Video: The Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly Cage Match
Does Bill O’Reilly admit there is such a thing as “white privilege?” Take a wild guess.
Does Bill O’Reilly admit there is such a thing as “white privilege?” Take a wild guess.
1 | bratwurst Oct 19, 2014 12:17:15pm |
Here is a great story about how racist and exclusionary O’Reilly’s hometown of Levittown REALLY was.
3 | Vicious Piebola Oct 19, 2014 12:24:00pm |
re: #1 bratwurst
Here is a great story about how racist and exclusionary O’Reilly’s hometown of Levittown REALLY was.
Bill O’Reilly’s Levittown denialism http://t.co/XHAAgJ31VA via @washingtonpost #tcot #UniteBlue #WhitePrivilege— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) October 19, 2014
5 | KerFuFFler Oct 19, 2014 12:31:24pm |
At 6:45 Bill O. acknowledges that it is “harder if you’re a ghetto kid” to make it in America but he recoils from accepting the phrase ‘white privilege’ because he can’t do that and keep his following of aggrieved bigots.
It is so tiresome to hear the argument that if any blacks succeed then there is no racism. The fact that the majority of minority Americans face additional obstacles to success is what is important and the fact that many overcome them does not render ‘white privilege’ obsolete.
6 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 19, 2014 12:31:41pm |
It’s like the tides…YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN THAT!!11!1
7 | klys Oct 19, 2014 12:33:47pm |
BillO doesn’t want to admit that he played the game of life on the easy setting.
8 | bill d Oct 19, 2014 12:36:02pm |
re: #3 Vicious Piebola
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Vicious, Krugman was singning your song in this article:
The same thing happens when we try to discuss the effects of tax cuts — belief in their magical efficacy is utterly insensitive to evidence and experience.
This Age of Derp http://t.co/z9qj3vpfCl
— Paul Krugman (@NYTimeskrugman) October 19, 2014
9 | Targetpractice Oct 19, 2014 12:36:03pm |
re: #4 dog philosopher
two foos walked into a bar
You’d think the at least one of them would have seen it.
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10 | calochortus Oct 19, 2014 12:36:46pm |
It is sad to see the number of comments to the Washington Post article saying, “Well, yeah, but that was decades ago and we’re all fine now.”
As though history has no connection with the present.
11 | Targetpractice Oct 19, 2014 12:37:51pm |
12 | A Mom Anon Oct 19, 2014 12:43:45pm |
I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds it ASTOUNDING that the only place where this conversation takes place is on a COMEDY SHOW. I may not always agree with Jon Stewart’s approach (I think there’s plenty of times he’s let serious assholes off the hook, for example), but I still am grateful he’s there and has fostered other talented people.
I cannot stand Bill O’Reilly, he sends my creep detector into overdrive. He has no idea even AS HE’S SAYING IT, that he had a jump start other people didn’t have, via the special mortgage deal and other programs via being in Levittown.
White people really need to shut the fuck up about what’s racist and what isn’t. Seriously.
13 | KerFuFFler Oct 19, 2014 12:44:07pm |
This few seconds will show just what an idiot Billo is. Forget tides, I guess no one can explain the most basic statistical principles to him either.
14 | bill d Oct 19, 2014 12:45:10pm |
Ebola Dog Poo!!!!!
City of #Dallas animal shelter to test the waste of Bentley the dog to see if he has #Ebola. Bentley is nurse Nina Pham's pet. @cbsdfw
— Jack Fink (@cbs11jack) October 19, 2014
15 | Targetpractice Oct 19, 2014 12:48:25pm |
re: #14 b.d.
Ebola Dog Poo!!!!!
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In other news, today marks the end of the quarantine period for Duncan’s family and all those identified as coming in contact with him during the infectious period before he was isolated at Presbyterian. Out of the 80+ people the media wigged out about, exactly 2 became subsequently infected.
That really should be the end of the “airborne Ebola” BS, but I don’t imagine it will.
16 | bill d Oct 19, 2014 12:56:33pm |
re: #15 Targetpractice
In other news, today marks the end of the quarantine period for Duncan’s family and all those identified as coming in contact with him during the infectious period before he was isolated at Presbyterian. Out of the 80+ people the media wigged out about, exactly 2 became subsequently infected.
That really should be the end of the “airborne Ebola” BS, but I don’t imagine it will.
It really should but it won’t, stupid believes what it wants to believe.
This is a good day and a milestone that should be trumpeted far and wide.
I’ve seen theories that the family is in secret care for their Ebola as not to panic the populace. I don’t get wanting to live in a parallel reality?
17 | ausador Oct 19, 2014 12:57:08pm |
re: #15 Targetpractice
In other news, today marks the end of the quarantine period for Duncan’s family and all those identified as coming in contact with him during the infectious period before he was isolated at Presbyterian. Out of the 80+ people the media wigged out about, exactly 2 became subsequently infected.
That really should be the end of the “airborne Ebola” BS, but I don’t imagine it will.
I doubt they are releasing Mr. Duncan’s family from quarantine yet since they were forced to live in contaminated apartment for days after his hospital admission. But yes, it is great news that none of those in contact with him with the exception of staff at Texas Health Presbyterian has come down with the disease.
18 | Varek Raith Oct 19, 2014 12:57:28pm |
re: #14 b.d.
Change windmills to ebola.
Youtube Video
19 | Vogon Poetry Oct 19, 2014 12:59:10pm |
A whole lot of towns in the suburbs around NYC were exclusionary. They excluded minorities, Jews, etc.
All of this is well documented.
Levittown was notorious for its racial segregation, which continues to this day (and the numbers are only modestly different from 1997 when this article was written:
The whites-only policy was not some unspoken gentlemen’s agreement. It was cast in bold capital letters in clause 25 of the standard lease for the first Levitt houses, which included an option to buy.
It stated that the home could not ”be used or occupied by any person other than members of the Caucasian race.”
That clause was dropped in 1948 after the United States Supreme Court, ruling on another case, declared such restrictions to be ”unenforceable as law and contrary to public policy.”
Ignoring the law of the land, however, Levitt continued adhering to its racial bar. Levittown quickly filled up with young white families. Minority residents trickled in during the 1950’s, but the pattern was set.
Today Levittown has changed, but only a little. While the community has more minority residents than ever, it remains overwhelmingly white — 97.37 percent in the 1990 census.
Fair Lawn NJ had several neighborhoods that were built with riders attached that people wouldn’t sell to Jews, Radburn being one (and it’s now a national historic district due to being one of the first planned communities in the nation). Those riders were eventually eliminated, and the joke is that this area is one of the highest percentage of Jewish residents in Bergen County.
Other towns had similar unofficial policies, even after the courts struck down official segregation and racist riders.
And to deny any of that actually happened is yet another manifestation of the ahistorical nature of the right wing, conservatives, and the GOP.
It’s the same craziness with Ebola. It isn’t airborne. It is extremely tough to get. It’s damned well impossible to get unless you had direct contact with someone who had active symptoms of Ebola. In other words, out of the more than 300 million people living in the US, there may have at most been under 500 people who could have been exposed. Total. And I’m probably overcounting by a significant margin too.
And of all those people, many have already been cleared because they’ve gone more than 21 days since last exposure with no sign of infection, and out of all those people - 2 who had direct contact came down with the infection.
That’s it.
The difference between here and Africa is that the conditions in Africa are ripe for an outbreak with a broken health care system, the inability to do contact tracing, and that many cases aren’t even making their way to health care centers because they’re overwhelmed with cases.
But the media is driving a frenzy of panic and hyperbole, which doesn’t actually help get aid to where it’s needed - only calls for a travel ban that wont actually do anything to help (and may help make things worse by further driving the region’s economy into further chaos and making health conditions even worse).
20 | Vogon Poetry Oct 19, 2014 1:04:17pm |
re: #17 ausador
Even if the family has to wait another week before the all clear, health care workers who were among the first to have direct contact with him are being cleared of any possibility of infection. That’s a huge difference and once again shows just how difficult it is to get the disease.
Many of the people who are making claims about how this disease spreads and how easily someone can get the disease ignore more than four decades of research that shows precisely how the infection can spread from person to person. We know how to stop the transmission - strict infection control protocols.
That’s the problem with the situation in Africa; they simply haven’t gotten the resources on the ground to get that underway, so people are still getting infected at a steady clip.
And in the time that Ebola has killed as many as it has, malaria has killed many times that number. Influenza has killed more this year than Ebola has. Enterovirus D68 has killed more in the US than Ebola has in the US.
The media hypes the risks, even though Enterovirus D68 and influenza are much more likely to be spread in the US and are far more easily transmitted.
21 | Randall Gross Oct 19, 2014 1:05:30pm |
Here’s the 2010 racial demographics of Levitown:
L. NY US
White 90.25% 63.73% 71.91%
Black or African American 0.52% 15.53% 12.01%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.02% 0.43% 0.98%
Asian 4.69% 6.90% 4.51%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.06% 0.12% 0.21%
Other 4.46% 13.29% 10.38%
Population by Ethnicity
Population Hispanic 9.18% 17.89% 16.05%
Population Non Hispanic 90.82% 82.11% 83.95%
Yes, that’s a ZERO POINT FIVE TWO percent black while the surrounding city is 15% black.
Link clrsearch.com
Here’s a second data point at Dice (dot) com
city-data.com
22 | Justanotherhuman Oct 19, 2014 1:22:34pm |
re: #21 Randall Gross
There used to be a saying back in the 60s: “If you’re white, you’re all right; if you’re brown, stick around; if you’re black, get back.”
And I thought this county, with only a 5% Black population (and in the south) was racist…
Note to self: When handling jalapenos, wear rubber gloves.
23 | Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 19, 2014 1:23:42pm |
Great dads (and moms) tell the best stories with tremendous dramatic effect, whilst maintaining a completely straight face:
Just been on the phone to my dad. He told me a good story about a log so I thought I'd transcribe it. (My dad is 65.) pic.twitter.com/oJcXafhA5A
— Tom Cox (@cox_tom) October 19, 2014
24 | Vogon Poetry Oct 19, 2014 1:24:02pm |
re: #21 Randall Gross
There are a lot of towns on Long Island like that, but Levittown’s notorious background is the most well known redlining on race in the area. So, while the county numbers (Nassau) look to be more balanced, you find some towns have significant minority populations, and others that are with only a handful of minorities.
25 | Justanotherhuman Oct 19, 2014 1:42:03pm |
We’re all gonna die! : )
Image of #MarsComet #SidingSpring approaching #Mars today (image via Damian Peach @sen). #MAVEN observations to come! pic.twitter.com/I6FU2Ruguv
— NASA's MAVEN Mission (@MAVEN2Mars) October 19, 2014