Faux liberals get really desperate sometimes
Kaus is amazing.
How can you start out by saying plenty of white people did what this guy has, yet try to make an example of him about why Black folks shouldn't get a boost? Plenty of white folks did it? How many Black folks can you find that have done it besides this one exception? Sounds to me like reason to get rid of the white reporters!
The Blair crash: Plenty of white journalists have done what Jayson Blair, the NYT reporter who recently resigned, is alleged to have done. Nor can anyone say for sure that in a completely color-blind newsroom Blair would have been weeded out or set straight before last week. Does the Blair case, then, have anything to do with affirmative action? I think so.
I am constantly amazed how people who claim they're after "color-blindness" are constantly attaching color to every issue they can. If he was
really color blind, he'd have talked about how a reporter has to have ethics and whatnot, but Nooooooo…
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/7/2003 04:32:58 PM |
