I Read The News Today, Oh Boy…by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #320 | @MDWorld
August 16, 2013 Michael Davis 13 Comments
In local news, I think I’m getting old.
Today’s rant was all about New York’s “Stop & Frisk” law, which a court recently found unconstitutional.
I forgot that I’ve written about this racist bullshit law before. NYC is going to appeal the court ruling. Of cause they are, because NYC is run by a bunch of racist motherfuckers.
The law has done nothing to curb crime, and the vast majority of people stopped are young black men. What’s funny is the vast majority of people found with weapons were white guys.
Seriously. Check the stats.
In national news, Orson Scott Card has decided to become a racist as well as a homophobe.
http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2013-05-09-1.html
Wow, right?
I sure wouldn’t want to be DC Comics and have to deal with the onslaught of more bad press when they get around to publishing his Superman story.
In international news, Russia has decided to treat homosexuals just like Hitler did back in day, right before he started murdering them.
Perhaps Orson Scott Card should pack and move his little punk ass to Russia, where he will find like-minded assholes like him self.
If in fact Mr. Card decides to move to Russia, which clearly seems to be the ideal place for him, I’d like for him to take these words with him: bon voyage, you pussy motherfucker.
Howard Cruse
August 16, 2013 - 5:11 am
Wow! I thought Card was just a garden-variety homophobic crank, but the guy who wrote the essay you’ve linked to sounds psychotic.
Motu
August 16, 2013 - 6:45 am
Card is clearly attemping to pull a fast one and he almost had me. At the end of his essay he writes, ‘just kidding’ then writes If he actually believed this stuff would he write it down?
My answer is, yes.
Mike Gold
August 16, 2013 - 10:37 am
Actually, Card just put DC in a lousy — lousier — position. If they pull his story again, it’ll look like they’re pro-homophobia but anti-racist.
As for Card, he’s his own worst enemy. Publishers don’t like this sort of attention. And I doubt he’ll get on Oprah’s Book Club.
If DC does pull his story, that’ll leave room for one from A-Rod.
Rene
August 18, 2013 - 7:25 am
Testing.
Rene
August 18, 2013 - 7:28 am
Howard, I’ve been aware of Card’s madness for a few years now.
It’s apparently another case of Frank Miller syndrome. A guy that was more or less normal in the 1990s, and politically not even all that Conservative. And then 9/11 happened and BAM! Instant craziness, just add water.
Dan Simmons is another famous sufferer of Frank Miller syndrome.
George Haberberger
August 18, 2013 - 12:21 pm
I read the article you linked to. This is the only thing by Orson Scott Card that I have ever read. I hadn’t even heard of him until the controversy over the Superman story.
He really doesn’t like the president. He certainly makes a drastic turn when he talks about Obama running his wife now that the president is term-limited. I don’t care if George Wallace did it, no one would attempt such a blatant, obvious end-around the constitution in today’s political climate. And Card knows that. Besides I think Obama wants Hillary to be president so that Hillary can appoint him to the Supreme Court. I also think Card’s real point is when he said this: “Look at how Hillary Clinton is being set up as the fall guy on Benghazi. Her lies under oath will destroy her in the run-up to the 2016 election, while the press will never hold Obama’s feet to the fire.”
That’s the point of this article; to torpedo Hilliary. None of the speculation is within the realm of believability.
But you said this: In national news, Orson Scott Card has decided to become a racist as well as a homophobe.
I read the article a couple of times. What about it is racist? Yes, he doesn’t like Obama. Is that, in and of itself, racist?
Card may have a point about something though. He said, “His lies and mistakes are unreported or quickly forgotten or explicitly denied; his critics are demonized.”
I think calling someone a racist qualifies as demonization.
Rene
August 18, 2013 - 3:06 pm
C’mon, George. The guy says Obama is gonna recruit young urban black criminals for his private army? That is White Supremacist’s Paranoid Nightmare Number 1. I wonder if Card just copy and paste from the KKK’s website when he says things like this.
As an exercise, just imagine if a black Leftist guy claimed George W. Bush was going to recruit a bunch of violent white rednecks for his private army. You would be calling that hypothetical Leftist guy a nutcase and a racist, don’t tell me you wouldn’t.
You really must stop defending every last piece of work that is on the political side you identify with. You could do better than that.
George Haberberger
August 18, 2013 - 4:01 pm
I have no idea what is on the KKK’s website.
The guy says Obama is gonna recruit young urban black criminals for his private army?
No you said that. Card said, “young out-of-work urban men.” I was a young out-of-work urban man about 30 years ago.
As I said, I don’t think Obama was the reason for this article. Hillary was. Everything Card speculated about Obama was laughably outrageous.
You really must stop defending every last piece of work that is on the political side you identify with.
What I really must do is object when criticism of Obama is automatically presumed to have no other reason to exist other than racism.
Rene
August 19, 2013 - 2:57 am
Yep. America’s first black President, the only one ever accused of conspiring to assemble a PRIVATE ARMY OF INNER CITY GANGSTAS! No racism here, nossir!
Let me repeat his own words. He didn’t say only young out-of-work urban men, he said:
a) “urban gangs”
b) “young thugs”
c) those who are used to “doing drive-by shootings in their own neighborhoods”
Yeah, I am sure Card meant blue-eyed blonde men from the Deep South.
But I get it. If a Lefttist compared Bush to Hitler then it’s an outrage, a treason, the leftie is a nutcase. If a Conservative compares Obama to Hitler (there is a dozen mentions to Hitler in that stinking piece) then it’s a just a laugh, a joke, can’t you see it’s laughably outré, it’s all in good fun, folks!
Why can’t you ever apply the same standards to people in different political categories?
George Haberberger
August 19, 2013 - 10:18 am
If a Lefttist compared Bush to Hitler…
If?
IF???!!!
Google “George W. Bush Hitler” and click Images.
Okay, so Orson Scott Card uses terms that do not SPECIFICALLY indicate black youths but everyone should know that’s who he meant because, you know, he’s a racist.
But if George Zimmerman sees a black youth walking in the rain and looking around, he should not make any assumptions about him because to do so would be racist.
You’re judging Card that way people claimed Zimmerman judged Martin.
Why can’t you ever apply the same standards to people in different political categories?
I don’t know, Why can’t you?
Rene
August 19, 2013 - 4:11 pm
George, the difference is that I don’t know Zimmerman or Martin, and they also didn’t know each other. However, I know Card’s views very well, since I’ve been reading his books, articles, and diatribes for years.
Is Card racist? Yes, but only in an incidental way. I doubt he really believes blacks are inferior or more violent innately, since he has sympathetic blacks in his books, but Card is paranoid, xenophobical, and prone to demonizing opponents.
And since that opponent happens to be Obama, then Card falls back on stereotypes about Dangerous Urban Black Males (TM).
And yes, I apply the same standards across the board. Do you know what I call Lefties who compare Bush to Hitler: crazy people. The same thing I will call Orson Scott Card: crazy. He is so far into paranoia, that one of these days he will post that Obama is a reptilian alien conspiring to eat puppies.
George Haberberger
August 20, 2013 - 5:46 am
As I said, the article that Michael linked to is the only thing by Card that I’ve read so you obviously are more familiar with his opinions. You say he has written black characters in his books that are sympathetic and ”I doubt he really believes blacks are inferior or more violent innately”. But you think he is paranoid, xenophobic, and prone to demonizing opponents. Okay fine, but that’s not racist. I see a lot of that on both sides of the political spectrum.
He does not like Obama, but it appears that is because of his policies, not his race. I don’t like Obama because of his strident Pro-Choice stance. Abortion has been likened to a black genocide. African Americans make up 12.6% of the U.S. population but the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that black women accounted for 35.4% of all abortions in 2009.
From Black Genocide.org: “This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.”
It seems that it could be considered racist to be Pro-Choice.
Rene
August 20, 2013 - 4:14 pm
George, I think the Left has enough sins, past and present, so there is no need to assign to them one of the few sins – racism – that they very rarely were guilty of. Doing that is just demonizing them.
If you want to blame any “ism”, in my view, Pro-Choice has a lot more to do with materialism.
Actually, materialism from both the Right and the Left is to blame for abortion. The Right, with their dog-eat-dog economics that keeps a lot of people in poverty and unable to support a prospective child. The Left, with their fashionable atheism and moral relativism, that mantains that there is no innate meaaning to life.
They combine to make abortion a likely choice.
In any case, returning to Orson Scott Card, I think his major beef is homosexuality, not abortion.