Remarkl
Remarkl
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

“Because we all know that English is the language of advancement…”

Odd complaint from someone who styles herself a “wordsmith.”

I’d be the last to say that blacks don’t come by their racism honestly (unlike Jews, right, Ms. Ukoha?), but to understand — even to condone — is not to deny. This article is a racist rant. Ms. Ukoha needs Mr. Schlossberg to be unrepentant. He doesn’t serve her purposes if he is contrite. So she pretends he isn’t.

She also needs him to be “white.” Most Jews understand racism, maybe as well as most blacks. Mr. Schlossberg is probably susceptible to gentler suasion. But his skin is lighter than Ms. Ukoha’s, and she’s on a mission. Nothing as inconvenient as decency to a fellow offspring of fuckees is going to get in her way.

Why Ms. Ukoha isn’t as upset at people who don’t adopt American values, including the lingua franca in which she claims to be so proficient is beyond me. English proficiency is the first implicit claim in her profile. But it’s wrong to say others should learn it when they come here?

Yes, it’s possible that the individuals who Mr. Schlosserg assailed were fresh off the boat and taking ESL every night. But one has to be allowed a certain amount of generalization if one is going to make a racist rant. At least, that’s what this article’s lack of punctiliousness on that point suggests.

But I’m a Dennis Miller style polemicist: That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.

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