This just showed up as an ad on this page.
A description on Amazon:
An unprecedented tidal wave of racial violence is sweeping America.
In more than 50 cities on hundreds of occasions in the last two years, groups of black people have robbed, looted, vandalized, stolen even raped and murdered.
The reality is that crime is down in the United States over the past few years, and over the past 20 years in total, especially in cities.
It’s awful that some right-wingers are spewing this bullshit.
S. cerevisiae
NEEGROES IS COMIN FER YER WIMMIN! GET YER GUNS!
AA+ Bonds
That P.R. guy knows P.R., since Colin Flaherty’s “award” from the Washington Post was the first prize in their Spy Novel Writer’s Contest
Not even joking
In other words David Ignatius once gave Colin Flaherty a Cracker Jack prize for writing about things that didn’t happen
Hunter Gathers
The classics never go away. These people realize this is the 21st century, right?
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
Doug, the right-wingers have been spewing this for decades.
The thing that’s awful is that it’s finding renewed mainstream audience and acceptance.
quannlace
Oh yeah, they’ve been pushing this racist baloney for the past couple months, at least since the Trayvon Martin incident. Have to keep up the illusion that it’s the white people who are the endangered victims here.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: That’s pretty much my view as well. This kind of nonsense should be self published and marketed solely through League of the South and Stormfront variety websites. The fact that this vitriolic fabulism that purports to be factual is available at Amazon disturbs me.
AA+ Bonds
This hack job falls into a specific trough of right-wing DJ conspiracy theories
The current myth on the right is that these “flash mobs” the kids are doing on the YouTube are part of a New Black Panther Party conspiracy to start race wars by preying upon the natural predilection of young bucks to violate the honor of white wimmens
Seriously, “flash mob” is one of those phrases you can use to ID a Beck/Liddy freak, like “Tides Foundation” was before one of Beck’s listeners took him seriously enough to drive over there and try to shoot up the place
gbear
Paging Jesus’ General. Book review needed. Stat.
PopeRatzo
“Awful”? That’s what this is? The best you can come up with in the face of a resurgence of the ugliest forces in America is “awful”?
We’re doomed if all we can do when the Right is spewing this kind of ugliness is say “Oh, that’s just awful“.
MikeJ
I have a stack of bumper stickers from my entries in the Style Invitational. “Washington Post Award Winner MikeJ” has a nice ring to it.
The Thin Black Duke
Ain’t no big surprise.
For example, why do you think genocidal laws like “Stand Your Ground” are being implemented?
To give bigoted white assholes an alibi.
Svensker
Can’t you (or John) contact the ad site and protest? I really wouldn’t want this racist bullshit on MY page.
Culture of Truth
They done stole our commas!
JoyceH
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
It IS self-published. Look at publisher – BookBaby. That’s a self-publishing outfit. Sort of like Smashwords, only Smashwords is free. Just because something is available on Amazon doesn’t mean it’s not self-published. I’m self-published and I’m on Amazon.
As for whether or not it should be available at Amazon, be careful what you want to censor. Sure, it’s horrible trash and untrue, but the right wing think ALL our stuff is horrible trash and untrue. And somehow, they seem to wind up running the legislatures and boardrooms.
Mnemosyne
@PopeRatzo:
Missed the headline, did we?
WereBear
Time for an Amazon review swarm!
balconesfault
Oh – and Obama is a reparationist. Really.
A vote for the Ni-clang is a vote to kill whitey.
David Koch
This is all Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s fault!
Measles Montgomery
OT but on Memorial Day, Heywood Banks has the true meaning of the day in this song (sorry for the Bob & Tom background crap.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umCwZ8oY-mo
Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
No, no, no, no, you have it all wrong. The reality is that black people are scaaaaaaaaary! and they aren’t like us real Americans, they talk weird with all this “he be, you be, I be,” shit, and they smoke lots of reefer and have weird, kinky hair, and they won’t even let you rub their heads for good luck anymore, the selfish bastards, and what’s with this “rap” music, anyway?
I swear, you’d think that after 400 years, we whites would have run out of ways to dehumanize and demonize African Americans, or that at least we’d have grown bored of doing it. Well, silly me, I guess not, hey? Oh, there’s always some little thing we can do to set them apart and make it even clearer just how unwelcome “those people” are.
I’m getting sick to death of feeling like I’m an asshole just because I’m a white American guy because of all the shit these fuckweeds do. I keep hoping they’ll just die off someday, but I guess we’ll be stuck with them forever.
Commish
In the Reviews for the book on Amazon there’s one guy from Philly trying to debunk Flaherty. I don’t review books I haven’t read but I gave reviewer BG Young some “This comment was helpful” love.
gaz
The “also bought” section in the amazon book review site for this trash just reaffirms my distaste for computers, and probably PC gaming as well.
Clearly, PCs are racist.
ETA: /snark, and Poe fail. I’m looking at items based on my recent history. hehehe
gbear
@Commish: I did too, and I voted a few other comments down (including a comment by the author), but there’s no way that the negative review is going to make it to the top. Haters gotta hate.
Jeff Spender
@Commish:
The only comment on there that didn’t read like some sick conspiracy theory was the dissenting voice.
And it says a lot that the author got onto Amazon to refute the review (in a few lines with no substance).
This is a joke that won’t catch on. The scary aspect is that there is actually a market for this because there are old, ignorant assholes who believe this crap.
Anything to reinforce their prejudice, right? Can’t face the real world…
gaz
@gbear: I was considering spamming the comments with a bunch of 5 star comments from “neo-nazis” I invented. Seems too much effort to create a bunch of phony amazon accounts, but were somebody else so inclined, i offer up the idea.
Jeff Spender
@gaz:
Heh. This reminds me…
The University of Michigan chapter of Young Americans for Freedom is just about as bad as the Michigan State University chapter (which the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group). Well, I had a piece of sidewalk chalk that I used to vandalize all of the advertisements people drew into the sidewalk (I’M A REBEL!11!).
Well, I came upon an advert for a YAF meetup. It was fresh chalk, and the meeting was still a few days away.
So I wrote under it, “Come and discuss white brotherhood.”
It was hil-fucking-larious.
PurpleGirl
@JoyceH: A woman I’ve typed for (for 20-odd years) self-published a novel she wrote and has plans to self-publish another one this year. It is available through Amazon. It’s easy to put the pieces together and get your book sold through Amazon.
ETA: http://www.amazon.com/Almost-Senior-Brenda-Faye-Collie/dp/0963217771/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338235738&sr=1-1
I also designed the cover.
Citizen_X
@gaz: Well then you’ll get friend-of-white-supremacists Sean Hannity to highlight the book, and then Rush will pick it up, and then it’ll be a hit. (Among fascists, but still.) So please don’t do that.
Schlemizel
Thank gawd they are advertising on BJ! Thats money wasted. If they put that up on deadstate or newsblusters there might be a decent ROI.
These scum sucking shit stains will lie about how the media is covering up the crime and how the police are hiding the real numbers to make themselves look better. Why is there never a meteor when you really need one?
TR
“the return of race riots”?!
Race riots in the 60s were five-day long sprees of arson and shooting that required tens of thousands of cops and guardsmen to quell. Does this fucktard actually think violence of that scale is going unreported today?
Chris
Even if it’s true, which it’s not, anyone who calls it “unprecedented” – despite the existence of the racial terror in the South post-Reconstruction, or in the entire nation during the Klan revival of the 1920s – is outing himself as either a white racist, or someone to whom the history of minority oppression in this country matters so little that he might as well be.
Villago Delenda Est
Is the author of this crap still alive?
Yes?
Then the book is a fucking lie.
Anton Sirius
@David Koch:
David, I say this with love – you really need to step up your game. This shtick is just weak, man.
Jeff Spender
@Villago Delenda Est:
That’s pithy as all hell. And it sums it up rather nicely.
MattF
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the audiences for this crap are living in all-white ‘gated communities’. And I guess I’m a racist for suggesting that this is likely. Whoop-de-doo.
Villago Delenda Est
@TR:
You know, those riots in the 60’s? They were all televised, or at the absolute least they were reported on, even so that a grade school kid in Oregon (that would be moi) knew about them. There were also plenty of pictures in Life and Look.
Mind you, this was when the media was REALLY liberal, with known commies like Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, and David Brinkley anchoring the news casts.
gaz
@Citizen_X: Anybody that listens to Hannity and Limbaugh is already a racist, QED
AA+ Bonds
@MikeJ:
Now, come on, that’s not fair. Flaherty won “first prize” in that contest, which must have been substantial
Oh wait the “prize” was that he wrote one chapter of a six-chapter straight-to-Web serial piece, for free, after David Ignatius had already written the first chapter
So yes you come out ahead of Flaherty when it comes to “actual” “prizes”, but when it comes to racist shock DJs and their stillborn writing careers, it’s the principle that matters
taylormattd
And so I hope John will be bitching at the fuckers who place ads. Honestly, they should ban that kind of racist trash.
PeakVT
US crime statistics, in case you encounter someone who responds to facts.
Mike in NC
@MattF:
Yep, the ones with the folks in their 70s who watch FOX News all the time. You’ll see it pretty frequently in their Letters to the Editor submissions. Bonkers.
Mnemosyne
@Villago Delenda Est:
Forget the 60s — I was living in LA in 1992. And this asshole is going to try to claim that “race riots” are happening all the time but are being covered up by the media?
You just know this is the kind of guy whose ingrown toenail is THE WORST PAIN EVER EXPERIENCED BY MAN, EVER!
Roger Moore
Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that’s remotely true. Facts schmacts. It takes a real writer to prove something that’s not only not supported by the facts but is exactly the opposite of the truth.
DougJ, Head of Infidelity
@taylormattd:
Yes, except here we can savage the book on Amazon. So it’s a win. They paid us to make his book look bad online.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JoyceH: Point well taken.
Chyron HR
So, an average of two felonies committed in the U.S. a week?
Booga-booga, indeed.
Roger Moore
@TR:
Hey, the media conspired to cover up the Tulsa riots in 1921, why not today. Oh, wait, those were white on black violence, not the other way around.
gbear
Another type of prejudice that just never goes out of style:
Nellcote
The WaPoo must be so proud to be mentioned in large type on the cover.
Brian R.
On the Kindle edition review, someone added the tags “fantasy,” “racist drivel,” and “rightwing propaganda.”
There are now 6 positive reviews and 3 negative ones for the book itself. Get moving, people.
David Koch
Typical media, always covering up black on white crime. For example, the OJ Simpson murder trial was barely mentioned in the media.
Brian R.
Also, judging from the blurb, this idiot thinks that a “flash mob” is something violent. He might actually be as fucking stupid as he sounds.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore:
OK, you’re stealing lines from Homer Simpson. That is pretty low, Roger.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Hell yes. It’s easy for the media to cover up the massive burned out chunks of the cities that result from dozens of riots that size happening every year. They’ve gotten so much practice from covering up FEMA building relocation camps, not to mention all the UFO coverups, that they’re really good at it now.
Mnemosyne
@Brian R.:
What, this wasn’t supposed to be a scary and violent moment on your teevee?
Citizen_X
I’m going to write a book called “Wingnut Bleed a Lot.”
Drew
If there was a cover up of white-on-black crime, you can’t deny that the libtard media would eventually pressure Holder and the rest of Obama’s FEMA thugs to investigate ALL whites for hate crimes.
At least admit that if whites rioted and mass-murdered blacks the way the blacks are doing these days to the white, the media would cover it like way too much, and say a lot of negative things about it in the paper and on TV and everything.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@taylormattd: Be careful what you wish for, Kemosabe. I’d be a helluva lot more apprehensive if St*rmfr*nt, et al, went silent tomorrow than I am when they’re cranking it out openly. You’ve got to let the ass bray to know it is an ass. Let’s you take your measure of the enemy if it’s ever time to go to the mattresses.
Villago Delenda Est
OK, let’s look at this logically.
“If it bleeds, it leads” is the WATCHWORD of local TV news.
If anything remotely similar to a riot broke out, anywhere, the local TV news talking heads would be all over it like Cormac McLaggen tried to be all over Hermione Granger during the Christmas party in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Then again, the fallacy in this post is “logic”. Something that is missing from the rabid racist’s mind.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Drew: And along comes a troll to wake the thread up right on time. Which of you is this? Smells like a Doug spoof troll to me.
different-church-lady
@Evolving Deep Southerner: I’m going with the “missed snark” option.
Egg Berry
@Evolving Deep Southerner: Distinct troll spoof scent, indeed.
lacp
IIRC, this crap started last summer with a couple isolated incidents here in Philly and in the mid-West (WI? MN? The memory is going). The reason the wingers got their testicles reversed, at least in Philadelphia, is that the assaults (as far as anybody knows, unplanned) took place in Center City, which is the business and entertainment part of town, which is heavily monied, and – to the extent that it’s residential – very white. Several people were attacked by groups of kids. No riots, and the number of incidents you could count on one hand with a few fingers to spare. Don’t recall the details for the mid-West stuff.
The ‘flash mob’ designation was used extensively by the Philly media, so that part actually isn’t something the wingnuts made up. The rest of it is pretty much bullshit.
J. Michael Neal
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Eww.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Egg Berry: “FEMA thugs” was what gave it away for me.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@J. Michael Neal: To be clear, I’m not advocating a “breed them out of existence” approach. It was a badly applied “Godfather” metaphor.
Schlemizel
@lacp:
There was a “flash mob” riot at the Maul-O-Merika a few months back. Started with someone tweeting that some rapper was going to appear & it ended with groups of black teens attacking each other and/or snatch-n-grab robberies. a bunch of them have been busted & will stand trial. Its hardly the end of the world as we know it even if it is an unnecessary unpleasant event.
gaz
@Evolving Deep Southerner: I don’t care if it’s a spoof. Anyone that thinks racism as a spoof is acceptable is a racist.
Racist is as racist does. QED
Fuck “ironic” hipster racism too. It’s still fucking racist.
henqiguai
@Evolving Deep Southerner (#58):
So, um, does this mean we’re s’posed to be ready to screw’um into submission?!! They cute and stuff? Or, what?
ETA: Damn you, J. Michael Neal (#64)!
AlanDean
I notice the reviews at Amazon are either 5 star or 1 star. I also went through a “liked” the one star reviews. So humanity is still disgusting?
gaz
@Drew: This FP post was a test of basic intelligence and reasoning. There was only one appropriate response to it, and the fact that you FAILED it says way more about you than it says about any black person.
Citizen_X
@Evolving Deep Southerner: It’s going “to the mat,” as in the wrestling mat, not “to the mattress.”
Roger Moore
@Schlemizel:
And there was a minor riot on Hollywood Boulevard when DJ Kaskade tweeted something about hosting a block party after a movie premiere and more people showed up than the area could hold. OTOH, that one only produced some vandalism and property damage and no reported injuries, so people forgot about it pretty quickly.
elisabeth
@Citizen_X:
Heh, I thought it was a mob reference.
Origuy
@Citizen_X:
You’ve never read The Godfather, have you? When the Corleone family went to war with another family, they filled a rented apartment with mattresses and their gunmen hid out in it.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Origuy: THANK you. God damn, nobody here is a Puzo fan, I see.
Gex
@gaz:
This. My GF is starting life as a stand up comic. The average 20-something white dude who thinks he’s funny has one or more main topics: racism, misogyny, and/or homophobia. It turns out having *most* frat boys ironically go that route takes all the irony out of it if all you hear at an open mic is ironic hate.
Bubblegum Tate
@AA+ Bonds:
OK, so I’m not the only one who’s seen that craziness, then. Because holy shit, what a notjob theory that is.
Mnemosyne
@Gex:
I still don’t get how telling the same kind of jokes that Henny Youngman did in 1952 is “cutting-edge,” especially since in 1952, they weren’t shocking or avant-garde at all — they were completely mainstream, like smoking during pregnancy.
Just because something is old or retro doesn’t make it cool.
asiangrrlMN
@gbear: Ah, good old Duluth.
The fact that this asshat thinks the media is covering up massive black-on-white crime makes me want to publicly humiliate and laugh at him. Really? REALLY?!? Always gotta be the victim, don’t ya, bub?
gaz
@asiangrrlMN: Nobody whines like a privileged straight white male bitch.
Scalzi was right. He’s more civilized than I am, though.
Citizen_X
@Origuy: Huh. I stand corrected.
Well, fuck you, Michael Corleone, for coming up with that goofy saying!
Nutella
@Jeff Spender:
There are a lot of young, ignorant assholes who believe this crap, too.
As Gex noted in: @Gex
@TR:
They’re hoping for the return of the kind of race riots we had back in 1917 in East Saint Louis and 1921 in Tulsa.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Citizen_X: The saying belonged to Don Vito. Michael was never a worthy successor. Not in the movies, anyway. And Godfather III? I leave the room.
AA+ Bonds
@Bubblegum Tate:
Just so, Bubblegum, just so
Phoenician in a time of Romans
@Nutella:
They’re hoping for the return of the kind of race riots we had back in 1917 in East Saint Louis and 1921 in Tulsa.
Well, obviously, because it will show that that black guy who usurped the White House is nothing but just another Black Panther Muslim ni-CLANG encouraging his homies to kill Whitey.
These people live at the intersection of fear, hate and ignorance.
gaz
@Phoenician in a time of Romans:
I tried living there once, but my TV would only pick up reruns of Mork and Mindy, all the trailers looked the same, and I kept finding teeth at the bus stop.
Steeplejack
@Origuy:
So you’re saying you want to hide out when it comes time to confront the Stormfronters? WTF?!
I got the Godfather reference, but I think Citizen_X gets it right. Evolving Deep Southerner’s original line was: “Lets you take your measure of the enemy if it’s ever time to go to the mattresses.” My reading was that he meant when it comes time to confront them and fight back, so “go to the mat” is better than “go to the mattresses.” The latter means let’s hole up, wear wifebeater T-shirts and cook big pots of tomato sauce while we wait for shit to blow over during a music-drenched montage.
Steeplejack
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
They’re just the most overquoted goddamn movies of the last 40 years, so, yeah, we get it.
I think the problem is that you are crashing two expressions into each other and coming out with the wrong one. But be sure to correct me if I’m wrong.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Steeplejack: Your link is fucked up, but I get the gist of your comment. Who licked the red off your candy, you grumpy fuck?
Steeplejack
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
The link goes to my comment at 88.
You seemed really pissed that no one got your awesome Godfather reference, when the problem really was that you muddled your metaphor and people had trouble figuring out what you were trying to say.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Steeplejack: Well enough fucking people came on to correct me to make me believe it was the case. I never made the comment originally with the intention of having to clarify it three or four fucking times. And then you come along and scold me for not being exact enough for the Godfather canon, apparently.
Fuck almighty, you and me should BOTH get a life.
Tim in SF
I see those nasty ads on Balloon-Juice all the time. Every time I see one, I click on it. John Cole gets the per-click money, the hate-site pays for the click, and then I close the window it opened.
WIN WIN.
lacp
@Steeplejack: I dunno…sounds good to me.
Steeplejack
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Exactly wrong. I think your original point was a good one, but “go to the mat” was what you wanted to say, not “go to the mattresses.” That’s all.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@Steeplejack: You’re absolutely right. I concede.
Joey Maloney
The more I look at that book cover, the more I think it looks more like the cover to a gangsta rap single from the late 1980s of some awful talentless jerkoff trying to piggyback on “Straight Outta Compton”.
mainmati
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: Exactly right. The right-wing extremists have spewed utter nonsense and venom for at least 80 years via radio, print and now the Intertubes. The GOP and their funders have simply provided a bullhorn (er…that’s so 1960s metaphor(?)..a loud voice to expand these insane messages.
JD Rhoades
@quannlace:
The standard tactic is to deflect any discussion of the Trayvon Martin case by citing an example of a horrific crime committed by a black person against a white person, then self righteously demand to know why “the media” isn’t reporting about it.
GeneJockey
@PeakVT:
People who respond to facts aren’t the audience for this book.
The audience for this book would claim that those facts were made up, because they got an email forwarded by a friend who told them what was what, and besides, they knew a black person once so they’re not racist, in fact YOU are racist for suggesting it, and why is it that any Conservative who criticizes the Kenyan Usurper for his Communist, white-people hating ways is called racist? After all, you just KNOW the only reason he didn’t do anything about guns in his first term is because he plans to ban them and confiscate every last one if he’s reelected. What? Why didn’t he do it already? Hell you don’t understand ANYTHING! He couldn’t do it during his first term when the Dems controlled the Congress because shut up that’s why! Just look at that healthcare thing he RAMMED DOWN OUT THROATS! It’s as bad as Dachau. Hell, as bad as Buchenwald with a side of Auschwitz, forcing people to have healthcare. If they can’t get a good job like me, it’s their own fault. Well, like I USED TO have, back before Clinton’s tax hike in 1993 caused my company to lay me off in 2008. And it’s just the same now! Look at all the taxes Obama raised! What? Of course he raised taxes, he’s
blacka Demonrat, isn’t he? he must have raised taxes, otherwise we’d have bounced right back from that recession in 2008 that was caused by a law Jimmy Carter passed three decades before, forcing honest folks like Washington Mutual and Countrywide to give money to folks whoare blackcouldn’t afford a house. Then all those investment bankers had to create all those CDOs and MBSs just to move the loans through, out of the goodness of their hearts. And now Nobama – see what I did there, isn’t it funny? – wants to raise taxes on the very folks we need to get us out of this mess, folks like Donald Trump and the Koch Brothers – real job creators, because you know, Government can’t create jobs. What? You mean jobs in defense industries? Well, stupid, THAT’S DIFFERENT! It just is. No, you’re too stupid to understand why, so I’m not going to explain it to you. You probably even believe that stuff about Trayvon Martin being only a kid with Skittles and tea. I heard from a friend that he was there casing the neighborhood as a place to throw a riot. Yeah, Zimmerman oughta be recognized as a hero,too bad he’s not whiteJust you wait till theblackswelfare class are at your door, stealing your stuff. That’s why I need this basement full of guns that Obama’s gonna try and take away, only I don’t REALLY have any guns (wing, wink). Yeah, they’ve all been STOLEN! Yeah, that’s right. No, I didn’t report them stolen, but I said it here on the internet where you KNOW Zero – I call him Zero, isn’t that clever – is watching everything we say, so he knows who to ship off the FEMA camps. He was going to do that last year, but Glenn Beck let the cat out of the bag and that’s why nothing happened. In fact, the fact that nothing happened PROVES Beck was right!…..Kinda like that.
Bago
The racism I can handle. (Hi Dad!). It’s the grammar that makes want to cut the cuffs off of shirts, the buttons off of jeans, and ruffle collars.
Call me a clothing terrorist, at least in my mind.
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack:
Dare I interject here that “going to the mattress” is a pretty common construction of the idiom? I know it’s technically wrong, but so is “I could care less” (which is my pet peeve) and people say that all. the. damn. time.
@Phoenician in a time of Romans:
This is where being a furriner trips you up. Tulsa was completely different than the race riots of the 1960s that you’re referring to.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
I haven’t seen it used as a synonym for “going to the mat” before EDS’s post above. I was trying to sort out the confusion and apparently generated more heat than light.
Join us next week for another exciting episode: “Buck Naked vs. Butt Naked.”
PaulB
The author is somewhat thin-skinned, too. To the first negative review of the book, a very thoughtful one, the author replied, “Good example of the denial this book is about. If you let them talk long enough, liberals always prove your point for you.”
The author also briefly posted his own five-star review of this work, in which he accused the negative reviews of being orchestrated and asked his readers whether the negative reviews “laid a glove” on him. He apparently thought better of it, as that review is now gone.