I do not know if the hateful reactions by the White Right and the Conservative online media to Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx's slavery revenge fantasy film is because they were suckered in by the latter's baiting them, but I am most definitely going to be seeing Django on Christmas Eve as an act of "protest."
Call me a sucker, any film that enrages conservative bigots who are overly identified with the Southern Slaveocracy, as well as tales of White Oppression and Victimology, has my ten bucks.
Newsbuster's first post on Django, and Jamie Foxx's call for a "race war" against white people, received more than 3,000 comments from White Nationalists and their Republican brethren. Newsbuster's follow up post received about 350 or so comments. Among them was an exhalation of white victimhood which is quoted at the end of this post.
I try to work through people's observations about social reality in a fair way. I sincerely want to understand the priors which drive individuals to their conclusions, as well as the cognitive map and related cues which they use to understand empirical reality.
I am at a loss in regards to Dominoe4's understanding of modern history. Help me understand. What are his priors? What texts are he, and those similarly inclined, using as foundations for their understanding of reality? What are the decision rules driving Dominoe4's understanding of white suffering?
I must admit, I do find a reference to the Barbary Pirates as an example of "white oppression" very compelling and darkly comic.
A question. Is the collective conscious which Dominoe4 is channeling via his relationship to the White Right inordinately preoccupied with the Yellow Peril, opium dens, and white slavery circa the 19th century?
I am intrigued, and simultaneously worried about how the moral panics of the 19th and early 20th centuries still loom in the imaginations of the White Right and "polite" conservatives. This cannot end well. Historically, the "race" concept, racism, and rumor, have never played well together. Moreover, the Right-wing echo chamber with its epistemic closure is one hell of a drug. The reactions to Django by the Drudge Report and others is proof of this fact.
Tie these examples together if you would. Is there any way to make any reasonable sense of Dominoe4's understanding of history? What is the metanarrative at work here?
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Some funny sh*t that's happened to white people;
- The Irish famine.
- The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
- 9/11
- The muslim invasion of Europe.
- The black plague (can I say that...is it racist?)
- Communism
- The Holocaust
- The Mongol hordes enter southern Europe.
- South African farmers massacred
- The LA Riots.
- Illegal immigration
- The Barbary Pirates
- WW I
- WW II
- Millions of individual hate crimes committed by black perps on white Americans.
- The Depression.
- The election of a marxist, fraud with minimal intelligence or desire to work, but big on divisiveness and unlimited authority.
