This guy summed it up perfectly


Alik J. • 18 hours ago

I'm not a Paula Deen fan but this is really shoddy work, so I have to comment. You're projecting a lot of your judgment toward Southerners, and really showing a lack of professionalism in your writing. You assume every allegation is confirmed, and really rely on some shaky sources who have self serving motivations for your "sources."

Finally, what do her education or looks have to do with racism? Because she wasn't educated formally, she "stumbled into her position?" Do you have any idea how pompous and ignorant you sound? My Father was an immigrant with a third grade education, he worked hard and opened a successful restaurant which he ran (eventually a chain) until retirement. He wasn't educated, did he stumble into that? I've never worked in a restaurant but I have an MSEE, am I somehow more deserving of his wealth?

The worst part is that you criticize Deen for being a bigot, but then you stereotype the entire South, un-educated people, and more. In your world all un-educated people are inferior and unworthy of any success they earn (ala your disdain for Mike North), is that not a form of bigotry?

You're the worst kind of idiot...one that is convinced he's brilliant, likely because you speak to dribbling boobs about sports all day. Grow up.

That could not have been said better.

One could argue that Bernstein is worse than Deen. Considering his upbringing and education vs. hers.

Far be it for me to defend Berns, but why would his education & upbringing make him "worse"?

There are a lot of college campuses where the thinking isn't as progressive as you'd think.

For sure.

Id still bet on Highly Educated vs Less Educated in a who is less bigoted fight

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I think the matter is more complicated than assessing the intensity of racism exhibited by various social classes. I agree that uneducated people are more likely to display a kind of pre-Civil Rights Era, atavistic form of bigotry than are well educated people. But that doesn't make the less educated "more racist" than the educated. Rather, among educated people there is a subtler--perhaps even unconscious--way of expressing racism that paradoxically adheres to the reigning doctrine of political correctness. For that reason, you might call the bigotry of the educated "multicultural racism." Multicultural racism is geared toward expressing racial tolerance and eviscerating atavistic, "individualized" forms of racism--using the so-called "N" word and other racial epithets, deploying obvious racial stereotypes, etc--while preserving the status quo in terms of power relations. Multicultural racists want to destroy the language of racism while preserving the structures and institutions of a racist society, usually by subscribing to a belief in the racial neutrality of the so-called free market (something that does not and never has existed) and the other organizing concepts undergirding our national identity. In other words, multicultural racists want to preserve the "feelings" and "dignity" of minorities even as they defend a social order that undermines the concept of racial equality. According to this view, the problem of racism is no longer central to society, but only erupts in the anachronistic beliefs of a fading white supremacist culture that no longer occupies a position of prominence in the U.S.

Let’s repeat that astonishing fact: In this year’s testing, black and Hispanic kids scored higher in math than white kids did in 1990. That is a truly remarkable fact—but you have never seen it reported! It wasn’t reported, or hinted at, in Dillon’s report in the Times.

Why not?

Why haven’t you seen that astonishing fact in your nation’s newspapers? Why isn’t that fact widely reported and widely discussed? Why haven’t you ever seen that fact in Gotham’s glorious New York Times? Why don’t “liberals” cite such facts every day of the whole goddamned week?

We’ll offer two possible answers:

First, your nation suffers under a deeply Potemkin press culture. Whatever you might want to call it, the New York Times isn’t a real newspaper. This fact is evident in many ways. (Have you ever read a Gail Collins column?) But if the New York Times really was a newspaper, is there any way it could write news reports about NAEP testing in recent decades without including such facts?

Second, the “career liberal” world is a major confection. Whatever you might want to call the people who star on your liberal cable news channel, it’s fairly hard to regard them as “liberals.” On what planet would “liberals” fail to report the facts we've just cited? (We’ve been citing similar facts for years.) At a time when public school teachers are under attack—when privatization is widely advanced in all areas; when government itself is under constant attack—those data from the “gold standard” testing program suggest that a stunning success has occurred in the public schools, one of our largest public programs. What kind of “liberal” would fail to trumpet the fact that the public schools have achieved this success? Even more disgracefully, what kinds of people would keep you from hearing that the nation’s black and Hispanic kids have achieved this startling success?

Who would keep you from knowing these things? Who else? The horrible, low-IQ, self-dealing cretins who pose as journalists, experts and liberals within our Potemkin culture! The kinds of folk who are cast as “editors” at the New York Times! Most disgustingly, the kinds of people who would rather attack George Bush than heap much-deserved praise on the nation’s black children. In other words, the horrible, terrible, low-IQ people you see each night on your “TV machine thingy!” The self-adoring, clowning buffoons who stuff millions of bucks in their pants as they walk all over the interests of black kids.

Earth to readers: These people and their “producers” know something. They know that we, the target audience, don’t give a flying fig about black kids—and so, they don’t bore us with those facts. Instead, they feed us pleasing tales about the bigots over there—the racist and bigots over there, in the other tribe. At the Times, a low-IQ legacy pimps you a pile of embarrassing shit about all the bigots in Bama.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I actually understand sini's posts more than I do Midge's. I'm not sure what that says about me.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I think the matter is more complicated than assessing the intensity of racism exhibited by various social classes. I agree that uneducated people are more likely to display a kind of pre-Civil Rights Era, atavistic form of bigotry than are well educated people. But that doesn't make the less educated "more racist" than the educated. Rather, among educated people there is a subtler--perhaps even unconscious--way of expressing racism that paradoxically adheres to the reigning doctrine of political correctness. For that reason, you might call the bigotry of the educated "multicultural racism." Multicultural racism is geared toward expressing racial tolerance and eviscerating atavistic, "individualized" forms of racism--using the so-called "N" word and other racial epithets, deploying obvious racial stereotypes, etc--while preserving the status quo in terms of power relations. Multicultural racists want to destroy the language of racism while preserving the structures and institutions of a racist society, usually by subscribing to a belief in the racial neutrality of the so-called free market (something that does not and never has existed) and the other organizing concepts undergirding our national identity. In other words, multicultural racists want to preserve the "feelings" and "dignity" of minorities even as they defend a social order that undermines the concept of racial equality. According to this view, the problem of racism is no longer central to society, but only erupts in the anachronistic beliefs of a fading white supremacist culture that no longer occupies a position of prominence in the U.S.

Nothing can really help me Midge. I'm pretty much a dumbass. But thanks.

OK, I've read enough. This is, and always will be, the problem with Bernstein. I 100%, absolutely agree with his perceptions of Paula Deen. She is a piece of garbage... trash at its highest honor... and yet, if I didn't know Bernstein, the fervor in which he admonishes her is characteristic of someone who is marching the streets and protesting the downplay of the minority's plight. But what is he actually doing? He is trolling meatballs and laughing about references to female genitalia by his partner.

And yet... even with the bullshit he talks about and the feigned outrage he so easily displays, I could still relate to his cause if only there were a rhyme or reason to what he bitched about. He hates Paula Deen, Jerry Sandusky, Tim Tebow, and Lance Armstrong. There is nothing common about these caricatures. This is due to Bernstein's way of thinking. He reads a newspaper or blog or website, and he sees something that he disagrees with philosophically, and he goes into overdrive condemning the person on public air waves. But he does not research the topic further or realize that his accusations are like searching for a needle in a hay stack. There are literally hundreds of thousands of individuals just as sickening as Paula Deen. There are also hundreds of thousands of individuals actually fighting the good fight. They are the ones going door to door and garnering votes for political figures who will fight for just causes. They are the ones heading up NPO's who fight for the disenfranchised and genuinely caring for people at an individual level. They are the journalists who do actual, honest to god reporting of unjust and archaic causes. Bernstein is a mouthpiece. He is an immature child who sees something which he disagrees with philosophically, latches on, and then makes a federal cause out of it, without ever actually doing anything to enact change or to persuade public consciousness for the better.

To summarize, Paula Dean is a piece of shit, and Dan Bernstein is one step above that.

Well said. I've been a supporter of Bernstein's lately, but its clear there is more to this and than just that she used the "n" word. I know this an angle not many are taking, but I think he is also somewhat offended by the type of food she is known for. I think Bernsy thinks he is above "southern home cookin." Before he ever heard Paula Deen speak, I guarantee you he thought he was better than her simply by his food choices as opposed to hers. This just gives him another reason to go after her. I'm guessing no one will agree with this additional angle, but I'm convinced there is a bit of this mixed in with everything else in his need to write a column on her...

Pardon me if I may dumb this down a bit


Less Educated people are more obvious with their in your face old school racism.

The educated are subtle but still racist. Also they are fighting a losing battle in keeping every race "in its place" in our society

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Well said. I've been a supporter of Bernstein's lately, but its clear there is more to this and than just that she used the "n" word. I know this an angle not many are taking, but I think he is also somewhat offended by the type of food she is known for. I think Bernsy thinks he is above "southern home cookin." Before he ever heard Paula Deen speak, I guarantee you he thought he was better than her simply by his food choices as opposed to hers. This just gives him another reason to go after her. I'm guessing no one will agree with this additional angle, but I'm convinced there is a bit of this mixed in with everything else in his need to write a column on her...

Well said. I've been a supporter of Bernstein's lately, but its clear there is more to this and than just that she used the "n" word. I know this an angle not many are taking, but I think he is also somewhat offended by the type of food she is known for. I think Bernsy thinks he is above "southern home cookin." Before he ever heard Paula Deen speak, I guarantee you he thought he was better than her simply by his food choices as opposed to hers. This just gives him another reason to go after her. I'm guessing no one will agree with this additional angle, but I'm convinced there is a bit of this mixed in with everything else in his need to write a column on her...

True, but I just get this feeling he made up his mind on her a long, long time ago before that stuff came out. But you're right.

There is no doubt in my mind that black people around this city cringe when Larry sits beside this racist with adoring eyes and in full blown worship mode. Bernstein has convinced Larry that he's one of the good racists. A justified racist, if you will. Not like those cracker racists of the south. An amazing statement. I know. But that's what he's done.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

He used to talk fondly about Fried Chicken and Waffle Houses in the south, "scattered, smothered, and covered", and so on. Is that similar to the stuff Deen cooks?

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Yes.

I doubt Larry believes Dan is any kind of racist.

He used to talk fondly about Fried Chicken and Waffle Houses in the south, "scattered, smothered, and covered", and so on. Is that similar to the stuff Deen cooks?

That's "Street Cred" building for BernSTINE, he does it with rap music, "urban" culture anecdotes and his glorious travels with a CBA team.