Boy, Dr. Moore, you certainly have your work cut out for you.
Check out this latest posting:
DCP wrote:Thus, it’s quite odd to have recently been accused of harboring some sort of bigotry against Hispanics.
Earlier in the month, as is my annual practice, I posted a birthday tribute to my father. In passing, I mentioned that several of the Mexican-American men who worked for my Dad’s small construction company became something like extended family for me, especially when I was just a boy. In some corners of the internet, though, I’m held to be incapable of ever saying anything that’s honest or doing anything that’s good, so it was suggested that my comment about the Mexican-Americans at Dad’s company was a lie. It seems, if I understand correctly, that I’m a bit of an English-only white supremacist, or something of that sort.
I hate to contradict such carefully researched sentiments, but they’re . . . well, false. I was around men like Celestino Beltran (my “Uncle Tino,” when I was really young) and his brother Frank, and Joe Esparza, from the time I was a little boy. And I find it extremely difficult to dislike my grandchildren and my daughters in law.
(Note that there are links connected to the men's names in the OP.)
As is his normal practice, he does not provide a link to the source of these "accusations," but I knew what he was referring to.
See for yourself if his characterization is accurate:
Dr. Scratch wrote:DCP has posted--quite literally--tens of thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of blog posts, comments, and so forth. Have you ever heard--even once--of him hanging out with a Latinx person--let alone, treating a Mexican-American like an "extended family" member? Were Juan, Jorge, and Armando invited to the last Interpreter party? What about the last Smithmas party? (Or are they not invited because they're Catholic?) Perhaps the lone time I've ever seen him even describe "contact" or interaction with a Latin American person was when he got caught ogling Jennifer Lopez's rear-end on Facebook. I'm calling BS on this particular claim.
No wonder he ever posts a link, right? Unless I'm mistaken, his most recent posting may very well be the first time he has ever mentioned being regularly in the company of people of color. (And it needs to be pointed out that his interactions with those men was from a position of privilege: Peterson's father was their boss.) His original post attempted to portray this as a sort of charitable kind of relationship. Was it? Who knows?
In any event, it was apparently that remark that led him to conclude that he'd been accused of some "sort of bigotry against Hispanics" or of being a "English-only white supremacist." Quite the distortion, no? But this has a bearing on Dr. Robbers's very astute observation concerning the conflicting ethics of the Mopologists. I guess what this shows is that, yes, they view MDB as a legitimate "hate site," but they are indeed willing to compromise their values for $10,000.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
