Posted by
Jon on Monday, February 11, 2008 6:18:00 PM
Susan Estrich wrote an
incredibly funny article today. Not
intentionally funny, but still...
Who would have thought that the party that inflates minority college drop-out rates through affirmative action, filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 10 years, justified the minimum-wage by claiming that the Chinese, the blacks, the Jews, the deformed, the retarded and other so-called "genetic defectives" wouldn't be able to afford to have children, and donated to the (deadlier) 1880's incarnation of the KKK so that they'd also target southern Republicans could possibly be racist? Democrats are against racism in the same way that they're for the environment: the activists are for Open Space laws for the animals, but the voters really just want to inflate their property values. Some day, they'll figure out that any
real racist would prefer to throw money at blacks to go away than to be called a racist for 5 decades for insisting on equality before law.
UPDATE: Peals of ironic laughter subsiding, it should be noted that, Ms. Estrich aside, this isn't actually racism. People aren't voting
against him because he's black, they're lying about voting
for him because he's black and it's completely aligned with a Democrat's party principles. I imagine the reasoning goes, "Well,
I'm not voting for him, but if I say I am, then people who want to vote for him but won't because they don't think a black man can win in America
will vote for him, and that will make the actual vote more fair." Except, in the end it's basically lying and throws all the politicians off, misallocating money, changes the length of the campaign and misfocuses the debate. Which is fine, because I don't want them to win. But, I also don't expect anyone on the Left to notice what did them in.
UPDATE AGAIN: Ok, if this is polling affirmative action, then, yes, it is racism, because affirmative action is racism. But, it's not a form of racism that I expect Ms. Estrich to call so. This is starting to hurt my head.