Kramer is forgiven!
The hell he is!
Now that I've got your attention....
What is so mind-boggling about that tirade of neurotic explosive prattle is that he had enough presence of mind to consider the response of the heckler and to have what could be called racist reparte: "Because you wouldn't shut up...." And this is a reason, he would have us believe. At that point the tirade accelerates. There's no inner censor, no recognition. And he wasn't overcome with rage; he demonstrated contempt--because it was inconvenient to have to deal with a heckler. Imagine--a performer sending a heckler a bill for heckling. That's like sending the Orioles a bill for losing.
And to make the perfect come-back, people of color said, quietly, "That's totally uncalled for." Had they lived down to the stereotype they would have burned the place down and ran out with the stereo equipment. Want to hear something worse? On the TV screen in this bar at the Holiday Inn a moving marque spells out, "Is he forgiven?"
There is nothing to forgive. You don't forgive an ocelot for not being a snail, and you don't criticize a guppy for not doing calculus.
This is not an issue of forgiveness. This is an issue of identification. As a physician, from watching him I have reason to believe that he may have some form of explosive disorder, probably either a seizure focus, or personality disorder, possible ADHD, possibly alcohol. (Now--where have I seen that recently?)
As a physician, I quickly noted these labels pass my consciousness. But I'm also and more fundamentally--a person, And as a licenced certified person with the State of California, I have diagnosed him as a disgusting bigot. Human garbage.
That's my diagnosis. Forget about the bill.
--Moshe Posner
moss david posner
david.posner@comcast.net
Now that I've got your attention....
What is so mind-boggling about that tirade of neurotic explosive prattle is that he had enough presence of mind to consider the response of the heckler and to have what could be called racist reparte: "Because you wouldn't shut up...." And this is a reason, he would have us believe. At that point the tirade accelerates. There's no inner censor, no recognition. And he wasn't overcome with rage; he demonstrated contempt--because it was inconvenient to have to deal with a heckler. Imagine--a performer sending a heckler a bill for heckling. That's like sending the Orioles a bill for losing.
And to make the perfect come-back, people of color said, quietly, "That's totally uncalled for." Had they lived down to the stereotype they would have burned the place down and ran out with the stereo equipment. Want to hear something worse? On the TV screen in this bar at the Holiday Inn a moving marque spells out, "Is he forgiven?"
There is nothing to forgive. You don't forgive an ocelot for not being a snail, and you don't criticize a guppy for not doing calculus.
This is not an issue of forgiveness. This is an issue of identification. As a physician, from watching him I have reason to believe that he may have some form of explosive disorder, probably either a seizure focus, or personality disorder, possible ADHD, possibly alcohol. (Now--where have I seen that recently?)
As a physician, I quickly noted these labels pass my consciousness. But I'm also and more fundamentally--a person, And as a licenced certified person with the State of California, I have diagnosed him as a disgusting bigot. Human garbage.
That's my diagnosis. Forget about the bill.
--Moshe Posner
moss david posner
david.posner@comcast.net
posted by Moss David Posner | 6:28 PM
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