Seeing racism in Deval Patrick's attempt to bring back a tax
By adamg - Fri, 02/08/2008 - 10:09am.
Philip Greenspun, who is a pilot, doesn't like Deval Patrick's effort to revive a sales tax, repealed in 2002, on aircraft and aircraft maintenance:
... Maybe "young, gifted, and black" translates to "try to tax things that can move at 500 mph; send jobs to states governed by old, boring, and white people. ...
Yeah, because as a white person, I sure feel put upon that Patrick is going to try to tax my personal jetcopter, the one I was promised as a kid.
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Now, is this irony?
I mean, seeing race in Deval Patrick's plan is, itself, pretty racist. Just saying.
Not to mention the added irony that the repealed tax was meant to keep jobs/people/things in Mass. and was the brain child of a legislator who left the Commonwealth anyway.
uhh
Who the hell does this guy think he is? What an obnoxious and racist post. Why do you post this stuff in the first place?
I suppose I need a disclaimer
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I linked to it because I thought it was such a ridiculous thing to say and that other people might also think so. You might want to Google Greenspun; he's actually one of those grizzled Internet veterans you read about from time to time.
Internet Veteran?
I'd have thought he was the subject that messed up the table at Starbucks (or his/her parents) judging from the maturity level of his rant.
"Reverse Discrimination" is typically bandied about by those who deeply fear losing their special unearned privileges ... regarless of the matter at hand.
Cranky but often interesting
His own description of the nature of his blog:
A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months
Greenspun has a certain ...
Greenspun has a certain ... notoriety ... among many who know or know of him.
And he deletes comments that contradict him
I wish I had saved a copy of the comment I left on his blog post. I had a feeling when my first line started "What do the adjectives "young" "gifted" or "Black" have to do with taxation? You know this has the stench of bigotry, right?" he might take it down. Gotta love censorship!
Sure enough, he deleted my comment, which went on to state, in wholly non-offensive tones how many ways this tax made sense. And had nothing to do with race.
Of course internet guru or not, clearly he accepted the premise that he is, indeed, a bigot. Otherwise, he would have responded as to why he was not. Surely there's a reasonable explanation, right?
What a jerk.