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Tom just posted this on an NRO comment page for a Mark Steyn post:

The Left’s 20 Rules of Racism:

1. If you believe that general intelligence exists, is
heritable and at all testable for, you’re a racist.

2. If you point out that liberal philosophies and programs
intended to have a good impact have had a disproportionately bad impact on the
ethnicities targeted by liberals, you’re a racist.

3. If you notice that other cultures have some problems,
you’re a racist.

4. If you notice your own culture has had some successes,
you’re a racist.

5. If you try to identify subcultural problems, you’re a
racist. If the problems existed or got worse under liberalism, see item 2,
above.

6. If you’re mainstream American culture, and don’t hate
that culture, you’re a racist.

7. If you’re capable of noting unpleasant facts about
subcultures and discussing them without your brain fogging, you’re a racist.

8. If you won’t kowtow and grovel as soon as someone accuses
you of racism for one of the reasons above or below, you’re a hopeless racist.

9. If you do not believe that mankind is a tabula rasa for
liberals to make whatever they think would be good to make of man, this week,
you’re a racist.

10. If you don’t take personal responsibility for all the
evils of slavery, you’re a racist. This is true even if you only arrived from
Poland last week.

11. If you’re white, you’re a racist.

12. If you’re white and just arrived from Poland last week
and don’t accept that you’re a racist, you’re a racist.

13. If you try to interject logical thought into a
discussion of culture, you’re a racist.

14. If you refuse to admit culture is a racial matter, and a
liberal wants to conflate the two, you’re a racist.

15. If you believe that race and culture are
indistinguishable and a liberal decides that you shouldn’t conflate the two, you’re
a racist.

16. If you believe that black or Hispanic girls who are paid
by liberal inspired programs from the age of 13 to have babies will have
babies, you’re a racist.

17. If you believe that _any_ girls of whatever color who
are paid to have babies will then have babies but then, insensitively, observe
that a smaller percentage of white girls do, certainly because they haven’t
been targeted for as much “help” from liberals, you’re a racist.

18. If it doesn’t bother you that the truth offends liberals,
you’re a racist.

19. If your name is Tom Kratman and you write and in your
writing your heroes and heroines tend to be from minorities while your villains
are white liberals, you’re still a racist.

20. If you read The Bell Curve, you’re a racist. On the
other hand, if you didn’t read it but wrote a scathing review on Amazon anyway
you might not be a racist provided you take personal responsibility for 300
years of slavery even if you just arrived from Poland last week.

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