82_28 wrote:Sure, it may have a racist *appearance*, but I think that was the point -- appearance.
I have no idea what the second part means. But to my eyes, it did have a racist appearance. For the second time,
that's why I said it appeared racist.
In my view, MinM has done nothing but contribute extremely interesting caveats to this board since MinM got here, often long, long after a thread has been dead too. Obviously, yes, mucho cheers C2W. I got somewhat pilloried here when I began posting and not lurking for a "googly eyed black person" thread topic I made concerning possible psy-ops within the spate of all the weird high profile killings and such which were going down seemingly focusing, media wise, on foisting a fear unto the public of black people and Muslims as well. I forget how it all went down and don't even feel like looking it up.
Well. Allow me to refresh your quirkily selective memory. Much to my regret, I long ago jumped down your fucking throat for using the term "googly-eyed" in relation to Arabs. I was posting late at night and used much more aggressive and inconsiderate language than was necessary or justified to make my point.
Next day, IIRC, elfismiles started a thread specifically dedicated to canvassing opinion wrt what he perceived as my oversensistivity, in which I repeatedly apologized to you for my tone and explained the grounds for my objection, with which, again, nobody is obligated to agree. Notwithstanding which, I do have the same right as everyone else to express and explain my views. Which I do in the hopes that others will be edified by them, even if their own views differ from mine.
To further recall to you how that all went down -- which was, on balance, with the majority in your favor not mine --
here is a link to the four pages of discussion that ensued, complete with trollery by Percival which I briefly forgot I wasn't supposed to openly acknowledge that I recognized as such. Or, if you'd just prefer to go with the highlights reel, here are some representative excerpts from our posts on the matter:
c2w wrote:Um...Please let me eat shit 82_28. I was the one who should have clarified. And my failure to do so was more insensitive than yours was by a factor of about gazillion. Because obviously, I knew beyond doubt that there were words and an image in my post that belonged to a specific lexicon of unambiguously inflammatory and hateful idiom, with the explicit aim of calling attention to your use of a word from the same lexicon. And I'm a totally irredeemable asoul (h/t yathrib) for not having either taken the time to:
(a) make it plain that the reason I was pointing that out was because I didn't think you fully knew that word for what it was, and not because I thought that you did; or
(b) said what I had to say neutrally and without unnecessary and uncalled for personal implications.
82_28 wrote:BTW c2w, don't worry about it. I know where my heart sits and from the posts over time you've written, the same goes for you. Don't eat shit at all. Not perturbed in the least. Just wanted to clarify is all.
And there it might have rested, had not Zap joined in, after all had seemingly been resolved, with (including your response):
82_28 wrote:Zap wrote:82_28 wrote:We have a googly eyed Muslim army major who massacres a bunch of his comrades.
Another googly eyed Muslim getting tried as a "terrorist" in a civilian court for crimes committed on 9-11.
Another googly eyed man named Muhammed got executed AT 9:11 the other night.
And now Obama's googly eyed brother has spilled the beans about an abusive man, raised within the Islamic faith and just so happens to be Osababama's dad.
If you weren't trying to stir the pot or be racist, why the repetition of "googly eyed" at all? What non-racist meaning did it add?
Sweet jumpin' Jesus trampoline center. Sometimes you can't win to lose. I recognize that. I was PRECISELY pointing out the inherent and implicit racism that such actions play into the hands of. I thought at the time I was attempting to extrapolate the intended effect of an anti-muslim "psyop". Period.
I also thought most here may appreciate the irony of "googly eyed" dudes insofar as the clear and obvious MO of these recent developments. And BTW, I used to work in a liquor store in Denver many years ago and "googly eyed" was the term we all used to refer to the very far gone alkies. It's a term I've always used. And frankly, thinking about it, it only refers to crazy people when I employ the term.
Yes, I am still beating my wife.
Which led to this further clarification and apology from me:
c2w wrote:If I haven't already made it crystal clear that I recognized that your explanation was sincere beyond question the first time you made it, please allow me to do so now. You are absolutely not being accused by me of any wittingly bad act of any kind. You never were. I should have made that clear in my post to the other thread. I say again that it's inexcusable that I didn't. But I didn't. As I said before, the egregious error in judgment was mine not yours. Because I knew the implications of the words I was using and I didn't believe that you did. I honestly didn't perceive how harshly what I wrote actually was. As one sometimes doesn't. I knew that what I meant was:
"You should be aware that the phrase "googly-eyed" in that context has racist connotations and they're very, very extreme. Roughly equivalent to the connotations of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz's career-ending quip that all the coloreds wanted was "tight pussy, lose shoes, and a warm place to shit."
IOW, it's associated with the unreconstructed pre-reconstruction racism of the Old South. I thought you'd want to know."
I wish I'd said that. It's what I meant. I thought, for god knows what reason, that my meaning was clear when I posted. That did not last any longer than it took for me to read it the second time 12 or so hours later.
I'm sorry. Very sorry. Please believe that there is no point related to your post that I'm standing by apart from:
"You should be aware that the phrase "googly-eyed" in that context has racist connotations and they're very, very extreme. Roughly equivalent to the connotations of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz's career-ending quip that all the coloreds wanted was "tight pussy, lose shoes, and a warm place to shit."
IOW, it's associated with the unreconstructed pre-reconstruction racism of the Old South. I thought you'd want to know."
Okay?
And this further acceptance of my explanation from you:
I was responding to Zap, not you c2w. Have no fear, as it were.
So if all of that was insincere on your part, and you are in actual fact still feeling sore about it, please, please tell me. Because I really am genuinely sorry.
And, oops, not so brief, after all, I guess.
But whatever. Wrapping up:
(a) I said it had a racist appearance and that's all I said. You concede that it did, and throw in a defense of MinM against an attack I didn't make on MinM. For the second time. Given that repetition leaves a stronger impression than truth does -- as I believe we've mentioned here from time to time -- I'd appreciate it if you stopped posting to righteously defend MinM against the vicious calumnies I
didn't subject him to.
(b) This:
In my view, MinM has done nothing but contribute extremely interesting caveats to this board since MinM got here,
Caveats? I don't understand you.
(c) This:
I understand sensitivities and have been much more careful to make my posts more clear when it comes to this. MinM could have thrown in a picture of Britney Spears and all would have been good I suppose -- as the topic, as it is, is mind control and Tiger Woods. I think it is within bounds to discuss whether or not there may or may not be a racial component to "mind control" as well.
I agree that it's within bounds, and would even go so far as to say that it's not really a question of whether there may or may not be such a component. Because there's actually a pretty well-documented history of mind control in conjunction with racial provocation in the United States, going back decades. For example, the number that appears to have been done on the mind of Patty-Hearst kidnapper and Scary Big Black Man in the Eyes of the Media, Donald "Cinque" DeFreeze.
That is, in part, why (by my possibly oversensitive standards) it behooves us all to be alert to words and imagery that may inadvertently reinforce the validity of those used by the controllers. I mean, we don't want to get fooled again, do we?
Or do we?
No. Of course we don't. So that's all. Please tell me if you're still hurt over the googly-eyed thing, honey. Because you really shouldn't be. I was wrong, and although I did my best to put that wrong to rights, I wouldn't have ever stopped doing that if I hadn't thought I'd succeeded.
Also please read "(b)" four or five times if necessary. Because I'm really not interested in being inadvertently slung up repeatedly for shit I didn't say, intend to say, or imply. As I'm sure you can understand, these things going both ways, as they do.
Truly, nothing but love,
c2w