calling the bias spade a spade
i had yet another hopelessly long (even for me) diatribe written examining the intersection of pk subban, bruins fans, birthers and barack obama, but i've realized it never crystalizes its point in a way that actually makes it digestible, so i will try to be brief:
pk subban is both black, and a montreal canadien. i will swear to you i disrespect him because he is a whining diver, but you will have to take my word for it its not because he's black. you know the excuse i would posit for truth, that any errors in my judgment are because he's a montreal canadien, and that's the way bruins fans think, but you will draw your own conclusions.
the analogy for black, barack obama and democrats, is that birthers swear to us they disrespect the pres because he's illegitimate, which we will take here for the logical equivalent to his being a whining diver, as both are against the relative rules of their positions. however, whereas any bruins fan can cite chapter and verse on every pk subban dive, embellishment and cheap shot to support their point, birthers fail to meet this primary criteria for arguing against racism--there is no possible way to articulate why a legally relevant birth record does not make their position moot. barack obama is indeed a natural-born us citizen, and eligible on that basis to be president.
the natural and logical excuse and explanation for this persistent and pernicious error or opinion is bias. those arguing against racism being that bias have the obvious fact that barry is a democrat and a vast majority of the birthers are republicans to explain most of it. there's the troubling demographic of birther democrats to explain, but maybe that's a hillary/barry thing. independent birthers are troublesome still, but maybe we'll give them the benefit of their being, apparently, against everything to explain such lunacy. but it couldn't possibly be racism, could it?
shall we accept class warfare as the next level of denial?
it couldn't possibly be racism, could it?
pk subban is both black, and a montreal canadien. i will swear to you i disrespect him because he is a whining diver, but you will have to take my word for it its not because he's black. you know the excuse i would posit for truth, that any errors in my judgment are because he's a montreal canadien, and that's the way bruins fans think, but you will draw your own conclusions.
the analogy for black, barack obama and democrats, is that birthers swear to us they disrespect the pres because he's illegitimate, which we will take here for the logical equivalent to his being a whining diver, as both are against the relative rules of their positions. however, whereas any bruins fan can cite chapter and verse on every pk subban dive, embellishment and cheap shot to support their point, birthers fail to meet this primary criteria for arguing against racism--there is no possible way to articulate why a legally relevant birth record does not make their position moot. barack obama is indeed a natural-born us citizen, and eligible on that basis to be president.
the natural and logical excuse and explanation for this persistent and pernicious error or opinion is bias. those arguing against racism being that bias have the obvious fact that barry is a democrat and a vast majority of the birthers are republicans to explain most of it. there's the troubling demographic of birther democrats to explain, but maybe that's a hillary/barry thing. independent birthers are troublesome still, but maybe we'll give them the benefit of their being, apparently, against everything to explain such lunacy. but it couldn't possibly be racism, could it?
shall we accept class warfare as the next level of denial?
it couldn't possibly be racism, could it?
posted by kad barma at 7:56 AM
2 Comments:
So how exactly does "pk subban" enter into this? I don't know—does he self-identify as an African American? Or, is this more of an Edward Siad argument about all Westerners being unable to understand the rest of the world because they are blinded by Imperialism?
To get to the root of some larger issues here we are going to have to ask ourselves a whole lot of questions about issues like slavery in these United States and it's aftermath. I say that because post-slavery here seems to have gone a different way from poest-slavery in France or the UK or Algeria in the early 1800s, before the French arrived and enslaved a whole nation.
Regards — Cliff
PK's parents were Jamaican, and he was born in and remains a natural-born citizen of Canada. He's Canadian. He's a Canadien. And he's despised hereabouts. He's also, to use the politically incorrect and blunt term, black.
I enter him into the discussion to examine the obvious bias that surrounds him. Both Canadiens and Bruins fans can't be right about him, in the same way that both birthers and the rest of us can't be right about Obama. Like Obama, it's then either because of his colors, or his color. (If there are other theories out there, I'd be eager to hear them).
Unlike Subban, where the video evidence is pretty compelling in support of despising him, Obama enjoys a pretty airtight case in favor of his natural-born citizenship. This leaves believers in foreign birth with only their bias to explain. We Bruins fans, self-admitted to be no more reasonable about our beliefs, at least still get to point to the replays to deny our racism.
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