Policing The Outrage Police
I like to make fun of them when possible. So, when I overheard a black friend, a barista, saying something to somebody, "That's a white lie..."
...I seized the opportunity (pretending horror): "That's racist!"
He laughed and came back with his version -- that when a friend of his orders black coffee, he'd say (pretending horror), "What do you mean by that?!"
There needs to be more of this. The way to police the outrage police is by showing what bullshit ridiculousness is their manufactured outrage.
I do the same thing. Up here in the winter, when someone talks about black ice on the road, "Excuse me, that's Ice Of Color". Or black cats become "cats of color".
mer at June 26, 2015 3:41 AM
Love that!
Amy Alkon at June 26, 2015 5:11 AM
Sadly down here we had a city council meeting where something like this happened.
'The parking meter department is a total black hole. Money, people, paperwork, they all go in but nothing comes out.'
'Hey! They aren't a black hole. You are a white hole.'
'Umm . . . thank you?'
Ben at June 26, 2015 5:35 AM
Remember this brouhaha?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/williams/williams020499.htm
Yes, you're a hater because somebody's short on vocab.
Amy Alkon at June 26, 2015 5:46 AM
More on this here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=sybd1C5zWkoC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=niggardly+a+problem&source=bl&ots=caXMQ4pYn6&sig=LDLh1bbkcI5n55ZEfEB0wE5xlOo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Y0mNVcGRKoTwoASV44OYCA&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=niggardly%20a%20problem&f=false
Amy Alkon at June 26, 2015 5:47 AM
Just remember. . .order an African-American coffee, two sugars. . . .
Keith Glass at June 26, 2015 5:54 AM
African-American coffee, two sugars
That's racist code for "black men like white chicks"!
I R A Darth Aggie at June 26, 2015 6:00 AM
Anyone who suffers from summer fun's greatest enemy, remember:
We don't call them chiggers any more.
We don't. We just don't.
Although "chegroes" sounds a bit old-fashioned. Suggestions?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at June 26, 2015 7:17 AM
OMG, I am SO using that "ice of color" comment this winter. My boss will bust a gut laughing.
Daghain at June 26, 2015 9:58 AM
My kids' friend fell off his scooter and skinned his knee, pointed at the concrete and shouted "racist!!"
Allison at June 26, 2015 11:47 AM
I was reading an article on the intranet about tipping. Some servers chimed in on the comments. Yahoo censors protected me from reading the racist name of a popular family restaurant - #$%@%#$ Barrell. My son happens to be a server at the local outlet. I simply refer to it as “The Barrel” now.
Goo at June 26, 2015 1:13 PM
"There needs to be more of this."
Amen.
"The way to police the outrage police is by showing what bullshit ridiculousness is their manufactured outrage."
Prigs hate and fear laughter. It's an attack on their sanctimony.
Jim at June 26, 2015 1:43 PM
Chiggers will quickly find the chinks in armor of a niggardly quality.
parababarrian at June 26, 2015 6:29 PM
The outrage police seem to be winning at the moment, since June 2015 has become National Eradicate the South Month.
Pretty soon, "The South shall rise again!" will only refer to some old Mississippian taking his Viagra.
mpetrie98 at June 26, 2015 9:50 PM
Yes, I remember the niggardly kerfuffle, Amy. Columnist William Raspberry responded with a column about how one of his black friends would call chiggers "cheegros", and Raspberry admonished people not to be so quick on the tree-gro.
mpetrie98 at June 26, 2015 9:53 PM
I drink my coffee black, by the way. You would think that would make people in West Baltimore happy.
mpetrie98 at June 26, 2015 9:54 PM
I seem to recall something about a black French athlete at the Olympics being call "African-American" by some of the sports reporters.
Seriously, trying so hard to be PC they didn't realize how stupid they sounded.
charles at June 27, 2015 5:11 AM
Just saw this at the library counter - SNL's Colin Quinn's new book is: "The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America."
56 customer reviews so far at you-know-where and only three have fewer than 5 stars.
lenona at June 28, 2015 10:42 AM
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