White Liberal Guilt. Racist?

Not to long long ago I saw rather touching film that wasn't at all what I expected. Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino", in a nut shell a crotchety old Korean war veteran is settling into his new life as a widower. As the movie progresses from his wife funeral, it is clear he is a man without compassion. Disgusted by his adult kids, grand kids and the ever increasing ghetto of Vietnamese growing about him.
He is a proud line employee from the Ford plant who put the steering column into the Gran Torino he keeps in perfect condition.
In one seance he is a local pub with his buddies sharing racial jokes (His contribution is: A Mexican a Jew and a Coloured guy walk into a bar. the bartender looks up and says "get the fuck outta here")
A shocker in this day and age but even that joke is cleaned up from what we can imagine was it's original form. (You'll have to see the film to see this characters redemption, but it is not what you'd entirely expect from Clint)
I remember thinking , it's been ages since I heard a joke like that. A blatant show of racism, worthy of Archie Bunker.
Now we are less likely to hear such jokes but we swing far to the other side.
The old version of this extreme is "But some of my best friends are...."
A subtler form of racism, where we go to extremes to garner Black (any one remember this Bloom County gem?:
Mrs. Dallas: "Look at the colored children playing outside..."
Steve: "People of color, Mom."
Mrs. Dallas: "That's what I said. Colored children."), Asian, Latino, Gay...etc.

I've seen so many liberals go out of their way to be accepting it's almost as blatant as the far right (I'll pick on my own people) "Mic" jokes.

At some point we have to let go. Yes in the 1960's 70's blacks were still second class citizens. A lot has changed, we have a Black president, several women have made a run at the office, and now the new minority is homosexuals.
I guess we spin one plate at a time. Sure there are still strides to made in the black community, but the majority of hate crimes seem leveled at who and how we love. This scares me. Now the government is still looking into our bedrooms. Sodomy laws, adultery laws and yes oral sex laws are still on the books and in some cases being enforced.
Now we are so scared of sex crimes a 12 year old boys life was ruined for a text message (4-15-2009 Indiana:Boy could face pornography charges INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police are investigating another case of sexual text messages being sent between children. This time, a 12-year-old Perry Township boy could be facing felony pornography charges. Or this gem: Sexting Tweens Arrested in Chicago
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM

Chicago Tribune:

The students were caught when the 13-year-old girl's cell phone rang in class, and her teacher confiscated it, according to a police report. The girl cried that she would get in trouble because a 12-year-old boy sent her a "dirty picture."

The girl and the boy are guilty of playing you-show-me-yours-i'll-show-you-mine—a game we all played as children—but with a tech assist. For that they were both arrested and charged with "child exploitation and possession of child pornography," both felonies." Which is ridiculous. Even more ridiculous: both will have to register as sex offenders if insanity prevails and they are tried and convicted for their "crime." Laws against child pornography are supposed to protect children from the trauma of being exploited by adult predators, not from themselves, and certainly not from games of you-show-me-yours-I'll-show-you-mine. These two children may wind up traumatized for life by the overzealous enforcement of laws designed to protect them. And it that wasn't enough to make your head explode, check out this quote:

Louis Kraus [is] head of child and adolescent psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.... Boys sext because they're proud of their new, more mature bodies, while girls sext because a boy asks them to, he said. Girls want to develop the relationship and think sexting will help, Kraus said. But he warns that's no different than a girl who might be pressured into sex before she's ready.

Girls have no naturally occurring interest in sex, girls are never proud of their new, more mature bodies, girls have no sexual agency or desire or urges or impulses of their own. Girls only want relationships and boys—sex-crazed boys!—know it and use it against girls to get pictures of their bodies because there just aren't enough pictures of boobs available to boys with access to the Internet.

Has this Kraus guy ever met an actual teenage girl?)

Now this is a tricky area to delegate for sure but 12 and 13 year olds as registered sex offenders?

And what about those who lovingly practice S&M?

Here is a more personal case, a 19 year old girl I know was with her boy friend. They were playing soccer. Now she is a fair skinned girl who burns at a picture of the sun. A small knock she has a bruise on her arm. Next day at her school a woman hands her a n Abuse Hotline card, when the girl insisted it was an accident, the reply was "that's what they all say dear, just call that number"
Really? Does anyone else see the dangerous slope we are on? Is abuse a serious crime? Of course it is. Is child sexual molestation an abomination? Hell yes it is.
But when do we put our minds on hold and let slip insanity, and lose all common sense?
What defense is there if there is just an accident? It's like the Life of Brian:


ARTHUR: Hail Messiah!

BRIAN: I'm not the Messiah!

ARTHUR: I say You are, Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few.

FOLLOWERS: Hail Messiah!

BRIAN: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand?! Honestly!

GIRL: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.

BRIAN: What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!

FOLLOWERS: He is! He is the Messiah!

I'm not anti liberal, hell some of my best friends are liberals... I'm not sure what I am, I think the closest is Libertarian, but that makes people cringe so I dunno.
But I am pro use your head. Apply common sense.

I have no idea why this is relevant but I'll close with a quote from Bill Hicks:

"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you"