Hitchens: White Fright - Beck Rally Waterworld of White Self-Pity

[RamboLiberal]

One crucial element of the American subconscious is about to become salient and explicit and highly volatile. It is the realization that white America is within thinkable distance of a moment when it will no longer be the majority. This awareness already exists in places like New York and Texas and California, and there have even been projections of the time(s) at which it will occur and when different nonwhite populations will collectively outnumber the former white majority. But it also exerts a strong subliminal effect in states like Alaska that have an overwhelming white preponderance.

Until recently, the tendency has been to think of this rather than to speak of it—or to speak of it very delicately, lest the hard-won ideal of diversity be imperiled. But nobody with any feeling for the zeitgeist can avoid noticing the symptoms of white unease and the additionally uneasy forms that its expression is beginning to take.

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At the last "Tea Party" rally I attended, earlier this year at the Washington Monument, some in the crowd made at least an attempt to look fierce and minatory. I stood behind signs that read: "We left our guns at home—this time" and "We invoke the First Amendment today—the Second Amendment tomorrow." But Beck's event was tepid by comparison: a call to sink to the knees rather than rise from them. It was clever of him not to overbill it as a "Million"-type march (though Rep. Michele Bachmann was tempted to claim that magic figure). The numbers were impressive enough on their own, but the overall effect was large, vague, moist, and undirected: the Waterworld of white self-pity.

http://www.slate.com/id/2265515/

[grantcart]

1. "The Waterworld of white self-pity" - perfect epitaph

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Der, duh.

:think:

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Search Party looking them long lost 3 Girls have made contact:

Reason, Truth, and Clarity are alive...barely.. The MICTs are stabilizing them...weak responses...but alive...

Extrication and transport to Hospital 2 weeks away

[Rex]

4. Well if the GOPmachine ain't pushing fear of commies or terrorists

or LIBERALS down the throats of their bovine-brained masses...then it is their other fear agenda, the New World Order/Minority overthrow of God Loving, White America(tm).

[Touchdown]

5. That's insulting. At least Waterworld had cool jet ski stunts!

:P

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup:

[elehhhhna]

7. golly i love hitchens

even when I hate him.

Get better, dude.

[redsoxrudy]

8. Another brilliant article from Hitchens

I know some around here still have nothing but contempt for the author for his position on the Iraq war, but his way with the English language is undeniable. The most consistently brilliant columnist/writer of our day IMHO.

[DeschutesRiver]

9. I am going to miss him when he is gone.

I read that his father died from the same type of cancer (but was 79). His thoughts on any issue are a bright spot for me in an otherwise dark and sometimes superstitious world.

Fight it, Mr. Hitchens, with all you've got.