Jason Whitlock is a man who chooses to make money by being a dick. He, of course, is not alone in having this business plan. And he is hardly the most prominent proponent of the philosophy. The ‘King Dick’ crown goes to Tucker Carlson, who has worn it since the demise of Rush Limbaugh.
The two dicks came together on Carlson’s Fox Nation TV show, where they took the opportunity to celebrate mankind‘s glorious history of misogyny. And rue that decent people today think that atavistic bigotry has no place in a civilized society. Let Whitlock explain,
“I probably am a sexist pig, so I can care less if I am called that, but the patriarchy is a good thing. It is what God intended. Men are supposed to lead, men are supposed to be out front, taking risks.
We are responsible. I have some ministers on my show every Wednesday and we talk about it all the time. Again, this is if you have a Biblical worldview.”
It is no surprise that some men think that men having it all is just fine. And that there are also some men, who make their money by perverting the Bible more than it already is, who think that the Bible is the be-all and end-all when it comes to social organization.
But Whitlock has not thought this through. Or he has and is just choosing to ignore some inconvenient truths. History is indeed replete with male leaders. But for every leader, there were thousands of other men held in servitude, tied to the Lord’s land, or otherwise crushed under the heel of autocracy. You could hardly say they were ‘leaders’. Whitlock needs to look no further than his family history to find evidence of this arrangement.
Carlson was only too eager to agree. He offered the classic logical fallacy that because something has always been a certain way, it must be the best way for something to be. He said,
“Why are you not allowed to have that opinion. Why is that so controversial? That was the opinion of every society like from the beginning of time until about twenty minutes ago.”
If you believe that things should be the way they always were - and further, that the Bible is the preferred instruction manual — then you should lobby to get rid of modern ideas like universal education, medicine, the internal combustion engine, electricity, and TV (with all its dismal political commentators and their excrescent guests). There is more. You should add the newfangled political idea ‘democracy’ - and the arriviste concepts of ‘individual liberty’ and ‘natural rights’ - to the scrap pile.
But luckily for dicks, their audience is uncritical — and never make it past the headline and soundbites.
No conservative rant is complete until they have thrown brickbats at some liberal bugbear. Whitlock obliges,
“Social media decides what is allowable thinking, and social media has decided you can’t second guess anything the left is in support of.”
And once again, a pair of whiny bitches ignore the fact that they complain about censorship while on a TV show available to anyone who wants to watch it. And both of them have active Twitter and Facebook accounts. Social media does not censor conservatives. It boots liars. It’s not social media’s fault that most liars are conservative.
But back to Whitlock and his opinions on sex and gender. When he talks of men in leadership roles, Whitlock refers to heterosexual men. He raised the subject in his defense of Dave Chapelle’s Netflix special, the ‘Closer.’ In which the comedian made controversial observations about the relative discrimination against Blacks versus the LGBTQ+ community and joked about the transgendered.
“A black man from middle America declared war against the left's evisceration of masculinity in general and black, male, heterosexual masculinity in particular. Chappelle argued and quipped that Jews, feminists, and the LGBTQ movement are standing on the backs and necks of black men — preferably dead ones — to seize power.“
Whitlock is entitled to his opinion on Chapelle’s comedy. But he should consider that, while our acts best reveal us, the aggregate of our opinions unconsciously shows our prejudices, frailties, and fears - and illuminates our obsessions.
Whitlock’s obsessions include expressing opinions on gays. When Carl Nassib became the first active NFLer to come out, Whitlock offered this,
By announcing on Instagram that he prefers to have sex with men, Nassib — listed as third string on the Raiders' depth chart — increased his likelihood of making the team's roster tenfold. He increased his chances of moving up the depth chart twentyfold. He increased his attractiveness to corporate advertisers a hundredfold.
If coming out is such a moneymaker, you must wonder why someone hadn’t thought of it before.
Whitlock was far from being done. He added,
“How consenting adults pleasure themselves sexually is irrelevant to me. Many of us, whether gay or straight, pleasure ourselves in sinful ways. I don't view my sexual sins as any more or less sinful than Nassib's.”
And, ”Nassib is cashing in. His announcement that he prefers sex with men was greeted by thunderous applause everywhere.”
And “What excites Carl Nassib's penis has transformed an average NFL player into one of the most important people in sports.”
And, “If Kim Kardashian excites you, your penis envy is justified.”
Obsession much?
There's more. Whitlock offers this on the gender/sexuality civil rights movement,
In modern America, joining the Alphabet Mafia (LGBTQIA+) has more privileges than American Express. The Alphabet Mafia is LifeLock, a guarantee of your good name and the security of your finances while you sleep.
Whitlock is unmarried and childless. I don’t mention it to imply he’s gay - which is neither here nor there - I bring it up because one of the Bible's major imperatives for men is to “go forth and multiply”. An imperative that Whitlock has ignored. And that’s why he is a hypocrite.
Bonus material: Whitlock has more NFL opinions, including his take on Tom Brady’s retirement,
“Father Time did not cause Tom Brady to retire. Just my opinion, I think the NFL’s COVID protocols pushed him out one year early. My 2 cents.”
Really? Tom Brady has played two seasons during COVID and only now, when the protocols are easing up, he decides they are too much? Absurd.