Friday, April 18, 2008

Maybe I should change my name

I see that it is becoming clear to more and more people in this country that all that is required to be labeled a 'racist' is to be white.

A white person is a defacto racist.

That this constitutes racism is an observation lost on our "censorious liberal thought police", who are "always on the lookout for new victims to persecute, harass, and vilify".

I refer to the case of Jamie Bauld, a young fellow with Down's Syndrome with the "mental age of a five year-old" who pushed another child. Adverts were placed in local newspapers asking for witnesses to this "racially motivated assault". The other child, you see, was "Asian" (as the British press insists on labeling everyone from Morocco to Kazakhstan to Bangladesh).

"...the eminently sensible gentlemen of the police force decided that it was worth their while to get involved, and questioned Jamie, prior to charging him with assault. According to his mother, Jamie did not understand the questions that the police were asking him, and simply agreed with every accusation put to him, out of a desire to please his interrogators. She adds that, like many children, he does not actually notice racial differences."


But, don't you see? Jamie is white. Nothing else is required.

The police and prosecutors later apologised to Jamie's family.

So that's OK then.




I understand that Irishness is a designated victim category. My mum kept "Doloughan". The only thing is, no one can spell it.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Irishness still a designated victim category? Someone should ask Hibernia Girl, maybe.

Anonymous said...

Sooo, Tom,

You've given the matter a little thought huh?

Anonymous said...

Some things, Hillary, one needn't think much about as one is assaulted with them more or less daily.

In any case, that was a crib from something I wrote and posted on Asimovs board some months ago for the express purpose of annoying the lefties there.

Hey, a man's got to have a hobby...

Hilary Jane Margaret White said...

Ummm...

Isn't Isaac...you know...

dead?

Anonymous said...

So's Jim Baen but there's still a Baen's Bar. It's a webboard, Hilary, the online extension of Asimov's dead tree science fiction magazine.

www.asimovs.com/discus

The Politics and Religion section is mostly where I hang out there. You might want to look but most of the people there, even the righties, tend to be atheist or agnostic. (No, I'm not.) Though never officially admitted to, there's a fair argument that the P&R section was created expressly for me. Seriously.

If you look, don't expect any terribly insightful religious discussions. That part of the board is mostly political.

Anonymous said...

Too bad. I'd hoped for a second that he'd managed to freeze himself without telling anyone. Or maybe inject his consciousness into the internet...

I've been watching too much SG1 lately.

Anonymous said...

So it would seem...

Mark S. Abeln said...

You can use the pen name Fatima la Blanche. That ought to confuse them.

M. Alexander said...

But it's so helpful to have a last name no one can spell if you have a bunch of arrests for operation rescue. No one can track down your priors or your warrants!