I've been aware of the scandal going on with Paula Deen, on account of being on the planet Earth at the same time, but all I knew was that she was getting all kinds of fired for using the word "nigger", which is kind of like wearing a short skirt through a bad neighborhood. You don't deserve the bad things that are going to happen to you in either case, but you really should know better than to put yourself in that position.

Now it turns out, this was not something she shrieked at a poorly performing employee, it was not a derogatory epithet that slipped out on camera, it was not a recent joke she told before in inappropriate audience, or an unfortunate reaction to harassment by a member of the slurred group (as in the case the of Mel Gibson or Michael Richards). It was an admission to having used that work to describe a CRIMINAL WHO POINTED A GUN AT HER WHILE ROBBING A BANK. At a point in her life when she was working at the bank, so like at least 20 years ago. The Huffington Post, in a breathtaking display of arrogance, actually published the content of the deposition in which she made the admission, regardless of the blatant contradiction of their own characterization of her words earlier in the same article. It seems to suggest that the Huffington Post is well aware of the illiteracy of their readers and/or their inability to draw their own conclusions from evidence, and so felt no compunction against illustrating exactly how they twisted her words.

This is a social lynching on a scale approaching the farcical charges of racism used to discredit Mark Fuhrman in the OJ Simpson case. Among the so-sensitive statements the article makes is that Deen is "no stranger to controversy" with that statement linked to an article about her diabetes diagnosis! Yes, among that racist bitch's horrific choices was the decision to contract a serious blood disorder! Clearly this woman is a train wreck of objectively awful behavior!

Orwell was an idiot. They don't need an oppressive, all-observant totalitarian regime to force people to act as if they can't recognize reality, they have convinced the herd to embrace unreality on their own and to self-enforce absurd taboos and ostracize those who don't comply. The Spanish Inquisition was less censorious, less intrusive and gave its targets a more fair deal. Slavery was more honest.

These days, nearly every charge of racism is either an outright falsehood, or perpetrated by groups that are judged immune to such charges. Flagrantly racist behavior from blacks receives absolutely no repercussions, while racial motivations are invented for every non-black individual's refusal to be victimized by aberrant black criminals or profiteers. A 20 year old self-admitted use of a racial slur (and the apparent refusla of an unknown actress to condemn Deen out of hand) is dominating the racial news at a time when an alleged racially motivated murder is going to trial. Why? Because if they paid more attention to the Zimmerman trial, you'd find out how the tapes of his 911 call were altered in the media. You'd find out that Zimmerman "followed" Martin in reaction to an inquiry from the police dispatcher. You'd find out that Zimmerman was wounded on the back of his head at the time of his arrest, indicating either an ambush by Martin, or that Zimmerman was, in fact, having his head pounded into the pavement by a thug on top of him.

Between a teen football player's assault on a middle aged man in his own neighborhood; a North Carolina prostitute falsely accusing several college students of rape; a retired football star & actor sawing open the throats of two white people, one of whom he had a long history of domestically abusing and getting set free by a predominantly black jury so fast it is impossible that they could have truly deliberated the cases presented in a multi-week trial; the most powerful politician in the world abusing his office to interject himself into a dispute on the side of an affluent man of the same race, against working-class police officer (who had an impeccable record on interracial activity, and the support of his non-white coworkers on the scene), race-baiting audiences and a long history with a blatantly, flagrantly racist pastor, and all the other hoaxes and falsehoods perpetrated in the last couple of decades, on top of an overwhelmingly high ratio of interracial crimes being perpetrated by blacks, it is kind of appalling that blacks are still seen to have the moral high ground in race relations or that racism is considered such a damning indictment.

Opinions are opinions, and supposedly the free expression of the same is what this country is all about. I find the idea that blacks or browns or reds or whites or yellows are morally or spiritually inferior to be morally offensive. I find the idea that Mohammed was a prophet who spoke for God to be equally offensive. Why is the one idea constitutionally protected, even to the degree of acting upon it and the other renders one unfit for participation in society even if publicly renounced, so long as something can be construed as alluding to the possession of some fringe of that idea? You can talk about the results of such ideas being put into place, but more people have been murdered with Islamic motivations in this century than racial motivations in this or the prior century. And that's even if you take into account white people assaulted and murdered for blacks' racial motivations.

There is a more clear line of intellectual progression from Charles Darwin to the Holocaust than a robbery victim describing her assailant as a nigger to slavery or pogroms, yet the former ideology is taught to children, with many seriously advocating the exclusion or all alternatives, opposing ideas or contradictory evidence. Hell, the acceptance of Darwinism and its outcome-based, backward-rationalizing methodology were the strongest intellectual legs racism ever had! My belief in the equality of blacks, whites and yellows (and women and men, for that matter) and the necessity of that equality being reflected before the law are completely unsupported by any scientific evidence and largely contradicted by circumstantial evidence and superficial appearances.

It's time to get over racism. Anything bad that people do with a racial motive, like murder, assault robbery, denial of voting rights or rape (for you black guys) is already illegal. We have no problem locking up black criminals without parsing their actions and words to find racial motivations, why do we need that crutch to try painting white criminals as even worse, at greater tax payer expense? So we can feel good about ourselves by firing celebrities (while ignoring the dozens of people who will be put out of work by the cancellation of Deen's show, but don't have her bank account or assets to live off of)?