Buffalo

I waited a couple of days to comment on the Buffalo massacre at the Tops supermarket (below) in order to find the right words.  They never came.  So the following will have to do.

I still don't understand how so many bigoted white people think that Democrats and Jews are out to "replace" white people with native-born blacks and with immigrants.  As I understand it,. immigrants don't replace anyone.  The supplement us by contributing to the national culture and the nation's economic well-being.  If anything, white people have historically been replaced whenever they leave a city or town owing to too many black and brown people.  East Orange, New Jersey, near where I live, is one of the most heavily black towns in the state, but it was once so predominantly German it could have been called East Berlin.  No one told the white people there that they had to move out when black people began moving in.  They just did.  Because they didn't want to live with them.  And white people in other cities and towns left to get away from those same brown people, but with brown people expected to become the majority, it's suddenly become important to kill them to prevent that from happening?

This is sick.  I don't normally support capital punishment, but the shooter in Buffalo is so evil that perhaps we should make an exception here.  Oh yeah, he also admitted to torturing a cat to death and not feeling bad about it!        

Shame on media personalities like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity for promoting such racist attitudes, shame on the white nationalists who perpetrate such acts, and shame on the Republican Party for failing to condemn white nationalism outright.  Ans shame on the voters if they reward the Republicans with both houses of Congress in the midterms because they think inflation is more important than domestic terrorism . . . which the Buffalo massacre was. 

Don't Call the Doctor

When I heard that Dr. Laura Schlessinger used the N-word eleven times, I had one question: WTF?

I certainly wasn't LOL.

Schlessinger - whose doctorate is not in psychology but in physiology, the study of the functioning of living systems - was asked by a black woman on how to deal with the apparent racism of her white husband's friends, and the not-so-good doctor saw nothing wrong with the N-word because black comedians use it all the time. Schlessinger could have stopped there, but she complained how, when white people say the N-word, "it's a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it's affectionate."

Schlessinger - who obviously never paid very much attention to the viciousness of such stand-up comedy - offended the caller, who called her on using the N-word. Schlessinger proceeded to use it repeatedly, complained about being taken out of context and told the caller that maybe she shouldn't have married outside her race. To her credit, Schelssinger admitted that what she said was wrong, but didn't actually she was sorry, and that she was trying to make "a philosophical point."

Schlessinger - whose doctorate doesn't require her to discuss anything related to deep thought - must be on another planet. I understand her point - black people use the N-word in popular entertainment and no one complains. How does she know a lot of black people don't find that offensive? Why does she think that black comedians on cable television and their largely black studio audiences reflect black America? And if Schlessinger - whose mother was an Italian war bride of an American Jewish soldier who served in the Second World War - can't recommend ways to deal with adversity in mixed marriages, why would anyone should ask her for advice?

Schlessinger - who keeps making me insert clauses following her surname that are punctuated by hyphens - ought to get out of her radio station studio and listen to what black people really think. And if she wants to make philosophical points, maybe she should read Plato or Freud so she can learn how to think before she speaks.

I can't believe that Schlessinger - who was once endorsed by odious right-wing pundit Cal Thomas as a standard bearer of family values - is likely to remain on the air. I'm calling her by another N-word. Neanderthal.