Comments on: Taxpayer bill for dog food meal: $2.7 million

By: Heroism and Fiscal Discipline « utter de(con)struction

Heroism and Fiscal Discipline « utter de(con)struction — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:20:19 +0000

[…] so. When it comes to funding services, it is up to New Yorkers to be consistent in our distinction between heroism and lack of fiscal discipline. If we decide Mason is a hero, we need to put our taxpayer money where our mouths are at home. That […]

By: wavemaker

wavemaker — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:43:56 +0000

The words of the anti-discrimination advocate, spoken to me years ago, continue to resonate: “you’re a racist, you just don’t know it.”

The simplest (literally) non-sequitur.

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:37:21 +0000

Deoxy’s right – “racism” as a charge against whites (though was one defendant Hispanic?) isn’t so much an accusation as it is an accusation and conviction all rolled up in one. With no appeal. Nobody will ever ask, “but was it really racist?” Or “how do we define racism?” And so on. The New McCarthyism.

We might also ask whether attributing “special gyroscopes” to a racial group isn’t the same sort of generalizing that’s apparently forbidden in the first place. But nobody would answer.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:20:27 +0000

“[Blacks] have a gyroscope that picks up hostile stuff that somebody else would not see as hostile.”

Otherwise known as “It doesn’t matter if they didn’t know it would be taken as racist and didn’t mean it as racist – WE decide if you are racist, not you!”

In short, whit people are inherently guilty, and there is no possible defense, because white people just aren’t sensitive enough.

Racism? What racism? Oh, the racism of the people MAKING those claims – THAT I see.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:34:43 +0000

Where’s the hardship here? Modern dog food is so much tastier than that of the 50s…

And that inbuilt “gyroscope” sounds like a willing to see prejudice where none exists. Guess that’s why I’m not a litigator.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:37:34 +0000

Can't blame a particular jury for this one: this was a settlement, which suggests that LA was worried that they would lose more than $2.7 million if it went to trial. Appalling either way.

By: nevins

nevins — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:26:09 +0000

“[Blacks] have a gyroscope that picks up hostile stuff that somebody else would not see as hostile.”

Apparently this attorney is an ignorant fool. He does not know what a gyroscope is or why it would be a poor analogy for the idea he is trying to convey. Unfortunately the jury was even more ignorant.