The last sentence of Peter’s comment is the critical one:
When you are going to list all the Whitakerisms out?
Just put them in a post like this, archive it, and put a link to it in the sidebar.
The first four would be the Drumbeat about multiculturalism is a code word for White genocide, et al., that you have on your front page.
Then you would list the others down in order from most important to least.
Somewhere in there would be this:
72) There are two things EVERY forensic pathologist has to do to keep his job:
A) Be able to tell the race of a murder victim from a few dessicated remains and
B) Declare publically that race does not exist.
When you come up with another, you place it in the list. From time to you can refer to it, like please see the Book of Bob, verse 72 b and we would all know what to do.
Or would that be wordist?
Comment by Peter
MY REPLY:
You GOT it!
A list of Whitakerisms amounts to a Book of Whitaker.
I don’t keep track of Whitakerisms because they are a WAY of thinking.
Joe said of one of my writings,
“I notice this piece indicates a great deal of dependency. Also, attempts to manipulate people. Come to think of it, isn’t that what politicians do? ”
He is dead right. I am trying to manipulate you, not JUST into quoting me, that is done by a lot of people who don’t know they’re doing it, but into thinking in terms of “Peterisms.”
As I said below, I want you to listen to someone saying race doesn’t exist and THINK about hwat they are saying.
Obviously, and that is the word, obviously, what they are saying reflects an attitude toward non-whites. If Simmons had thought out his observation carefully, he would realize that this “race does not exist” business represents an attitude toward non-whites that is so patronizing it would a SLAVEHOLDER blush.
If I manipulate you correctly, I am going to hear an endless stream of Peterisms and Joeisms and Shariisms and Simmmonsisms.
Whitakerisms fall out in the course of my writings. I don’t keep track of them individually. They are VERY useful arguments to USE. But behind them is a WAY of THINKING that WORKS.
I want to manipulate you into thinking that way.
There will be no Book of Whitaker.
#1 by Peter on 01/30/2006 - 1:39 pm
Granted that we all will respect your wishes, I don’t buy it.
When I mentioned citing you chapter and verse, I put a little winky face next to it, so you knew it was a joke.
Summarizing some of your pithiest statements in one place would simply do what your archives do, but would be a lot easier to access. If that were wordist, then so would be everything you write.
If the real reason is that it would take a lot of work, I understand. Even if a volunteer here offered to comb through the archive for you, you would still want to go over what they did. And even if there be things that are tucked away in an article we skipped over, your blog is here.
If the real reason is modesty, I understand.
If the real reason is something you have not mentioned, I think we would respect your wishes.
In any case, you must realize that this is not an attempt to put anything upon you; it is a compliment.