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July 29, 2009
A fate worse than Hitler
"It never occurred to me that the way I reported what I saw be analyzed by an entire nation."So said a previously unknown citizen, who called to report what she thought was a burglary in progress, only to find herself later excoriated as a "racist" based on words she never said being placed in her mouth. With a trembling voice, Lucia Whalen, 40, said she was out walking to lunch in Gates' Cambridge neighborhood near Harvard University when an elderly woman without a cell phone stopped her because she was concerned there was a possible burglary in progress.Well, Andy Warhol once predicted that everyone would get to be famous for fifteen minutes. Then Beautiful Atrocities amplified on the theme when he said that everyone would get to be Hitler for fifteen minutes. Now it's beginning to look like everyone will be analyzed online, and called a racist. Eventually nothing will mean anything, if it doesn't already. (And everything will mean nothing -- at least it did for the fifteen minutes it took to write this blog post....) UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds links a post from Say Anything which notes that accusations of racism are being stepped up against critics of Barack Obama. What that means is that pretty soon, everyone who opposes socialized medicine will get to be a racist! Does everything mean nothing yet? posted by Eric on 07.29.09 at 03:12 PM |
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O! might as well just roll up to the podium for his next presser in a "Snitches get stitches" T-shirt.