Zimmerman, Martin, Yglesias, and False Stereotypes
19th July 2013
Steve Sailer spells it out.
But being right is racist.
That’s one of the causes of the current vast eruption of liberal white rage — out of all the screwed up stuff that happens on the streets of America every year, the mainstream media picked this incident out to put all their chips on in their condemnation of profiling.
But then, it turned out that Zimmerman’s suspicions were highly accurate. As one commenter says, Trayvon Martin turned out to be a petty criminal with violent tendencies and an apparent history of burglary.
Oops.
The Martin-Zimmerman story should be an occasion for national reflection about the perniciousness of today’s dominant stereotypes, specifically:
— White liberals’ favorite stereotypes about blacks as the eternal victims of the violent white racists hiding under every bed
— Black males’ favorite stereotypes about themselves as bulletproof tough guys who are morally justified by their victimhood in responding to being dissed with violence.
These two stereotypes have the peculiar disadvantage of being both not true individually (unlike the majority of less socially reputable stereotypes) and interacting with horrible consequences. White liberal hatred for white conservatives and black love of gangsta rap interact very, very badly.