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Teen Jeopardy! Try Hard

I don’t know if you guys have seen all the fawning over a competitor on Teen Jeopardy!  named Leonard Cooper.  He got some net buzz for the week because he almost called his collarbone his “neck bone” and because he wagered all of his $18,000 on one clue, and because even though he failed to provide the correct clue on Final Jeopardy! he gloated, by writing on the little blue screen, about winning the competition anyway.  The funny part about it is that if one of Leonard’s competitors had answered ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’ instead of ‘FDR’, Leonard would have actually lost.

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So you have Leonard doing a series of sort of dumb things, but being lauded by the Net as the next Neil Degrasse Tyson.  The main reason this has become blog-worthy material for me is that Leonard reminds me of the morons at the blackjack table who don’t know the rules, proper strategies, and statistical probabilities of the game but end up winning anyway and then pretend like they’re geniuses.  And in this case, the crowd is cheering him on partly because he’s black and has an afro and because one of his competitors looked like adolescent Mitt Romney.

From the comments at Grantland:

“Also, the best part of Leonard’s swag wasnt even mentioned. While the other two were punching those buzzers as fast and intense as posible. Leanord was just standing there arms crossed, leaned back as if he didn’t even care.”

“There’s nothing wrong with having a normal reaction when confronted with a modern equivalent of the Hitler Youth.”

“I’m just glad that little shit Barrett didn’t win. Watching the teen tournament is probably a bad idea, because it must be unhealthy for an adult to hate a teenager that much.”

“He made me uncomfortable. Definitely a young Republican”

“We were rooting for him all week, I’m thrilled that he won. However, I’m also scared to death of Barrett. He’s so awkwardly intense, but obviously smart, and he’s going to grow up to be a real-life Dr. Horrible.”

“I was watching this yesterday and I gotta say that the best part (other than the genius that is Leonard, of course) was seeing Barrett get punked.”

Besides what seems like a racial element at play, it’s clear that people loathe the try-hard.  Kids who study and prepare and who place an actual importance on achievement are denigrated while those who seem flippant about success and achievement are considered more noble.  This is Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting.  It’s the hipster movement in a nutshell.

What is also funny is that if this weren’t just a kid winning Jeopardy! – if it were something more important – we’d expect some wrangling over the fact that the people cheering Leonard use words like “swag” to describe him.  Leonard didn’t portray swag in any way that the word is meant to describe, yet because he is black he is automatically “swag”.  It’s funny how we can use those race-tinged words when describing something positive, but we can’t when the behavior is negative.

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79 Responses to Teen Jeopardy! Try Hard

  1. peterike 02/17/2013 at 2:59 pm

    The other two contestants are dressed respectfully in jackets and ties. Cooper is dressed like a bum (hey kid, you’re going on television). Of course, that only adds to his appeal. Or rather, only adds to the hate,hate,hate for the other two contestants.

    This is Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting.

    “Good Will Hunting” is very possibly the single worst movie ever made.

  2. Dr. Eric Stratton 02/17/2013 at 3:33 pm

    The try-hard kids can be annoying–think Tracy Flick from Election–but the comments about Hitler Youth and Dr. Horrible are really asinine.

    I thought I was the only one who hated Good Will Hunting.

  3. nick digger 02/17/2013 at 3:37 pm

    Her friends call her Enid.

  4. PA 02/17/2013 at 3:47 pm

    “Good Will Hunting” was a great movie about a diamond in the rough lower class white guy, about redemption (for the Robin Williams character), and about mentorship. All Hollywood products have liberal sucker punches embedded in them, even “conservative” movies like Forrest Gump, but I don’t recall any egregious ones in that one.

  5. well 02/17/2013 at 3:50 pm

    If there’s something I’ve learned over the years, it’s that it’s always about race. Whenever you’re dealing with the type of person who claims to be progressive about race, it’s always about race. Always.

  6. SOBL1 02/17/2013 at 3:55 pm

    You cited Katie baker yesterday from Gawker. I’m pretty sure she is a writer for Grantland. Grantland really is the SWPL sports site. The writers’ photos at the bottom of articles look like they are trying to out-douche each other.

  7. RomanCandle 02/17/2013 at 4:08 pm

    No, I hadn’t seen any of the fawning. Thanks for ruining my day Chuck.

  8. G Manifesto 02/17/2013 at 4:12 pm

    White people come close to hero worship for black people. Literally to the point that to be called “white” is an insult and “black” a compliment. Even for a slightly awkward nerd like this guy his blackness is immediately what puts him over the top.

  9. brian 02/17/2013 at 4:58 pm

    Kid looks like he fell off of a Jackson Five album cover.

  10. GH 02/17/2013 at 5:15 pm

    A lot of normal people and teenage girls were rooting for Barrett on Twitter, with bizarre comments like this one in the minority: “I never thought I’d root so hard against a teen I don’t know as I am with the mini Paul Ryan/future date rapist in this Jeopardy tourney.”

    Leonard actually held back on his last Daily Double and only bet $18,000 of his $18,200. If he had wagered everything, he could have guaranteed that a tie with Nilai was the worst possible outcome.

  11. anonymous 02/17/2013 at 5:58 pm

    Barret (the white kid) appeared to not understand how the buzzer system worked, which cost him a lot.

  12. Anonymous 02/17/2013 at 6:37 pm

    “it’s clear that people loathe the try-hard. Kids who study and prepare and who place an actual importance on achievement are denigrated while those who seem flippant about success and achievement are considered more noble.”

    The secret to being cool has always been to not care about much of anything. Not taking anything seriously is probably the single easiest way to inspire adoration. Guys like Heartiste call it “amused mastery”, though it works wonders outside of dating too.

  13. anonymous 02/17/2013 at 6:45 pm

    I’m also not opposed to the theory that the (ahem, jewish) producers of jeopardy cheat to get the outcome they want. I mean, the try-hard “yes sir no sir” clark kent cartoon gets the final answer (about an obscure dead white male, no less) correct but still loses to the “too cool for school” black kid in the afro… couldn’t have gone better if they fixed it that way… which is why I think they may have.

  14. Dr. Eric Stratton 02/17/2013 at 6:48 pm

    I’m fairly certain Leonard goes to a STEM charter school. He’s likely nerdier than the afro suggests.

  15. Broken_man 02/17/2013 at 7:07 pm

    couldn’t have gone better if they fixed it that way… which is why I think they may have

    Play along with this script and you get paid beluga dollars, and if you disclose this arrangement, the money must be repaid with interest and all other damages sustained by Jeopardy! Corp must be compensated – and civil penalties for breach of contract in addition ?

    The legality of such an arrangement is plausible. Jeopardy is not beholden to its viewers for any authenticity in its contest. (Or is it?) Does it represent anywhere, or at any time, that the show is not fixed ?

    On the other hand – it is almost impossible to imagine the participants keeping a lid on it.

    I agree that is very well likely is fixed; certain shows and times. Not all the time and actually very seldom, would by my hunch. Everyone knows reality shows are scripted as hell. Those got “reality” in their title and there is no disclaimer for them.

  16. Broken_man 02/17/2013 at 7:12 pm

    Barret (the white kid) appeared to not understand how the buzzer system worked, which cost him a lot.

    What a stupid idiot. Apparently he’s got some smarts, but when it comes down right to it, that white kid is a moron.

  17. K(yle) 02/17/2013 at 7:15 pm

    I’m also not opposed to the theory that the (ahem, jewish) producers of jeopardy cheat to get the outcome they want.

    This was revealed to have happened on some British game show recently, IIRC. They gave the answers to a black female contestant who was hailed as a genius.

    There have been a lot of accusations of rigging game shows. The first million pound winner on the UK’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire? was allegedly rigged for ratings reasons, and there have been multiple accusations of rigging on The Price is Right, involving the machinery.

    Game shows were introduced to television in the 1950s, and there was widespread scandal because it was revealed by insiders that they were all basically rigged.

    Perhaps not by coincidence to this particular game show, Eisenhower personally commented on the matter and congress passed laws preventing this from happening.

    Who knows what the law is like now though, or if it even matters, if the show runners would get prosecuted for rigging a game for the “right” reasons. As that’s the province of the Justice Department I assume they can do whatever they want.

  18. JustSayIt 02/17/2013 at 7:24 pm

    It’s always about race with black people. Race is a constant conversation among black people. Go on youtube and practically every black channel with an uploaded video has a video about race. Many channels are solely dedicated to race. And these are videos with the users’ face shown, not videos of pictures of objects and graphs and a voice. They are totally comfortable with saying the most inflamatory things. Black people use white people and the jealous and resentful attitudes they have toward us to unite themselves. It’s the only thing that unites them. At any other moment they are giving each other the side eye. They are a low trust group.

    How many black people will be smelling themselves and stop working now that swagnificent Leonard won?

  19. nikcrit 02/17/2013 at 8:03 pm

    I think it’s sort of paranoid to think the Jeopardy episode was rigged to produce a black winner. If that’s possible and part of the plan, than why is it so rare an occasion? I mean, if the goal was to fabricate this sort off ‘p.c.meme dream,’ or whatever you wanna call it, as plain and evident reality, then wouldn’t the goal be to routinely pre-manufacture such outcomes, which would more convincingly ground the illusion? Rigging entertainment is not uncommon —– though its imperative is usually the financial success of the entertainment product, not inculcating some ideological conceit. To the extent that does happen, I’d say it’s coincidental to the financial imperative.

    @Kyle,
    FWIW, I like the even and measured analytical detachment to many of your comments, but your comment here and a few other recent ones makes me think you suffer from “Jews Under My Bed” syndrome.

  20. James K. 02/17/2013 at 8:04 pm

    The laws against game show fraud are very much still in place and are taken very seriously. Those who have been on Jeopardy! say they are closely supervised at all times and cannot even go to the bathroom without being accompanied, lest they meet with a rogue staffer or recover a hidden answer sheet.

    You can believe what you want, of course, but the vast majority of Jeopardy! champions are white men, no black person has ever won the overall Tournament of Champion, and it seems pretty over-the-top to claim fraud merely because we now have one black Teen Tournament winner in just under thirty years. Also, the losers would have to be in on it, and as was proved in the original 1950s scandal with Herb Stempel, they ultimately have no incentive to keep quiet.

    The cheater on British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire cheated with the help of audience members, not the producers of the show. I couldn’t find any record of this alleged British black woman cheater. Do you remember any more details?

  21. Tom 02/17/2013 at 8:34 pm

    @nikcrit

    Why would they need (or want to) rig every show? That’d just make it obvious. Instead, if they’re smart, they’ll rig only the shows that will get talked about. That way, when somebody points out that something doesn’t seem right, they’ll have the body of evidence from shows nobody cared about to suppress those thoughts.

  22. Kaz 02/17/2013 at 8:47 pm

    It’s just a trivia show guys..

  23. mike 02/17/2013 at 8:48 pm

    I couldn’t find the British black woman cheater either

  24. James K. 02/17/2013 at 8:53 pm

    Again, you can believe what you want, but Cooper is hardly likely to become a major celebrity. I don’t think I’d risk jail time for good publicity on Grantland. And if it were rigged, they would have been smart enough not to create the obvious “he wasn’t guaranteed to win” plot hole.

  25. nikcrit 02/17/2013 at 8:55 pm

    Why would they need (or want to) rig every show?

    I didn’t say or imply that they should.
    I swear, those with the race-realist perspective seem to want it both ways in this instance: the fac t that black Jeopardy champions are rare itself jibes with r.r. beliefs re. aggregate racial IQ distribution —— yet this very rare, onetime testament to their beliefs must be suspect because—– umm—– it’s so rare!

  26. mike 02/17/2013 at 8:57 pm

    Also for the record I have zero suspicion that there was cheating on Jeopardy, one of the things I like about the show is how there is clearly no affirmative action going on because there are virtually no blacks or indios who even make it on to the show. You can see the stark contrast with Wheel of Fortune, which is basically a luck game.

    It is worth noting that it took a miracle for this kid to win, he needed that late daily double which was basically a gimme and he still could have easily lost. Writing what he did seems kind of arrogant and disrespectful to the game – seriously, he couldn’t even come up with a guess? I don’t want to extrapolate too much from it, but it almost seems like the “actin white” mentality – look I won and I dint even need to know no bullshit about no world war 2″

  27. Sal 02/17/2013 at 9:02 pm

    No doubt people like Leonard will assault/rob/rape the DWLs who love him so much. No shock there.

  28. stonerwithaboner 02/17/2013 at 10:09 pm

    ” The main reason this has become blog-worthy material for me is that Leonard reminds me of the morons at the blackjack table who don’t know the rules, proper strategies, and statistical probabilities of the game but end up winning anyway and then pretend like they’re geniuses.”

    hahahaha, back in the day a guy would occasionally wind up with a woman out of his league. Hence the term getting lucky. Now all you guys read roosh and heartiste with your hands down your pants and “game” is your religion. Is HBD your other religion?

  29. Davis 02/17/2013 at 10:33 pm

    HBD has been proven to be a farce following the swagalicious victory of Leonard over the white supremacist teens. Thank you for the insightful comment, StonerBoner. Back to David Brooks and Maureen Dowd for this embarassed and now former, HBD believer.

  30. miss c 02/17/2013 at 10:38 pm

    I’d rather watch Good Will Hunting a million times a la Clockwork Orange, than Little Miss Sunshine one more time!

  31. K(yle) 02/17/2013 at 11:08 pm

    The cheater on British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire cheated with the help of audience members, not the producers of the show. I couldn’t find any record of this alleged British black woman cheater. Do you remember any more details?

    I’m talking about the very first winner, not the guy who cheated with the coughing. This was way back in 2004 or 2005 IIRC when the show was running in the same timeslot as a series finale of some British drama, and it was alleged by an anonymous BBC insider that the producers engineered the first ever win for ratings.

    As for the other instance, I only vaguely recall reading about it in the past week. I’ll post it OT if I ever stumble across it. I would have filed it away had I known there was going to be a post on game shows here, but unfortunately I just skimmed it and have now forgotten it.

  32. Emma The New Wave Feminist 02/17/2013 at 11:18 pm

    @anonymous

    Got any evidence for that, dudebro?

  33. Emma The New Wave Feminist 02/17/2013 at 11:21 pm

    @anonymous

    Hey, got any evidence for that, dudebro?

  34. Emma The New Wave Feminist 02/17/2013 at 11:30 pm

    Whoops, sorry for the double post.

    @PA

    Goodwill Hunting is ok, but needed more Ben Affleck and less Matt Damon.

  35. C.R. 02/17/2013 at 11:47 pm

    stoner,

    you rarely make sense. be coherent or stop posting.

  36. stonerwithaboner 02/17/2013 at 11:59 pm

    hahahahahaha….

    It’s simple…

    the guy won because of a series of fortuitous events…

    you could read the art of war and it’ll tell you, know the enemy, have a 50% chance of victory….

    know thy self have a 100% chance of victory…

    well, the reality of the situation is much more complex, maybe you win because your soldiers fight better in cold weather and because of a series of fortuitous events they were better fed and better rested-not necessarily a better army….

    or you could pontificate and sell an e-book on “game”

    am I making myself clear my overeducated, underemployed “friend”?

  37. C.R. 02/18/2013 at 12:05 am

    that made less sense than your first post.

  38. stonerwithaboner 02/18/2013 at 12:12 am

    hahaha,

    does that mean I’m banned, it’ll be the 3rd blog this week ;)

  39. Reym 02/18/2013 at 1:07 am

    I don’t see any need for accusations of foul play here. Guess what guys, sometimes a black will win. Some people…

  40. map 02/18/2013 at 2:15 am

    Good Will Hunting is a terrible movie because the main character had no real problems to overcome. He gets discovered as a math genius and gets a full ride to MIT. He’s a great and close circle of friends that are always on his side. A really cute girlfriend who is in awe of him. Job offers up the wazoo.

    Why, then, is Will Hunting acting out? Why is he so torn? What possible issues does he have?

    The movie is ridiculous.

  41. C.R. 02/18/2013 at 3:07 am

    stoner,

    you fucking idiot someone already linked the Maker’s Mark story. plus, I read about it almost as soon as the story broke about 13 hours after you posted the link.

  42. Joe Bloegh 02/18/2013 at 5:31 am

    Off topic, sort of….the only Robin Williams movie I thought was funny was “Good Morning Vietnam”….when I was a teenager. Once I got older and re-visited the film years later and realized pretty much all his “comedic” references(besides the cheap toilet humor) in the film were the typical garden-variety Hollywood-approved ball kicks against mostly conservatives, my already-waning interest in the film imploded, and in the trash the vhs tape went. His other films I’ve seen….absolute crap and embarressing.

  43. Broken_man 02/18/2013 at 6:45 am

    The ways in which a game show might be gamed are endless. A detailed script involving all players would be the most far fetched – more or less impossible to keep up that charade.

    It would take one producer as the secret agent operator, acting on a wink and nod from higher ups, and one contestant, to slant things toward a dramatic outcome.

    Sports events are fixed occasionally, it happens in politics legally and not. In game shows themselves there is a history of fixing. So it is against the laws at the federal level, sure, but.

    All that said, the argument that a black winning once in a lonnnng while is evidence that the show is not fixed, is fair. What is fishy in this production is the stock characters and the drama play. As if it were made for television !

    But as always, on the other hand – it might be pointed out that whites do look like Mitt Romney and blacks do have afros.

  44. Ryu 02/18/2013 at 7:00 am

    More negro worship, just another form.

    On another note, what is this? G Manifesto writes something pro-white? GM, come with me and confess your sins. After you’ve atoned, you will be accepted back into the fold.

  45. Broken_man 02/18/2013 at 7:02 am

    Good Will Hunting was an unrealistic portrayal of that sort of polymath all around genius.

    In the flick, Will was one of the top ten math guys in the world. He accomplished this seemingly effortlessly, between his other diversions – mastering American history, biochem, mopping the halls and running the street.

    That unrealistic portrayal of top skills in a *discipline* such as math, is somehow really wrong. That misunderstanding of what it takes to master a discipline of the mind is sorta emblematic of the decline, in education in America, and of the country in general.

  46. K(yle) 02/18/2013 at 7:48 am

    Robin Williams’ character in Good Will Hunting is supposed to be Howard Zinn; Matt Damon’s favorite, life-changing professor.

    The movie’s political agenda is masked by having all of the characters be white. If Will was black the agenda would be clear. As it stands it’s basically painting a picture where your fate as an individual is essentially random.

    There are guys like Chris Langan that have extreme cognitive ability that never matriculated through academia, but they also tend to ruffle feathers there instead of being embraced with open arms.

    There is another real life Will Hunting that became a professor later in life and is a critic of the politics of his fellow professors as a kind of anti-Marxist, although I can’t remember his name off the top of my head.

    That’s the real untold story in Good Will Hunting that would have been hilarious to explore. How close to Howard Zinn is Will Hunting politically, realistically speaking? How likely is Howard Zinn to help a Will Hunting that is your typical incipient Nazi Masshole that just happens to have a 200 IQ?

  47. PA 02/18/2013 at 8:20 am

    “typical garden-variety Hollywood-approved ball kicks against mostly conservatives”

    Every product of Hollywood will have liberal sucker punches embedded in it. Even ‘conservative’ movies like Forest Gump. Remember that if it’s an established or an official institution, it is not yours. Other than creating our own art, best we can do is assume a Mindweapons approach and scavange the useful parts from popular culture.

  48. superdestroyer 02/18/2013 at 8:32 am

    C.R.

    I have judge several high school science fairs (the kind that has students from the S&T magnet schools) and have has several white students try to play the game Mr. Leonard Cooper played. The first thing I think is that if I am standing there in a jacket and tie, they should be too. The second thing I do it ask question to knock them off of their standard talk and to determine if they really understand what they are talking about. I have found that the attitude and hipster act does not cut it on a one-to-one level.

  49. Camlost 02/18/2013 at 9:26 am

    OT, but hilarious:

    http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/17/opinion/russell-model-genetic-lottery/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

    Victoria’s Secret model Cameron Russell apologizes for being white and “winning genetic lottery”.

  50. PA 02/18/2013 at 9:42 am

    That’s funny Camlost. Apologizing for winning the genetic lottery is like apologizing for being so fucking good looking, smart, and all-around awesome.

  51. Lara 02/18/2013 at 10:12 am

    Good WIll Hunting did at least portray a white gentile as smart, so I suppose we should be grateful for that.

  52. PA 02/18/2013 at 10:14 am

    And not just smart, but all around awesome.

  53. peterike 02/18/2013 at 10:16 am

    Didn’t mean to derail half the thread with “Good Will Hunting” comments! But for a succinct demolition of that dreadful movie:

    http://www.jamesbowman.net/reviewDetail.asp?pubID=601

  54. asdf 02/18/2013 at 10:40 am

    A lot of people hate try hards because so much of life is bullshit. School is for the most part bullshit. Then the vast majority of people grow up and get an office job at some megacorp. Their jobs end up being mostly bullshit.

    So all of the people they know that “try hard” are mostly bullshitters and psychopaths. The kind of people that treat office politics like a job, because their real job only takes 1-2 hours of work a day and has a 50% chance of being totally useless in the next re-org.

    Morever, there is some status signaling. People who try hard are automatically saying, “the outcome matters to me.” People who don’t are saying, “the outcome doesn’t matter to me.” Why wouldn’t the outcome matter? Because the “prize” isn’t something you need, because you already have it or something better.

    Do rich people care about climbing the corporate ladder to get a 20% raise? No. Do men who can get all the chicks and experiences they want without earning a bunch of money care a lot about money? No. When you try hard you signal that you are desperate. That’s why your trying hard.

  55. anti-racist 02/18/2013 at 10:44 am

    the Black Man run it

  56. Carlos the Bunny 02/18/2013 at 11:37 am

    The outcome of these shows is largely determined by the casting. Can they determine the exact outcome? Not really but when they produce hundreds of shows every year, its a matter odds. Let’s see, we have a charismatic afro-can american male, let’s pit him against a nerdy young republican looking guy that appears smart but has zero common sense. The contrast will be pure entertainment. They could have just as easily put afro boy up against a couple of white kids who would have cleaned his clock. They test these contestants ahead of time to make sure they know what to expect, generally how smart/dumb they are. The goal of diversity is zero white people and these types of pairings reinforce the equalitarian myth. The casting of television and movies plays a huge role in shaping the worldview of many viewers unfortunately.

  57. stonerwithaboner 02/18/2013 at 11:41 am

    ” plus, I read about it almost as soon as the story broke about 13 hours after you posted the link.”

    wow, you HBD’ers must be into some weird time travel stuff, 13 hours after I posted the link…

    yes, I am an idiot, I got a Masters Degree in Finance ;)

  58. PA 02/18/2013 at 11:49 am

    Nah peterike, that James Bowman review is all wrong. Snark and butthurt, written like by a feminist. He has a problem with Will’s character being a larger than life epic hero but without the heroic deeds.

    Fair enough if that’s not your thing but the archetype is a fixture in American cinema, going back to James Dean. Hell, many of us on the alt-Right have no doubt felt like a rebel without a cause and can relate to Damon’s character.

  59. RomanCandle 02/18/2013 at 11:49 am

    stoner’s posts make a lot more sense if you just assume that he has a tumor that is increasingly compromising his cognitive abilities.

  60. James K. 02/18/2013 at 3:10 pm

    Carlos: This was the finals of a tournament.

  61. Carlos the Bunny 02/18/2013 at 3:29 pm

    Thanks for the correction James.

  62. E. Rekshun 02/18/2013 at 6:26 pm

    Black “teen” Leonard looks like a 25-year old man.

  63. GregB 02/18/2013 at 9:13 pm

    Heh, traipsing through the many slyly bigoted comments here, just after reading this from a (white female) friend on an email list:

    “I remember way back, working for the seed company, when the owner decided the smart thing to do was to use a temporary help agency. He saw the upside as being free to treat workers as the disposable objects he believed them to be. The downside, of course, was that temp workers often have the very same attitude about their assignments.

    And so it came to pass that one of our temp workers FTA and I had to call the agency and request another warm body ASAP. Only requirement: the person be able to run a cash register and make change. I’ve never forgotten the conversation with the owner of the agency:

    She: “I’m afraid the only temp I have available right now that meets your needs is African-American. Would it be all right if I sent her?

    Me: “. . . ? What has that got to do with being able to run a cash register? Why would we care?”

    She: “Oh, that’s the reason many of our clients use temp agencies. It allows them to specify what type of employee they want, and those they don’t. I have several clients who instruct us to never send African-Africans.”

    I got off the phone bemused (again) by the fact that there are so many so-called professionals who are so ignorant of even the very basic laws governing their professions, they have no idea they’re breaking said laws.”

    Sounds like a lot of you folks like to use temp agencies…

  64. peterike 02/18/2013 at 10:02 pm

    Oh GregB, ya big lug ya! Heh, traipsing through the many slyly bigoted comments here,

    SLYLY bigoted? I would hope my bigotry rings through loud and clear. I guess I’m not trying hard enough. As for your bemused little friend’s story, oh gosh she’s just so NOT racist!

  65. Davis 02/19/2013 at 12:29 am

    Your (white female) friend has most definitely said the correct things in reference to African-Americans, GregB. She has demonstrated her status to you and many of her other friends and acquaintances. You have also demonstrated your anti-racist bona fides to us in an amusing and fun way. Thanks, GregB, a person who doesn’t see color but has 20/20 vision when it comes to spotting injustice. Good for you!

  66. Lapidarian 02/19/2013 at 9:36 am

    GregB -

    Let us hope your friend the white female is ok. Sounds like it was a pretty traumatic experience. With time, those events will recede and be placed in a rounder perspective. Sharing can be cathartic – and so it is good that you have done that here.

    Peace be with you, and Godspeed on your journey.

  67. Woodshed_rabbit 02/19/2013 at 9:43 am

    In another note, those apocryphal stories of workplace discrimination, for instance the temporary agency and their alleged jim crow, are simply – incredible.

    A temp agency admin is gonna say on the phone something that in and of itself is enough to get the place closed down with a class action suit ?

    Because it is so unlikely that they would be prosecuted for racial discrimination – that would never happen !

    And yet dolts just lap it up.

  68. Joe Bloegh 02/19/2013 at 10:31 am

    The “white female” friend sitting pretty, no doubt, in her manicured, suburban la la world & reacting all butthurt to the “racism” exhibited by the temp-hiring companies without even bothering to consider and examine the highly-possible event(s) contributing to said “racism”(I call it street smarts) seems to define clearly this modern-era anti-racism PC police as a natural by-product of frustrated, amoral, conceited, upper-class feminazis such as Hitlery “PLEASE fall down again” KKKlinton and this douche-ess, the white womyn friend.

  69. K(yle) 02/19/2013 at 12:08 pm

    without even bothering to consider and examine the highly-possible event(s) contributing to said “racism”

    Actually the whole story sounds entirely fabricated and almost certainly is. There are whole websites dedicated to people bitching about work experiences that are now dominated by obviously fake stories just like this one.

  70. Anonymous 02/19/2013 at 1:21 pm

    I don’t know that the actual outcome of the show is rigged, but the way that Jeopardy selects contestants seems to be. I have a friend who won the audition yet was not called back.

  71. CH 02/19/2013 at 3:27 pm

    PA: “Apologizing for winning the genetic lottery is like apologizing for being so fucking good looking, smart, and all-around awesome.”

    It is nauseating, but she has a point. Winning the genetic lottery for one’s looks is qualitatively different than winning the genetic lottery for smarts. The former winners don’t have to do anything but show up and men throw themselves at their feet. The latter winners have to do something with their gifts to earn rewards. They have to make something of their smarts. They can’t just show up and look pretty; they have to demonstrate their lottery winnings by amusing people or carving out a handsome living.

  72. nikcrit 02/23/2013 at 11:16 am

    “It is nauseating, but she has a point.

    Agreed.
    The model makes a point shared by tons of other attractive women; when I worked in press and publicity in the music biz, it wasn’t uncommon to routinely come across ‘professionally beautiful’ women who were totally jaded and cynical about their looks; many of them were into dope and/or had become lesbians.
    To me, the lesson there is: when you have a God-given talent or feature that is genetic rather than earned, AND you end up selling that talent and feature in the open market (e.g.,say, being a model, if legit, or whoring, if in a underworld market), then you lose to some degree that part of yourself forever, and you’re always going to be somewhat m ore cyncial and detached when it comes to that part of your self.
    I’ve seen that consistently apply to attractive women, but also certain writers and musicians who’ ve sold or created some marketable trait that is related to a very specific part of their being or talent, making it a profitable if rote bit of product.

  73. Joe Bloegh 02/24/2013 at 7:36 am

    “Actually the whole story sounds entirely fabricated and almost certainly is. There are whole websites dedicated to people bitching about work experiences that are now dominated by obviously fake stories just like this one.”

    Yes, I understand; I’ve seen the sites. However, women like that exist. Art(even low art) imitates life.

  74. James Kabala 02/25/2013 at 10:16 pm

    What do you know – there is about a 99% chance (due to his commanding lead after the first day) that a black man is about to win the overall Tournament of Champions tomorrow. This one comes across as cocky, but not in a stereotypically black way.

  75. GH 02/26/2013 at 1:39 pm

    I just saw Colby (the cocky tournament favorite James mentions) described on Twitter as “Kenan Thompson method acting as Chandler Bing”. Watch him today if you can.

    Also, you should take the online test next year. Make up for Sailer’s loss back in the 90s. I suspect quite a few bloggers on the GLP Approved list would do pretty well on the show, actually. (Sailer describes the experience here and comments on the selection process in the comments.)

  76. Thrathra 03/01/2013 at 9:22 am

    These are some pretty sad comments folk. Why can’t you just be happy for the kid? Scratch that, I understand why (he’s black), but to blame his win on a Jewish conspiracy…pathetic. No different that the liberals you complain about always blaming everything on race.

  77. Joe Bloegh 03/05/2013 at 8:53 am

    Thrathra, you’re right, nothing to complain about here….except just another in a sea of examples of the global media-approved white-boy shaming displayed by the douchebag comments referenced in the article, though that’s(sadly) expected(their transference, that is).

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