There's No Escape From The Racegasms!

I've coined a new phrase to describe the almost sexual pleasure we're getting out of Charlottesville: a racegasm. After years and years and years of talking about white supremacists like they were evil spirits - things that caused all manner of harm and yet were invisible - we had a sighting! The couple hundred morons marching in Charlottesville proved all of our notions of magical evil were true! Richard Fernandez put it best.

Liberation from causality is the cornerstone of "compassion", consequently it is the fundamental positive right offered by all paternalistic states.

It is also a perfect definition of magic. The recent war on statues and the media obsession with formulaic speech recalls the magical principles of similarity and contagion. As every believer of magic knows enchanted objects and special words are the key to changing reality. One destroys white supremacy by toppling statues of Stonewall Jackson, just like a voodoo doll. To use "hate speech", like an infernal spell, risks resurrecting Nazis from the dead.

I stayed away from political sites yesterday, but our parish priest had a huge racegasm right up in the pulpit as he gave his homily yesterday. I wanted to throw up. We had to hear about white supremacists, the KKK and the Nazis again. I guess if you've only got one opportunity a week to have a throbbing racegasm, you might as well grab it.

Yay.

Meanwhile, lost in the racial satisfaction we all feel as we smoke our cigarettes and lie back on the pillows is the fact that we aren't accomplishing anything at all. We aren't even pretending to be doing something real. We're living entirely in the world of fantasy.

Don't believe me? Try this.

Imagine a young, black girl telling her mom, "Gee, momma, I sure hope they pull down that statue of Robert E. Lee soon so your boyfriend stops abusing me!"

Illegitimacy rates by race.

Sorry if I spoiled your racegasm.