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04 Nov 2009 04:37 pm
Limbaugh, Anti-Racist
Chait gets the ironies dead to rights:
When I attended college just after the height of the
political-correctness fad, I was exposed to the exotic but widely
accepted theory that racial minorities could not, by definition, be
guilty of racism. Limbaugh has formulated a sort of mirror-image
philosophy: Conservatives can't be racist. "Racism in this country," he
has announced, "is the exclusive province of the left."The victimology of the leftist is bad enough--he is beset by racism.
But the persecution complex of the conservative has managed to top
that. The conservative is a double victim--of false accusations of
racism and of racism itself. Limbaugh moans, "Frankly, the biggest
problem I face in the current climate of political correctness is that
I'm color-blind about it." Poor Limbaugh--he tries so hard to avoid
race, but it just keeps finding him.
In some ways, today's right is the last remaining legacy of yesterday's left.
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