re: #121 Mattand

So here’s my theories on Megyn Kelly’s seemingly unforced error regarding blackface:

1) She wants to get out of her contract and instead of just quitting, she’s creating an out that allows her to sue NBC for more money.

2) She wants to go back to Fox, and this is her sending up a not subtle flare that she know her audience and theirs, and would be more than happy to come back, sexual harassment be damned.

3) She’s an inveterate racist who absorbed the racist teachings of her family; specifically the idea that blackface was somehow not a big deal in all the time she’s been on this planet.

4) She’s way, waaaaay fucking stupider than I gave her credit for.

3 and 4 are nicely complementary, and really explain a lot. I think she also spent too much time at Fox and absorbed the Right Wing conventional wisdom that anything the Left gets upset about is really a nonissue.

I mean, there are ways to approach the ‘blackface’ issue that wouldn’t get you in trouble, like, for instance, stating that when you were growing up, blackface wasn’t a big deal, but apparently now it is, and you’d really like to know more about why that is. That’s better than saying “It’s not a big deal because it wasn’t a big deal when I was a kid”, and then having to apologize.

But the FoxNews mentality is to dismiss the concerns of nonwhite, nonmale nonChristians as “Identity Politics” out of hand.