I may be a masochist. Today I went to Laurence Auster’s website, A View From The Right. I know that I really should know better, but I am just a glutton for punishment. What kept me on the site was his feelings towards Glenn Beck. It seems Mr. Auster could, quite possibly, dislike Glenn Beck more than I do.
Anyway, I was reading his entries, and he had one that was entitled, “Black woman throws acid in face of white woman.” (Do we italicize online articles or put them in quotes? I don’t know the protocol.) I really wanted to respond to his entry, but he only accepts email comments and selectively adds comments at his discretion. I figured, since he has already tried to dismiss me as a “knee-jerk liberal blogger,” that I would be better suited addressing my concerns here.
So, there’s an article on MSNBC.com about the “Acid attacker,” in which a woman in Oregon had acid thrown on her face. It was an especially heinous crime because the girl who received the acid was particularly pretty.
Mr. Auster only added this as a preface to the article on his site:
The assailant was a stranger and the attack was unprovoked. MSNBC does not mention the race of the assailant until the last sentence of the article.
When you read the article, this is indeed correct. The last line of the article states:
Police said the assailant was described as a black woman between 25 and 35, who wore a green shirt and khaki shorts, The Columbian reported. She had medium-length black hair that was pulled back.
[If you are wondering, The Columbian is the newspaper name. It is not an olive skinned man with an impeccable suit and shoes that sits at the end of the bar with an unlit cigarette dangling from his lip and manages to observe, through his Latin mistique, all types of things that other people tend to miss.]
They described her race as part of her physical description. Where is the problem with this? Well, my problem with this is simple: The same people who claim minorities are always “pulling the race card” tend to have the same things to say in these situations. How can we win? Do you want us to judge people as individuals, or be predisposed of racial judgments?
Mr. Auster contends that he is not a racist. He was rather upset that I compared him to Stormfront. (The Nazi website.) But, my comment to Mr. Auster is this:
Mr. Auster,
Why are you bothered that MSNBC did not mention the woman’s race until the end of the article and why do you feel the need to headline race in the topic? Is it not possible that the acid attacker was just a mentally deranged person? Do you really want a world without preferences to race? Or do you just want people to stop challenging white preference?
Continue reading Comment To A Racist Right Wingnut:
Recent Comments