i'd like to thank the economy
While the site was down, I got giffordized. Sweet!
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great comment on racialicious
I loved your comment on Racialicious re: stuff white people like and just wanted to thank you for it.
What she said ^^^
When are we going to see ebog back in full force like that here? You've been missed :)
thanks!
but, like many people, I have what professionals like to call "the bullshit" which has been getting between me and my blogging bliss and/or awesomeness. We'll what happens when I find my way out of the tall grass, which should hopefully be in a bit.
Back in black
Glad you're back--even if I am now hollering out that James Ingram/Michael McDonald duet on loop, dammit.
'Miscegenation' is just as dumb
Hey Ebogj - glad to see you're back.
I read stuff.white.people.like and thought some of it was funny. Some of my friends were offended that "white people were making race jokes" and while I get the wariness with allowing power to "play" with its most important weapon (race) I was taught that satire and humor are equally critical tools against power when words becomes meaningless and ineffective (as they've become in whats passing for discourse about race.)
#1 I think you are absolutely right to bring the critical focus back to a) white privilege and b) anything purporting to be racially satirical that doesn’t deal with that issue. STWPL wouldn't even make sense if white privilege didn't exist – yet the site doesn't ever implicitly say anything about it. So the net effect to white masses, of course, is business as usual.
#2 I think being a critical voice against the faddish racialism that springs up on the internet or pop culture - is an important, largely thankless, and mostly useless job. I think you do a service to everyone by educating the folks the way you do.
but, finally #3
I still think site is funny and, as a mediocre internet "thing" has its right to (and should) exist. Could it do more, be more, accomplish more - hell, be funnier - to live up to all this undeserved buzz?
Well, yes. But I feel the same way about the site as I feel about an American black person marrying a blond-haired somebody who wouldn’t know Bull Conners from a ball bearing: as a choice, it’s silly, it’s irrational, it's mis-educated, and perhaps it's setting a dangerous precedent; but hey if it gets you off….
off getting
I'm all in favor of getting off, although, it can get you in trouble if you're, like, governor or something.
I guess I should make it clear that my thinking SWPL is excruciatingly lame doesn't mean I want it censored, eliminated, run over by a bus. My interest here is pretty narrow, in that I was mostly curious about the overwhelming praise. I realized that it's just a mediocre internet thing, destined to be here today, gone tomorrow. (Maybe the day after tomorrow if he can get that book deal together.)
(I would there is a useful comparison to made between Stuff White People Like and Vice Magazine or the Ego Trip Big Book of Racism, which are both a thousand times more clever that SWPL.)
But at the end of the day he has a right to blog and I have a right to shit on him. (Figuratively and critically, I mean!) Because I am a little, idiosyncratic guy, I don't really think there's much danger that my shitting on SWPL will produce much in the way of chilling effect, but I freely admit that if I was the CIA, or a professor talking about student work, I might take a different tack and tone.
Thanks for commenting, BTW :)
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