someone for his skin color. If you can’t be nice to people, there’s something wrong with you."
In case you're curious (and I know you are), this woman is entirely qualified to declare that racism is only a problem because Black people make it a problem.
Her other articles are almost as good. Feminists are "shrill, hysterical harpies," homeless people are "thuggish vagrants," and hip-hop culture gets the same kind of sarcastic quotation marks I've been using throughout this rant.
Go on, read! This has prevented me from going to the gym and/or doing laundry tonight, but it's absolutely worth it.
Now, as I'm a child from one of those awful and ungodly single-parent homes, I am off to murder some cops and get addicted to marijuana.*
***
On an unrelated note, I can't figure out whether Doctor Who hits all my kinks because it's such a great show, or whether I developed those kinks because I used to watch it when I was a kid. Seriously, zombie Victorians? It doesn't get any better than that.
* On second thought, reading sounds like a lot more fun.
