Professional hater not so Wise.
Tim Wise (1) has a new post today trying to talk his way out of his vicious glee at the thought of the hearts of conservative white people stopping.
This is his mentality — he thinks he can talk his way out of anything. His essay starts by insulting the intelligence of the white goyim:
I think I know what it feels like to be the person who writes the reading comprehension questions for those standardized tests we’re so fond of giving, if quite a bit less fond of taking.
After all, think about that person for a minute. He or she writes four or five paragraphs for inclusion on the PSAT or whatever, knowing full well that when asked questions about the passage they just read, millions of those who are taking the test will not get the point. It must be difficult to write, all the while aware that large numbers of those reading your work will utterly fail to comprehend it.
I’ve long known that the same kind of miscomprehension often greets my own writing. First, I focus on touchy subjects like race, and whenever we delve into such matter as this, there is a chance that emotional reading may take the place of reasoned study and analysis. In other words, we see what we want to see, based on wherever we are at the time of the reading, emotionally, and with regard to the issues at hand. Interestingly, the same phenomenon is true for writers, whose work product — or “art” on our better days — also reflects our emotional state at any given moment. In other words, sometimes the writer chooses language that is deliberately hyperbolic, provocative, or edgy, so as to force a reaction — to force an examination of the underlying message, no matter how discomfiting it may be for all involved — and doesn’t give much regard to how it may be received. Like the writer of the reading comprehension questions on the PSAT, such writers know ahead of time that many readers simply won’t get it.
No, Tim. I majored in literature in college. Your essay was in the form of teasing people who are condemned to death by execution. ”Tick tock” and all that, and it’s also a reference to heartbeats.
(1) While Mr. Wise may claim he is Jewish, the fact that his father is Jewish and his mother is not negates that claim completely. The mother must be Jewish to consider ones self a Jew. See comments following article. — Ed.