Malkin Strikes Again

        The hideous Michelle Malkin did it again in her Sunday op-ed piece, and I’m still trying to figure out if she is aware of how low she went or simply doesn’t care anymore.

        The general tenor of the column was to bitch slap anyone of any cultural or ethnic subgroup who dares to object to the hijacking of their traditions by others for any reason.  This has become known by those on the extreme edge of the debate as “cultural appropriation.”   She does, to be fair (a concept with which she is relatively unfamiliar), cite some extreme examples of overreacting such as an Asian objecting to a non-Asian wearing a Chinese style silk dress to a prom. There is some truth to the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. She also, however goes on to essentially chastise any and all cultural/ethnic groups who object to wholesale ethnic mockery, which is what in many instances, some celebrations have become.

        To Malkin, anyone objecting to such shenanigans is just a whiner. I will use a Cinco de Mayo inspired quote from a friend and former student, a Navy veteran of Mexican descent: “Do me a favor; don't pretend to be hip to Mexican Culture today, when I have seen you the rest of the year bash on Dreamers, deported Veterans, cry about food rotting, yet bitch about "jobs being taken" from someone. Go choke on a ****** (use your imagination) instead, because the other 364 days a year, you are a bigot.”     

       St. Patrick’s Day is rife with much of the same tom-foolery by persons who the rest of the year are anti-Catholic and xenophobic in general. What hit me a moment after I finished the article was the realization that Michele Malkin would probably have seen blackface minstrel shows as just “good clean fun honoring the Black tradition” instead of the crude, insulting parodies they actually were.

         Malkin, a spoiled, “anchor baby” herself, lives in a world where almost no one is really raped, instead just makes false accusations; where because she is above it due to her relative wealth and position, discrimination doesn’t exist, and where Ann Coulter is just one niche below Joan of Arc in the Pantheon of female heroes. As a person of color, she lives under the delusion that since she “made it” in America, everyone else can. Walter Williams and Ben Carson have similar delusions, minimizing the fact that they were blessed with opportunities that many - far too many - others will never have. Instead of giving back, effecting positive change, they just hurl invective at anyone to the political left of Genghis Khan.