Foxfyre wrote:Do I think the average liberal is more racist than the average conservative? Of course s/he is--the average liberal thinks minorities and minority groups should receive special deference, should be treated with extra PC, and need white men/women to lift them up out of whatever abyss they are perceived to be.
I think Lash was onto something when she raised the issue of PC in this thread. I may be wrong, but I think I am observing that any news source whether it be Fox or the Washington Times or any other medium that does not conform to the liberal left's view of PC is going to be suspect, trashed, and depicted as evil. And they still wonder why they keep losing market share and elections.
As a reaction to that same Washington Times turning out to regularly publish articles by an avowed racist, who happens to be the editor's wife, that is quite wonderfully incoherent, to borrow Blatham's phrase.
Confronted with the revelation of the most hateful, inyourface racism spewed by someone prominently involved with the Washington Times, Fox opts to defend
that very same Washington Times, careful not to mention anything about that person, and instead rushing on to proclaim that the by far worse racists in any case are the liberals, because eh ... they propone affirmative action.
Yep. Coulter huffing about "simulated interracial sex" - means nothing. Wife of WT editor and regular WT contributor decrying the "racial decomposition" of America - whatever - the only reason people could declare the newspaper suspect is obviously just because it "does not conform to the liberal left's view of PC". Liberal saying that discrimination in the labour market still exists and affirmative action is therefore still necessary - the worst form of racism.
Its paternalistic, you see. Unlike Republicans, who are not paternalistic about blacks. Their only explanation for how 92% of America's Blacks currently vote Democratic is that all those poor, gullible blacks apparently are just all too easily manipulated by those evil Dems; but that analysis is obviously wholly free of condescension.
I cant believe I'm even having this conversation. I remember back when some of us leftists were declared to encourage racism because we had not in time spoken up about a Doonesbury cartoon that pictured Bush calling Rice by a nickname. But now that a frequent Washington Times contributor, the wife of the editor, turns out to be a virulent racist who exhorts white men to "run, not walk" to wed "racially conscious" white women, Foxy instantly closes ranks and declares the same
Times the victim of mere political correctness.
Whatever.
Kudos to Tico, though.
