Friday, November 05, 2010

Obama's Rage

Even when Obama has been at his cucumber-coolest--and has earned abuse from the left and center for it--figures on the right have aggressively tried to hang the "angry black man" label on him. A June editorial in The Washington Times (entitled, bluntly enough, "Angry Man Obama") cited his "tough guy" persona and "bullying undercurrent" and tied him to Spike Lee. A year ago, Rush Limbaugh described the school-bus beating of a white student by black students as typical of "Obama's America"; in the run-up to the midterms, Glenn Beck accused the president of "inciting people." The idea that Obama is driven by fury is prevalent enough on the right that Dinesh D'Souza could take it as a given in the title of his Amazon bestseller The Roots of Obama's Rage.

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  1. thanks qlip

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rage_(law)

    Interesting to see how "rage" is simultaneously the terrifying "undercurrent" driving the intruder Obama a fashionable and marketable aspect of white celebrity - Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck vend their white rage - adoreable white grrrl rage is even more admirable and refreshing than the boys.

    Consider the reaction if Zizek had any black fans, calling for Violence and revolutionary terror! The rage and violence act is safe-for-whites-only product. Only white people can advertise their rage and anger and bitterness and resentment as merits and virtues and saleable features of their entertainment commodities. They have a right to their rage - its the effusion of a love of justice and truth! like Swift, Carlyle, Nietzsche, all enraged! - and of course they can control it too. White people's rage never actually hurts anyone.

    And so this rage for white rage entertainment - from the Tea Party on the right to ZizneyCorp on the "left" - does the work of reproducing white supremacy.

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  5. kvetch kvetch

    I think we've had a visit from an old friend of yours in the post below.

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  6. And WHUT IS DIS about 'adoreable white grrrl rage'?

    I was thinking of Palin, O'Donnell, but also Anne Coulter, and that radio Laura

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  7. I don't even think he saw the pavillions,

    he saw them but they all looked alike and half an hour later he felt he wanted to see them again.

    ...serrrusly he's just denigrating, the theme is China is crap. All of China is made in a sweatshop. It's all shit, cheap, imitation civilisation made by cheap imitation people. These Chinese are mindless, china is all hypocrisy, all surface and no social substance, so go ahead and intervene in that shit. It can only be an improvement.

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  8. "sino-" means fake, inferior, crap.

    but its crappiness doesn't just give us the right to fix it, but is scary, it's a threat to us, because it could "blow up" somehow. contradiction, conflict, tensions held very precariously in some kind of balance while the conflict is violent, garish, overwhelming, and Zizneycorp says it's set to "explode"

    yikes.

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  10. White puts me in ind of back when Ol' Tom Landry coached them Cowboys.
    I remember a close up of a furiously seething Landry, while the announcer described him as "the emotionless Coach Landry."
    Since it is their natural state, they don't even realize they are.

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  11. Oops. White *rage*

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  12. John Dower's War Without Mercy is a good book to read now...and in it he reminds the reader:

    “The propagandistic deception often lies, not in the false claims of the enemy atrocities, but in the pious depiction of such behavior as peculiar to the other side.”

    And "we" of course make mistakes and slip and aren't perfect, but our mistakes are part of their nature...often our errors come from mingling with them too much...and our worst sins can be our failure to control them, our slumming with them and involvement with them...Bourriaud taking that dirty arab money into the clean white Tate...but we're often big enough and self critical enough to say hey sometimes we're no better than gypsies!

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  13. "oligarchitecture" is one of these words that express that supremacism...

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