As I am sure most of you are already aware, conservative author John Derbyshire wrote a fantastically racist screed on how the children of whites and asians (he being white, his wife being asian) need to avoid blacks. For example:
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
There’s quite a bit more in this vein. Sadly, this is no longer the story as far as I’m concerned. John Derbyshire is absolutely free to believe this crap if he chooses. He is free to have this “talk” with his children, if he chooses. He is free to write this crap if he so chooses, and Taki’s Magazine is free to publish it. I am not simply saying this for the heck of it. I love living in a nation so free as this one. This pseudo-scientific garbage is a small price to pay so that I might dip my own pen in the ink of liberty. No, the problem isn’t what Derbyshire believes or says. The problem is that conservatives have a very good reason now to see that a significant slice (a minority, I’m sure) of their base agrees with Derbyshire.
Conservatives have insisted that they are not racists, that liberals are the true racists. Conservatives have, by and large, insisted of late that whites are the victims of racism these days, and not the aggressors. The reaction of many, many conservative commenters shows that this is wishful thinking at best.