{"id":10485,"date":"2007-04-13T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/04\/13\/10485.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:25","slug":"also-its-a-teaching-moment-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/04\/13\/also-its-a-teaching-moment-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Also, it&#8217;s a teaching moment for the Perfect Non-Reader, if I could figure out how"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a public service to any Gentle Readers who are unfortunate enough to be in a position of responding to people who want to shift attention from what Don Imus said to what Al Sharpton once said, what Chris Rock once said, what 50-Cent once said, etc, etc, here are some suggestions of rejoinders.\n<ul><li>You are quite correct. I think CBS and NBC should fire them from their daily radio shows, as well.<\/li>\n<li>Fuck you, asshole. See, it&#8217;s a joke! Plus, your cousin Joe once called your sister a bitch, so you can&#8217;t get upset when I call you an asshole. Right? Asshole.<\/li>\n<li>What the hell are you talking about? I was talking about Don Imus. What the hell are you talking about?<\/li>\n<li>You know, you are the first person I&#8217;ve ever heard criticize any rappers for vicious misogynist lyrics. Other than these, of course [pulling out a sheaf of printouts of speeches, interviews and op-eds by Maya Angelou, Julian Bond, Carol Mosely Braun, John Conyers, Bill Cosby, Marian Wright Edelman, Mike Espy, Louis Farrakhan, Chaka Fattah, Harold Ford Jr., Jendayi Frazer, Dick Gregory, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Gwen Ifill, Jesse Jackson, Robert E. Johnson, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Vernon Jordan, Alan Keyes, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Mel King, Barbara Lee, Spike Lee, Walter E. Massey, Kendrick Brett Meek, Kweisi Mfume, Juanita Millender-McDonald, Gwen Moore, Toni Morrison, Ray Nagin, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Charlie Rangel, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley, Anna Deavere Smith, H. Patrick Swygert, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Alice Walker, Maxine Waters, Diane Edith Watson, J.C. Watts, Montel Williams, and Andrew Young]. [Caution: do not attempt to strike your conversational partner with the sheaf of printouts, as injury may result].<\/li>\n<li>Considering that Don Imus has had disproportionate success by virtue of being a straight white guy making fun of dark-skinned people, women, homosexuals, latinos, Irishmen and cripples, perhaps it&#8217;s reasonable that he be disproportionately punished for being a straight white guy. I mean, if he is taking the heat, it&#8217;s because he set up his microphone in the kitchen, yes?<\/li>\n<li>Fuck you, asshole. No, it&#8217;s not a joke. You&#8217;re an asshole.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a public service to any Gentle Readers who are unfortunate enough to be in a position of responding to people who want to shift attention from what Don Imus said to what Al Sharpton once said, what Chris Rock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17998,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}