I suppose it goes without saying that everyone is, by now, familiar with the following image:
Figure 1: Get over it
It appears that damn near everyone in the country is upset about this cover except me and the The New Yorker’s Editor (and, of course, whoever drew the damn thing). In fact, when I first saw the cover, I laughed so hard I damn near crapped my pants.
First of all, the fucking thing is clearly over-the-top political satire. Anyone that’s ever read The New Yorker, or even heard of it for that matter, is familiar with the fact that the magazine is CONSTANTLY printing controversial political cartoons designed to make people challenge their own perceptions. This naturally leads self-important reactionary left-wing douchebags (and so-called Educated Black People) to make pompous statements like the following:
“Yea it’s satire, and I know WE [pompous liberal yuppie douches] get it, but I don’t think the ‘others’ in America will.”
This shit enrages me for two sets of reasons:
First,
- Generally speaking, pompous liberal yuppie douches are NOT that intelligent – and yes, I draw SHARP distinctions between intelligence and education
- The vast majority of Americans DO NOT read The New Yorker
- Liberal douches are aware that most Americans DO NOT read The New Yorker
- If liberal douches think the cartoon would damage Obama’s image if it were exposed to the masses…why are they making such a fuss about it and shoving it into the national spotlight? SHUT THE FUCK UP THEN, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!
- The outrage displayed is, therefore, a disingenuous mechanism for gathering props from/getting laid by other liberal yuppie douches who find logically vacuous righteous indignation super fucking sexy
Secondly,
- The vast majority of Americans fall into one of two camps: those who like Obama, and those who do not
- The Americans that like Obama see the cartoon for what it is – a round lampooning of the ridiculous statements concerning Obama’s patriotism, heritage, religion, and ambitions made by…
- The Americans that do not like Obama. The effects of this cartoon on them will at worst reinforce internalized notions about Obama that nobody was about to change anyway, and at best (and far more likely) force them to realize just how RIDICULOUS their opinions are
People need to pipe the fuck down with the kneejerk self-righteous self-aggrandizing false outrage already. Obama has way bigger problems that a magazine whose cartoon, while controversial, will do nothing but help his chances.
Jesus fucking Christ.



Aside: Stupid Comments
30 07 2008I received the following comment in the ‘Why You Shouldn’t Read This Blog’ page today:
Although I think your blog is pretty funny and I do look into it almost every day, you should take it easy on ranting about people of other ethnic backgrounds -such as Europeans and Asians. You don’t know enough about foreign countries to do that and your rants are less sarcastic as you wish, they are sometimes just ignorant and insulting. And “Why you shouldn’t read that blog” is not an excuse.
Before you write something, think how you would feel if you read something similar about black people. For example, exchange the word “persian” in your persian threat with “african-american” and reread it. Would you still laugh about it, it is ok. Would you feel offended yourself, then you should not write it. Pretty logical.
Having said this, I like most of your others posts and the humor.
Any regular readers of my blog know that I get stupid comments all the time from people of all walks of life. For some reason, however, this one struck me as particularly ludicrous, and I feel compelled to rip it apart piece-by-piece.
Although I think your blog is pretty funny and I do look into it almost every day, you should take it easy on ranting about people of other ethnic backgrounds -such as Europeans and Asians.
Why the hell do so many people assume that I give a flying fuck about what they think I should or shouldn’t be writing? Seriously, dude…why? Despite the fact that this blog became popular completely by accident, I am well aware of three things: 1.) this blog didn’t become popular by me tip-toeing around people with bleeding hearts and sensitive backsides, 2.) this blog didn’t become popular by me listening to the insanely arbitrary opinions of people carrying on about what I should or shouldn’t write, and 3.) I do not care how popular this blog is or isn’t (if I did, I wouldn’t have alienated 80% of my reader base with the ‘Black Women’ aside.)
Please please PLEASE shut the hell up about what I should or shouldn’t we writing about.
You don’t know enough about foreign countries to do that and your rants are less sarcastic as you wish, they are sometimes just ignorant and insulting.
The first clause of this sentence is perhaps the most infuriatingly hypocritical thing I’ve read in months. The author claims on one hand that I shouldn’t attack cultures I [supposedly] don’t know anything about, while at the same time attacking me as if she somehow knows enough about me to be qualified to argue what I do and do not know about other countries.
I suppose that since she’s read the title pages for the blog, she figures she’s a certified ‘knower’ of who the fuck I am. If the bar for knowing someone is set that low, then I am more than qualified to talk shit ad infinitum about – using her example – Asians and Persians.
Most of my best friends are Asian, as is one of my ex-girlfriends whose parents are native-born Chinese. I learned enough Mandarin to speak almost conversationally with her mother who barely spoke a lick of English. I can also greet people and swear in both Vietnamese and Korean. I was the Vice President of the asian club in high school.
As for Persians, they’ve been marrying into my family for years. I have a near and dear Persian cousin in law named Arrash whom my Persian article describes in vivid detail. At any of my family’s gatherings, you will find between 6 – 20 Persians struggling to choose between lamb kabobs, pork ribs, and deer steaks.
If she can know anything about me from my blog, then I’m qualified to write a fucking dissertation on Asians and Persians.
As for whether or not my posts are sarcastic…it’s not my problem if everyone doesn’t get my sense of humor. I am not running for President, and I don’t give a a flying motherfucking fuck if my sarcasm gives certain people, or even most people, indigestion. Don’t like it? LEAVE. Don’t get it? LEAVE. If you think I’m seriously racist or ignorant, then I’ve got news for you – there are bigger fish for you to fry. I get the feeling that if these motherfuckers were actually interested in changing the attitudes of real racists, they’d roll their soap box on over to the KKK website and ‘kick some knowledge’ there. But they don’t, because they’re far less interested in enacting social change than they are in hearing themselves talk and beating off to their own pseudo-intellectualism.
And “Why you shouldn’t read that blog” is not an excuse.
I love how she tacked this on at the end almost as an afterthought. She’s right though – it’s not an excuse, because an excuse is something you use to justify something wrong or inappropriate. I need not justify my blog, because there is nothing at all wrong about it. ‘Why you shouldn’t read this blog’ is intended to dissuade the ranks of the humorless from reading my blog. It’s one of the few written pieces on my site that ISN’T a joke. The point of it isn’t to coyly entice people to read more of my site – the point is to say “get the fuck off my site if you can’t laugh at yourself,” and I am completely serious about that.
If you read this warning, then read my posts and get offended anyway, you are a fucking idiot. You cannot follow simple instructions. You probably have burn scars on your hands from when your mom told you not to touch a hot stove and you did it anyway. It’s not my fault that you refuse to listen.
Before you write something, think how you would feel if you read something similar about black people. For example, exchange the word “persian” in your persian threat with “african-american” and reread it. Would you still laugh about it, it is ok. Would you feel offended yourself, then you should not write it. Pretty logical.
Now this jerkoff has the nerve to talk about me like I’m a fucking five year old. She has the nerve to talk ‘logic’ with a trained engineer. She also has the nerve to act like Black people have no idea what it’s like to be ridiculed. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS, LADY?!?!?!?! How would I feel if I read something offensive about Black people? Is there anything about this site that implies that I DON’T watch the news everyday?
Let’s answer your question directly, though: If I went to a site run by a white guy with close black friends that featured an 800-word essay explaining that the site was a joke, and consisted of ferociously over-the-top posts bashing just about every ethnic group on the planet including mine and his…I would laugh my fucking ass off.
I guess you wouldn’t. Here’s some logic: Sucks to be you.
Having said this, I like most of your others posts and the humor.
Yea? Fuck yourself.
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