Nailing Cohen

[kpete]

Richard Cohen: Worse Than Just Racist

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As a conventional middle class white girl married to a conventional middle class white dude, I resent the living hell out of being told that people raised the way I was, who look like I do, get to sit back and be shit-stupid scared of the world around us and that that fear is somehow normal. I resent my major so-called liberal media telling me I can take comfort in how awful I am, because it's the change taking place around me that's the problem, not me. I resent not being challenged, not being pushed, not being told to look harder and love more and draw the circle of people I care about wider and wider every day as the place I live does the same.

How does excusing me from my human responsibility help me in anyway? How does it help anyone else? Newsprint is not unlimited these days and Cohen is using up ink to tell us that the problem is what the world looks like to fraidy-cats, instead of telling us to be less scared, to get over ourselves, to get with the goddamn program.

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http://www.first-draft.com/2013/11/richard-cohen-worse-than-just-racist.html

[hunter]

1. Hah!

In your eye, fraidy-cat white people of DU.

[bullwinkle428]

2. Is it possible that this guy might actually be suffering from

some kind of illness? If this is some kind of early stage of dementia, I suppose that he's capable of putting out some utterly sociopathic stuff.

This is like John Derbyshire-level material - he was the guy fired for being too racist by THE NATIONAL REVIEW!!

[Half-Century Man]

3. A short lesson for Mr. Cohen and other self-labelers.

You do not get to apply certain labels to describe yourself. They are applied to you in recognition of your deeds or words.

Examples, Pleasure to be around, Convincing Speaker, Racist, Bigot, Adequate penis, Good Cook, Artist, Person most helpful hiding a body, Stalker, Parasite, etc...... You get the picture, right?

It is permissible to carry citations around with you attributing qualities like these to you , However it does seem a bit pretentious.