“So 48 years ago — 48 years ago in this country we could make fun of Arabs. … We could make fun of people in a general way, and certainly, Ahab was the Arab was a general parody. But now, we can’t. What has changed in America?”
Bill O’Reilly, via Tapped.
i dunno, bill, maybe we’re becoming less oppressive and discriminatory? perhaps this is a change that should be embraced and encouraged, rather than mourned? unless you view it as having lost some of the white privilege that should rightfully be yours by no merit other than being white, but only a racist bigot would do that.
Adam Serwer’s response was pretty perfect:
The subtext of this lament is O’Reilly mourning the demise of what he refers to as the “white Christian male power structure.” It’s not really that you “can’t” make racist jokes anymore; it’s that you when you make them, you can’t expect everyone to remain silent as you assert your cultural or racial superiority through humor.
(via robot-heart-politics)
