brilliantbrown

Hello all, now that Don Imus is fired, hip hop is under attack, and Michael Richards’s comedy stand up tour will only sell out at KKK rallies, its about time BrilliantBrown steps in and tells everyone about the Insult Ladder before we have a serious incident.

The premise of the Insult Ladder is simple and public figures follow its simple theology, they can make fun of people AND stay out of trouble! Now before I lay out the theory behind the Ladder, keep in mind, just like any conceptualized set of rules, there are exceptions, and we will cover these at the end of the article.

Now, the Insult Ladder is laid out as follows:

WHITE MEN

BLACK MEN

BLACK WOMEN

WHITE WOMEN

HOMOSEXUALS/TRANSEXUALS, ETC.

OTHER MINORITY GROUPS (MEXICANS, CHINESE, ETC.)

The rules of the Insult Ladder is as follows:

A) All parties underneath you CANNOT be insulted publicly without repercussion or public humiliation and

B) Parties above you CAN be criticized without fear of public backlash

Pretty simple right? Yea, I know I should have forwarded this to every aforementioned public figure a year ago, but I was busy, ok?, sorry for the public fallout.

Basically, if you follow the order of the Ladder, it means that white men cannot publicly criticize any other group of people without backlash from Al Sharpton (Dom Imus vs. Rutgers), or activist groups (Senator Rick Santorum vs. Gay and Lesbian Medical Association). Similarly, black guys will be publicly ostracized if they criticize women (the whole Nelly-Spelman College debacle), gays (Tim Hardaway’s famous last words), or any other group below them on the ladder.

Conversely, a group such as black women can get away with criticizing a group ABOVE them on the ladder such as black men (C. Delores Tucker’s crusade against hip hop, particularly young black males). White women CAN criticize white men, black men, and black women all day, but they will get their hands slapped if they go after homosexuals.

The exceptions are, of course, comedians, actually RELEVANT comedians whose rhetoric is not mean-spirited (George Carlin, Chris Rock, etc.).

So there you have it, once you become famous, remember the insult ladder before you go on that talk show and you’ll be alright. That’s ok, I know you’re thanking me now.

Thoughts?

AJ