In case you missed Bryan’s post: on Friday, Michael Eric Dyson appeared on MSNBC and fashioned a joke regarding the residents of Tennessee, saying that his experience living there led him to believe evolution perhaps hasn’t occurred within its borders.
Dyson has a history, perhaps a career, of repeatedly hitting conservatives with vague, unsupported charges of racism — see here and here, plus note his contribution to the dumbing down of university culture here, which you kinda need to click to believe. Yet, in responding to me, he precisely threaded about four needles to keep his own bigoted remark from receiving that characterization.
Following Bryan’s post, I took to Twitter to see if he would defend direct criticism of his remark. He replied with some prototypical Alinsky-style answers. I cannot know if he believes them, or if he simply choose to defend his name with the whole magazine of leftist cliché.
@J_Friendly @NowWithAlex I meant that for the backward thinking far-flung fringe that resists progress on all fronts! Tongue-in-cheek shot!
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@J_Friendly Not at all my friend! My apologies if you took it that way. Any criticism from you on regressive thinking in Tennessee?
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM Man up? This is a testosterone battle? I’ve already offered an apology. Now answer my question about YOUR views on TN regression!
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM #blogconclt #tcot There are plenty of people of ALL races in Tennessee. Your argument is as thin as your premise of my racism!
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM #blogconclt #toct You’re wrong my friend, and increasingly belligerent! Peace.
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM #blogconclt That’s YOUR language and presumption. I’m done. If you can’t be civil, no more responses from me. Peace.
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@MichaelEDyson You say TN unevolved, then take mantle of CIVILITY? You call Limbaugh racist -how do his remarks compare w yours? #blogconclt
— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) April 20, 2012
@MichaelEDyson = bigot, hypocrite. Calls Limbaugh a racist, but says he himself isn’t, even after this –> pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04… #blogconclt
— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM #blogconclt #tcot #p2 Here’s a brilliant thinker who lives in Tennessee @timjacobwise, one of my favorite folk in the world!
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@MichaelEDyson Book recs? Let’s add “condescending” to charges. You said something bigoted: stop shifting the topic. #blogconclt #tcot #p2
— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) April 20, 2012
@MichaelEDyson @timjacobwise “A superior mind”. Your agent would advise against such language hours after calling TN unevolved. #blogconclt
— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) April 20, 2012
Greetings, @timjacobwise: @michaeledyson is filling up your timeline to avoid coming clean over this –> pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04… #blogconclt
— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM @timjacobwise #blogconclt Ah, glad you’re nice to Bro Tim. No such thing. You drew a conclusion that I was speaking of whites,
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM @timjacobwise #blogconclt when I mentioned no race, or even signified racial intent. In fact, I have written about unenlightened
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM @timjacobwise #blogconclt views in Tennessee, but they have to do with black churches and their unevoived views of women in the
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM @timjacobwise #blogconclt church. So you see, sir, you have leapt to false conclusions based on fallacious reasoning, and you
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@DavidSPJM @timjacobwise #blogconclt have no basis upon which to argue my “racist” views. Mr. Wise is brilliant on engaging the racial
— Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) April 20, 2012
@MichaelEDyson @timjacobwise Sorry for my slowness, I was attempting to balance a Schlitz on my sloping forehead. Go Vols! #blogconclt #tcot
— David Steinberg (@DavidSPJM) April 20, 2012
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