It's always worth asking...
There are some very good questions surrounding what if Identity Crisis had contained more than just simply misogyny, and what would be the defenders' and apologists' reactions then, that are always worth asking, and I guess I may as well take the opportunity now to do so.
What if Sue Dibny and Jean Loring, rather than being white, were black, Latina, Jewish, Asian, or caucasian, and Dr. Light had raped Sue out of a hate crime, and that too were trivialized in favor of concern for Dr. Light's getting mindwiped? Would there have been a different reaction to the miniseries then? Come to think of it, what if any character in the miniseries had called Sue and Jean a "dirty white girl", or even the C-slur? Or, what if Deathstroke, when he slugged Zatanna, had hurled a racial slur against Italians at her? Would the response then have been different, and the MSM less inclined to whitewash and sugarcoat the whole shambles?
I thought about this while reading La Shawn Barber's commentary on the cannibalistic murder of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian by a black gang in Knoxville, Tennessee, a horrifying case that the mainstream press has been largely silent upon till now*, apparently because the culprits were black, and in the minds of the liberal media, condeming blacks who commit violent crimes against whites is "racist", or, it's fully legal to attack whites. La Shawn says:
(And by the way, yes, I know that Dr. Light is as white as the two ladies are, but even so, that doesn't mean that racial slurs - and certainly misogynist ones - couldn't have taken place in a horror story like IC, or that the questions here aren't relevant.)
As even the most hardcore defenders of IC would probably admit, if the miniseries were flat out offensive to minority groups, and the misogyny more out in the open, chances are that the book would NEVER have been published, certainly not without a stern reaction from all concerned community representatives. Apparently, by using white protagonists and refraining from even the C-bomb, DC is all but able to get a free pass, because whites apparently make perfectly legitimate punching bags. IMHO, it makes no difference what was said or not, the way IC was written, trivializing a serious subject like rape and invoking the stereotype of a woman who attacks another one, was totally reprehensible. And if hate crime laws have anything to do with a case like this, perhaps that's a mistake, because what matters is the one-sided writing, not whether or not it went as far as what it could have.
The lesson of this should be that verbal offenses do not need to be uttered in order to prove that there was any kind of discrimination involved in all this. Identity Crisis, as far as I'm concerned, was an anti-white hate crime, using white woman as the scapegoats, and just shows what happens when the inmates are allowed to run the asylum.
* And then, when CNN, which was silent before, did finally report on it, they did so only because there was some neo-nazi scum attempting to hijack the whole case as an excuse for prejudice against minorities. It's truly sick that people like these have to exist, and that those are what the MSM chooses to report about. As far as I'm concerned, they're in league with some of the MSM, and their goal must no doubt be to embarrass anyone with common sense from discussing the case. These neo-nazi gangs should BURN IN HELL alongside the culprits in the Newsom-Christian case for exploiting the blood of the innocents I seriously doubt they ever really cared for.
What if Sue Dibny and Jean Loring, rather than being white, were black, Latina, Jewish, Asian, or caucasian, and Dr. Light had raped Sue out of a hate crime, and that too were trivialized in favor of concern for Dr. Light's getting mindwiped? Would there have been a different reaction to the miniseries then? Come to think of it, what if any character in the miniseries had called Sue and Jean a "dirty white girl", or even the C-slur? Or, what if Deathstroke, when he slugged Zatanna, had hurled a racial slur against Italians at her? Would the response then have been different, and the MSM less inclined to whitewash and sugarcoat the whole shambles?
I thought about this while reading La Shawn Barber's commentary on the cannibalistic murder of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian by a black gang in Knoxville, Tennessee, a horrifying case that the mainstream press has been largely silent upon till now*, apparently because the culprits were black, and in the minds of the liberal media, condeming blacks who commit violent crimes against whites is "racist", or, it's fully legal to attack whites. La Shawn says:
In order for “hate crime” charges to be added to the Christian-Newsom case, somebody had to have used a racial slur, and a witness would have to come forward. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter who said what in the Christian-Newsom case or any other. Hate crime laws are redundant, not to mention nonsensical.Some of her observations could apply and translate to a subject like this as well. I assume that racial and misogynist slurs are what would have to have taken place in Identity Crisis for anyone to wake up and smell the coffee, and to realize that it was all a vile piece of prejudiced scum. And if it were written that way, would people then have also have spotted the misogyny? But then, would they have spotted both the racism and misogyny, or, would they have just noticed the racism, and not the misogyny?
(And by the way, yes, I know that Dr. Light is as white as the two ladies are, but even so, that doesn't mean that racial slurs - and certainly misogynist ones - couldn't have taken place in a horror story like IC, or that the questions here aren't relevant.)
As even the most hardcore defenders of IC would probably admit, if the miniseries were flat out offensive to minority groups, and the misogyny more out in the open, chances are that the book would NEVER have been published, certainly not without a stern reaction from all concerned community representatives. Apparently, by using white protagonists and refraining from even the C-bomb, DC is all but able to get a free pass, because whites apparently make perfectly legitimate punching bags. IMHO, it makes no difference what was said or not, the way IC was written, trivializing a serious subject like rape and invoking the stereotype of a woman who attacks another one, was totally reprehensible. And if hate crime laws have anything to do with a case like this, perhaps that's a mistake, because what matters is the one-sided writing, not whether or not it went as far as what it could have.
The lesson of this should be that verbal offenses do not need to be uttered in order to prove that there was any kind of discrimination involved in all this. Identity Crisis, as far as I'm concerned, was an anti-white hate crime, using white woman as the scapegoats, and just shows what happens when the inmates are allowed to run the asylum.
* And then, when CNN, which was silent before, did finally report on it, they did so only because there was some neo-nazi scum attempting to hijack the whole case as an excuse for prejudice against minorities. It's truly sick that people like these have to exist, and that those are what the MSM chooses to report about. As far as I'm concerned, they're in league with some of the MSM, and their goal must no doubt be to embarrass anyone with common sense from discussing the case. These neo-nazi gangs should BURN IN HELL alongside the culprits in the Newsom-Christian case for exploiting the blood of the innocents I seriously doubt they ever really cared for.
Labels: misogyny and racism, violence
