As an addendum to my comments of yesterday as regards to John Derbyshire and the reaction of National Review and a few other angry voices….
Let me describe the problem this way; Derbyshire’s column is the logical reaction similar to that tinge of apprehension you get in the base of your spine when you notice a group of young middle eastern males grouped together on the plane that you’re just getting into. Such is a natural fear- flight reaction, and quite logical under the circumstances we face vis a’vie muslim terrorism.
NRO’s quite politically correct response…. along with the rather hackneyed outcry from the usual suspects…. is in the same vein as the illogic which has governmental officials strip searching white Irish grandmothers in reaction to that muslim terrorism threat.
The reaction in my view is a pathetic one, born of an illogical racial hypersensitivity taken to the utmost level.
So worried have we become about being seen as reinforcing racial stereo types, that Burger King was forced to remove an ad from the air, that had Mary J. Blige singing the praises of their fried chicken. The objections? Apparently we can’t have blacks being seen eating fried chicken in public. Too stereotypical. Forget, of course, that Popeyes Fried Chicken has been doing that for generations. Perhaps they’ll be next on the attack list, I don’t know.
It is a measure, however, of how hyper sensitive we’ve gotten on such matters. What worries me is when we see NR sucumming to this nonsense. If we cannot address these issues without charges of racism flying around, and even supposedly stauch conservatives cringing in terror over those charges, we’re never going to get past it.
Now, mind,I can see were some would consider not getting past the constant cry of racism, a good thing. I said a long time ago the worst thing you could ever provide a liberal is an actual solution to a problem, because doing that removes the campaign slogan, and limits their power. If the problem continues forever, so too does their ability to complain about it,and to gather votes with it.
Community organizers, for example.
