The Unapologetic Mexican has a great, articulate post about how some guy* in Arizona, USA named “Jon Justice” thought it would be hilarious to make a video of himself, molesting an effigy of Isabel Garcia, a human rights activist.
I can’t claim that I know anything anything about Garcia or her work, but in my opinion, Mr. Jon Justice is not reacting to her work. I have been sitting here for the past hour trying to write something without introducing my fists to the keyboard and inventing new words.
This is a perfect example of how racism and sexism inform one another. This is a white man showing off that he can dominate a brown-skinned woman if he wants. This is a white man saying, “shut up or I will shut you up.” This is a white man, in a position of power, letting all us dang uppity women of colour who want rights know that he has the ability to rape us into submission if he so wanted.
No, don’t bother learning about her work so that you may criticize it appropriately. No, don’t even bother engaging in a debate. Just strip her of anything she has ever worked for, right down to her race and her gender. Resort to racism and sexism. Yeah, that’ll be funny. You’re only speaking the truth, Jon Justice!
I hope he gets fired.
*Yeah, I don’t give a shit about your “work” either.
Hmmm… stellar post, as per usual.
I’m tempted to send this link to the author of this comment ( http://boboleechronicles.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/the-day-i-met-jim-crow/#comment-108 ) on one of my posts to read.
But most likely, if I do, she’ll dump it in the spam queue!
She most likely would toss it in the spam queue. I wish I could say I hadn’t heard that reasoning before (“It wasn’t me who did it!”). I thought your reply was appropriate. Logic seems to fail people like that.
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Thanks.