Welcome to the Mainstream Amanda!-Updated
Lance on Feb 05 2007 at 9:51 pm | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Race
I don’t spend much time at Pandagon, I just breeze through to see what the nuttier parts of the left side of the blogosphere are up to. Of course I have always taken a particular shine to chuckling at Amanda Marcotte, but pointing out she is a nut of a leftist is a little unfair. Mainstream liberals shouldn’t have her or the Democratic Underground held around their necks any more than I want LewRockwell.com, Dr. Gary North, Glenn Greenwald or Mona placed around mine. I may have to rethink that however, given the growing influence of Kos and the hiring of Amanda Marcotte by John Edwards. They may be more mainstream than I thought.
In case you have been living under a rock and not been made aware of this woman’s attempt to make every caricature of the womens studies departments of America look understated you can go to read about what set it off here and a number of choice quotes from her fevered world view on a host of other topics can be found at Dan Riehl’s place, or heck, check out her blog for a few moments.
Of course Amanda is upset at all the attention she is getting (as I am sure her new employer is) and left this odd little statement in the midst of a whining and bizarre defense of her work:
And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject of why if I see the words “Duke†or “lacrosse†in an email that has the whiff of accusatory tone, I’m deleting it and simply not going to reply to it. I have never, ever stated that I think that anyone should go to jail without a proper trial.
Well, that is what she is being accused of, saying they shouldn’t have a trial before being sent to jail. ??? I thought it was about a number of comments which were offensive not just because they flew in the face of the evidence these young men were framed, but also because they were offensive regardless of their guilt or innocence. Not least because the posts assumed they were guilty because, well, let us see her reasons:
In the meantime, I’ve been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throughout the waiting area and good f**king god is that channel pure evil. For awhile, I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and f**ked her against her will—not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out.
I ask you to check out the quote from her defending herself above and juxtapose it with that. The second quote of course cannot be found any longer at Pandagon. Well I guess that doesn’t say they should have no trial, it says they should have a trial and the players should be declared guilty and well, isn’t the rest offensive in and of itself? All the moreso because they are surely not guilty. In Amanda’s world the players are guilty because they are men. “That isn’t what she is saying!” It isn’t? Let us look at another snippet:
There’s just something about this Duke rape case that’s inspiring to
rape apologists . . . [Feminists] could certainly come up with a more
efficient method if we wanted to of getting men in jail besides getting
ourselves raped and then raising a fuss as if we had a right not to be
raped.
Hmm, I could rest my case but:
Smarty-pants, educated womenz (and one dude who loved the cock) who
have sex with guys who aren’t me raped that stripper at Duke, not a
bunch of overly entitled rich white boys making cracks about picking
cotton.
Okay, I should amend my statement. They are guilty because they are rich white boys. That is known and any fair trial would have shown that. She certainly wanted them to have a trial before being convicted of being rich white boys. I guess she is right, she is being picked on.
Go read the rest and ponder the vicious stereotypes she feeds off of, and the paranoia screaming from every pore.
In her part of the country, both women and black people are seen as subhuman objects to be used and abused by white men.
Welcome to the mainstream Amanda! The Carolinas will love you!
UPDATE: Take a look at Brad Warbiany’s post on his personal experience with Amanda from a couple of years ago. It is an extreme version of what I read even from the Matt Yglesias’ and Kevin Drum’s of the world.
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