Kramer

So Kramer, alias Michael Richards, is a racist. Or at least he says racist things. Or at the very least, he says things that the Determiners of Racism consider racist. And you, as part of “the public” are supposed to condemn him, boycott him, and not laugh at him anymore because he is not funny from now on. Exactly how is this in any way removed from Stalinesque, Kimjongilian Nazi (gasp!), McCarthyite (gasper!), Evolutionisonlyatheoryist (gaspest!) garbage-as-treasure? It’s not. It’s insulting to suggest it is in any way different from any other kind of PC bullying (remember, Kim is PC is Pyongyang) to tell the public what it should think and do in a case like this. To take matters from bad to absurd, Kramer goes to the original Naked Emperor and the Palace Fool, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, to “apologize” and seek healing of his ideological malady. Why would anyone not hop happily aboard the next train to the GULAG or VC “re-education” camp before submitting to such Abughraibian groveling?

Here’s what is really offensive— not racist comments, but the notion that we are supposed to condemn racism while overlooking or even praising all other miscreant conduct. Celebridiots like Babs, George Clooney, and Ted Turner, say things that are not only offensive, but downright perverse, every day, every where, ad nauseum. They make the remarks in public forums specifically for news consumption. They advocate a pretty narrow and readily recognizable list of policies they want implemented that would severely cripple the United States and American society; destroy them in fact as the entities that many, perhaps most, Americans would like them to be. No need to go into the list here, it is well known.

Now of course even the cannibals' rights folks have every right to advocate anything they want to. But advocating something is by definition activist. It means the Advocates want something actually done—in this case, in my opinion, very harmful things. They are actively working toward that goal, not just saying that America Sucks in some passingly insulting manner.

Not so with Kramer. Simply being hateful toward a group of people isn’t advocating anything. It is just personal opinion. Kramer hasn’t advocated one thing that would make me poorer, less safe, or subject to regulation by delusionals. Babs has. George has. Ted has. Kramer didn’t campaign for David Duke. Many celebridiots did campaign for Jesse Jackson, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry--- people who have far more actual ability to harm this society than one freaky person spewing the Dread N Word possibly could. Kramer didn’t advocate anything or anyone. He just expressed rage and a personal opinion in a socially frowned-upon manner. In a private venue, not intended as a press conference.

So Kramer is supposed to be blacklisted for expressing a personal opinion many find offensive but that doesn’t pose any danger. While any number of other show biz figures are supposed to be cheered for the “courage” of wanting their country to lose a war. And actively pursuing that agenda. The Dixie Chicks’ freedom of speech is denied when people boycott their product, but Cosmo Kramer should be held accountable by the public by never working again. If there were Oscars, Emmys, Grammies, or Hero of the Hollywood Soviet awards for hypocrisy, how could the tiny statue manufacturers possibly keep up?