Why Leo Laporte Dropped the “N” Word on Twit #401…?

I do not want you to liberally and recklessly assume that Leo Laporte is a racist—unless you define racism like I do here in the rasx() context:

Anyone is a racist who assumes, like Santa Claus, that the concept of “race” is real.

I’m no fool. I know that racists are real (and I know that racist atrocities are real) but I do not assume that the content/aesthetics of a racist has any bearing on scientific reality. The rise of corporate media/propaganda—ever since Hitler put “Yes!” on posters without any explanation—makes it abundantly clear that scientific reality is of no importance. You get enough of the masses to assume any little shit is true then it becomes like reality—you know, like, whatever…

So, anyway, here’s my wild, savage guesses as to why Leo pulled this stunt (timecode—42:17):

• Leo just hired his first real African-American dude, Lamarr Wilson, and Leo is fucking with him. This ideally came about because Lamarr held out for some actual money on the deal around his hiring. I can speak from experience that some single-digit millionaire “white” males can get scared around their debts mounting and business cooling—so take it out on the new guy (a new expense). Try to hurt him like you are hurting—push a button in a passive-aggressive, pussy-like way… Leo may be thinking some silly shit like, “Lamarr is using my money to get all these bitches in the ’hood and have all this sex that I’m not having… let me fuck with him…” What Leo does not understand in this silly hypothetical is that there are no hood bitches after Lamarr’s “big money”—Leo would be operating with outdated cultural information from the 1970s, most of it fiction written by non-Blacks.
• Leo knows that John C. Dvorak is a Libertarian (and ever-so-slightly pro-white) and even though these guys are long-time friends he gets tired of Dvorak’s shit—so he used Lamarr’s “dark presence” to crap on Libertarian, state’s-rights rants.
• Leo does not want to look like a “liberal weakling” in the wake of hiring his new Black guy—so he appeals to the Wagnerian trolls in the cheap seats (in the chat room) to look like a real “man.”
• Leo is trying to get some media storming around him (like that Adria Richards outbreak) because, once you start doing advertising for underwear (Man Packs?), shit has to be tough… (and, Leo, I am not giving you any publicity because “no one” reads this Blog)…
• This one is very subtle: Leo is trying to actually form a real friendship with Lamarr by removing any perceived barriers between them in a very violent way. It’s almost like flashing money in front of a hooker in a very rude, aggressive manner just to let her know that money is not the issue. So Leo is saying to Lamarr that he is not racist by acting like a racist…

Whatever the real reason it was a fucked up, Reagan-era-college-kid thing to do (—because something like this actually happened to me when I was in a Reagan-era college). The problem is that Leo has made it permissible to unleash the real goat boys out there who can really, really make Lamarr’s life horrible—or at least uncomfortable. I’ve experienced this shit before on a very small scale in the past: once the childish authority figure sets a workplace context, then punk-asses have a field day… It can be quite uncomfortable when the entire Internet is your workplace…

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