“If you’re walking down the street and someone kicks you, they have a problem. If you’re walking down the street and -everyone- kicks you, -you- have a problem.”

–author unknown

Its classic bully stuff. Call people who object to abusive behavior whiners and girlie men and pussies. So it seems that being gay hasn’t prevented TRex from developing some extremely misogynistic attitudes re: the feminine dimension of life (be tough, don’t whine, be a man, etc).

It is human nature to overlook flaws in those with whom we feel some sympathy –ie, they are on our side and we would be sabotaging them/ourselves/our relationship to call them out. We do it with friends and family and bosses and co-workers and neighbors all the time. We have to in order to be bearable, in order to bear them. So we go into “don’t nitpick,” “don’t be too critical,” mode and we end up not seeing the pattern. BAnd up until the Liza, Liza, Liza moment, it was easier to over look the very clear pattern which was forming behind all the “good works” (fundie churches do a lot of good work too, btw, they raise money and fund this and thay, they take care of their own). I mean what is not to hate about the likes of Kate O’Beirne and Michelle Malkin and John Yoo. (I don’t get the anomosity toward Ana Marie-Cox, but then she was never on my radar, but from what I do know, it seems like there is more than a little projection at play on Hamsher’s part.) But if you go back and read some of the stuff that most people basically skimmed more carefully (and that is one of the problems with reading on a screen, we don’t read attentively anymore), you will see that it was always there. Like the cute little bunny rabbit who is really the fierce old lady in a hat.

UPDATE: Okay, let’s get something straight here. By using the word “betters”, I meant people who are more talented than Liza, and they are legion. If you’ve decided that there’s racial baggage in that statement, it says a lot more about your issues than mine.

Ah yes, because there’s NO racial baggage to telling a woman and a person of color not to get uppity towards their betters. The same way that calling someone “maccaca” has no racial baggage to it, because I mean, it just means monkey, and any racial baggage to that is what you give to it. You know, I kind of wonder if he’d get offended if I called him a honky cracker. I mean, those words don’t really MEAN anything. If he gets offended, he really ought to learn not to bring his issues into things like that.

The really sad thing about this is that there was an opportunity here to address some really important points, but that opportunity has flown as an army of shameless attention-whores have jumped on the bandwagon and attempted to get their licks in.

Ah yes. Damn those bloggers of color calling out racism when they see it! And here we white people had this amazing chance to discuss the topic until the damned attention-whores jumped in by making incisive points from a perspective that, I dunno, actually understands racism. Those bastards. Look at me! Look at me!

I have now said absolutely everything I intend to say about the topic. Thank you for your time.

Well at least that’s done.

UPDATE 2

Goddamn it.

Due to widespread misinterpretation, the word “betters” has been struck from this post

Ah yes, widespread misinterpretation. Clearly, when one is being a racist ass, the problem is all the people misinterpreting it. What he actually meant was that he’s sorry he called a woman of color inferior for daring to call out racism, and he apologizes for then ignoring the content of her post to complain about her spelling.
and replaced with something that more accurately conveys my authorial intent

Certainly the apology is about to come rolling in wherein he acknowledges that he was in the wrong, and Liza is a better person than he, since Liza is not a racist gasbag. Right?

Please. Stop. Whining.

Jesus. H. Christ. On. A. Pogo. Stick. *facepalm* After about a page of whining that he got called a racist, calling anyone who dares to criticize him attention whores, and calling people of color racists because they prefer content to extensive spellchecking as the measure of good writing, he has now told people of color to stop “whining.”