Comments on: Welcome to the Jungle

By: Matt Dawson

Matt Dawson — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:22:49 +0000

“Some of us politically-correct types might be hyper-sensitive enough to interpret this as indicative of some sort of prejudice on the officer’s part.”

Perish the thought! Why, I thought it was a compliment on his good dietary habits and endearing good looks.

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Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest August 2, 2009 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:38:34 +0000

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By: Roderick

Roderick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:15:11 +0000

Update: Charles' post contains some choice Barrett quotes I hadn't seen before. Unsurprisingly, the more you read, the worse it gets.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:09:02 +0000

In this case, I googled “dog with gun.”

By: Aster

Aster — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:08:43 +0000

He’s being terminated because the black guy he threw his particular authoritarianism and racism at happened to be a famous Harvard professor, and the affair got picked up my the MSM. The person they hire to replace him will likely be just as authoritarian and almost as racist.

Perhaps I’ve been reading too many of Vichy Fournier’s postings, but it is amazing how much sense the world begins to makes if one adopts cynicism as a personal axiom.

It’s still not worth it.

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‘Banana-eating jungle monkey’.

Some of us politically-correct types might be hyper-sensitive enough to interpret this as indicative of some sort of prejudice on the officer’s part.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:35:47 +0000

Where do you get these damned pictures?

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:59:47 +0000

It’s the same structure as “the prisoner he shot like a dog”

You mean I’ve been reading that one wrong too?

By: P.M.Lawrence

P.M.Lawrence — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:40:24 +0000

Now, be fair. “…if I was [sic] the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey…” is accusing Gates of treating the policeman as though the policeman were “a banana-eating jungle monkey”. It’s the same structure as “the prisoner he shot like a dog”, which doesn’t mean “he” is acting like a dog but that “he” is treating the prisoner like one. Of course, considering the rest of the email and that this wasn’t offered as a defence of the email, that is probably not what Barrett meant but rather the result of poor sentence construction.

Notice that Barrett considers that Gates’s professional area is not as useful as, say, “help[ing] to limit and reduce [Barrett's] income tax”, which shows some awareness of what really is constructive.

By: J Mangum

J Mangum — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:59:00 +0000

I am alarmed that this cop is being terminated for using racial slurs, and not for his insistance that he would willing assault a person in their own home because of “non-complience”.

I think there’s a particular NWA song that fits this situation.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:48:15 +0000

I wasn’t strictly correcting him, since LRC and the LRC blog are distinct (just as being and acting … well, never mind).