It's no news that the member in bad standing of the hate-talk Peroxide Aryan Sisterhood - aka, right-wing robo-blondes - Laura Ingraham is a liar and a hypocrite but her saying:
I love the fact that the Justice Department, by the way, is going to be investigating what affirmative action has done to universities. In other words, shafting people who are not of the appropriate color, or background, or ethnicity, and I love that. Good for Sessions. I'd hit all these liberal -- the Holy Grail of liberalism is abortion, and drugs, and affirmative action, and the culture wars they're trying to push on our kids, all these new views of gender. I'd smash back on all of that.
is especially hypocritical in her case because of her history. The skank is a graduate of the previously all-male Dartmouth College where she got her degree, so, right off, a beneficiary of the affirmative action of the all-male bastion going co-ed, no doubt depriving probably more academically deserving men of admittance to that minor Ivy League venue of training the minor members of the elite. There she was part of Jeff Hart's little group of Hartler Junger (one of the few gals in it) and a member of the ultra-rich sugar daddy financed, and criminal Dartmouth Review.
Laura Ingraham is a member of the largest group which Affirmative Action was practiced and promoted on behalf of, certainly the group which benefitted the most from it, WHITE WOMEN. Any time you hear a WHITE WOMAN attack affirmative action in the media, especially a right-wing media skank like Laura Ingraham you know you are in the presence of hypocrisy. When she was born a womans place in journalism was in the entertainment sections, reporting on fashion, reporting on home making, getting nowhere nearer to important news than Hollywood and show biz gossip, maybe writing book reviews if she were more intellectual. In broadcast journalism, there was pretty much a quota of about one per network, if that. The only one I can recall was Nancy Dickerson who got to do a little maybe 3 minute news brief after the afternoon soaps or between them. Men seldom saw her or heard her voice. If one of my sisters didn't watch a soap I'd probably not remember her.
By the way, I used the word "skank" because I knew it would be controversial and because it fits Laura Ingraham and the rest of the Peroxide Aryan Sisterhood as well as many male beneficiaries of Affirmative Action who, as they were done with it, advanced themselves in right-wing media and politics by attacking the very program they used to get THEMSELVES ahead. Clarence Thomas is such a skank, the black faced enemies of Black People who seem to benefit from an affirmative action program program in fascist media, but only for purposes of attacking things like Affirmative action are also skanks. There seems to be an affirmative action program in the media to get as many of those liars and hypocrites on camera and on air as necessary whenever the subject is ending and correcting discrimination. I doubt many of them get as high up as a blonde, Ivy Leaguer like Ingraham, that kind of counter-affirmative action only goes so far when race is mixed in.
Whenever Affirmative Action is the topic, it should never, ever be allowed to go unsaid that the largest and most benefitted group of beneficiaries of it have been White Women, especially when those women are affluent and conservative. It should also never be forgotten that there are classes of white men who have benefitted from affirmative action. At times regional and religious and ethnic groups have benefitted from Affirmative Action programs, at times rural white men have been beneficiaries, having those aspects of their personhood taken into account. The family status of white men has certainly been an aspect of one of the oldest and longest practiced forms of affirmative action, legacy admissions and legacy hires. THERE IS CERTAINLY NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH IDIOTS AS GEORGE W. BUSH, JARED KUSHNER, MANY WHITE MALE GRADUATES OF THE IVY LEAGUE CLASS OF UNIVERSITIES HAVE EARNED THEIR PLACES BY THEIR INTELLECTUAL AND ACADEMIC ABILITIES. IN THE CASE OF JARED KUSHNER, I RECENTLY READ THAT THE SOME OF THE FACULTY OF HIS PREP SCHOOL WERE ANGRY THAT HE GOT INTO HARVARD ON THE POWER OF DADDY'S MONEY WHEN SOME OF THEIR STUDENTS WHO WERE ACADEMICALLY FAR MORE QUALIFIED WHO HAD APPLIED WERE NOT ADMITTED. CERTAINLY THE SAME IS TRUE OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS BENEFITTED THROUGH LEGACY ADMISSIONS.
THEY HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THEIR MINORITY STATUS AS THE CHILDREN OF THE RICH AND THOSE WHOSE FATHERS WENT TO THOSE PLACES WHEN THEY WERE ALL-MALE, EDUCATIONAL ENCLAVES OF THE RICH, THE WHITE, THE WASP ELITE. SINCE THEY HAVE GONE CO-ED, THE DAUGHTERS OF SUCH HAVE ALSO BENEFITTED FROM LEGACY ADMISSION.
NONE OF THOSE FORMS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HAVE EVER BEEN THE OBJECT OF ATTACK BY THE RIGHT-WING MEDIA. THERE IS HARDLY A VENUE OF RIGHT-WING MEDIA THAT DOESN'T FEATURE SUCH PRIVILEGED PEOPLE.
White males are the proper yardstick against which all people should be measured and it is manifestly and objectively unjust to deny them their rightful place ahead of everyone. Jeff Sessions is just righting this terrible injustice.
ReplyDeleteSo Ingraham better be careful what she asks for. She might get it.