Oh Noes! I’ve been linked by a RAAAAACIST!!!

Stacy (“The Other”) McCain kindly linked an article of mine a couple of days ago.

I had no idea whatsoever that he, The Other, was in the eyes of some knee-jerk jerks a RAAAAACIST!!! (five A’s and three !’s are required, of course–the 5 A’s being McCain’s observation, the three exclamation marks being my own spur-of-the-moment contribution).

McCain, whom I have never actually met, appears to be quite brash, opinionated, and forceful in arguing his case–which the easily confusable can easily confuse with RAAAAACISM!!! As such I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

Surprised and pleased, of course, but SHOCKED that McCain would actually link to this humble blog in the first place. Thanks again, Stacy!

Cynthia Yockey, a self-described lesbian of recently acquired conservative political orientation, discusses this further:

This morning I see that my blog pals Dan Collins and Dan Riehl are springing to the defense of my dear friend and fairy blogfather, Robert Stacy McCain, who goes by “Stacy” and blogs at The Other McCain. I must add my voice to theirs, but with more authority, because Stacy writes in opposition to homosexual equality and I am lesbian and I support the cause of homosexual equality — for example, federal protection from discrimination in access to jobs, housing and public accommodations (e.g., restaurants, stores, sporting events, concerts, parks); same-sex marriage; repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” so that gays and lesbians can be openly gay or lesbian while serving in the military; and adoption.

One of the things I have marveled at and loved about joining the conservative movement is that it embodies the ideal of embracing diversity. My experience of diversity on the Left was that, sure, there’s a rainbow of races and a sort-of rainbow of religions and homosexuals believe they are welcome (which is not the same as actually being welcome), but there was a strict uniformity of beliefs that were imposed top-down and woe betide the useful idiot — like me — who tried to cash in any of those checks, especially if they then went all activist on the asses of the Lefties breaking the promises — again, like me — for passing worthless promises in the belief that that neighborhood of the Left was just ignorant and only needed activism and education so that it would keep the promises it had made of equality, inclusion, yada-yada-yada.

Even after being run out of the lesbian and gay community in the pages of The Washington Blade in 1996 for my advocacy for the rights of people in wheelchairs, including my late life partner, it was not until the spring of 2008 when I found out about Barack Obama’s 20-year allegiance to Rev. Jeremiah Wright that I began to realize that the Left is where the most vicious racism and bigotry now resides in the U.S. Over the last year, with access to a fuller statement of facts from bloggers and online magazines than I ever got from the mainstream media, I have come to see the Left as the modern embodiment of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. My perception now is that the Left espouses ideals to gain followers, but only to gain power over them, seldom, if ever, to deliver on policies in line with their stated ideals. It’s all “say one thing, do another” over there.


Emphasis mine.

To paraphrase from a once widely studied but now largely ignored book of ancient wisdom: take the plank out of your own eye first, oh ye who see RAAAAACISM!!! in every disagreement you have with someone else.

OK, I’ll explain the OH NOES! — this is a sarcastic expression of faux-concern over some usually meaningless and/or trivial complaint that someone else has offered. And, RAAAAACISM!!! is the word used primarily by the Left as shorthand for “well, I disagree with you on a deep emotional level but am unable to articulately argue the point right now so you’re just a poopyhead na na na na na your momma wears army boots!” It has no relation whatsoever with any actual tendency (or, more usually, the lack thereof) to discriminate for or against any race–human, alien, NASCAR, or triathalon. As previously pointed out, it is written with five A’s and (optionally) three exclamation marks.