Comments on: Ward Connerly = Darth Vader? http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/ | social justice | higher education | technology | Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:29:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: FinanceBuzz http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-24047 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:16:06 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-24047 <blockquote>Fox news, Stormfront members, or other white supremacist outlets</blockquote> Perhaps I am not the batty one. You used to present reasoned arguments on this site that at least provoked someone who disagreed to think. Lately, you are more commonly making radical comments such as this one. If you are seriously connecting Fox News and white supremacy, why waste my time offering a rational response? And please...keep telling us that a black man is a white supremacist. It makes it easier on us that have to debunk so much of the white-hating rhetoric we read on your site.

Fox news, Stormfront members, or other white supremacist outlets

Perhaps I am not the batty one. You used to present reasoned arguments on this site that at least provoked someone who disagreed to think. Lately, you are more commonly making radical comments such as this one. If you are seriously connecting Fox News and white supremacy, why waste my time offering a rational response?

And please…keep telling us that a black man is a white supremacist. It makes it easier on us that have to debunk so much of the white-hating rhetoric we read on your site.

]]> by: Eric Stoller http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-24037 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:15:10 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-24037 Dear Derek Brian Cook aka FinanceBuzz of the newly create blog - <a href="http://www.gwinnettbuzz.com/">Gwinnett Buzz</a>, I think that Ward Connerly is an excellent example of an assimilated token. I'm sure he could talk about that for hours or even weeks. I think his lived experience has been more about internalizing oppression. Ward <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E0DD153AF934A15754C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all">identifies</a> as "25 percent black plus 37.5 percent Irish plus 25 percent French plus 12.5 percent Choctaw." He may present as a person of color, but his words and actions are that of any white supremacist. Are you batty? I'm a white person that has loads of opinions on racial issues. How am I trying to nullify myself? My posts may bother you because I present arguments that are counter to the rhetoric of Fox news, Stormfront members, or other white supremacist outlets. Dear Derek Brian Cook aka FinanceBuzz of the newly create blog - Gwinnett Buzz,

I think that Ward Connerly is an excellent example of an assimilated token. I’m sure he could talk about that for hours or even weeks. I think his lived experience has been more about internalizing oppression. Ward identifies as “25 percent black plus 37.5 percent Irish plus 25 percent French plus 12.5 percent Choctaw.” He may present as a person of color, but his words and actions are that of any white supremacist.

Are you batty? I’m a white person that has loads of opinions on racial issues. How am I trying to nullify myself? My posts may bother you because I present arguments that are counter to the rhetoric of Fox news, Stormfront members, or other white supremacist outlets.

]]> by: FinanceBuzz http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-24036 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:08:58 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-24036 So I just watched your video clip and I think that it is appropriate that that clip inspires a post here. That character at the podium is obviously a caricature not to be taken seriously in order satirize those that sincerely take such stands. Very appropriate. So I just watched your video clip and I think that it is appropriate that that clip inspires a post here. That character at the podium is obviously a caricature not to be taken seriously in order satirize those that sincerely take such stands. Very appropriate.

]]> by: FinanceBuzz http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-23968 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:19:34 +0000 http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/04/19/ward-connerly-darth-vader/#comment-23968 Hmm...don't you think a black man has a little more credibility on the "historical context, present day discrimination and white privilege." After all, no matter attuned you are to these issues, isn't discrimination and oppression his "lived experience" (to use a term seen here on your blog) far more than yours? You are free to not agree with him, but to attempt to associate a black man with "white supremacy" is laughable. Also, you argument seems to run counter against to all the posts you have made that attempt to nullify any effort by white people to have opinions on racial issues. Hmm…don’t you think a black man has a little more credibility on the “historical context, present day discrimination and white privilege.” After all, no matter attuned you are to these issues, isn’t discrimination and oppression his “lived experience” (to use a term seen here on your blog) far more than yours? You are free to not agree with him, but to attempt to associate a black man with “white supremacy” is laughable. Also, you argument seems to run counter against to all the posts you have made that attempt to nullify any effort by white people to have opinions on racial issues.

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