Orrin Konheim
2 min readMay 26, 2022

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Oh man, I remember your name because you posted this hillarious video what must have been over a dozen years mocking Christian Bale's on-set tirade by mirrorring it with Rachel Getting Married and then you had this amazing Zak and Miri Make a Porno parody and these Sarah Palin videos.

You were even kind enough to correspond with me about a blog post I wrote about your work.

I had no idea you were such a good writer!

Respectfully, I'm in a little bit of a different school of thought with you on identity politics. For one, White and Black men are pretty equally capable of violence. I had an attempted mugging in 2020 by a Black man and 3 months ago, a Black man tried to beat me up on the metro and got a few shots in. He left a bruise on me that still remains in tact to this day. My father got mugged by a Black man and when I was a kid we once had rocks thrown at our car just for passing through a Black neighborhood. Black men commit a disportionately larger share of violent crimes than any other group. I struggle with this a lot lately. I understand the socio-economic circumstances that leave this communty in poverty, but I think the recent trend to just assume that only white men perpetuate these kinds of evils and Black men are noble savages isn't constructive.

I recently canvassed in Georgia for the Democratic party and I think it's been best to see them as people, no greater, or no better.

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Orrin Konheim
Orrin Konheim

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