{"id":67194,"date":"2015-04-08T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67194"},"modified":"2015-04-08T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:31:25","slug":"the-accidental-gawker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67194","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental Gawker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavin McInnes writes<\/a>: Whenever I see liberals salivating over some black guy I\u2019ve never heard of, my first instinct is always suspicion. Call it \u201cObama Trauma.\u201d When they described Neil deGrasse Tyson like he was the second coming of Christ, I suspected he might be merely mortal. Turns out, I was right<\/a>. So, when some obscure South African comedian became heir to the Daily Show<\/em> throne, I was convinced it was not because he had comedy chops but because he symbolized some kind of Kumbaya version of the world. The woman who hired him basically said as much. She told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>, \u201chaving someone with a global perspective is important for us.\u201d If you check out his stand up, you will likely end up at this video<\/a> where he talks about walking down the street as a kid in South Africa and having to avoid his white dad because interracial marriage was illegal. This makes him look like some kind of global Freedom Rider but it\u2019s a lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…We soon learned Noah will be fine because he\u2019s protected by a force field of liberal institutions. This makes him immune to all criticism including that of other liberal institutions. There are limits to this force field however. Comedy Central will stand by an anti-Semite if he\u2019s black but the New York Times<\/em> isn\u2019t going to go near a South Asian who fraternizes with the enemy.<\/p>\n

Razib Khan is a scientist with about four million words floating around on the Internet (his estimate). This led to him getting a job at the Times<\/em> as an Op-Ed columnist but because he has written for this site<\/a> and VDARE and he once admitted he is open to IQ data, a blogger at Gawker \u201cexposed\u201d him as a racist. Khan lost his job immediately. I published an article on my site entitled<\/a>, \u201cWhite Guy Gets Brown Guy Fired For Being Racist\u201d and asked for help tracking down the author JK Trotter<\/a>. Soon after, Keenan Trotter (as he\u2019s called in real life) emailed me and agreed to meet. These reckless idiots have messed with my life so many times<\/a>, the visceral anger has been replaced with curiosity. Is this just wanton sabotage of society or do these people actually think they\u2019re doing the right thing? I wanted to meet this specimen purely for scientific reasons.<\/p>\n

Within a few days I was at a lunch spot in Brooklyn with someone who personifies everything that\u2019s wrong with the world. I obviously don\u2019t trust a guy whose job appears to be wrecking other people\u2019s lives so I secretly recorded the conversation and also had some spies sit at nearby tables to covertly document the meeting. We skipped the small chat and got right to what makes this little prick tick. It was immediately obvious he was gay so I asked him if he was bullied as a kid and felt the need to go on a revenge bender. He said he grew up in liberal Milwaukee and had supportive parents so that was out. I asked him why he had Khan fired and he denied such a thing had happened. At least Gawker blogger Sam Biddle had the balls to admit he destroyed<\/a> the life of that chick who made the AIDS joke about Africa. Trotter\u2019s expos\u00e9 came out 24 hours before Razib was let go. Trotter\u2019s own post says<\/a>, \u201cThe New York Times<\/em> has quietly cut ties<\/a> with Razib Khan\u2026 following our post<\/a> highlighting Khan\u2019s association with right-wing racist publications.\u201d Trotter had a nauseating smile almost the entire conversation that would seem sinister if he wasn\u2019t so doughy. The most I could get him to concede was that his post \u201cmay\u201d have lead to Khan\u2019s termination. He asked me why I wasn\u2019t angrier at the Times<\/em>. \u201cI didn\u2019t want him to get fired\u201d Trotter told me like the whole thing was a big surprise. Then he said something that gave me the creeps. He said, \u201cAll I did was publish some interesting information about [Razib].\u201d It sounded so willfully dishonest and devoid of responsibility it bordered on sociopathic. If these bloggers think they\u2019re destroying evil careers in the name of human rights, I get it but if this bull in a china shop keeps saying, \u201cWhoops! Did I do that?\u201d after every broken plate, I don\u2019t know what the hell is going on in the world. He seemed concerned that I was horrified by the way he said, \u201cinteresting.\u201d Despite being a professional life vandal, he looked genuinely upset when anything negative was directed his way. When I told him Gawker bloggers never go anywhere and a career in snark is a dead end, he looked genuinely hurt. I suspect this applies to the vast majority of bloggers who dish it out at these sites. If their own lives were subjected to half the scrutiny they devote to their careers, they would be crushed. This is exactly why I want more of them exposed. When we discovered the narrative of the rape victim<\/a> carrying a mattress around campus was far from reality<\/a>, we should have included the reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis<\/a> in the public shaming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin McInnes writes: Whenever I see liberals salivating over some black guy I\u2019ve never heard of, my first instinct is always suspicion. Call it \u201cObama Trauma.\u201d When they described Neil deGrasse Tyson like he was the second coming of Christ, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67196,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67194\/revisions\/67196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}