{"id":38687,"date":"2011-08-15T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38687"},"modified":"2013-11-09T06:15:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:15:35","slug":"on-markets-for-hateful-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/15\/on-markets-for-hateful-language\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Whites Have Become Black”: On Markets for Hateful Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In case you were wondering whether some people continue to conflate Blackness with criminality, listen to Historian David Starkey in this BBC interview<\/a> about the London riots (key language transcribed below; start at 1min and stop at 2min for an idea). Trigger warning<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in this language together… A\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0patois that has intruded in England… literally a foreign country… It’s not skin color, it’s cultural…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Starkey has made a career saying offensive things<\/a>; he appears to hate everyone except for white gay men (which is what he is). \u00a0So it’s no surprise that he is the one saying these things. Still, his long career as a cultural critic and pundit suggests that producers believe that there is a market for hateful language. \u00a0That market is likely composed of both people who find offense and draw attention to Starkey in order to oppose his views, and people who agree with him and are pleased to hear a famous PhD saying what they believe.<\/p>\n

In a perfect world no one would say these types of things but, in a non-perfect world, perhaps it’s good that\u00a0occasionally\u00a0people do. \u00a0It’s an opportunity to have a conversation about our collective values. \u00a0Then again, this is easy for a white person to say. \u00a0As a committed anti-racist, these words are hard for me to hear. But they no doubt resonate painfully deep in the heart of many of the people targeted by this venom, another twist of the knife in a lifetime of personal and political wounds.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Laura F., Ernie P., and Jari P. for suggesting we write about this.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you were wondering whether some people continue to conflate Blackness with criminality, listen to Historian David Starkey in this BBC interview about the London riots (key language transcribed below; start at 1min and stop at 2min for an idea). Trigger warning: Transcript of selected phrases: A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38687"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58738,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38687\/revisions\/58738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}