Megyn Kelly, Elizabeth Warren and PC Power
Megyn Kelly, Elizabeth Warren and PC Power
If Megyn Kelly had omitted the word "black face" by stating that there is nothing offensive about a white person dressing up as a famous black person on Halloween or vice versa, now it would be fine. NBC would have to find another excuse to fire its highly paid host for disappointing ratings. "Who does not love Diana Ross?" Ms. Kelly said in offensive air comments only for those anxious to be offended.
If she is wrong, then Amazon is in serious trouble: "Barack Obama mask: perfect for Halloween, costumes, parties, events, festivals, concerts: Jumbo-sized waterproof laminate. . . . Only 3 left in stock, order soon. "
Not to mention the masks and costumes related to countless other black and white celebrities, or Pocahontas, which are offered without any instruction that says "to be used only by people of the same race."
By her own admission, Ms. Kelly has decided that the "blackface" syllables were unnecessarily provocative. She has apologized. Surely, when you do not intend to offend, you should not take any. Incorrect. Taking offense has become a opportunity-A delicious opportunity to exercise power, to intimidate, to terrorize. And, unfortunately, many of us seem to gasp after such opportunities.
That's why NBC News boss Andy Lack seized the opportunity not to fall victim to such opportunism by quickly finding a forum to hit Ms. Kelly in a way he knew would be picked up by the press.
That is the real story here. A white executive in
was fired in June by a white executive on Netflix for saying "word N" during an internal discussion about when it is allowed to use the "N word". In August, an Emory teacher was disciplined after saying the same word in a class discussion of a legal case in which the word was fundamental. For the reduction to absurdity, see the Wikipedia entry titled "Controversies on the word" niggardly "", a term without etymological relationship with the ugly racial epithet.
Which brings us to the intrinsically silly story of Elizabeth Warren who refuses to die, with respect to her DNA.
The mainstream media assigned their supposedly smarter reporters to dig deeper into genetic mathematics, as if the importance of this episode was exactly in what small fraction of Ms. Warren's DNA can be inherited from an American Indian ancestor. "We identified five genetic segments, with 99 percent confidence, as associated with the ancestry of Native Americans," the Washington Post said.
"The largest segment identified was on chromosome 10."
What do you mean? It does not mean anything. Senator Warren was not raised as a Native American. She did not grow up in a reserve. She has not claimed to be a member of a tribe. His progress in the world, for whatever it is worth, has been that of a person seen and known by others as a white woman of European descent.
The Boston Globe, who first got the news of her DNA result, leaned back to discover that Mrs. Warren had not profited professionally from her assertion of native ancestry. It does not matter that: "She included herself as a minority in the legal directory of the Association of Law Schools of the United States from 1986 to 1995. Her ethnicity changed from white to Native American at the University of Pennsylvania in December. 1989, about two years after she started teaching, and she agreed to be included in the list of Native Americans at Harvard, but only four months after she started her job as a starter.
Who doubts that Mrs. Warren began to refer to herself professionally as a Native American because she found comfort, security and whispers of power in the designation? Victim status has become a precious state in our society. It is a base from which to launch attacks on the dignity and equanimity of others when the need arises. It is also a defense against such aggressions, which can land on anyone at any time.
All this comes by chance as a result of a broad announcement. poll He finds that political correctness is not favored by anyone, except by a narrow stratum of wealthy, white and highly educated progressives. Political correctness is defined, in many words, as a disposition to play "gotcha" around questions of race and gender. Virtually everyone else, of all ages, sexes, ethnic groups and income, agrees that it is too much.
Or as Andrew Sullivan of the New York magazine aptly summed it up: "One could be forgiven for thinking that 'vigil' is, in fact, a mere sign of virtue among the white upper classes in their own struggle for power and influence between them."
Mrs. Kelly is white; The NBC executives pushing her through the door are white. The same happens with the Netflix protagonists. Like most professors and deans in the numerous campus cases. Much cowardice may be involved here, but it is not stupid cowardice: everyone involved has much to lose: position, status, income.
At that point, some believe that Ms. Warren's DNA ploy was actually a clever act of jujitsu against her Democratic rivals of 2020, especially Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, who are not white. Now both will find it more difficult to intimate that Mrs. Warren should be disqualified on the basis of "white privilege" without sounding a bit like Donald Trump with his rhetoric of "Pocahontas".
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