Feel free to validate it at the show link<\/a>.<\/p>\nMILLER:\u00a0 So why did you revert to stereotype?\u00a0 Do you think that elevates the conversation?<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: Because we can’t have an honest conversation as a nation until we admit to the fact that this is how we feel.<\/p>\n
MILLER:\u00a0 So why did you revert to stereotype?\u00a0 Do you think that elevates the conversation?<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: Now, let’s be honest – there was more than “reverting to stereotype”.\u00a0 I urged people to remember that’s now how we set policy in this country.<\/p>\n
MILLER:\u00a0 So why did you revert to stereotype?\u00a0 Do you think that elevates the conversation?<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: In and of itself, I don’t. But it’s an honest part of the conversation; if political correctness forces us to stifle acknowledging it, it’ll leak out in other ways.<\/p>\n
MILLER:\u00a0 So why did you revert to stereotype?\u00a0 Do you think that elevates the conversation?<\/p>\n
WILLIAMS: Um…hello?<\/p>\n
Miller’s point seemed to be not so much that humans must conquer stereotype; it’s that having them, or at least admitting it, is itself a base, evil thing.<\/p>\n
I’d love to propose an experiment.<\/p>\n
Some evening when Ms. Miller is making her way from The Loft and one of her “Talking Volumes” programs to a brie and chablis tasting party in Kenwood, she should run across a group of thirtysomething white males in full biker gear, smack across her path.\u00a0 Let’s measure her heart rate.\u00a0 See if she is indulging in any stereotypes.<\/p>\n
In the interest of science, naturally.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: \u00a0Over on Twitter, “NarnFan” wrote the summary for this piece that I wasn’t caffeinated enough to hatch myself:<\/p>\n
To the extent we can’t hold a complected thought about this stuff, we are screwed manifold ways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
People can yell “racist” at one another ’til they’re blue in the face; the fact is, it’s human nature to be “we-ist”. \u00a0People are always<\/em>\u00a0most comfortable around people most like themselves; Keri Miller would no doubt be no more comfortable and relaxed among, say, white rednecks than would Cornell West.<\/p>\nEspecially if there’s a “history”; Armenians might be forgiven for being leery of Turks; European Jews of a certain age might keep Russians, Poles or “Aryans” under close watch; blacks of any socioeconomic class in Los Angeles might be forgiven for being wary of tattooed, teenage and twentysomething Latinos.<\/p>\n
Americans were attacked, and 3,000 of us murdered in cold blood, by people who caught us at our most vulnerable – stripped of weapons, jammed like cattle into aluminum tubes. \u00a0Not every <\/em>Muslim attacked us – and I’ll strenuously exclaim that many Muslims serve this country with great honor, including the Pakistani-American who was reported to have gone on the Bin Laden raid.<\/p>\nTo say “you are a bad person” for acknowledging the real human need to see to one’s own self-preservation, itself, retards the conversation that Ms. Miller said she was trying to “advance”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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