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Then you've clearly never or have seldom read their comments section. Those on the left comment there frequently, and it's far likelier that they don't want THEM turning it into a circus.
In fact, I used to live in a very red region of our Northwest and would occassionally hear your stereotypical redneck racists let loose on their bigotry amongst themselves. It was amazing. I remember one lamenting O. J. Simpson's waste of himself as "a beautiful Black". Just like that. And that's for starters. A surprising number of these inbreds really hold the same opinions spoused in the post and its comments.
However, it does surprise me that a professional near-mainstream writer would actually go on record with them. I've never heard anyone on conservative radio say these things.
Finally, I wonder if this writer is so out of touch that he thought nothing would happen to him, or just stricken by colossally bad judgment. Or both.
No backlash? You claim that NR shut down comments because it would reveal what racists there audience is. Perhaps you should look at how the Grio, News One, and the Root audiences defend Barry's comments and heap on the racist abuse of Asians.
Can we get some leftist condemnation of the remarks and those who defend it?
"We're not racist, we fired racism! When is The Left going to do that? Huh?"
Don't be silly. You can't fire racists who've been elected.
Derbyshire's little screed was definitely face-palm material, but then so much out of the so-called conservative movement elicits that same reaction from me. I guess I somehow don't see it as significantly more horrendous than usual. Fuck him, for sure, but as far as I'm concerned, fuck the rest of them, too.
Seriously, it's not as if the Review doesn't have a long, long history of this sort of thing.
Is there some reason you follow Marion Barry?
Really, I had not heard of that incident yet but once I went looking for it I found that the opinion pieces on it (as opposed to just the reporting that it was said) were negative.
So you had to follow Marion Barry personally to be able to know that he made those remarks but not know that the response to them has been negative.
Well, unless you were just spouting right-wing talking points without doing any research on your own. But we know that you wouldn't do that, right?
So what's up with the Marion Barry fan-boy thing? It's weird.
I haven't read John Derbyshire in quite a while (3-4 years?). I recall reading him in a periodical called the New English Review. I don't recall any articles regarding race or ethnicity let alone racist commentary whatsoever. So, this comes as a bit of a surprise. If NR felt that he should be dismissed so be it. I read right, left and center opinion journals. All have their quacks.
Arts and Letters Daily is hardly a reactionary web site, but it's hardly a left-leaning web site, either. I find it's great when I check it once in a long while, and pretty bad when I check it often.
Kudos to NR For taking this action, but I suspect they are soon to undergo some backlash from the troglodytes they've been courting. If they're sincere about dialing it back a notch and returning to the sensible side of conservatism (yes, Virginia, there is such a thing, even if it seems not many people occupy it these days), they might as well invite back Christopher Buckley, and run a column telling (college dropout) Rush Limbaugh to down a bottle of Viagara and go fuck himself.
Gotta stay firmly ensconced in the echo chamber!
A&L Daily does like to tip a few sacred liberal cows, which is a big part of why I like it once in a while. What I'm suggesting is that lark in comment #13 shouldn't have been terribly surprised to learn that a mildly contrary article found via ALDaily was written by a person who, as it turns out, espouses much more radical right-wing ideas as well.
I'm not sure he'd find the matter worthy of scholarly references. There were none to be seen in his bitter complaint about all the drunken illegals constantly crashing through his vinyard, and the worthless local cops who do nothing about it, and won't even let him take matters into his own hands.
Don't feed the trolls. Imma right?
Derb's sin is that he was NOT a hypocrite. He said what he believed. And this highlighted the hypocrisy of white liberals and progressives - most of whom live exactly according to the rules he describes (stay out of black areas; be wary of large numbers of unfamiliar blacks; have an "acceptable" black friend to show your non-racism and appreciation of "diversity").
In reality, most white liberals are just as racist in their behavior as Derb is in his prescriptions.
Tel me again, why do Sloggers profile pitbulls?
So, the guy's just taking face value and using it as evidence to re-enforce and justify the prejudices that were already there.
Korean Americans score fine on it.
The problem for white Seattle liberals is that they live in Whitopia so only know black people in the abstract. Those of us who have lived in predominantly black cities learn very quickly, like many black people, the difference between black people and niggaz.
Why bother spelling it with a "z?" You're not afraid of the PC police, are you?
Do you have a link to that test or any comparable one? I'd seriously be interested in it.
>n=3
ISHYGDDT. I shiggy diggy doo dah.
Probably because Derb is an atheist!
" My general attitude is that of an unwilling unbeliever."
Venom, how is ghetto life in Evanston? Those gangs from Loyola crossing into Wildcat territory for drivebys much?
The south side of Evanston is hard, yo. Totally legit.