01-22-2011, 07:47 PM
Yes, mdd, I read Mauka's post, and after you questioned whether I understood it, I went back and read it again to see if I read it too fast the first time. I am not "defending." I liked what he said: it was thoughtful, soul-searching, summed up the history well, took responsibility for being part of the cause of the recent brouhaha.
When a person is truly bigoted and prejudiced, I rarely if at all see that person able to avoid letting it peek out here and there, even if the person tries to be PC. I don't believe that anyone who truly hated John for being an Eastern European immigrant would have felt the need to protest the lack of protest to the "cans" joke. *shrug*
Bigots can't crawl into non-bigoted skin, but it's easy enough to make up a bigoted attack as a dose of "medicine" to the usual distributors, as there are plenty of models.
If you want to think that Mauka is both a closeted hater of other ethnicities and orientations and the person who is extremely disturbed by such behavior, OK, then you believe Mauka is an extreme mass of contradictions. We all have our contradictions, but I just don't see that. I think the explanation he gave is perfectly logical.
When a person is truly bigoted and prejudiced, I rarely if at all see that person able to avoid letting it peek out here and there, even if the person tries to be PC. I don't believe that anyone who truly hated John for being an Eastern European immigrant would have felt the need to protest the lack of protest to the "cans" joke. *shrug*
Bigots can't crawl into non-bigoted skin, but it's easy enough to make up a bigoted attack as a dose of "medicine" to the usual distributors, as there are plenty of models.
If you want to think that Mauka is both a closeted hater of other ethnicities and orientations and the person who is extremely disturbed by such behavior, OK, then you believe Mauka is an extreme mass of contradictions. We all have our contradictions, but I just don't see that. I think the explanation he gave is perfectly logical.