
Today, one of the somewhat regular contributors community members* to Culture Kitchen posted on his private blog that I, Michael Bouldin, because I don't support Hillary Clinton, am a white supremacist. Now, under normal circumstances, this would result in immediate banning; slanderous libel and character defamation, the kind that people go to court about and win with, is perfectly adequate grounds for that.
However, since the person in question has made a career of sorts by getting himself kicked off [1] various Progressive blogs, simply for being a perfect and utter gaping asshole, only to then run around and cry racism, white censorship and enough injustice to make the very timbers of the Amistad weep with misplaced compassion, we're not going to go that route.
We will not feed into this martyrdom narrative, as tempting (and now warranted by libel) as it may be to do so. Instead, we look forward to watching this gentleman's continued and accelerating slide into babbling irrelevancy. Because you know, it's really not the being black we find objectionable or curious; it's the douchebaggery of confusing one person with blackness, and the further confusion of blackness with Hillary Clinton. Sorry, and speaking solely for myself, but I'm not going to be bullied into supporting a candidate just because some crashing bore on the intertubes reduces black history and pain into a primary campaign pitch for a white woman. Not only is that fundamentally unserious and in poor taste, it's also marred by the obvious drawback of not working. I'll leave up to you which is the bigger sin: douchebaggery, or ineffective douchebaggery.
So yeah, me personally, I'm really not so much angry at the white supremacist business as filled with pitying amusement. Trying just a bit too hard there, pal.
The End.
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Nota Bene by liza
* I want to clarify the term
A regular contributor is a writer who's work gets posted to the front page but has no editorial responsibilities. Those responsibilities fall on the shoulders of the Ck Editorial Board : Managing Editor (Mole333), senior editors (Lorraine & Michael) and yours truly, your publisher and blogdiva.
A contributor, whether regular or sporadic, is trusted, well known and respected by the editorial board. We have selected the person as a contributor because we feel comfortable enough to leave the front of our blog to their keep.
Regular members of the site can write to the forums, add their comments, organize events with our community calendar, run polls and contribute quotes to our growing quotepedia. They do not get their work to the front of the blog and are not considered contributors --but can request the editorial board to be upped to such a clasification.
So, I just needed to make this distinction because our contributors have been quite the big happy family, eventhough most don't know each other ... yet
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