Comments on: In which I am (yet again) shamed by the behaviour of liberal bloggers

By: Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » “Check my what?” On privilege and what we can do about it

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:37:58 +0000

[…] Intent Doesn’t Matter For the most part, I believe that all human beings have the best of intentions. Most of us don’t go about our days seeking to hurt people with words or actions. But, the result of our actions can be that it causes hurt/offense to others. So, while malicious intent may add icing to the cake, it does not dictate whether or not an offense has been made. “That wasn’t my intent,” all too often translates into “your reactions to what I did are invalid because I didn’t mean any harm.” The result is that it’s a defensive reaction that silences discussion on the issue and puts the words/actions above criticism. It, in essense, privileges the sayer/doer’s opinion/feelings over that of the minority person or group that they have offended. […]

By: Official Shrub.com Blog » Blog Archive » New Blog: The Silence of Our Friends

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:00:05 +0000

[…] The Silence of Our Friends seems to have come about because of the recent Clinton blogger lunch debacle. Personally, I’d call this blog the silver lining to a dark, dark cloud. […]

By: A.R.Yngve

A.R.Yngve — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:39:58 +0000

This sort of hypocrisy was described waaay back in MAD Magazine in the 1970s.
(But were the restaurant staff “non-whites”? Just askin’…)

By: Jane Hamsher: The Left’s Answer to Ann Coulter? « Dark Sun

Jane Hamsher: The Left’s Answer to Ann Coulter? « Dark Sun — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:07:42 +0000

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By: belledame222

belledame222 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:55:51 +0000

The “blahblah had good intentions” thing is so annoying because, as you say (pretty much), it’s irrelevant. It might be if the subject at hand were, you know, “is blahblah a GOOD PERSON;” but in fact, it’s–not. In FACT it’s not about blahblah at all, which is, you know, kind of the point?

By: steve

steve — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:03:14 +0000

As a libertarian who is not in any way a racial liberal, I find this amusing then tragic. I care not a fig for racial feelings or hurt feelings in any direction but excluding som ones opinion or presence based on race alone is stupid. I follow these blogs for the gender threads not the race ones but even with my little sensitivity to this issue what you say is obvious.

By: racyli

racyli — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:58:53 +0000

This post rocks! I’m with Elayne; liberal hypocrisy is just as bad, if not worse than conservative hypocrisy.

By: Elayne Riggs

Elayne Riggs — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:23:31 +0000

Thanks for the links, Tekanji! Looks like I’m keeping on this issue. I can’t abide liberal hypocrisy any more than I can conservative hypocrisy. In fact, I’m probably harder on liberals because we’re supposed to be the good guys, we’re supposed to be better than them! And there have been some good self-examination blog posts about this issue, but they’re far outnumbered by the supposed “support Jessica” posts that are by and large “pile on Althouse because it’s fun to mock wingnuts” posts. (Most of these blogs are the same ones who completely gloss over the “where the women bloggers are” question, so I’m hard-pressed to believe in their newfound feminism.) What are these liberal bloggers afraid of? That they’ll lose credibility in mocking George “Macaca” Allen because there are racist skeletons in their own closets? Au contraire, the only time they lose cred there is when they refuse to own up to those skeletons, and wave away the people who point out their presence.