re: #432 Throbert McGee

I certainly don’t endorse absolutely everything Rock has ever said on race-relation issues, but to his vast credit, he has famously little patience for self-excusing black victimhood hustlers.

Just to expand on this:

First, it may shock some to learn this, but I am a homo. (Apologies to anyone who just did a coffee spit-take all over your monitor; I probably should’ve gently dropped a few hints much sooner.)

And one of the reasons I love Rock, despite whatever political feet of clay he may have, is that as some of you have possibly deduced, I myself have no patience for self-excusing GAY victimhood hustlers. (Someday I might even attempt writing a “Gay Folks vs. Faggots” essay, in homage to one of Rock’s best-known comedy routines.)

But anyway, Prof. Gates nonsense has reminded me of wise words I read in college before I even came out, written by a gay essayist whose name I can’t recall. (It might have been Andrew Sullivan himself, before he went totally batshit.) Anyway, the gist of the essay was:

As a gay man in 1990s America, I’m not oppressed; I’m inconvenienced. People need to stop cheapening useful words like “oppression” through sloppy overuse.

The whole essay was an expansion on that theme, but these two paraphrased-from-memory sentences will suffice. And obviously you can substitute pretty much any American demographic for “gay man,” or for that matter replace “America” with the “UK” or a select handful of other countries.