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"bonfire of the inanities"

Denton has mapped out a route for monetizing the blog world in short order. It is a strategy to provoke outrage and publicity by taking the piss out of celebrities and luminaries of New York and DC. And I don't have any problem with that. It's just that these sites have decided that one way to telegraph their supreme coolness is to continually joke about non-whites as marginalized second-class citizens. It's this casual, damaging disregard that is hard to quantify, and yet, Gawker and Wonkette exemplify the growing phenomenon of white hipsters adopting a casual racism. Is it any wonder so many still feel blogging's a white man's sport?

Africana.com's John Lee: "Blogging While (Anti)Black". Via Romenesko.

Posted by Mike on February 17, 2004 10:06 AM |

Comments

I thought Lee's attack was pretty weak, and misguided. Although the issues he talks about do exist, all over the blogosphere, he picked the wrong targets and backed it up with faulty reasoning.

I posted a pretty lengthy critique of the article here.

Posted by: Jay Smooth | February 19, 2004 3:51 PM

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