Obviously, Inevitably, The White Devil Did It
So, anyway, as you may have heard, at a recent awards ceremony, a black millionaire celebrity slapped another black millionaire celebrity. The root cause, however, has only now been discovered:
This is about a much larger systemic issue rooted in white supremacist culture designed to police the behaviour of Blacks amongst the who’s who in Hollywood and beyond.
Respectability politics suggest that equity and fair treatment require that Black people — both inside and outside of Hollywood — conduct ourselves in a manner deemed acceptable to whites. Furthermore, expressing any emotion other than complacence, apathy, or agreeance directly violates those norms, disqualifying Black people from receiving the same equitable treatment that whites enjoy as a birthright. And sadly, there is a large group of Blacks who have internalised this toxic messaging.
You see, when Mr Will Smith, a black millionaire celebrity, publicly assaults Mr Chris Rock, another black millionaire celebrity, on live television, and is promptly given a prestigious award, for which he is applauded, and is then seen celebrating triumphantly at the award after-party, this is somehow proof of victimhood, of being racially “policed” by “respectability politics” and other works of the White Devil. Mr Smith, we’re told, is “not receiving the same equitable treatment that Whites enjoy as a birthright.”
Readers will note the implication that any black viewers who regard Mr Smith’s behaviour as not entirely optimal are merely parroting views “deemed acceptable to whites,” having somehow “internalised” the “toxic messaging” of “white supremacist culture.” For what it’s worth, I don’t have strong feelings on the incident one way or the other – it all seemed rather farcical – but I doubt my first impulse would be to suggest that black people who disapproved, however much or little, are merely aping whitey and don’t know their own minds. But such is wokeness.
The author of the piece, published in Forbes, is Maia Niguel Hoskin, a “writer, activist, and college professor,” whose areas of supposed expertise include “oppression, difference and mental health,” including “racial battle fatigue,” and who claims, modestly, to “facilitate cultural consciousness.” As a self-styled “speaker of truth,” she is, of course, schooled in “critical race theory.”
And so, Ms Hoskin tells us that she does not condone violence, while insisting that responsibility for violence must be shifted from those who indulge in it, provided they are black, and attributed instead to the insidious, all-pervasive, yet oddly nebulous, power of pallor. The “racist system that was designed to incubate his and so many others’ frustrations.” And which, in ways never quite specified, compels very rich comedians to tell bad jokes, and makes very rich actors slap the people who tell them. This, we’re assured, is “white supremacist culture.”
And the way to be scrupulously “anti-racist” is to erase any agency or expectation of self-possession from people with brown skin.
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And sadly, there is a large group of Blacks who have internalised this toxic messaging.
Sounds like she’s the one with a toxic message.
Sounds like she’s the one with a toxic message.
Well, indeed.
I’m hardly an avid follower of celebrity gossip, and it would’ve been a full-time job to keep track of the subsequent, rapidly multiplying memes – which covered a comical range of topics, from customer service to pizza toppings. But I didn’t spot any obviously racialised and unsavoury ones. In fact, the only memes and comments I saw with racial connotations were from people mocking the woke takes that were bound to come from the chorus of parasitic race hustlers. People very much like Ms Hoskin.
Why is it, that the prominent philosophers of the current era all appear to be wimminzes? Impossible to describe them as sages, there are simply too many of them flooding the market and all seem to be blighted by the narrow vision which their obsessions decree.
Sounds like she’s the one with a toxic message.
Lefties project.
From the Australian via The Times, by Hilary Rose. Paywalled.
What possessed him? Will Smith’s brutal childhood, and that Oscars slap
A new angle to push out there with victim cards identified, sorted and deployed.
People who make their living portraying (and normalising) hair trigger violence get preachy when one of them indulges in hair trigger violence. Aaaaaand this year’s hypocrisy Oscar goes to……….
Perhaps that Rock bloke was trying to do at the Oscars what Ricky Gervais did when hosting the Foreign Press awards. The difference being that Gervais was funny and Rock isn’t. As for Smith, he seems fine about other men, allegedly, having sex with his wife in an alleged open marriage, but upset about a comment on her hair, or lack of it. I wonder if he’s got his priorities wrong?
All you need to know about Will Smith and Chris Rock is how y’all are so bigtoed.
…disqualifying Black people from receiving the same equitable treatment that whites enjoy as a birthright.
Related, yte hellspawn taking up “black people space” by holding hands.
Via Ace, commentary on the idyllic
CleaverSmith household.Smith has spent the rest of his life beating himself up for his ‘inaction’.
“Has”, not “maybe”. The writer seems amazingly confident in his (her? its?) opinions of what goes on inside Smith’s head.
“racial battle fatigue,”
OFFS
“racial battle fatigue,”
It’s real, only a white supremacist would say otherwise.
I’ve been lurking about for a while, but just signed up to share one thing. For those who don’t know Chris Rock he can be abrasive at times, but for my book this one video makes up for a multitude of sins.
“How not to get your ass kicked”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNrV5ZC_o8
It’s real,
I fear I’m not fully comprehending what’s happening in that video.
OFFS
Why, it’s almost as if Angry Studies departments are catnip for self-flattering, self-dramatising pinheads.
OFFS
I suspect that, like so many of her peers, Ms Hoskin, our self-styled “race scholar” and “speaker of truth,” is accustomed to being deferred to by utter twats of the kind seen here, and generally getting away with incoherent half-thoughts peppered with buzzwords.
I want to read “Professor” Maia’s dissertation. I’m sure it’s contributed mightily to the canon.
Why, it’s almost as if Angry Studies departments are catnip for self-flattering, self-dramatising pinheads.
Again only something a yte supremacist would say.
The entire program of the Left is built on lies. One can of course go back to the lies of commies that they are “liberating” the “workers”. But today, we have the following big lies which the media are 100% protecting:
1) cops shoot unarmed blacks just for sport. In fact: a) black cops shoot more often than white cops, b) white criminals with a gun are more likely to be shot (% wise) than black, c) unarmed people shot is very few (not ok obviously) but played up to a fever pitch by the media.
2) 78 cents/dollar for women’s pay. In fact a) single urban women in their 20s make more than single urban men, b) most of the gap is due to women having children and staying home (missing years of seniority), c) women retire younger, work fewer hours, less overtime, less travel, and safer jobs.
3) racism is worse than ever
4) capitalism exploits workers (as if people didn’t have to work in socialist countries). The controlled experiment of E & W germany shows how much misery communism can create.
5) Climate change: even the IPCC reports, as exaggerated as they are, have to make a big deal about larger rain events and imaginary sea level rise to scare you.
6) corollary of 5, that we can just shut off fossil fuels and switch to renewables.
When you pursue the policies implied by these lies, you destroy civilization.
The normal pattern is that when a black behaves in a stereotypically black way, you’re racist for noticing it, or for proposing any ultimate cause other than white racism.
But in this case, the black guy was behaving like a stereotypical white man. A middle aged man throwing a punch to defend the honor of his middle aged wife is the sort of thing that John Glenn or Toxic John Wayne Masculinity might have done.
Not that there’s anything wrong with defending the honor of women. Indeed, the enlightened feminist man spends every minute of the day wondering if his, for example, his Tuesday night Scrabble game is sufficiently proactive in defending the honor of women. But it has to be done without the expectation of gratitude, and without calling into question the moxie and agency of women. You need to defend the honor of women/women don’t need you to defend their honor.
Implicit in the comment is that a white person could slap someone on stage and no one would object. Also implicit is that the very idea of civilized behavior is oppressive to blacks and is yte suprem somehow.
The decline of Forbes is a sorry thing to see.
And here is another liberal twat demonstrating how “inclusive” she is.
Will she also stop saying “goodnight” because halfway around the world it is morning?
I must be thick because I didn’t hear an insult in what Chris Rock said. It sounded like typical observational humor: Jada is actor, has bald head. Demi Moore had bald head in GI Jane. Hollywood is into remakes of action movies with POC in starring roles. Ergo – Jada is ready for the part because she already has the bald head.
Rock didn’t mention Jada’s scalp condition, or the “open” state of her marriage to Smith. So where is the grounds for Smith’s violent defense? Rock did call attention to Jada’s bald head, but she was not trying to hide it.
In the immortal paraphrased words of Rene Descartes: I am white, therefore I am right.
Obviously it’s white supremacy in action.
And then there’s the implication that any black viewers who don’t think Mr Smith’s behaviour was entirely optimal are merely expressing views “deemed acceptable to whites,” having somehow “internalised” the “toxic messaging” of “white supremacist culture.”
I don’t have strong feelings on the incident one way or the other – it was all rather farcical – but I doubt my first impulse would be to suggest that black people who disapproved are merely aping whitey and don’t know their own minds.
Shame shit, different wrapper…
https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1508804465960304653
Hey David, in the UK do websites leave biscuits on your computer instead of cookies?
In my mind, the question is not why someone, somewhere would think that there is relationship between the Oscar’s stuff and something that we all think is obviously totally unrelated. There is always someone. What bothers me is that the editorial staff of a “respectable” publication such as Forbes saw fit to use it. What is wrong with THEM ? Are they just trying to attract attention?
in the UK do websites leave biscuits on your computer instead of cookies?
No.
Let me fetch your coat.
What bothers me is that the editorial staff of a “respectable” publication such as Forbes saw fit to use it. What is wrong with THEM ? Are they just trying to attract attention?
Even the “respectable” publications are being taken over by the far left. Scientific American, for instance, is now a propaganda organ.
Will she also stop saying “goodnight” because halfway around the world it is morning?
Q3 is also problematic, fiscalphobe. I have a different fiscal year than she does. How dare she assume my cis-fiscal-normativity.
Oops. Don’t know how the double post happened. I only clicked once.
it was all rather farcical
It was an open-hand pussy-ass bitch slap too. It barely affected Rock. If you’re going to defend your wife’s honour you deck the guy. Smith must have almost a foot and 40 pounds on Rock and he hit him like a girl.
Oops. Don’t know how the double post happened. I only clicked once.
[ Fetches Bra of Shame. ]
Let me fetch your coat.
Fetch it? I remember when you used to throw them ablaze into the alley. A Health & Safety caution, or just getting more mellow?
I doubt my first impulse would be to suggest that black people who disapproved, however much or little, are merely aping whitey and don’t know their own minds. But such is wokeness.
Funny how these “anti-racist” “race scholars” always sound racist.
A Health & Safety caution, or just getting more mellow?
Mellowing with age? Dear Lord, I do hope not.
[ Rummages under bar for revolver. ]
or just getting more mellow?
Actually, on reflection, I am in a pretty good mood.
I cannot account for it.
Mellowing with age? Dear Lord, I do hope not.
The Guild of Evil will have to become the Guild of Naughty.
Wow! She must have gone to law school to study such an obscure legal theory!
I call manufactured outrage.
When I was in junior drama group at school, we were taught to throw a stage punch. You swing to miss, and use your other hand to slap yourself on your collarbone to make an impact noise. Watch the footage. That’s exactly what Will Smith did.
Uh-oh, prepare for Instalanche . . .
[ Fetches Bra of Shame. ]
The under wire cuts into my flesh. Could I have the girdle of ignominy instead?
I remember when you used to throw them ablaze into the alley.
[ Wipes tear from corner of eye. Hums auld lang syne ]
Girdle of ignominy sounds dreadful. I’ve grown quite accustomed to the fedora of perpetual discomfiture. It accentuates my jawline.
Instalanche!
Everyone, act casual and don’t make eye contact.
“summer” vs Q3. hahah. idiot. 7 billion people understand that if an Aussie says summer he means our winter. And then there is this twit who just discovered this fact.
Ah, yes, the good old days, when white men would regularly bitch slap the host on the oscars….wait, you mean that never happened? My bad. Well, it is still rayyyycist somehow to even notice it.
Everyone, act casual and don’t make eye contact.
[ Tucks in shirt tails, wipes dust off shoes using burned coat found in alley. ]
Instalanche!
[ Orders more coasters. ]
Scientific American, for instance, is now a propaganda organ.
Ah, but when I noticed this 20+ years ago and mentioned it, I was “crazy” and “the one politicizing things”, because of course, it was SCIENCE!…that hit me with technology as well. Or maybe I was prescient…or I just guess lucky a lot. A whole lot. Or something.
Gee, Darleen . . . I called it.