The racially biased Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks) is one of those who simply does not see how what he says and thinks is racist. As is the case with MANY if not most racists. Most of us, racists included, know it is bad to discriminate based on skin color. There are some hard core racists who embrace this kind of stereotyping (KKK members), but most racially-biased people use some kind of internal logic to justify their racism. And they will actually call other people racists if the other person violates their internal logic.
Such is the case with Dennis. The flawed internal logic he uses to protect himself from realizing he is racist himself is to accuse others. Mostly Black people who disagree with him idealogically (TADM #27). For example, Dennis knows the KKK is bad. And he "knows" there are many Black folks who are "racist". Put those two "knowings" together and you get a comment from him in which he says "Van Jones is the David Duke of the Democrats" (SWTD #144).
Dennis also knows using the N-word is bad. Which is why he infers that Black people who use it are "racist". And if anyone else has an opinion that differs with his opinion, which is that ANYONE who uses it is automatically a racist, that person is a racist as well. Which is what happened to me.
| Dennis Marks: wd... thinks it is great to call black people the N word and use other slurs. (9/5/2014 AT 3:38am). |
My opinion that differed with Dennis' was NOT that "it is great to call black people the N word and use other slurs". Dennis lies when he says this. Dennis gets this from an old conversation on the Progressive Soup blog in which the proprietor (an African American from the looks of his profile pic) said "simply using the N-word in lyrics is not bashing black people".
Malcolm (the proprietor) was speaking specifically of the rapper Common), who used/uses the N-word while rapping. I agreed with Malcolm that it was not "bashing" - which is how Dennis referred to Common's use the the word. He said Common was "bashing" his fellow African Americans.
As a White person I feel that it isn't for me to say if Black people can "take back" the word by using it themselves or not. I'll leave that for the African American community to hash out (some are for and others are against it). Although I think White people are absolutely not allowed to use the word (not that a White person using it is automatically racist. They might simply be ignorant). In any case, I only said that the rapper Common - or any other African American rapper who uses the word (usually with an "a" replacing the "er" at the end) - is not bashing other Black people. I never said it was "great".
But Dennis passes judgment on me (for something I never said), and on the African American rapper Common. As a White man Dennis thinks he has the right to decide that African Americans are not allowed to use the N-word... which I think is racist in itself. Not being Black, I think Dennis has absolutely no right to pass judgment on the victims of racism using - or "taking back" - this word used (historically) by racist Whites against their people. None at all. That he does think he can be THE judge of this says to me Dennis is surely your typical arrogant (and ignorant) Conservative.
Notice, however, that Dennis did not call Common "racist". He said Common was "bashing" his fellow African Americans. I think this was because Dennis was commenting on the blog of an African American. I know from past experience that Dennis usually has no problem calling Black people racist (and this is why I use the word "infer" above. I'm convinced he meant "racist" but chose not to use that word because of WHERE he was commenting).
Fact is, when Dennis calls someone racist, it usually is a Black person. Specifically Black Democrats (TADM #27). Although he has also referred to some White people as racist. Usually white Democrats (TADM #41).
Such as this comment in which Dennis lies about a Black Democrat with bogus (and racist) assertions concerning "Black Privilege"...
| Dennis Marks: Rev Al is a big believer in "black privilege", such that black people can commit crimes and get away with it, while white people can't. (9/9/2014 AT 4:07pm). |
This despite the fact that "the incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job". And that this is "six times as high as the national average".
As opposed to something Al Sharpton thinks, this sounds - to me - like something a Radical Redneck-type White racist would believe. But Dennis attributes this example of ugly racism to Al Sharpton. Sick. And Dennis uses the term "Black Privilege" even though he does not believe in the VERY REAL concept of White Privilege.
| Dennis Marks: "White privilege" is a laughable myth: a racist concept made up by the Left... itself a form of racial profiling. (7/21/2013 AT 06:43:00 AM EDT). |
So, White privilege is a "myth" (and a "laughable" one) while Black privilege is real? That does it for me. Dennis, while surely not a Radical Redneck-type racist, absolutely is more racist than the average person. And the facts show that he is quite a bit more racially biased, in my strong opinion. Yeah, I know that when Conservatives think of "race hustlers" their minds immediately go to Black LEADERS like Sharpton and Jackson [1], and Dennis' absolutism in regards to the use of the N-word might be understandable and not necessarily qualify him as "racist".
But the White-privilege-no and Black-privilege-yes puts him over the top, I think. And I didn't even bring up Dennis bashing people as "racist" for defending Affirmative Action [2]. Lying about me saying I think it's "great" to refer to Black people using the N-word is, I think, just another vile lie for which Dennis is infamous. So, yes, I think Dennis has a serious problem with racial biases. Again, not as bad as those of the hard-core (racist) Radical scum, but still quite bad.
Footnotes
[1] dmarks: And because Al and Jessie are such racists, they will never do the same about a white guy in handcuffs. (4/15/2012 AT 11:11am).
[2] dmarks: (directed at John Myste and in regards to Myste's defense of Affirmative Action) You were clearly making and defending racist statements... Good riddance, Grand Wizard of the Myste. And don't let your white robe get caught on the door on the way out. (12/9/2012 AT 10:58am). Note: John Myste's response to Dennis labeling Affirmative Action "racist" was to say "You are the first republican I have ever debated on this topic that I actually believed was a racist".
Supporting Document
White Privilege, DSD #2. (Catalog of comments dmarks has made re White Privilege).
