bmac32 wrote:
Accusing somebody of evil intent, out of the blue, is a pretty good sign that youre guilty of the very thing youre accusing. The Barack Obama Administration is a prime example of that.
Its pulled every trick in the playbook of cultural suggestiveness to set racial disparity back 40 years, by making sure theres a subtle subtext of race underlying every political topic: income ine******y, v****g rights, gun control.
McGill University student Brian Farnan isnt black. (And he goes to school in Canada.) So Farnan can only lament that the President will never weigh in on the students minor predicament by saying, If I had a son, hed look like Brian Farnan.
Farnan is the vice president of Internal Affairs (wh**ever that means) at McGill, a position he earned by winning a student e******n. In one of his weekly listserv messages to students, he attempted to alleviate a little of the collective academic pressure by inserting an animated .gif (a pretty funny one) of an Obama stooge kicking in a door as he walks away from the P**********l podium. Farnan sent the image under the innocuous subject line of Honestly midterms get out of here. The .gif itself had first appeared on The Tonight Show, and it found longevity on the v***l Internet.
Obama-kick-open-door-gif
Somebody got offended. And as the offended typically are wont to do, that somebody aired his grievance to college higher-ups. According to Legal I**********n, the .gif image of a frustrated President kicking in a door got him [Farnan] in trouble with the thought police, who filed a complaint against him with SSMUs [Student Society of McGill] Equity Committee, which enforces an expansive Equity Policy banning a broad range of supposedly oppressive conduct.
Theyre not kidding. Check out McGill Dailys dutifully progressive rundown of each elected student officers job performance: inclusiveness, sustainability and rape culture. Yikes.
Farnan didnt need to apologize; in fact, it bothered some that he felt the need to do so. Fellow McGill student Ameya Pendse spoke out in a letter to campus magazine The Bull & Bear not so much in defense of Farnans harmless joke as in criticism of a campus culture that would allow a radical minority to hold common sense for a ransom at her school:
Some people at McGill are a tad sensitive, so let me apologize in advance for my offensive statements. But its okay because we are all oppressed together, right? Were slowly coming to grips with fact that we are all r****t, sexist, patriarchs, and so on. If I learned anything at McGill, its that a vocal minority has deemed us all to be both oppressed as well as oppressors. The radical social culture which we, the silent majority, despise has dominated both SSMU and our campus politics for years. Brian Farnans latest email is no exception. We have come to a point where the radicals at McGill have hijacked campus politics, pushing their agenda on their Macs and smartphones.
Today, I ask Brian Farnan to send out another apology because his last email titled Weekly Listserv: Apology offended me. I am offended that he thought I would naturally associate the visual of President Obama kicking down a door with the r****t stereotype of a coloured person being angry. If anything, he should apologize for promoting r****m and its living legacies by pointing it out. I can say with certainty that most in the McGill community did not make this association until we read the email. Isnt it r****t that GIFs of people being angry should only be of white men? One can argue that this is implied.
http://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2014/02/Obama-kick-open-door-gif.gif
The whole piece is a great and entertaining indictment of the progressive inclination to control peoples hearts and minds.
Anyway, three months after filing the complaint, the unnamed student got what he wanted: an apology from Farnan for his own insensitive microagression. (Yes, he really said microaggression.) As people with thicker skin know, an apology for infringing on the lefts inscrutable sense of e******y signifies a deeper victory: compliance. Its the scarlet letter someone whos gotten out of line wears to signify to the rest of the world that, at the end of the day, standing up for yourself in the face of vindictive race-baiting just isnt worth it. Progressives win.
The image in question was an extension of the cultural, historical and living legacy surrounding people of color particularly young men being portrayed as violent in contemporary culture and media, wrote Farnan. By using this particular image of President Obama, I unknowingly perpetuated this living legacy and subsequently allowed a medium of SSMUs communication to become the site of a microaggression; for this, I am deeply sorry.
Thank God for people like Ted Nugent, eh?
http://personalliberty.com/2014/02/18/apparently-everything-having-to-do-with-barack-obama-is-r****t/
Accusing somebody of evil intent, out of the blue,... (
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Wait until Hillary runs and then it will all be sexist if one dares disagree with her.