It’s a known fact that when it comes to things racial liberals can get away with things conservatives can’t. Imagine for a moment that a Wal-Mart loving, NASCAR fan were to write this in a letter to a local newspaper:
Let’s do all we can to keep these towns small where we can get around easily; where we cross paths with neighbors we know; where the individual matters; where poetry, art, the forests, people, animals flourish. Let’s not become another, well, another Detroit.
The reference to Detroit would be taken immediately as a veiled allusion to blacks. Dozens of response letters would take this person to task for such insensitivity or even outright racism. But that didn’t happen. Why? Because the letter, which appeared recently in The Chapel Hill News (scroll to third letter down), was from an obvious liberal. Let me say that I don’t think the Detroit reference was meant in any way to be racial, consciously or unconsciously. Just remember this example the next time a conservative uses some benign example that gets turned into a reason for outrage.
(Link via Orange Politics)
