Politics and Culture

I'm sorry for using the language that Rob Kall chooses for me for him. I'm sure he's actually quite harmless. I know he's very convenient for people looking to make fun of liberals, for he represents a one-stop-shop of lefty idiocy and hate (his constant pleas for money are annoying, however. How much does a server cost?).

Anyways, so that you don't end up with the headache I have now, I'll summarize his "stupid white man" article (I won't raise "stupid black men," "stupid homosexuals" or "stupid Mexicans" hypocrisy flags because people might think I'm a racist or something. Besides, it's too easy.).

At first I thought that Kall was going to say that the key to making white men vote for Democrats is to convince them that they're oppressed or victims of something (it works every time). But, it actually doesn't even go that deep. Kall insists that white men should vote for terrorist victory, higher taxes, more crime, a weaker America, worse health care and less freedom so that they won't be "stupid." He uses the stream of consciousness/ psycho babble/ inadequacy-projection technique.

Masochists here.

Follow up:

I started writing about and thinking about stupid white men when I started this website. My first ads with google Adsense used the key word "Stupid White men" and google rejected the ad because it was a hate term. I persuaded them that it was actually the title of a best selling 2001 book by Michael Moore, "

I've written about this, about cuckolded, impotent, angry white men, who use Bush's bragadocio like Viagra.

I See Stupid White Men. What Makes Them That Way? observes how white, Christian men between 25 and 50 are most likely to show little interest in the issue of voting integrity, when pretty much all other demographics demonstrated interest.

Back, in February, 2006, I wrote about exactly what Kuhn describes, the emasculated white male... and I was not very tolerant, probably angrier and more cruel than I'd write nowadays. But back then, things were very dark and looming fascism, with Republican control of both houses of congress... The message of the article concluded that the right wingers actually contribute to an maintain the loser, little-dick mentality.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Right Wing Little Dick Syndrome Like the dumb souls, called "little heads" in the movie, Defending Your Life, I see "little dicks" as dumb white men who use their support of pseudo-macho Bush and his stupid war and the whole range of right wing causes to feel more manly. There is a cure.

About the same time, in Feb 2006, I wrote, Redneckville "How would you feel if you could travel back in time and visit a rally in Germany, supporting Hitler. Would today's stupid white men have been Hitler Supporters"

"Like a time traveller seeing Hitler supporters in the 1930's, I see these average to below average intelligence, sports fanatic, gun toting, self righteous, hyper masculinized guys as a major part of THE problem. I see them as unconscious puppets, easily manipulated by the dark, corporate fascist forces that have been shaping the US since Bush stole the presidency. Call me paranoid. Tell me to lighten up. But I am no longer willing to be cheerful and friendly with these failures of democracy, these losers who have sold out our precious freedoms so they can, even if it's at a subconscious level, feel more manly, more tough, by buying into Bush's war, his pseudo tough, stupid, cowboy talk about evildooers, swamps and caves. These men ARE the swamp and cave dwellers, and they are actively helping to send the US into a third world era."

I'm not sure the white men who hold liberals in hated contempt are salvageable. But here are plenty of white men who haven't reached that point, who can see what lost souls the dregs of the white male far right have become-- blind, angry, impotent-- and those who can still see, who have not choked and died on the koolaid are redeemable.

In 2008, though, if the Dems are smart, they will give the GOE all the media they can, and will show them as the stupid neanderthals who support George W. Bush and his rubberstamping right wing nuts. There's a reason Ron Paul is doing so well on the net and with contributions. There is a groundswell of people who are sickened by the right's willingness to throw away the constitution. Smart campaigners will paint the dregs of the right wing white men as dishonest, hypocritical, like Larry Craig, corrupt and brutally anti-american, embracing fascism and fear.

The Right wing lost last november because white men began waking up. Some will never wake up. We can use them to demonstrate where the ones with hope have come close to going. It's wake up time for the white man.

Woops! There's one white male victim line:

Kuhn, to his credit, at least in the article, does not glorify these white men. I like the way he gets us to see them as victims too. But victims who commit crimes, like the GOE losers, should be imprisoned, just as there are millions of Black victims of social injustice, who are incarcerated. Instead, Bush honors these jack-booted neanderthals.

Bonus comment:

I work with the highly educated and professional people who have meaningful jobs( a very lucky bunch). Unfortunately I see that their education lacks any idea of humanity- 90% of them are zombied down to glassy eyes. They express very rudimentary feelings and they are especially boring when they gather in big quantities. They love( if that can be claled that way) Bush and they hate.. whatever they want to hate because their feelings are shallow and sometimes they need to be even reminded on what they pledged to hate.

Shallowness of feelings is the US disorder bigtime especially in men. Monyemaking does not make a man what he has to become. Men do not mature making money. The brillant example is the " Mad Men' show where a bunch of adult-looking teenagers behave like a coven of psychopats. Men in the US had lost their true purpose- to overcome, to create, to conquer. They are confused, scared, distracted. They are hurt. White men are especially confused because the superiority foundation is ripped from under their feet and now Condi Rice ( not that I do not know what an evil ignorant person she is) is in charge of thousands of white men who look at her and think that the world had gone topsy-turvy. Folks, they want to go to sleep.Bush provides them with the sleeping pill.