The New Porn Apartheid – Luke Ford’s Rebuttal Rebutted

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Britain’s Arena Magazine recently wrote a piece entitled “The New Porn Apartheid”. You can read it yourself by clicking on the scans to the right.

I read it in print in January but didn’t think to comment on it. After reading Luke Ford’s rebuttal I feel compelled to join the debate.

I let the piece slide initially because I was (and am) of the impression that racism in porn – like fixed results in professional wrestling – is too obvious to comment on but Arena did.

Luke Ford disagrees and as a separate matter wrote a rebuttal on his site (base of page).

I like Luke, his writing’s pretty much essential for the industry and he’s often entertaining. This piece I had a problem with. He appears to have agreed with ‘The Bell Curve’ and digested a lot of talk radio but missed ‘Freakanomics’, ‘The Culture of Fear’, ‘Blink’ and ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. His opinions are malformed enough to demand a response. So rising to the bait I go…

Luke writes (Quirk is the author of the Arena piece):

Quirk writes: Sadly, echoes of this racial stereotyping still exist today, albeit in a more insidious form — even among the directors who do shoot interracial. Films like Gangland play on the staple right-wing stereotype of white women straying into bad neighborhoods and falling foul of marauding packs of African-Americans…

What if the stereotype is factually correct? Do you hear about gangs of white men raping black women? The instances of black men raping white women are far higher in the United States than white men raping black women.

How does Luke know what people ‘hear about’? Fear of a stereotypically black sexual super-predator doesn’t mean race is a motivation for sex-crimes. With a minority black population in the US the majority of all victims of black crime will be white.

Even Jesse Jackson said that if he was walking in a bad part of town and he saw a gang of youths following him, he’d worry if they were black.

Is it the fault of whites that blacks in the US commit a disproportionate rate of violent crime?

Poor people commit more crime – worldwide – than people with higher incomes. If you want to get mugged in any city on the planet find the poorest part of town and hang around alone. There’s no racial connection other besides that in America the poor are disproportionately non-white. Prisons are filled with stupid boys who make bad decisions in the ghetto. Stupid rich kids get to run the country.

As for a ‘disproportionate’ amount of crime, what proportion of crime should black people be committing? To do that you’d have to know who’s likely to be criminal seperately from their race and then compare the prediction with actuality. Luke is (I’m sure) suggesting we just compare the size of population segments. Is the Italian mafia a product of Italian genes? Is Moscow dangerous because Russians are predisposed to shooting people? Are the Japanese at UC Berkley different to Japanese Yakuza in Tokyo?

By seeing race and refusing to think beyond it, Luke’s making the same faulty argument made by those who claim that the lack of women in upper-management is due to low IQ.

What do you think would happen if a young attractive women walked alone through a bad black neighborhood? The brothers would want to discuss poetry with her?

I’d love to see Justin Quirk (and those who think like him) send their young white attractive female loved-ones alone into tough black neighborhoods and let these girls walk around for a few hours and see what happens to them.

The biggest problem with that scenario is that the innocent women would pay the price for Quirk’s willful stupidity.

I don’t know what would happen to an individual woman in an individual town but probably nothing. Most people don’t suffer crime most of the time and the people most likely to be victims of violent crime are young black men. What I’d like Luke to tell me is what makes a ‘bad’ part of town? Do too many black faces destroy a neighborhood or is it more to do with education, discrimination, poverty and opportunity?

I think that young woman might find someone to ‘Discuss poetry’ with. I hear it’s pretty popular among young black men. They have a name for it with music I think…

Remember the Chris Rock joke — what do you say to someone who calls you and says, “I’m on Martin Luther King Blvd. I’m lost. What should I do?” Run!

Is it the fault of whites or Christians that most Martin Luther King Blvds (wherever they are in the United States) are not somewhere most people would like to live? The real estate is cheap. I wonder why?

Luke mentions Martin Luther King but doesn’t appear to have read him. King knew that the greatest divisive force between peoples was economic. Poor areas are always higher in crime and real-estate in high-crime areas is always cheap. Chris Rock is a comedian not a social scientist.

Note how in the Arena article Lexington Steele is portrayed in only the glowing terms. This is typical white leftist patronizing of blacks. Lex is not a saint.

I’ve only had positive interactions with the guy. I like him. He’s number one at what he does, but he’s a complete human being. How many porn girls have started bleeding from having sex with Lex (because he’s so big)? A lot. I’ve seen it a couple of times on set. They bleed, not because Lex is vicious, but because he’s abnormally big and many women can’t comfortably accommodate his penis.

Why is busting open chicks (white or black) till they bleed a good thing?

If being nice about black people is ‘patronizing’ that leaves black people with a choice between ‘honest’ derision and being ignored. Tough call.

Take it from someone with a cock so large I strap it to a skateboard to stop it from dragging on the ground – unless you’re violent it’s very hard (impossible?) to hurt someone with a penis. Lexington Steele’s cock isn’t so wide it tears vaginas apart, no ones is. If it was he’d have trouble making movies without a medical team on set if it was.

Does hitting the cervix with the end of a penis hurt? It can. Can you hit it hard enough with a penis to cause bleeding? I’ve never seen or heard of it. Can you ‘bust apart’ a woman with a large penis? Not outside Japanese animation. Luke, call AIM and get proof of women recovering from vaginal bleeding due to the size of a single black penis and come back to me.

Luke finishes his piece by quoting crime statistics in an attempt to shore up his argument (they were added after the initial piece was written).

The statistics he selects, unsurprisingly, show higher rates of crime and incarceration within the black American community than the white one. Luke wants us to think that pre-judging people based on their skin-color is logical and to present the numbers as proof black people are dangerous. He wants to tell us why discrimination is okay.

But he’s wrong.

He works from the assumption that the only difference between sectors of the US population is skin color – which allow for his figures which make no other distinction – to be read as evidence of overall ‘racial character’. He assumes that the police arrest and charge impartially, courts view all people fairly, lawyers defend all parties with equal vigor and that every child chooses the course of their life independent of the prejudices of society. He assumes schools provide equal opportunities to all and that the children of people who only got a vote they could use in the later half of the twentieth century should have ‘got over’ slavery, segregation and the elimination of their ethic roots (if descended from slaves). He forgets that despite Brown vs. Board of Education urban schools are still effectively racially segregated and he says ‘people are the same apart from their race, look how differently they behave’.

Race is a distraction, it’s where and how you live that determines your prospects. Are poor white Americans doing much better than poor black Americans? Not at all. Are the middle classes okay wherever they are and however they look? Always and forever.

Luke’s view is echoes what Germans say about Turks, Irish Catholics say about Protestants, Latvians say about Russians, Finns say about Lithuanians and Hungarians say about Romanians. Look at a map, find a poor immigrant population and the criticisms of the majority will be the same. In our corner of the world that’s used as proof that black guys are ‘too violent’ and ‘their dicks are too big’ often accompanied with ‘my friend new this black guy and he…’ It’s all shit.

Luke should look at his own home in Australia, torn by racial intolerance towards Indians, Japanese and Asians, and wonder why wherever you go it’s always ‘them’ that are the problem.

Porn has enough problems without its figureheads (and Luke is one of them – watch a porn documentary and wait for him to pop-up) voicing such easily shot-down bile.

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