A New Generation of Race-Baiting Twerps
– posted by thehim
Mark Griswold is not your typical wingnut. He’s barely 30, but he still falls for the same bullshit that his doddering old peers fall for.
This Christmas come get your kids’ picture taken at Nordstrom’s with Diversity Santa! That’s right. You can choose with which race of Santa your kids will get their photos taken.
Now I’m all for diversity. I believe Santa, as a symbol of Christmas, a holiday celebrated by races and cultures around the world, can and in fact should be portrayed as Black, Asian, Indian, Hispanic and any other color you can name.
I just question why they have to make such a big deal about it.
Perhaps because people pay money for those pictures and Nordstrom’s has an interest in making more money? Having various races of Santas is not an effort by liberals to force diversity on us, it’s an attempt by businessmen to maximize profit by bringing more people into their store.
Liberals love to claim how they love diversity and want to extinguish racism but by continuing to make such a big deal about race, underscoring the fact that there’s a “Diversity Santa” or having people mark a bubble denoting their race, all the while continuing to scream that America is racist (never mind that we’re the first “White” country in history to elect a Black person as president and the wealthiest woman in the county is Black) they continue to perpetuate the very same racism they pretend to want to eradicate.
And apparently, this conservative claims to love diversity, but doesn’t seem to recognize that there’s still a significant amount of institutional racism in our society, especially in our criminal justice system. What’s sad is that I tend to agree with some criticisms of liberal overreach when it comes to how we deal with race, but they so often come from clueless fucks who think that racism doesn’t exist at all, that I just end up ignoring them anyway.
I guarantee that if the census stops asking people what race they belonged to, if liberals stop making such a big deal about race, and we all just focused on being Americans and being the best we can be, Dr. King’s (he was a Republican, btw) dream of people being judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin, will come true.
No, it won’t. And by the way, according to his own son, Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican, dummy.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:47 am
Maybe Griswold is mistaking MLK Jr for Jackie Robinson. Robinson endorsed Nixon in 1960 and was a strong supporter of Nelson Rockefeller. But when Rocky was vilified by the Goldwaterites at the 1964 RNC, when the Party of Lincoln became the Party of the Solid South, when Kennedy and Johnson got the Civil Rights Act passed, he completely and utterly repudiated the Republican Party.
I’ll refrain from any sneers about Griswold and “they all look alike to me”. He is, as you note, a callow and uninformed youth.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:04 pm
If race doesn’t matter to Mark, then I’d be very curious to see what would happen in Macy’s just hired black Santas next year. I mean, if race doesn’t matter, why not? It shouldn’t matter to anyone, right?
November 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Having various races of Santas is not an effort by liberals to force diversity on us, it’s an attempt by businessmen to maximize profit by bringing more people into their store.
Just as all of the most strident Bolsheviks lived in New York, safe from the secret police of their favored regime, the most strident defenders of free-market capitalism never show any understanding of the regimen they endlessly praise.
Then again, if Seattle was lily-white, Nordy’s wouldn’t need multiple images of Grandfather Frost, now would it? I suspect a subtext here…
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Maybe Griswold is mistaking MLK Jr for Jackie Robinson.
Nope… actually, back in the 1960s, there were a fair number of black Republicans! Look at Edward Brooke, for example… he was a black Republican from Massachusetts. (And, coincidentally, the last Republican senator from Massachusetts!) At the time, southern Democrats were solid segregationists, so in that context, it’s perfectly reasonable for major black leaders to side with the Republicans.
What these folks that claim that MLK is a Republican fail to mention, though, is that King was in Memphis to support a garbage workers’ strike when he was assassinated. Hardly the move of a modern Republican, by ANY means.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:58 pm
i didn’t know ‘grizzie’ enjoyed older, bigoted bears….