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Soulless Egyptian Savages want to Ban Bikinis!

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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, Militant Islam is full of dress wearing savages who wouldn’t know red blooded manliness if it flew over their country in diamond encrusted gunships that ran on panda blood and cocaine. Now that they overthrew the “dictator” in Egypt who was giving them food and keeping the Israelis from carpet bombing them into the stone age these big bearded douchebags are really striking a blow for freedom by banning bikinis. Because, you know, hot chicks showing off their goods is some sort of problem for people who run around murdering innocent homosexuals who are minding their business.

Yeah, I get it. You don’t want to turn people “immoral” by exposing them to the horrors of beautiful, buxom women:

You can tap that down by raising several generations of people who have never seen a woman who isn’t dressed like Ninja who’s showing off the result of their Jenny Craig diet. Look how well that works in Afghanistan.

Savages:

Sunbathing in Alexandria may soon be a thing of the past, at least if some Egyptian Islamist politicians have their way.

Egypt’s tourism industry has suffered a severe blow since the outburst of anti-regime demonstrations in January. But that did not stop the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, from demanding stricter regulations over what tourists can do and wear while visiting the country. The party is urging officials to ban skimpy swimwear and the consumption of alcohol on Egyptian streets.

“Beach tourism must take the values and norms of our society into account,” Muhammad Saad Al-Katatny, secretary-general of Freedom and Justice, told Egyptian tourism officials on Monday. “We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt, which we will announce in advance.”

The call for new strictures on tourists comes as Egypt debates the role of Islam in the post-Mubarak era. Freedom and Justice is competing in elections scheduled for this autumn for parliament and opinion polls show a majority of Egyptians favor a greater use of Islamic law and mores. But a vocal minority worries that Egypt risks becoming an Islamic republic.

“This is how things began in Iran,” Hani Henry, a psychology professor at the American University in Cairo, told The Media Line. “The moderate youth wanted to implement changes, but the Mullah’s hijacked the revolution. The same thing is now happening here in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

Me too. The bikini is the physical embodiment of the superiority of the Western Tradition (and our women) over Islamism. It is a symbol of our recognition that the human form, specifically the female form, is a perfect and wonderful conduit of divinity on earth. Denying this is to deny the perfect creation around you.

And what kind of supposedly heterosexual man wants to ban bikinis anyway? Maybe these Muslim extremists should spend less time murdering gays and trying to cover up women and more time examining why they are so interested in these two things. They should spend extra time in figuring out why seeing a little skin bothers them so much.

So you happy now liberals? The Arab Spring all you imagined? You lay down with savages you wake up with burkas.

 

The New Misogyny: Americans Applaud Brutal Attack on Tila Tequila

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Since I converted Red Alerts to a “survival” blog I have received many emails and comments accusing me of fear mongering for profit. I will not engage in that constant debate, I simply point people to my post that tells you why I changed the site and I will use a recent incident to illustrate the break down in society I have observed.

A couple of days ago Tila Tequila was brutally assaulted at the Gathering of the Juggalos where she agreed to play. The event, inspired and directed by the Insane Clown Posse, has a hard time booking acts and performers because of the reputation for criminality Juggalos have developed. My thoughts on Juggalos can be found here. For full disclosure purposes, as longtime readers know I promoted Tila Tequila merchandise on Red Alerts for a time and am an admirer of her business model, though I admit to being unfamiliar with her music. I also defended her once in a post that she linked to.

The Village Voice‘s Camille Dodero has a report full report on the incident. Here’s the pertinent information:

Tila Tequila’s face turned bloody this past Friday at the Gathering of the Juggalos, and I was onstage behind her when it happened. Two rocks meant for her head missed their target and pelted my shins; no bruises, but I can attest that they weren’t thrown lightly.

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There were several rubber dildos hurled at her–pretty sure the sex toys missed her, but it was hard to keep track at the time– along with beer cans, Faygo containers, Stryofoam cups, liquor bottles, cigarettes, mustard, half a lemon, a pizza slice, a pearl bracelet, a pudding cup, an unopened can of ICP’s self-branded energy drink Spazmatic, part of a watermelon allegedly soaked in feces and urine, a clothed baby doll, a mini Mag Lite, a bag of chicken tenderloin. When Tequila first came out, shooting Silly String at the angry mob, a sign reading CUNT was there to greet her. My photographer, who was shooting at the front of the stage, saw an egg hit her in the face. At one point, a Juggalo with a kerchief over his face climbed up and lunged at her; he was stopped. Then suddenly, Tila Tequila was topless, bleeding, and holding a cloth to her head. Security pulled her offstage and hustled her to a nearby trailer, where she says windows got smashed. I was standing there and I can admit that the scene had gotten pretty ugly.

But the indecency itself isn’t what concerns us — Juggalos are well known for violent and dangerous behavior. It is the reaction to the incident. Check the comments at the Village Voice story and you’ll see the majority support the attack on her. It is the same at Tila Tequila’s Web site where pictures of her injuries were published as well as an interview about the attacks. All the comments followed the same basic talking points which were that a) Tila Tequila’s a slut b) she has no talent and c) she deserved this and worst. Robert Gibbs and the rest of the Obama Administration could only hope to be able to keep on message so well and with such tenacity in the face of what is basically a gift to the opposition. The people who hate Tila Tequila are either very well organized and so adept at being covert they would be the envy of Journalist or this reaction to what is by any standards a horrific crime represents a cultural shift that portends a dismal future for our children and grandchildren.

I lean toward the latter because it is not just a group of anonymous commenters making these statements, if that was the case we could write them off the way Republicans write off Ron Paul acolytes as a small but very well organized group that has a large Internet footprint. But the idea that Tequila “had it coming” is not expressed only by a small group of people with a shared ideology, but by a large cross section of people online from theoretically opposing ideologies including big name crime bloggers who one would presume to be supportive of law and order if not decency. Not so. Dreamin’ Demon posted a piece about the attack titled Tila Tequila Attacked On Stage By Crowd of Juggalos; Pelted with Rocks, Feces and Fireworks. lol.

In that piece ‘Morbid” who runs the site smirked his way through relating the assault, even while posting a picture of a bleeding Tila Tequila. His commenters all expressed amusement at a one lone woman being the target of a near riot, and suffering multiple injuries. These are people who supposedly care about people being victimized. Ignore for a moment the absurdity of a man who looks to be in his 40s using the term “lol” at all and think about the fact that one of the biggest crime blogs on the Internet is run by and largely trafficked by people who think a crowd of people attacking a lone woman is cause to laugh out loud.

You don’t need to be a fan of Tila Tequila to be disgusted and outraged by the attack; in theory you just need to be an American with a semi-functioning moral compass and a vague idea that women shouldn’t be roughed up by crowds made up predominantly of men. If you have a fully functioning moral compass and are in possession of such out of fashion attributes as being a red-blooded American or having a strong sense of right and wrong, the story of a fellow American being attacked by a crowd so violent the trailer in which security hid her was destroyed would leave you shaking with rage. But for many Americans the only shaking they are doing is of a sanctimonious finger at the victim for daring to be successful.

I could go into detail about why this is. I could write a series of essays about the left’s mainstreaming of Marxist class warfare politics inevitably leading to an acceptance of violence against the successful. I could point out that the “Old Right” and Libertarians have increasingly adopted the class warfare world view of Marxism, especially when it comes to celebrity and no doubt could stir debate with religious inferences and end of days talk. But that is all politics and at this point in history it’s too late for politics to be anymore than a distraction. I will, however, point out this stanza from The Wise Woman’s Prophecy found in The Prose Edda which concerns conditions on Earth at the end of days:

Brothers shall fight | and fell each other,
And sisters’ sons | shall kinship stain;
Hard is it on earth, | with mighty whoredom;
Axe-time, sword-time, | shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time, | ere the world falls;
Nor ever shall men | each other spare.

I recently had a discussion (by which I mean a series of messages back and forth on a social network) with Hart Fisher of American Horrors where he took the position that I was far too pessimistic about America’s future. He thinks Americans will emerge from the troubles we’re having stronger and more united than ever. This faith in humanity is based on an illusion; a distant memory of what we aspired to be in the past. Today we seek nothing more than the destruction of others for our own sake.

When California finally admits it’s broke and can’t pay for a lavish welfare state there will be riots. And we live in a society where if Tila Tequila was gang raped and murdered in those riots people would immediately go online and cheer. We live in a society where those cheering would be people who set themselves up as the speakers for justice. That, in my mind, heralds the end of a civilization.

How do you think all the people who are enamored with the idea of Tila Tequila being brutalized will comport themselves when a war in the Middle East causes a spike in oil and the nations’ distribution network collapses? What do you think people who think it’s acceptable to for men to victimize women they don’t like will be up to when police in your town are laid off? Dozens of towns and cities are already laying off cops because of budget problems, seeing the comments these people made about this incident can you tell me you feel safe?

When these people are hungry or don’t get their welfare do you really think they wouldn’t brutalize your wife or sister or you? Do you think when push comes to shove any of these people won’t kick in your door for your food or water or daughters? Do you think the YouTube video of your family being murdered won’t be traded by these same people as entertainment?

How people react to a story like this tells you something about their character, or lack thereof. For a man it shouldn’t matter if you personally dislike a woman or not to stand up for her, or at least for principles. In New York I witnessed dozens of incidents where people simply watched something happen to a woman, was horrified when I was the only person to call the police on some wife beater or try to stop a group of drunks from assaulting two women. I remember once hearing terrified screams for help outside and hearing someone running down the street. I came out to look and only one other man, he was in his 70s, had come out to help in a neighborhood of hundreds of people.

But this is far worse because in these cases no one applauded the crimes, but now we’re seeing a new depth to which the American public is willing to sink to. How you feel about Tila Tequila’s talent should be irrelevant to the moral outrage you feel over a crowd attacking her. That for many people it isn’t should convince you that the America you knew is over.

This new class warfare based misogyny is a shift from the America of old where we admired success and virtue, to the new America which is collapsing into barbarity and moral relativism based on neo-Marxism. And the new America will not be able to stop the decline of the West, but is going to hasten it as we are overcome by successive generations of people for which normalcy is an embrace of depravity and criminality the likes of which will make the Congo look like summer camp. This is why you must prepare for a break down of society, because the underpinnings of civil society have already been removed.

Today it’s Tila Tequila, tomorrow it’ll be people with extra food in their house. Once we sanction mob violence against individuals there is no turning back. And that is nothing to laugh out loud about.

Cyan Brown is a Hero and Thomas Winston Deserved to Die? Update: Cops Claim She Was Main Aggressor?

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Harsh? Not so fast gentle readers. 16-year-old Cyan Brown was almost gang raped in a wilding attack that began outside a New York restaurant and continued when eight thugs, led by career criminal Thomas Winston, dragged Brown off a subway train she had fled to. Of course being New York this all happened in front of witnesses who did nothing.

Luckily Cyan was able to defend herself, something which the authorities of New York frown upon. From The Daily News:

Several thugs tried to drag a woman off a Queens subway train Thursday night, but she fought back and fatally stabbed one of her tormenters before fleeing on another train, police said.

The large group of men – perhaps as many as eight – surrounded the woman outside a chicken restaurant above the 21st St.-Queensbridge station about 9 p.m., police and a witness said.

The harassment, which may have included unwanted sexual advances toward the woman and grabbing, continued as she entered the subway station.

The woman broke free from the men and frantically ran down to the platform and hopped on an F train, with the thugs right behind.

“They tried to physically drag her off the train, but she fights back,” one cop said.

The struggle continued as the group pulled her off the train and dragged her up the stairs to the mezzanine level.

At one point, the woman stabbed one of her attackers – identified by family as Thomas Winston, 29 – multiple times in the chest.

The woman then sprinted back down to the platform – with the thugs in hot pursuit, said witness Ricardo Josephs, 41.

“Seven or eight of them were chasing the woman,” said Josephs, an MTA employee.

“They all jumped over the turnstiles after her,” he continued. “She got on the Queens [-bound F] train. They tried to grab her; they tried to hold the train – but she got away.”

Winston, who lives in a nearby shelter and has a 10-month-old daughter, was pronounced dead at a Manhattan hospital.

The article goes on to point out that Winston had “numerous” arrests in his past. A follow up story relates that he had faced attempted murder charges. His family, however, claims he was just an innocent bystander, which must be why the teen victim is in hiding:

The 16-year-old girl suspected of fatally stabbing an ex-con lashed out after he and a bevy of men chased her onto a Queens subway train and tried to fondle her, her mother said Friday.

Thomas Winston, 29, and a pack of thugs tried to pull Cyan Brown out of a subway car at the 21st St.-Queensbridge station about 9 p.m. Thursday following an altercation that began outside a nearby chicken restaurant, police and family said.

She fought back and stabbed Winston before she fled on a Manhattan-bound F train, police said.

Winston, the father of a 10-month-old girl,was pronounced dead at a Manhattan hospital.

Although police have not disclosed any official suspects, Brown’s family said detectives have been trying to contact the girl in connection with Winston’s death.

“The guys tried to feel up my daughter and the next thing I know, someone was knocking on my door saying Cyan stabbed someone,” said Erika Brown, 40, the teen’s mother.

Winston, who lived in a nearby shelter, had a long list of prior convictions that included criminal possession of a weapon and selling narcotics and also faced an attempted murder charge, sources said.

But Winston’s cousin Tedra Laws, 31, said he was never in the subway station, but was trying to catch a cab to bring a present to his daughter.

Detectives should be looking for the rest of Winston’s gang, not harassing the family of Cyan Brown. Brown not only defended herself admirably, but she has stopped Winston from victimizing any other women. She is a hero and doesn’t deserve to be treated like a criminal.

Winston, however, got exactly what he deserved.

Update: Cops are claiming that this was an altercation between tow groups and Winston got stabbed after demanding her friend apologize for bumping into one of his. In other words Cyan was a thug and Winston, who was supposedly turning his life around (by traveling the streets with a gang of thugs looking to fight people for bumping into them) died as he lived:

A Queens teenager who stabbed a man to death in a subway was facing charges Tuesday after cops said she was to blame in the Christmas Eve fracas.

Charges were pending against Cyan Brown, 16, who was originally portrayed as a plucky victim who stabbed Thomas Winston, 29, in self-defense after a group of men tried to attack her.

“She was the main aggressor, without a doubt,” a police source told The Daily News.

Brown got into a shouting match with Winston after one of her male friends  bumped into him  on an F train at the 21st St.-Queensbridge station.

Winston, who was with his pals, asked the man to apologize, setting off a confrontation that apparently spilled onto the sidewalk in front of a chicken joint.

“You could say excuse me,” the slain man said, according to cops.

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Winston’s friends chased after Brown, who escaped into the night.

Witnesses believed the teen was fleeing from a gang of aggressive men and told cops they thought she acted in self-defense.

Brown turned herself in for questioning yesterday at the 114th Precinct.

She will face first-degree manslaughter and weapons charges, Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said.

Hmmm. Like I said in the comments the cops in New York aren’t big on self-defense. Winston and company went looking for a fight and got one from some of their fellow hoodrats. Rather than call an ambulance and try to staunch the flow of blood, or call a cop, when Winston got stabbed his so called friends kept fighting. Since Winston was charged with attempted murder just recently I’m not crying.

Of course, all these people who claimed you can’t trust the cops story when they say Winston may have started the altercation are now claiming the cops are 100% right after sweating a confession out of a teen. A confession that the NYPD was, allegedly, under pressure to get since the story was making the city look unsafe. But whatevs. I don’t buy it but the cops got her to admit to causing the fight which makes the city happy and shuts down criticism of a city that allows gangs of thugs to get out of control.

So did Thomas Winston deserve to die? I’ll let the person he recently tried to kill decide. Is Cyan Brown a hero? Not if she got stabby during an argument. But how is a teen girl and a couple of her firneds the “main aggressors” against eight or nine adults? Not buying it.

Update: If Cyan was the main aggressor who just stabbed Winston out of the blue why is she being charged with manslaughter rather than murder?

NEW YORK (AP) – A 16-year-old girl who said she pulled a knife on a group of men accosting her in the subway, leaving one man dead, has been arrested on manslaughter charges.

Cyan Brown surrendered Tuesday with her attorney after police located an eye witness to the Christmas Eve incident at an F train station in Queens. She’s to be arraigned Wednesday.

Police say others witnesses saw her jumping a turnstile and trying to get on the train before the group grabbed her and pulled her out.

The girl’s family says she was on a trip to a restaurant when a group of men chased her onto a subway and tried to fondle her. Fearing for her life, they say she pulled out a knife. Twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Winston was stabbed to death.

A call to her attorney wasn’t immediately returned.

Sounds like the cops threatened her with a murder rap an forced her to plead down to me.

The New Misogyny: Tila Tequila’s 15 Minutes of Fame are Up Says … Paul Heyman?

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It’s no secret that I am a fan of Tila Tequila, and not just because she once linked to a piece I wrote about her shoddy treatment by a certain rotund gossip columnist. Although that and the fact that she Tweeted a nice compliment about my writing doesn’t hurt.

I’m not really a fan of her music which is actually quite listenable if you like pop music but being a Diamond Banger of old it just isn’t my thing. And although I have been accused of simply liking “hot chicks” at 38 I’ve seen my share, many in person, and with age comes the jaded wisdom that almost any women can be “hot” and what’s more important is that a person be interesting. Which Tila Tequila is in my opinion, but even that isn’t why I’m a fan.

No I’m a fan of the Tila Tequila industry, the way Tila Nguyen used the Internet in what was at the time a novel way to build herself up into one of the most iconic American figures of the 21st century.Tila Tequila captured the spirit of the times and was the first to embrace, and fully utilize, web celebrity. She’s changed things, for the better in some ways and some may argue for the worse in others, but she has left her stamp on history as surely as Charles Baudelaire or Alice Cooper.

Tila Tequila seized fame by the throat and dragged it to her while the gate keepers of celebrity, the self-appointed taste makers, could do nothing but wail at their own impotence and insignificance. This makes her unique among all the supposed stars of today and that’s why I’m a fan.

It is also why I was slightly surprised to see Tila Tequila cheap shotted by Paul Heyman, the failed wrestling promoter and professional douchebag who now makes a living running The Heyman Hustle which I think is in some way affiliated with British tabloids, but frankly who can tell? I’m sure that too will collapse like everything else he touches.

Heyman a.k.a. Paul E Dangerously is himself best known for taking the old Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion from obscurity into legend by doing things differently, by changing the very expectations of wrestling fans and that influence can be felt to this day. Not having the business acumen of Tila Tequila, Heyman squandered his success, and the good will of many of the people working for him, by bankrupting the company. Now fans of the 90s phenomenon can watch the WWE dig up the old ECW’s corpse and sodomize it on SyFy every Tuesday at 10:00.

This too is the legacy of Paul Heyman.

But back to Heyman’s cheap shot. While running some pictures of Tequila walking down the street the unlikeable Heyman and his new merry band of soon to be screwed over employees made a little funny:

So, we get these photos of Tila Tequila (heavy breathing commences … now!) and she’s walking by a parking meter in Los Angeles. Our own Hustler De Tuti Hustlers Paul Heyman says “has the time expired on that parking meter yet?”

Of course, we took the bait.

Yes … how did you know?

“Because that bitch’s 15 minutes is waaaaay up!”

Says … Paul Heyman?

Paul Heyman was sort of a proto-Tila Tequila in the 90s. He was Tila without the Internet, sex appeal, and ability to run a business. His destruction of the company his ideas helped make legend is well documented, as was his poor treatment of female talent (like selling video of the infamous Kristina Laum striptease when he promised the performer he wouldn’t even tape it) which I assume helps explain why Heyman would be anything but enamored with the Tila Tequila brand, if not the person. Tequila has surpassed Heyman in that after making a splash she was able to keep afloat, something Heyman has still never proven he can do.

Which is probably the point. Heyman has had his 15 minutes of fame several times over and at least 45 minutes of it wasn’t worth seeing and all have basically led nowhere. Tila Tequila turned her 15 minutes into a career and in doing so altered the pop culture landscape in a way even Heyman’s ECW has not.

When I first started blogging I was actually doing a Sci-fi/Wrestling blog (no longer safe for work!). There I blogged about indy circuit wrestlers like the unfortunately retired Kayla Sparks and wrestler turned fetish icon Tara Bush. Both these young women did what hundreds of bands, wrestlers, models, and other performers having been doing since Tila Tequila became famous, and that’s putting all their promotional efforts into social networking sites and other web-based marketing. Advertisers are throwing money into the web with reckless abandon and the Internet has launched hundreds of careers, and I myself have sold Tila Tequila merchandise to finance Red Alerts on more than one occasion. Tila Tequila’s “15 minutes” are responsible for much of this.

Unlike anyone who’s worked for Heyman,Tila Tequila can be counted on to generate profit. For better or for worse, she has inspired a whole new class of celebrity and a new model for doing business that has had far reaching consequences for thousands of people. Heyman cannot say the same, but he can claim her 15 minutes are up. This is wishful thinking on the part of a man who assumes he’s more important than he is and is irritated seeing a woman do better the thing he almost did well himself. Is this misogyny? Maybe, maybe not.

But hating Tila Tequila has become popular these days, as the outrageous comments on her recent Global Grind piece illustrate. Too popular for it to be explained away. The venom aimed at her is almost as bad as the venom aimed at Sarah Palin, and often by the same people. Like this YouTuber whose channel is set up to mock Trig Palin. She left this comment on a video with Tila Tequila. A video, I might add, that was made to support the oppressed people of Burma:

Tila wouldn’t know her pussy from her asshole if there wasn’t a dude ramming one of them everyday and telling her they are loose as fuck and she is washed up. Bet she smells like fish sauce and poo.

Classy right? But vulgarity aside how different is this from Heyman publishing his insult/fantasy of Tila Tequila being more insignificant than him? Not much if you ask me. Both are seemingly envious attacks on someone who will be remembered as an innovator in this industry, and both are attempts to degrade Tila Tequila and her accomplishments. This sort of behavior should be beneath both, but it isn’t.

Maybe both will have a change of heart 15 minutes from now.

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Elitism, Europhilia, and Roman Polanski

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The basic theme of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the nightmare of a modern virtuous society invaded and corrupted by decadent “Old Europe” style nobility, who act in ways that defy morality and flaunt the laws of society due to their belief that they themselves are beyond the reach of man’s justice. Stoker wrote Dracula at a time when England was surpassing Europe as the cultural center of the West, and his novel was a reaction to the antinomian and often blasphemously obscene art and literature of men like Huysmans or Baudelaire. Dracula in Stoker’s work represents not only the dark antiquity of Europe, where men of low character could, by nature of their birth into noble households, literally get away with rape and murder, but the fin de siècle movement’s seeming embrace of that sort of depravity and decadence.

Dracula, the noble who defied even death (and thus God in Stoker’s universe), took what and more importantly who he wanted without regard to common decency. He murdered, raped, and stole his way through the story, acting as the ultimate metaphor for the evil of Old Europe’s degeneracy for decades. Then something peculiar happened. Post-modern society began seeing Dracula not as a metaphor for the sexual predator protected by his wealth and power, but as an anti-hero rebelling against Victorian morality. There is no Humanities or Literature department, book publishing house or film studio where this is not the prevailing interpretation of the Dracula character. Perhaps those that see themselves as the cultural “tastemakers” of our society, the university professors, leftist “artists,” and the business interests that surround the arts, have vested interests in reigniting the noble-worship of Old Europe, in creating a society that believes in the noble’s exception including their privilege to assault and otherwise molest non-nobles. But anyone having been exposed to some published poet or author (and I’ve meet far too many) knows that this reimagining of Dracula, and vampirism in general, is simply another expression of these people’s misanthropic elitism.

A common expression of this elitism is also academic Europhilia, by which I mean the adoption (primarily by the left) of what they assume are prevailing opinions in Europe and the pretense of a disdain for America. Those of us on the right are mistaken to think the modern academic’s tendency to scoff at “dead White males” and their contributions to civilization as in some way Europhobic. To the contrary, academics have merely adopted two of Europe’s most pernicious and degrading philosophies outside of the idea of the hereditary divine right: Marxism and multiculturalism. So entranced by Europe’s ability to project the air of cultural superiority, the self-appointed elites here have entered vassalage with the new “nobility” of Europe.

Which brings us to Roman Polanski, hackneyed artist, peripheral character in the Manson murders, and violent rapist of children. Roman Polanski drugged and violently raped, both vaginally and anally, a 13-year-old girl. He then skipped bail and fled to Europe where the arts community there, with the open approval of the “tastemakers” here, helped the degenerate continue to work and prosper while avoiding justice. His recent arrest exposed how the people who consider themselves part of the most sophisticated sectors of American society are little more than living caricatures of the gypsies who followed Dracula, doing his bidding and aiding him in his most heinous crimes.

Even though (to her credit) racist Amanda Marcotte tried to commit herself to justice, the negative reaction of Pandagon’s readers made her temper her attacks on Polanski by claiming we on the right are only disgusted by him because we don’t understand his works. No one on the right, you see, is in reality disgusted by rape because of course we’re all rapists. This clearly says more about Marcotte and her relationship with some authority figure she sees as conservative, but since I’m not Marcotte’s therapist I’ll never know for sure. What’s important here is that Marcotte, even while braking ranks with the left, cannot stand to “lower” herself into being on the same side as those she sees as beneath her.

This is elitism in its most obvious form. Pathological, spiteful, and based largely on reinterpreting reality to make these supposed elite minds less sadly pedestrian than they are. In fact, attacking Polanski is the one thing Marcotte has done in her entire life that would set her apart from millions of 15 to 45-year-olds who even now are thumbing through their copies of Poppy Z Brite’s Lost Souls.

But since she fails to understand Polanski’s work herself (implying Rosemary’s Baby is a feminist statement against the patriarchy) I find the suggestion that we righties simply hate art thus we hate Polanski (even though we love raping children apparently) to be the kind of textbook projection those whose identities are dependent on being seen as smarter than others (but who simply aren’t) tend to throw around when they angrily realize that those they hate the most are actually those who they should hate the least.

But at least Marcotte hates rapists as well.

There are 100 filmmakers who signed a petition to “free” Polanski who clearly do not. Whoopi Goldberg characterized the violent vaginal and anal rape of a child, while she cried and pleaded with her tormentor to stop, as not being “rape-rape.” Long time Red Alerts hater and admitted pervert Robert Lindsay claims “sane” people are outraged by Polanski’s arrest. Supposed feminist Joan Z. Shore claims Polanski’s arrest is shameful. She’s a Vassar graduate from New York City who lives in Europe. John Farr claims Polanski deserves leniency, just by nature of being Roman Polanski. Farr thinks movies he enjoys should be given the same status as Classical Literature, and oddly doesn’t think the overrated 28 Day Later was essentially an amalgam of plots from Romero’s Dead trilogy stuffed into one awful movie. Movie critic Kim Morgan thinks that despite drugging, raping, and sodomizing a little girl, Roman Polanski “understands” women though she’s clarified that doesn’t mean she condones his actions. Only letting him off the hook for his actions.

I do not point out these disparate defenders of Polanski and child rape to show that in contrast to Marcotte’s views on rape apologia it is the left that produces the majority of it because this isn’t a political point. This is more of an ethnographic sketch of those Americans who consider themselves culturally and intellectually superior to their fellow citizens. No doubt there is a vast difference between Robert Lindsay, Kim Morgan, and Amanda Marcotte, which is illustrated by the slight variations in their views, but there is an overarching theme here that I would suggest makes these self-appointed elites more of a subculture. They are the American thralls to a mythic Old Europe, where a person’s corpus of work is more important than their penchant for sexual criminality. They believe in a social order in which there are nobles (themselves) and a peasantry (the rest of us) who are devalued for our inability (or unwillingness) to participate in their decades old masquerade. Roman Polanski is who they aspire to be, his victim a meaningless indiscretion for which a man like Polanski cannot be expected to suffer.

Maybe a man named Ronnie Pulaski who worked construction, but not Roman Polanski!

Considered a genius, unencumbered by morality and the complete opposite of what Americans have long considered the ideal, Polanski challenges society in real life the way Dracula challenges Victorianism in Stoker’s novel. Were they better read, they would perhaps see Polanski not as the Gary Oldman version of Dracula, a tortured loved-starved creature punished by a hostile and puritanical God, but as I see Polanski. He is like the Don Juan of Tirso de Molina’s The Trickster of Seville, sinister, spiteful and ultimately damned. But to see that in Polanski is to look past the European trappings and artistic prestige, and to see the man as equal to all others and thus worthy to be judged. This is a step these self-appointed elites cannot take, lest they admit they too can be judged by their true equals, their fellow Americans.

We have our own royalty in America, the celebrities we build up and tear down as part of our entertainment industry. But there is something seductive in the royalty of Old Europe, the idea that a person could be considered worth more than another and never really have to prove it. We all have such pretensions if we admit it, and the best of us cast off this burden to meet the world and all in it as equals, and rise and fall according to our abilities, our sweat, and our blood. Polanski represents for some the easier way, the illusion of class and worth, the comforting lie of elitism. For those who embrace that outlook there is no action too wicked to defend if it props up the lie and reinforces the artificial distinctions between us.

Especially if it happens to those of us they consider beneath them.