The Klansman Who Won't Use The N-Word

In this chapter of Ransom’s piece Them: Adventures with Extremists, he sheds light on the true beliefs and morals of the leader of the Ku Klux Klan and few other Klan members. Ronson addresses the history of the KKK including different beliefs various leaders had. The Oklahoma City bombings and Muslim extremists are mentioned in the piece. Specifically, Ronson goes to a Klan rally, in the mountains of Arkansas, and talks to Thom Robb the current leader. Ronson, being an English Jewish journalist, is very intrigued by this leader’s standpoint on white supremacy. This Klan leader clearly is infuriated by Jews, especially for taking over Hollywood, and of course with blacks. However, Robb stresses that the KKK main purpose is to endorse and spread white supremacy opposed to discriminating against Jews and blacks. Although the author clearly doesn’t agree with the Klan leaders views, he thinks he touches on some crucial moral dilemmas that can be used universally. For example, Thom Robb is disgusted and thinks people are stupid for using the n-word because it gives a bad connotation to people in general and is a word purely used for hate.

      In my opinion this piece was very interesting, but to be blatantly honest, I can’t seem to believe that Thom Robb, the Klan leader, is even somewhat of a good person. Just because you don’t think a certain offensive word shouldn’t be used or you believe people should think before they act, you can still having a very cynical and racist viewpoint on things. Even though, this man might have a non violent and peaceful method of expressing his views, he still is a discriminator who believes in the suffering of other people who don’t fit the white, Christian type.       

BITCH

Gross’s Main point in her short piece “Bitch” is that the definition of bitch is becoming solely used to define a women and has been generalized so heavily that freedom of expression and the word bitch are being grouped together.  Gross writes out the different definitions of the word bitch spanning many years. She also talks about what many writers and different people think of the word bitch. Everyone used the word bitch in a different manner but they all generalize women with a bad connotation. For instance, Gross talk about Lady Ashley and her book The Sun Also Rises and a character in the book as bitch “…because she overturns the male/female nexus” (Gross 82) . A woman who tries to escape the stereotype of a quite man-pleasing person is called a bitch. However in the black community saying “hey Bitch” is somewhat accepted and is commonly used. In Gross’s search for the meaning of the word bitch, she intends for the people to truly understand what they saying when they use the word and how they are downgrading females in general.

This piece is pretty interesting and informative on understanding the many ways the word bitch is used. I feel like she right in that she’s trying to make people aware that many women are downgraded for expressing themselves or even doing nothing, but bitch is just a word. Philosophically speaking, even if there wasn’t a word called bitch, there would still probably be a word to express how men feel about women that’s definition would be eerily similar to bitch. So making us aware of the many meanings of the word bitch is just basically stating the many ways that women across the world are discriminated against. Lastly to me personally, I think the word bitch currently more than 15 years later is used to describe both guys and girls but is still used more commonly with females.         

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