Clueless comment of the day
From an interview with Heather Mac Donald a well known conservative writer who just came out of the theism closet as an atheist much to the horror of the religious right.
I came to New York in 1987, in the midst of a particularly craven period of capitulation to racial extortionists. Taking up journalism in the early 1990s exposed me to the total disconnect between liberal dogma about the underclass poor and the reality of their self-defeating behavior. I still have no idea how New York Times reporters can visit the same homeless shelters and welfare offices that I have and remain confident that the “clients” of those facilities are the victims of racism, rather than their own bad decisions. So I would say that reporting on social problems provided the coup de grace for liberal pieties.
When I read that I could only think this was a person, despite her much vaunted intelligence, who is blissfully unaware of how prejudiced she is.
It is no surprise that a white person from a middle/upper middle class family, Ivy league education et al can’t relate to the misery of those for whom discrimination in many forms is endemic in the culture, such that growing up under those clouds leads people to make those wrong choices she refers to. Yes, of course some victims pull bootstrap themselves out of their plight but it is not the majority just like the majority of whites can’t get an ivy league education either.
