Frances Poretto on Taboo Language, or Why Tony Macrini Uses Racist Terms

The use of “taboo” terms has created a problem in American society. George Allen is exhibit A. So is Tony Macrini.

Frances Poretto makes a compelling case for why this ought not to be.

Before we proceed, allow me to state a few things very, very plainly.

1.I am a Caucasian of Irish and Italian descent, whose parents were immigrants from those lands.

2.My loyalties are to my family and the United States of America. I would defend either or both to the death. Apart from a mortgage and a car loan, I owe nothing else to anyone.

3.What matters most to me about others is their character: their willingness to respect the rights of others and to discharge their proper responsibilities, without whining about any of it.

4.I believe that there is an American culture, and that it is infinitely superior to all the other cultures of the world, past or present. More, I believe that Americans are the finest people in the world -- that no other land produces anything remotely comparable to our general standard of decency, justice, generosity, or good humor.

5.I believe that the races, as conventionally defined, differ in various ways. The importance of those differences is topical and contextual.

6.I believe that the sexes differ in various ways. As with racial differences, the importance of those differences is topical and contextual.

7.I believe that homosexual sodomy is self-destructive, but that, at least in certain cases, sexual orientation can be changed.

8. I believe that there is such a thing as general intelligence, that it is at least partly inherited, and that it varies widely.

9.I believe that the handicapped should receive our sympathy and compassion as individuals to other individuals, but that they are not entitled to more as a matter of right.

10.I believe that laws that mandate preferred treatment for the members of any group, however defined, are both unConstitutional and destructive.

11.I hold these convictions not because anyone else holds them, but because the evidence of my senses and my own powers of reasoning have led me to them.

According to the major taboos of our time, this makes me a racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic chauvinist abuser of the physically challenged. By copping to all this, I've violated all the major, politically correct taboos of our time: about race, gender, sexual orientation, the handicapped, and multiculturalism. Needless to say, the enforcers of those taboos would like to see me boiled in oil.

They can dip their outrage in beaten eggs, roll it in crushed walnuts, and shove it up their asses.
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I could go on, but I believe the point has been made. The shamans of contemporary linguistic taboos have adopted nigger, faggot, cunt, and the other forbidden words as passwords, emblems of group membership -- and membership, as American Express has been at pains to remind us, has its privileges. No one outside the shamans' circle is permitted to speak the password; it's an arrogation of a jealously guarded status. He who dares must be cut down, ground into the dust, and forbidden ever to speak at all, to any effect, in any context. For as in all systems of nymic magic, the word is deemed congruent with the thing: the taboo words are at the root of the shamans' power. Failure to enforce the taboo would risk the loss of the group's privileges and immunities, laboriously amassed over the decades of exploitation of others' guilt.

Every circle of shamans must have a private language. Better that it be secret, but private above all. The taboo words and their use are all that distinguish the privileged from the hoi polloi. They must be guarded to the death.

Rough language...but it needs to be said.