Some may ask “what happened to Ben Stein?” The answer is he’s the same asshole he always was. He maybe got more assholey as he got older as lots of people do, but always an asshole, through and through.
Left out of Stein's whitewashed history is how everytime Black people build a solid, wealthy neighborhood that thrived, it got burned to the ground and stolen by jealous white neighbors.
Well, and how the banks kept Black people in ghettos.
I could begin to agree with Ben Stein but he sure wouldn't like where I'd go with it.
In my life and experience I've had a lot more in common with people of similar educational and economic status, than differences based on race or othe factors.
I have a lot more in common with my Black, Latin and LGBTQIA+ neighbors than with, say, poor whites or white suburban Republican Christo-Fascists.
There are many reasons corporate interests push their version of diversity as being focused on differences rather than similarities. Chief among those reasons is the need to distract people from recognizing that one thing they have in common is getting hosed by those same corporate interests.
Even the Fascists don't go too far pointing out that in strictly numeric terms, American cops murder more white than Black people, and they kill a lot fewer people the more money those people have, regardless of race. But, I wouldn't argue that too strenuously with Dr. Cornel West, for instance; racism is too real an evil, intertwined though it is with economic warfare.
Ben Stein would have none of this. He just wants his inferiors to be happy with their lot and stop being depressing Debbie Downers about how savage inequality, enforced by violence, is destroying the America that has privileged him so richly.
Scheduled rant, there are so many more interesting figures of racial relations in the bad old days. James Baskett in Song of the South had a measure of dignity and autonomy.
Some may ask “what happened to Ben Stein?” The answer is he’s the same asshole he always was. He maybe got more assholey as he got older as lots of people do, but always an asshole, through and through.
A less enlightened person would remind him of all the racist stereotyping the Jewish people endure. But he knows that and does this anyway.
Left out of Stein's whitewashed history is how everytime Black people build a solid, wealthy neighborhood that thrived, it got burned to the ground and stolen by jealous white neighbors.
Well, and how the banks kept Black people in ghettos.
Yeah, somehow, I doubt he'd love having a Nazi-esque drawing of "Uncle Schlomo" hawking bagels.
I thought he gave all his money away on a stupid game show.
Win Ben Stein's Honey.
Ben Stein hasn't changed. He's just revealed himself more fully.
I could begin to agree with Ben Stein but he sure wouldn't like where I'd go with it.
In my life and experience I've had a lot more in common with people of similar educational and economic status, than differences based on race or othe factors.
I have a lot more in common with my Black, Latin and LGBTQIA+ neighbors than with, say, poor whites or white suburban Republican Christo-Fascists.
There are many reasons corporate interests push their version of diversity as being focused on differences rather than similarities. Chief among those reasons is the need to distract people from recognizing that one thing they have in common is getting hosed by those same corporate interests.
Even the Fascists don't go too far pointing out that in strictly numeric terms, American cops murder more white than Black people, and they kill a lot fewer people the more money those people have, regardless of race. But, I wouldn't argue that too strenuously with Dr. Cornel West, for instance; racism is too real an evil, intertwined though it is with economic warfare.
Ben Stein would have none of this. He just wants his inferiors to be happy with their lot and stop being depressing Debbie Downers about how savage inequality, enforced by violence, is destroying the America that has privileged him so richly.
Will no one rid me of this turbulent asshole?
All the net worth sites say he's worth $20+ million. Why does his kitchen look like a rental?
Scheduled rant, there are so many more interesting figures of racial relations in the bad old days. James Baskett in Song of the South had a measure of dignity and autonomy.
What an irrelevant, sad little man.
“Grim reaper, grim reaper, grim reaper…”
It’s all in MTV bucks
Dude, get some real maple syrup and stop being a racist old weirdo.
Poor Ben has to make his own pancakes instead of going to Sambo’s, like he did back when Reagan was governor