"see where's the outrage when black parents do this, I'm rly making u think with this good ass satire" *every decent person throws rocks at him when in an appropriate throwing distance*
― arsenio and old ma$e (m bison), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Derbyshire had an uncredited role in Meng long guojiang (released in the West as Way of the Dragon and Return of the Dragon), a 1972 martial arts film starring Bruce Lee. Of landing the part, Derbyshire says: "The casting director had obviously just trawled around the low-class guesthouses for unemployed foreigners of a sufficiently thuggish appearance."
Please tell me there is footage of Bruce Lee beating the living shit out of this guy.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
john derbyshire is not known for his humor
― goole, Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
there is something about the fully-delighted-with-itself tone of the piece that almost does read as satire, but given what i know of derbyshire and takimag, i can't believe it. also its underlying purpose is to cite a lot of pseudoscientific bullshit about the inferiority of black people, and there's every reason to believe that that's an article of faith for contributors to takimag.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
i need to punch something
― horseshoe, Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
the quintessential taki episode was when he referred to himself as a soi-disant antisemite, thinking that it meant 'so-called'
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaaaa
― goole, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
anyway, derbyshire has been saying stuff nearly identical to this for years. this is not out of character and it's not satire.
"it's satire and that was my point" is almost certainly going to be his deal on Monday - he'll claim he was "pointing out" that talking to one's black children about how not to aggravate white cops lest they shoot you is "just as racist" as telling your white children to fear all black people.
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
It's been obvious for years that NRO tolerates Derbyshire's iconoclasm and atheism because he hates everything.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if nat'l review will fire him now. but why would they? they know what he is and they can't be surprised or offended, if they've never been before. they've been paying money for years and years to employ a writer whose job is to make racist arguments.
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
i cant help but think about how Takimag is probably popping champagne in their office for all he traffic they're getting
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
god i know everything's the worst
― horseshoe, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yet another reason why I'm not reading that thing
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
CLICK NOTHING DAY
― Fook Lee (Matt P), Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
"derb" is the one entree into the conservative world that the rest of NRO is still too washington-republican-genteel to touch. (other of their writers function similarly for different sub-sets i guess) when seriously hard-right people say crazy shit about the "decadent reign of centrist rich lowry" or w/e they aren't kidding, or wrong really
― goole, Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
I think National Review just fired that tool.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 April 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://takimag.com/article/10_hatefacts_for_those_who_hate_facts_gavin_mcinnes/page_2#axzz1rSOEkZ00
^#5
― fka snush (remy bean), Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
I am a racist and a homophobe -- but a mild one.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
National Run Off
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred, that post is incredible. I love the weird anti-logic of it, wherein benefit of the doubt can be invoked to justify the worst, least likely option, beginning with the presumption/concession of homophobia and racism then working its way up from there. It's hard to know where to begin. But I like this one:
I grew up in England where that level of antisemitism was pretty well universal. It was perfectly harmless.
To say the least of it, male homosexuality is veryunhealthy–much more so than, for example, cigarette smoking.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
"B-b-but Kingsley Amis did it!"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 April 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah this guy's just full of shit.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 8 April 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
am I the only one who isn't able to see any of these takimag articles? not that I'm complaining.
― gimme prizza (crüt), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
I think the site can't handle the uptick in web traffic. consider yourself lucky
― dayo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
To take an actual example from the world of race: I have spent most of mylife mixing with Chinese people. It seems obvious to me that Chinese peopleare, on average, a bit smarter than white Europeans.
Do these people ever stop to wonder why, say, the President and all the Fortune 500 CEOs aren't Chinese?
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
world of race
― gimme prizza (crüt), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
I think NRO kept and appreciated Derbyshire as a kind of clever and fearless tenured professor.
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Me neither. I like to think racism broke the link.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
derb finally gets canned, charles murray is an intellectual demigod. #interesting
― goole, Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
There's no reason to read them. They don't have anything to do with TM/GZ other than loosely trying to contextualize bigoted ranting, and even failing miserably at that.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/04/09/us/ap-us-neighborhood-watch-death.html
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
can someone who understands the law better than me explain what not taking this to a grand jury means in real world justice terms?
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
no murder charge
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Special Prosecutor Corey says her decision to skip the grand jury shouldn't be considered a factor in determining whether charges will be filed against George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who has admitted to fatally shooting the unarmed Martin.
That means the decision now rests solely with Corey.
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Allen Park — The Michigan Department of Transportation is working with police to determine who hacked into a road sign and posted a racial slur along a freeway seen early Monday morning.The portable electronic sign contained a reference to Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American who died Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., after being shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer.
The portable electronic sign contained a reference to Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American who died Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., after being shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120409/METRO01/204090381/Allen-Park-road-sign-hacked-show-racial-slur-against-Trayvon-Martin
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
wtf this country
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
That was so disgusting to me.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
On a more positive note, I was having lunch today at the local lol food court, and at the next table were two old white guys, both over 60. I heard them start discussing the case and braced myself, and to my surprise they were both like, "Yeah, if I was out walking and somebody was following me around in a car, I'd probably jump him too. And the police never took this guy to the hospital for a supposed broken nose?" etc., etc. Kinda refreshing.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
i don't even understand what sort of thought process or lack thereof goes on with whoever hacked that sign
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
see what happens when you stereotype people, Phil
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
sort of laughed at this:
"This sort of thing pops up every construction season, but usually the messages are relatively harmless and quirky references to zombies and things like that," Morosi said.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
agree that it this is gross & abhorrent but it's prob little more than baseline hax0r opportunism + sensationalism + good ol fashioned racism
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
well it's missing a verb!
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 April 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
the hacked sign thing reads more like chan-style racism than klan-style racism tbh
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
not that one is BETTER exactly, but the former at least crushes my soul a little less
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
it's missing a verb
My gut tells me that "Trayvon" was intended as the verb.
― Mr. Peabody (Aimless), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh waooooow had not occurred to me, let's hope that don't catch on
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Childish Gambino first out the gate to help with that one tbh
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe Donald Glover hacked that sign
― crüt, Monday, 9 April 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link