Freedom
Rider: Michelle
Malkin and Dinesh D'Souza: Fascists of Color
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley
"Hatred is
profitable and anti-black racist rules apply."
The corporate media makes advocates of racism and white
American supremacy very rich. American racism also gives certain non-white
people advantages. They are able to escape the indignity that black Americans
face. They are then able to disassociate themselves and become allies with the
very worst and most dangerous aspects of political life in this country.
Michelle Malkin, born Michelle Maglalang, is a dark skinned
Filipino-American who loves the worst that white American civilization has to
offer. Malkin is a darling of the right wing, a blogger and author who is eager
to advocate invading other nations, and spewing hatred of immigrants in general
and of Muslims in particular.
Malkin constantly rails against immigration, complaining
about "drive by" and
"accidental" citizenship attained by the children of
immigrants who she and others label "anchor"
and "jackpot" babies.
Malkin never told her loyal readership that her father came
to the United States in 1970 on a temporary work visa. She was born in October
1970. Malkin is herself
a jackpot baby, given automatic citizenship when her parents were not even
permanent residents. The truth may set you free, but it doesn't get you on Fox
news.
In 2002 Malkin wrote that the internment
of thousands of Japanese-Americans was "wrong and abhorrent." Who knows if she
ever believed those words, but times changed quickly and there was a book deal
waiting for an Asian who would approve past and future efforts to profile and
then incarcerate non-white people.
"Malkin is
a two-faced liar."
Malkin is not just a self-hating Asian. She is a two-faced
liar, having condemned Japanese internment just two years before defending it
in print. In 2004 she wrote In Defense of
Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on
Terror. When racists fantasized about interning Arabs, she helped provide ammunition:
"Make no mistake: I am not
advocating rounding up all Arabs or Muslims and tossing them into camps, but
when we are under attack, 'racial profiling' - or more precisely, threat
profiling - is justified. It is unfortunate that well-intentioned Arabs and
Muslims might be burdened because of terrorists who share their race,
nationality or religion. But any inconvenience, no matter how bothersome or
offensive, is preferable to being incinerated at your office desk by a flaming
hijacked plane."
White people are never "inconvenienced" by raced based
incarceration, even though there are white domestic terrorists, serial killers,
and shooters in schools. Apparently Malkin thinks that is just fine.
Common sense makes it obvious that Malkin's dark skin has
been problematic for her and she admits as much. "Here are some of the racial epithets
I've been called in my lifetime: Chink. Gook. Jap. Nigger. Slant eyes.
Dog-eater." She also suffered the color consciousness
created by European colonialism:
"Back in the Philippines, upscale restaurants refuse to hire
natives with skin darker than sand. The movie industry promotes model
‘mestizos' and ‘Maria Claras' - pale as paper due to the blanching effect of
Spanish blood. Lighter-skinned cousins mocked me as ‘The Brownie.' Pitying
aunties suggested rubbing my skin with pumice stones for a more desirable
complexion."
Malkin
could have used these painful experiences to fight against racism, but that is
a much tougher way to live and to get paid. Being a mouth piece for white/right
America is a more certain path to a fat bank account.
Malkin has partners in crime, people who have either bought
the supremacy myth or who just want to be on the winning, money making team.
Dinesh D'Souza was one of the founders of the racist Dartmouth Review and the
author of books such as The End of
Racism, published in 1995. The demise of racism was news to everyone else,
but it was a convenient notion for the Indian-born D'Souza to sell. It was also
a direct attack on black America. D'Souza's thesis came straight from Racism
101. Racism is gone and black people do badly only because of their
"pathologies." D'Souza also thinks the Civil Rights Act should be repealed.
"D'Souza's
thesis came straight from Racism 101."
Like Malkin, the Indian-born D'Souza comes from a country
whose darker citizens get the cold shoulder. Try finding an Indian movie star
who isn't light skinned. Imagine D'Souza's delight upon arriving in the United
States. He was now part of a so-called model minority that was given certain
advantages, even if the "n word" was hurled in his direction. All he had to do
was sign up for the right wing propaganda machine of racism and aggression and
he was home free.
D'Souza's latest homage to foolishness is called The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11:
"In this book I make a
claim that will seem startling at the outset. The cultural left in this
country (such people as Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer,
George Soros, Michael Moore, Bill Moyers, and Noam Chomsky) is responsible for
causing 9/11."
Like Malkin, D'Souza lies at the drop of a hat.
When he was called on his bizarre hate speech, he began to back pedal
furiously. "I argue that the American left bears a
measure of responsibility for the volcano of anger from the Muslim world
that produced the 9/11 attacks."
D'Souza apparently forgot what he wrote. The
word "measured" is no where to be found, in the title or in the text:
"I am saying that
the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the
nonprofit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the
volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world....the
left is the primary reason for Islamic anti-Americanism as well as the
anti-Americanism of other traditional cultures around the world. I intend to
show that the left has actively fostered the intense hatred of America
that has led to murderous attacks such as 9/11." [Italics mine.]
D'Souza's book is a cynical obscenity, meant to
silence the left and promote the Bush administration's efforts to dominate as
much of the world as possible. He just makes things
up as he goes along and then pretends he didn't write what is clear
for all to see.
Bin Laden said on many occasions that he is angry about
America's support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He was angry with
the Saudi regime and its decision to allow American troops on their soil.
Michael Moore, abortion and gay marriage were never on the bin Laden list of
pet peeves. What are facts when there is money to be made and an ideology to
support?
"D'Souza
just makes things up as he goes along."
D'Souza's true purpose in writing this screed is
to provoke hatred and legitimize violence against anyone who opposes the
white/right wing agenda. His assertion that people who disagree with him are
the nation's enemies is offensive and dangerous but it hasn't hurt D'Souza's
career at all.
There will be more Malkins and D'Souzas as long
as hatred is profitable and anti-black racist rules apply. They are just the
latest in a long line of openly racist and fascist opinion makers. A quick
glance at the television screen might lead one to believe that they would be on
the side of the oppressed, when nothing could be further from the truth.
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Margaret Kimberley's
Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BA R. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City,
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Ms. Kimberley' maintains an edifying and frequently updated blog at freedomrider.blogspot.com.
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